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Moderated Group owner survey #misc
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Kudos to Mark for even running the survey. It's always risky to ask your customer how much they think they should pay you. ;-) Kevin On 12/13/2022 7:47 AM, J_Catlady wrote:
Maybe what we need is a survery about the survery. :-) |
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Maybe what we need is a survery about the survery. :-)
-- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones. |
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ro-esp
I would have preferred to be able to skip questions
and when asked about group-size, being able to give a ballpark-answer. Most of my groups have a few dozen members. groetjes/ĝis, Ronaldo |
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One thing I’m not sure you’ll be able to get from a poll: “at what price hike will you stay but be angry about it?” I started to fill out the survey but can’t really because I don’t make financial decisions for my organization. We are starting to use groups.io in such a way that it will be very hard for us to extricate ourselves and move on if the price goes up - but if it goes up suddenly and enough to piss people off, they will start to look for ways to feel less trapped and may move on in a few years regardless of what price is doing then. On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 11:27 AM sanjay <sanj95033@...> wrote: @Mark, I have done a ton of surveys and happy to help. The thing is that most people set up surveys with confirmation bias.... and the answers... well, confirm what they already thought. |
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sanjay
@Mark, I have done a ton of surveys and happy to help. The thing is that most people set up surveys with confirmation bias.... and the answers... well, confirm what they already thought.
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Bruce Bowman
On Fri, Dec 9, 2022 at 02:43 PM, billsf9c wrote:
The appearance of IO having ANYthing to do with Google is unfortunate,Yes, it is. In the past, Google Forms didn't insert an account logon link at the top of every form. Now they do. Hoping to get more people to create an account, I guess. As Duane said, it's optional, in case you want to partially fill out the form and come back to complete it before submitting. Such a partially-filled-out form has to be stored somewhere, and the only logical place to do that is in each subscriber's account. Since the pandemic, we've been using Google Forms to conduct our parent organization's annual elections. I now find myself having to explain every year that the our election ballot does NOT require anyone to log in, or even have a Google account, to use it. I'd rather this option appear at the form definition level, so that I can choose whether or not allow it in my form. But, well, that's Google for you. Regards, Bruce |
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On Fri, Dec 9, 2022 at 1:48 PM Chris Jones via groups.io <chrisjones12=btinternet.com@groups.io> wrote: On Fri, Dec 9, 2022 at 06:39 PM, Mark Fletcher wrote: It doesn't come back if you dismiss it and it also goes away when you click the survey link. I don't want it to hammer people over the head with it. If so then there will be many owners who have no idea that an updated survey is available. (FWIW I am going to take advantage of this update to redo it.) Although the revised survey will (I think) provide better data, I can still use the data from the initial survey, and I don't want to be like "take this survey! ok, now take this survey! you get a survey! and you get a survey! and you get a survey!". :-) One point springs to mind; some groups have an existence outside groups.io; others (many others?) exist only on line. Have you polled this point? I ask because the former group would find it much easier to raise funds, very possibly by increasing their current subscriptions slightly; the latter group would find it much less straightforward, because I suspect that simply asking for donations might not be all that successful, an assertion based on admittedly limited anecdotal evidence. Hmm, I haven't polled that. Thanks, Mark |
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Chris Jones
On Fri, Dec 9, 2022 at 06:39 PM, Mark Fletcher wrote:
...the new survey is here...Mark; the banner has disappeared from the top of the web UI pages; was this intentional? If so then there will be many owners who have no idea that an updated survey is available. (FWIW I am going to take advantage of this update to redo it.) One point springs to mind; some groups have an existence outside groups.io; others (many others?) exist only on line. Have you polled this point? I ask because the former group would find it much easier to raise funds, very possibly by increasing their current subscriptions slightly; the latter group would find it much less straightforward, because I suspect that simply asking for donations might not be all that successful, an assertion based on admittedly limited anecdotal evidence. Chris |
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On Fri, Dec 9, 2022 at 01:43 PM, billsf9c wrote:
As soon as it said,If you read the statement, it's only required if you plan to back out and continue later. The survey doesn't require it, it's just a form. Duane |
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billsf9c
As soon as it said,
"Sign into Google..." I backed out. I lost membership in my fav 2 groups as they opted for Google. I do not have nor want a Google ____ to sign into. I accept nothing from them, shy of totally disabling my ph. No apps are downloaded or allowed, that can be turned off, with the same proviso. IF turned on, they are used and then disabled. The appearance of IO having ANYthing to do with Google is unfortunate, however irrelevant it may be in some single case. If that was not a survey question, well, it got answered by those who saw Google and just bowed out. BillSF9c |
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Hi All, https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfh9qdWxOg0p6pSXkbULWoNVw7AY8r-4rkhyuD8NtyrjfWNow/viewform?usp=sf_link Thanks, Mark (who does not have a lot of experience designing surveys, but is working to improve!) |
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Jeremy H
I would categorise my main groups as "communication tool for enthusiasts' society": what we are enthusiasts of is (certainly from a groups.io perspective, I would suggest) essentially irrelevant.
