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Alex Legler wrote: |
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> On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:08:38 -0500, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> As has been said before, a lot of people don't go to the forums to see |
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>> the poll. I only go to the forums to search if I have a problem |
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>> before posting to the list. There may have been a dozen polls on the |
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>> forums and I would have no idea they happened. |
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> That might be /your personal/ behavior. |
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May be true but someone else mentioned that back when I was going to the |
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forums. I hadn't thought of it until then. |
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>> Of course, the same could be said about doing a poll on the mailing |
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>> lists as well. Some Gentoo users that use the forums may not even |
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>> know the mailing lists exists. |
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> Do the poll in the Forums. Advertise it on planet, some MLs, maybe the |
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> g.o front page, and on IRC. |
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> That way we reach the users that don't go to the forums, but are on |
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> IRC, and the folks that are on the forums but don't know of the MLs and |
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> vice-versa. |
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> Of course there'll be still people that don't know anything about the |
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> thing, but *shrug*. Those who care, know. And those who don't care, |
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> don't need to know, we have made our effort to reach people. |
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>> I'm not sure any poll could really be accurate no matter which means |
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> Maybe that is something we just need to live with. Guess all the other |
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> people who do Internet polls do. |
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> Besides, what can we lose? I don't think Sebastian would mind |
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> preparing and posting the survey. A little more community participation |
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> and a little less time spent talking instead of doing would do us good. |
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> Alex |
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I agree that you can only put forth your best effort. I just wouldn't |
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etch the results in stone. Maybe a pencil would be OK tho. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |