April 14, 2003 at 5:51 pm
How about adding a survey section to gather stats on various topics with topic suggestions from users. Also, these surveys could be turned into top 10 lists. An example would be "What industry are users in?" Or a top 10 list of scripts/db tools based on a survey.
Darren
Darren
April 14, 2003 at 6:29 pm
Having a background in market research (from the DBA side! Not the marketroids! I swear!), I'd also be interested in these metrics.
Cool Suggestion,
SJTerrill
P.S. Or is this just a step-up upgrade from the current Poll? The site appears to use an engine similar, if not identical, engine to another site I'm familiar with. Maybe just categorization of polls from standard Q & A to demographic?
April 14, 2003 at 11:24 pm
Excellent Suggestion. I down the line, this will be usedful to most of the members (if it becomes available).
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April 15, 2003 at 5:50 am
Seems like it might be interesting. We'll put on the list - be patient with us, the list keeps growing!
Andy
April 17, 2003 at 10:41 am
Great idea. We want more demographics. Interesting to some people, but advertisers love it. Helps us keep the community growing.
One issue is that we get relatively few responses to polls. Any ideas for improving the response rate? We considering making it mandatory for your first visit to the site for that week.
Steve Jones
April 17, 2003 at 11:39 am
You could make it the first page they see before entering for the day. As long as it's quick they will probably fill it out but give them the option to bypass. You could also give them an entry in contest everytime they answer a poll (one entry per poll max of course). Even better, since the advertisers can benefit from this, get them to offer up a prize that can be given away to the people who answer the polls.
Darren
Darren
December 16, 2003 at 5:16 am
quote:
One issue is that we get relatively few responses to polls. Any ideas for improving the response rate? We considering making it mandatory for your first visit to the site for that week.
Cleaning up my archive I came across this one. Not related to polls but to response in general.
I am wondering why the ratio between members who read an article and those who actually vote on the article is that skewed.
After all at a maximum only two steps needs to be performed to vote.
- Select you vote from the combo
- Hit the button.
Is there a reason?
Frank
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December 16, 2003 at 7:33 am
Frank,
First we need to find out how the count of readers is done. Is it just anyone who OPENS the article? If so, that will skew the results. I've openned some articles and ended up not reading them. Either I wasn't interested or work took me away from reading them.
Let's say I open article MyArticle, work calls me away and I close it without reading it. Later I come back and open the article again but this time I read it. Does that count as one visit or two visits? Let's say I vote after reading it. Is it now two reads one vote?
-SQLBill
December 16, 2003 at 7:37 am
You can easily check this, when visiting an article, remember the number of reads and hit the refresh button of your browser.
Should increment by 1. It seems that this counts as a read.
Btw, I (as a author) can vote on my own article.
Frank
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