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Subject: I Am Proposing a Grand Experiment

I am a Floodian

So yeah, I got bored in my stats class today, so I decided to go ahead and refine an idea that has been floating around in my head for a couple of months now.

The General Plan:
A massive demographic survey of the entire (forum active) community of every forum, and thus the community as a whole. I want to try and survey every forum with the following poll. The poll will need to be put in every forum at the same time, on the same day, so that each poll is taken during the same general level of activity on the website.

The Poll:
Poll question: Which of the following is true?
Option 1: A
Option 2: A and B
Option 3: A and C
Option 4: A, B, and C

A. I have posted in forum X over the last month, before today. X being whatever forum that the poll is posted in.
B. I consider myself a Floodian
C. I have posted in the Community Forum.*
*The survey of the community forum would only have options A and B

I've considered adding D. I post in group forums
That would make the polls look like

Option 1: A
Option 2: A and B
Option 3: A and C
Option 4: A and D
Option 5: A, B and C
Option 6: A, B, and D
Option 7: A, B, C and D

Forums to be Surveyed:
Every forum except the News Forum and the Classifieds. Basically, every forum that allows members to both generate and participate in discussion.

The Goals of the Survey:
1. To try and gain an estimate of how active each forum is in relation to the others.
2. To try and gain an estimate as to how well the community forum is representative of the entire community.
3. To try and determine how much of a minority "Floodians" are within the community
4. To try and determine how much "Floodians" go and participate in discussion in forums outside The Flood

Questions to the Community Forum:
1. Would anyone be interested in helping me? I can't feasibly do this on my own. If not, why? If yes, why?
2. How much would this be against the rules (I always assume my ideas more than 0 against the rules)?
3. Any suggestions on how to change the poll options, or if you think it should cover more information?


[Edited on 07.30.2012 1:52 PM PDT]

  • 07.30.2012 1:36 PM PDT
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You could also just ask the Webteam since they have the hard data of all of this.

  • 07.30.2012 1:42 PM PDT

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This experiment is a good idea and it is Dutchy-approved.
Posted by: squirrel dude
Questions to the Community Forum:
1. Would anyone be interested in helping me? I can't feasibly do this on my own If not, why? If yes, why?
I'll give you moral support

  • 07.30.2012 1:42 PM PDT
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I like to think of myself as an AI - I hunger for information, and I know, one day, that hunger will be my ultimate demise.

Sounds like a good idea, but getting people involved will be a hassle, even if they only need to press a button...

As for your questions: Yes I would love to help! Also, this should not be against any rules as long as it is internal to Bungie.net.

[Edited on 07.30.2012 1:45 PM PDT]

  • 07.30.2012 1:44 PM PDT

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I'd be up for this. Seems like a cool idea.

  • 07.30.2012 1:46 PM PDT
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Posted by: squirrel dude
So yeah, I got bored in my stats class today
The natural order of things...
1. Would anyone be interested in helping me? I can't feasibly do this on my own. If not, why? If yes, why?
2. How much would this be against the rules (I always assume my ideas more than 0 against the rules)?
3. Any suggestions on how to change the poll options, or if you think it should cover more information?
1. yeah, can do. Why? I dunno. Because it's there.
2. I'm no mod, but I'd have sharp words for any of them that would interpret this as some sort of spam attack.
3. I don't like "I consider myself a floodian". I'd prefer something like "I post in the flood forum".
Might be interesting to ask for demographic information, although that makes it slightly more of a burden to reply, so you might well screw over your sample sizes.


As for measuring activity; you could just check the number of pages of threads in all forums at the same time each day for a period of time and record how quickly the numbers clock up.

  • 07.30.2012 1:59 PM PDT

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I would certainly answer the poll.

  • 07.30.2012 2:21 PM PDT
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Anyone but Foman. He smells like cheese.

Posted by: squirrel dude
2. How much would this be against the rules (I always assume my ideas more than 0 against the rules)?
Threads about the Bungie.net website itself, including its forums, forum moderation, and/or its community, go in the Community Forum only. This rule is routinely enforced in all other forums, including the Flood.

Sorry man :-(

  • 07.30.2012 2:24 PM PDT

I am a Floodian

Posted by: Telec
3. I don't like "I consider myself a floodian". I'd prefer something like "I post in the flood forum".
Might be interesting to ask for demographic information, although that makes it slightly more of a burden to reply, so you might well screw over your sample sizes.
Fair enough. However, it's something that also hasn't ever actually been looked at statitically. We all talk about The Flood and "Floodians" as if they are against the community, or a part of it, etc, and I want to see if I can add any statistical info to that discussion.

As for measuring activity; you could just check the number of pages of threads in all forums at the same time each day for a period of time and record how quickly the numbers clock up.Hmm.. that might be also be a good way to try and judge how much activity the thread garnered in comparison to the rest of the forum at that time.

[Edited on 07.30.2012 2:37 PM PDT]

  • 07.30.2012 2:34 PM PDT

I am a Floodian

Posted by: x Foman123 x
Posted by: squirrel dude
2. How much would this be against the rules (I always assume my ideas more than 0 against the rules)?
Threads about the Bungie.net website itself, including its forums, forum moderation, and/or its community, go in the Community Forum only. This rule is routinely enforced in all other forums, including the Flood.

Sorry man :-(
Oh... >.>

Dammit.

[Edited on 07.30.2012 2:43 PM PDT]

  • 07.30.2012 2:36 PM PDT

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(My guess in terms of activity)

  • 07.30.2012 2:40 PM PDT
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Posted by: AngryBrute1
Oh yeah, since somebody does not believe what YOU believe; that makes us vapid...
I cannot grasp that what you call "Something happened to nothing, and that nothing became something, and it was smaller than than a period."

Posted by: FWC
You could also just ask the Webteam since they have the hard data of all of this.
This would be easier.

  • 08.09.2012 2:18 PM PDT
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Posted by: FWC
You could also just ask the Webteam since they have the hard data of all of this.
This would be easier.

I don't think that's really the whole point for OP.

  • 08.09.2012 2:31 PM PDT