> On Nov 6, 2019, at 2:19 PM, Justin Mclean <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Georg, > > Thanks for clearing up how that will work. > >> To send out invites through LimeSurvey, it requires creating a “participant >> table”. >> Every participant is assigned a token, to track whether the participant >> responded or not. >> Again, the responses are anonymous and no link between the participant entry >> and the response is stored. > > I assume we know if the participant responded but can’t match that to an > individual response. That may not quite be as anonymous as some people expect.
To avoid tracking who responded I see two options, assuming we want to send emails through LimeSurvey: Option 1: We can send everyone the same URL with the same token from the dummy participant. Option 2: We can leave the survey open, without a participant table. Thus eliminating the need for a token. The invites are sent from a “dummy survey” that we don’t actually use but instead we include the URL to the real survey. No tokens, no tracking, full anonymity, to information about response rate. Option 2 would be identical with using a third-party email service to send personalized emails. If ASF had the ability to send individual emails, that could be used without loading all email addresses into LimeSurvey. > > Does anything stops people filling in multiple responses? No. The only way we can have that control is to limit responses to invited people. This would eliminate our option for spreading the word via social media and mailing lists. > >> We could use different “dummy” participants to share with different social >> media (or PMCs) to track how effective the outreach is for each channel. > > Again some people may be uncomfortable with any form of tracking. > I was merely pointing out the option. We don’t have to do this.
