Evan Daniel skrev:
> On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Zero3<ze...@zerosplayground.dk> wrote:
>> Evan Daniel skrev:
>>> On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Zero3<ze...@zerosplayground.dk> wrote:
>>>
>>>> True, I agree. IMHO it is a fair way to do it as in the Windows
>>>> installer: Ask the user kindly, and if he doesn't want to, we shouldn't
>>>> force him. Since most of our survey results have disappeared since we
>>>> started asking, I take that as a hint that people don't *want to* answer
>>>> the surveys - hence I don't think we should try to force them.
>>> I read this differently.  If you present the user with "click here to
>>> take our survey" they won't.  If you instead present them with "here's
>>> our survey; answer the questions and click here to submit, or here to
>>> not take the survey" you'll get a lot more responses.  It's not that
>>> users don't want to take the survey; it's that laziness wins, and if
>>> you stick an extra click in the way you lose most of them.
>> Hmm. You are probably right. The big problem, however, is still that the
>> survey is located on the website... And that we have to launch a web browser
>> to display it.
>>
>> A better (and secure) alternative would be to ask the questions in the
>> uninstaller GUI and publish it to Freenet before uninstalling. But that
>> would require quite some work...
> 
> If by "some work" you mean "solving the general spam resistance
> problem in a way that doesn't involve asking the user to solve
> captchas because we have good data to suggest he really doesn't care."

The uninstallation survey is just as spamable right now without a 
CAPTCHA or the like :). Unless of course Google has some fancy anti-spam 
measures in place.

- Zero3
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