And elsewhere in the survey, a lot of the options/choices aren't really applicable to us. How do you rank several things that aren't actually wanted (at least by me) So I'm afraid I've abandoned the survey. Jeremy |
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Most of my groups are hobby oriented, but because they concern themselves largely with actual operations and equipment, I think I'd classify mine as Academic. We occasionally post some copyrighted images specifically using the fair-use exemption for study and research. For a group not accessible to the public, this seems quite reasonable and defensible.
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I didn't see hobby listed so I chose other. I think many of the groups are hobby groups. Donald KX8K ___________________ On Thu, 08 Dec 2022 02:53:36 +0200, "Steve Hayes" <hayesstw@...> wrote: so I'm wondering if |
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Tom Piwowar
I bailed at question c "Please rank these features in order of most important to least important." Some features in the list are of no use to me and I am not exactly clear about the difference between a restricted vs moderated group vs only allowing invited persons to join. I suspect only one of the listed features is of value to me, yet I am not allowed to proceed unless I rank them all. Giving a rank to the features I do not value would be misleading so I bailed out of the survey.
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Hi All, Thanks for the category feedback, I've added those categories. Mark |
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Chris Jones
On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 01:30 AM, Donald Hellen wrote:
I think many of the groups are hobby groups.I agree, with quite a lot of those centred on "amateur radio" in one or other of its many forms. This is also consistent with Andy W's clubs/organisations where members have a shared interest, although to be realistic that is almost certain to be true of any group, by definition! Chris |
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On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 12:54 AM, Steve Hayes wrote:
I have several groups, none of them fitted into any ofMy main group is for a registered charity so I ended up choosing 'other' too. I think a lot of groups are for clubs/organisations where members have a shared interest. Regards Andy |
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Donald Hellen
I didn't see hobby listed so I chose other. I think many of the groups are hobby
groups. Donald KX8K On Thu, 08 Dec 2022 02:53:36 +0200, "Steve Hayes" <hayesstw@...> wrote: so I'm wondering if ---------------------------------------------------- Some ham radio groups you may be interested in: https://groups.io/g/ICOM https://groups.io/g/Ham-Antennas https://groups.io/g/HamRadioHelp https://groups.io/g/Baofeng https://groups.io/g/CHIRP https://rf-amplifiers.groups.io/g/main |
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On 7 Dec 2022 at 10:27, Mark Fletcher wrote:
What I'm hoping to get out of the survey is an idea as to whether our plansJest noting that while I have several groups, none of them fitted into any of the listed categories, and would all fall under "other", so I'm wondering if it is rare to have groups in these categories -- Academic, Literary, Religious/Spiritual. . -- Steve Hayes E-mail: shayes@..., but if you use gmail, hayesstw@... Blog: https://methodius.blogspot.com/ Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm Phone: 083-342-3563 or 012-333-6727 Fax: 086-548-2525 |
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On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 2:52 PM Andy Wedge <andy_wedge@...> wrote: On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 09:56 PM, Mark Fletcher wrote: This should be fixed now. Thanks, Mark |
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