Okay makes sense regarding the incentives.
As for the small tick, I believe that’s a great idea, however my assumption is that 80% of the users on this site are lurkers-- correct me if im wrong. Most people dont post imo and observation.
The popups that would manually require them to take an action (to either complete survey or close out the pop up), would be good to efficiently increase the completions.
We must find that balance of advertising the survey without being overly aggresive to the point of annoyance though.
I think the badge will be adequate.
true, but imo these assumptions that we make without testing are mistakes.
i know axo is working overtime with awor and others (very much appreciated), but if we can at least try the pop ups for a month to see how it works, would be great, before just completely dismissing it
I’m not going to speak for the rest of the moderators and admins. I don’t know how to make popups appear but I’d like to try it for a month too.
The problem we have here, is not the idea it’s that we need help implementing it. Most of our programming work is done as a favour. We don’t have money to pay someone.
If you’re a programmer, please make yourself known, we could use your skills.
To be clear I am not saying this idea is poor or it would not be helpful to have - I am saying it isn’t possible with the resources we have. If you are a ruby and frontend developer we’ll certainly be happy to work with you to implement it. Otherwise this feature alone would likely cost in excess of a thousand. This entire site is financially and technically dependent on Awor and secondarily myself - something I think is easy to take for granted. We do our best, but there’s no big institution out there supporting us. Far from it. These things cost skills and money we do not have, so unless one of those two is donated to the issue - like everything you see has been - this can’t happen currently.
Best
I see, understood now.
Let me see how I can solve this human resource problem.
Hello,
I would like to participate in the survey, but when I click the button it gives me error 500. Is it because I am not invited? Thanks in advance
Hello! I would like to take the survey
Welcome and thank you for your support with our Survey!
Please see here for instructions: Have you signed up to take the post drug syndrome survey? This topic is for you
I am pleased to announce that we have now reached our first milestone for participation from the PSSD side (50 participants) and are on a good way to reach the second milestone for PFS (150 participants). A huge thank you to all participants and all the people who are bumping threads, spreading the word and reminding people to take the Survey! Well done!
Obviously, this does not mean that we are done on this front. I hope this progress will motivate even more people to participate and to spread the word. We need as much data as we can get from the PSSD, PFS and most importantly the PAS community (as it is far behind). The more people participate, the more powerful the data! Data based on validated questionnaires from hundreds and hundreds of people cannot be easily ignored. So make your voice heard and participate! Every single one of us can make a difference here with relatively little effort.
Incredible work guys. This data set is already highly significant and will only become more powerful with more submissions. Thank you to all who have participated and encouraged others to do so.
Thanks to the mods who came up with this idea and took action to ensure participation.
It doesn’t take a genius to poke holes in ideas all day long and mock people for trying something, and unfortunately there’s too much of that.
luckily we have a group of folks that will ignore the rampant toxicity and push forward day by day.
Could the data be shared with users ? Sorry if I waste your time. I tried to find out a thread or option to pull excel file with data but did not find.
I would be very curious to analyze current outcome.
Thank you.
The data will be shared with users via interactive tables in the survey results subforums as and when the back end code and analysis is completed. Keep in mind this is seriously unprecedented - not only in terms of this being unfunded and voluntary work, but in terms of pushing the tech to the limit. My work was the front end of this project if you will, while @awor has to take care of the back end. Given his available time, it’s likely this will really start rolling out towards winter.
Looking forward to it Santa! 
btw, can anyone post a weekly list of people that need to fill out the survey? I dont mind PM’ing them on a weekly basis to fill out the survey. @Greek
additionally, @axolotl this next suggestion is just something I want to make sure you are aware of.
I understand that we have a human resource problem here when it comes to certain projects, but i must ask, have you looked into these different apps that might easily create functions that we need for this sight?
for example, i mentioned the “popups” idea earlier to convert more surveys on a daily basis. You stated that we do not have enough people that can help with your work.
so if you take a look at an app like this https://www.convertflow.com
It would be fairly easy to implement something that would take hours and hours to create.
likewise, i think it would be worthwhile to look into some of these apps that are fairly cheap, and even completely free for basic features for other projects that you are working on.
I don’t have access to a list like that, but if you see someone without a tick on their avatar, give them a nudge!
Some info about survey results is currently available in the Survey Basics category.
The reports need to be viewed with a desktop browser to appear correctly.
When the forum shows ‘Views’ against a post, is that unique views, or total views?
If it’s unique, I am baffled as to why there’s 9k views but only 300-odd people have completed the survey! It took me less than 45 mins from memory.