[dhex]

Contact: Michael O’Connor
moconnor23NOSPAM@NOSPAMgmail.NOSPAMcom

Thank you for agreeing to participate and taking the time to fill out this survey. This is an ethnographic exploration of the experiences of the Insert Credit user community and the forums and their closure.

No names or identifying characteristics will be used in the final ethnographic report. The survey should take 10 to 20 minutes of your time - please answer the questions as honestly and completely as possible. I have left space at the end of the survey for respondents to insert any additional information they feel is relevant to their experiences. I may also contact respondents with some brief follow-up questions.

If you have any questions or concerns about the study please don’t hesitate to contact me.

The final report will be available to all participants. Thank you very much for your time.

A fresh copy of this document is available at:
http://dhex.org/cuny/ethnography/IC/oconnor-ICsurvey.doc

i just want to stress that i am very interested in the experience of all users, regardless of posting involvement. again, if you have any questions please feel free to email me at the above address. thank you.

[Wilkes]

dhex, why did you avoid meeting me :(

[Corinth]

This was useful to me in remembering when I first registered; it may or may not be to you. This is the (I believe) largest iteration, and what many people would call the canonical instance, of the forums.

http://cetteboite.com/images/icpostcountoctober.png
(Screenshot of the top poster list (with registration dates) from October 9th, 2004.)

[Intentionally Wrong]

Hmm. My original IC avatar says "8 April 2004", which means I registered exactly one week before Mr. Toups.

Say, exactly when did the old forums close? I'd like to know how much time elapsed between my last post on the old forums and my first post on the new ones.
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JSNLV is frequently and intentionally wrong.

[hipkondo]

[psiga]

Oh lord, I've already written a lot. 10 or 20 minutes my day-glo white ass. I've got one question left: 10) What did you like about the IC forums?

I'm gonna break and ponder that for a bit.
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[stotelheim]

I'll do it later today.

Also: hi dhex, any chance of you sticking around? Persona is going to make you be korean if you don't.
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go away extralife

[negativedge]

dhex stay or I'll kill something and I swear to god it will be something good.

Also, answers sent.

[Takashi]

Aw man, the times where I could afford to be in a top poster listing. However, I'm pretty sure the IC forums had crashed once already on that screenshot - everyone is joining back in October '03, including me.
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low-end.net | Whimsy (soon) | Serfdom 2.0

[negativedge]

Yeah, that was the second incarnation.

[Mr. Apol]

thatbox what is #bondage like?
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[Corinth]

Pretty fucking extreme.

[stotelheim]

Just sent it in.
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go away extralife

[BenoitRen]

[stotelheim]

Man come on don't use a dollar sign like that.

Please man you ain't got to do that in here, ain't no need for that.
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go away extralife

[BotageL]

Get Openoffice or something if giving money to THE BORG makes you cry yourself to sleep at night.
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http://www.mdgeist.com/

[BenoitRen]

[Baron Patsy]

[psiga]

Clearly there are no other applications in all of Linux World which are capable of opening a .doc. Luckily, us Windows users get WordPad, which opens it and also converts it into a different format.
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[hipkondo]

Sent.

[haze]

[Baron Patsy]

[dhex]

plaintext version

edit: i am quite sorry i missed your goodbye there, wilkes.

[psiga]

You gettin' enough entries so far? I remember that there weren't nearly enough volunteers back when you asked about this on TGQ.
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[dhex]

more is always better, though i've had 45 offers so far, and about 20 responses. i don't need to start analysis and draft writing until the end of february anyway.

[Toups]

[BenoitRen]

In what way am I being an annoying douche? I politely asked for an open version. Nothing more, nothing less.

If this is just because I use a dollar sign instead of a normal S, well, there are more important things to get upset about. I will choose how I write my messages.

Thank you haze and dhex for your understanding.
Sent.
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Get Xenoblade Chronicles!

[Toups]

I just think the whole M$ thing is incredibly juvenile and it's not the level of discourse that I want to have around these parts. whatever, though.

edit: oops, beaten by my own word filter!
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[another coma]

lordy, yeah,


hey, survey sent! even I finished it, the rest of ya should get to finishing it too.

Maybe, I wrote too much? I'm sure I didn't write the most.
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[Intentionally Wrong]

Guys, can somebody answer my question?

[Rud31]

[psiga]

[Corinth]

[BenoitRen]

You still fail to explain why you think I was being a douche in the first place. Stop making excuses. A closed format is a closed format, and I asked for an open format, which was provided.

By the way, unlike what you people seem to assume, I don't use GNU/Linux.
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Get Xenoblade Chronicles!

[Baron Patsy]

[Corinth]

You probably weren't, all that much, really. Everybody's happy, now, anyway.

Just, in the future, if someone posts a .doc again, you really can make your own ODF or RTF or TXT out of it without pasting a FOSS snob form letter. Google Docs can do this with no installation on your own machine!

[BotageL]

[Toups]

[Broco]

[Intentionally Wrong]

[negativedge]