A Reminder To Fill Out Our February Survey

you should announce this just once a month. I dont remember if I already took it this month...

I think I did when you announced the results of the previous one

I definitely did the survey already. But some people might fill it in multiple times because of confusion (or not having read the post&title and blindly assuming it's the next one.

Is there a problem that not enough people filled it in? Maybe you should ask that we share the survey with fellow linux users?

I also have trouble remembering if I did the survey or not. I probably missed some of them.

There's not much I can do to stop people filling it in more than once. The only option that I can think of would be to have people sign in and take their emails, but I would rather have slightly less accurate results than make people give personal information.

Yes, the numbers have dropped a bit this month and at the rate it was going, I don't think we'll make the 1000 responses I'd like to get for a good sample size. The problem is that with the new site layout, we lost the reminder on the carousel so need to think of new ways to remind people to fill it in.

I'm considering other options. One could be to have a permalink to an article (say gamingonlinux.com/survey) with all previous results there and a link to the current survey - would have to work out the best way of doing that and see if Liam is up for it.

For now I think the best way to avoid confusion is by looking at the "unique questions" - if they seem familiar then youi have probably already filled it in.

Also, YES please do share the survey :)

EDIT: Added the suggestion to check the unique questions before filling in to avoid duplicates.

Honestly, i think we need some way to make sure people don't submit duped entries, even if it's simple.

An email is a nice way, or simply i.p logging or anything really that might be the same each time, as we will do reminders (reminders are good).

Thanks for the reminder, I almost forgot to take the survey :-)
You should do this every month ^^

Honestly, i think we need some way to make sure people don't submit duped entries, even if it's simple.

An email is a nice way, or simply i.p logging or anything really that might be the same each time, as we will do reminders (reminders are good).

Google Forms provides the email address option, which I don't mind doing if people are OK with that but I just get the feeling a lot of people won't do it if it means logging in so it defeats the purpose a bit. The IP logging would be ideal, but Google Forms hasn't got that feature and doing a quick scan around the web it seems that a lot of other people want that feature too.

I think I might need to consider migrating the survey over to some other software. I'll put out a call for some suggestions when I post the next results.

Maybe it would be enough to create a page which redirects to the survey. The page could then keep track of user/IP and decide if the redirection should happen or not. Another similar alternative could be to embed the form on the page directly.

Sounds like a plan, as something automatic like an I.P would be great, and simply telling them they have already done it, and preventing them doing it again would be fab.

Edit > I guess one day I should whip up a quick GOL Survey feature so we don't even need to use outside stuffs. I need to implement our basic poll feature for articles first though I think.

The final question regarding AAA games is misleading. Every option suggests that I *have* bought a AAA game on launch day, which is not true. (FWIW I selected "average".)

It's 'cause the primary article that advertises this month's survey is focused on last month's results.
Imo you should have an article dedicated purely to remind people to take the survey for this month, and also implement some of your other checks to make sure survey results are duplicated.

The final question regarding AAA games is misleading. Every option suggests that I *have* bought a AAA game on launch day, which is not true. (FWIW I selected "average".)

+1. I've never even seriously considered buying an AAA game on launch day.

Sounds like a plan, as something automatic like an I.P would be great, and simply telling them they have already done it, and preventing them doing it again would be fab.

Edit > I guess one day I should whip up a quick GOL Survey feature so we don't even need to use outside stuffs. I need to implement our basic poll feature for articles first though I think.

I guess I'll wait on that then, It will be nice to see it integrated at some point and solves a lot of issues while creating new possibilities :). As long as it can produce .csv files then the graph making program Fedso made, it would trump Google Forms.

For now I think I'm going to do the following:

1 - Change the colour of the form (switch between pink and blue because those are the options) every month so it's easier to distinguish between surveys and hopefully prevent some repeats until we have some form of IP logging.

2 - Have the "new survey available" and "survey results" as two separate articles to avoid further confusion. (this also helps me a bit because it means the results don't always have to come out on the 1st and have a bit of flexibility there)

3 - See if sobkas can create a different article image for results to distinguish the two articles even more.

4 - Continue doing this reminder article and hope that the above changes prevent confusion.