[BenoitRen]

*sigh* You people seem to like labelling people as douchebags as soon as they twitch even one nerve of yours.

[Baron Patsy]

[Corinth]

[falsedan]

Reading BenoitRen's posts makes me wish I hadn't read them.

Response emailed!
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[RecessRapist]

I'd answer the survey but I don't count D:

Also I ave a question, when did the IC start? I mean the first one.

[Rud31]

[BenoitRen]

[another coma]

this is gonna be really good stuff for the study eh dhex?
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[Intentionally Wrong]

[Corinth]

You can go look in the relevant TGQ threads or wait until this evening when I can look it up on my laptop.

[Rud31]

[Baron Patsy]

[Intentionally Wrong]

Thanks rud13 and thatbox! I can finish now!
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[dhex]

thanks to everyone who has replied so far. if you know of anyone who could contribute - and wouldn't mind - but hasn't seen the postings, please pass it along. more data is better.

[psiga]

Mh... DeusJester has been away from the internets a bit lately, so I went and reminded him. Though he was drunk at the time, so perhaps I will remind him again later.
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[dhex]

thanks, psiga.

i'm going to be contacting people with followups shortly (hopefully by this weekend, depending on work/job search concerns) but i am also going to be contacting a random sampling of some folks to request a "real time" gmail chat (or aim or whatever) interview.

thanks again to everyone who has responded. i appreciate the effort. and there's still time for anyone else who wants to submit, i'm not going to close off extra entries for a few more weeks, minimum.

[SplashBeats]

I'm going to try to get mine finished soon. Maybe tonight!

[ajutla]

guys the douchiest thing about this dude is that he was all "GNU/Linux" instead of like "linux" which would have sufficed but wouldn't have been douchey enough

[psiga]

Well aren't you a Jutla come lately.
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[ajutla]

your avatar transfixes me

[psiga]

Thank you. It was made in Windows XP™.
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[slipstream]

I just saw this. I am going to fill it out tomorrow if it's not too late. I was a bit player, at best, but hey, every little bit counts, right?

is it too late to call benroiten a douche, i wanna get in on this stoning
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[dhex]

hey all, just about done processing everything; i'd like to do some more gmail chat (gchat?) interviews with people, so if anyone's interested (nights and weekends are pretty much it as far as availability, so 7PM EST onward figure) drop me a line at moconnor23 AT gmail DoT com and we can set something up.

and if anyone has any surveys not yet done, it's not too late to hand things in; i've only just started writing my outlines and methodology bits.

and thanks again for all of the responses. this has been very insightful and interesting.

[stotelheim]

We get to see it when it's done, right?
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[dhex]

it will be publicly available when it's put to bed, and i'll make sure to send out notice to everyone who participated.

[psiga]

Can't imagine that you'd need me for a gtalk interview; I was "comprehensive" enough as is.

Oh, I finally started playing World of Warcraft with Matt: He built me a mechanical squirrel to have as a pet.

Also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydLiasdJeoo Twirl-a-Squirrel!
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[dhex]

hey toups or whomever, you can de-sticky this. i'm stuffed to the brim with data. anyone who wants to pile on can still contact/pm/smoke signal me.

[shnozlak]

[dhex]

Well, it's finally done and in. I want to thank everyone who participated once again. The link to the final paper is below - feel free to share it with anyone who might be interested (or suffer from insomnia).

http://conchobar.org/IC/oconnor-IC_ethnography.pdf

[Quick Shot II Turbo]

Not to be overly anal about details, but wasn't it 7chan, rather than 4chan, that provoked the invasion? It's probably not going to matter to those who will evaluate the paper, but, you know...

Edit: In the part where you mention the subforums, you say there are six but only name five, disregarding the axe. The last sentence in that paragraph is messed up, too.

Edit-2: Page 10, last paragraph: the sentence in parentheses about Internet memes is missing an "are".

Edit-3: A good read. Everything was clearly argumented without any ambiguity and it served its purpose well. I found the "Implications for Business and Industry" part particularly interesting.
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[boojiboy7]

Sorry I didn't send in my survey to this, dhex, as school kinda kicked my ass for the past couple of months. However, this is quite interesting, and I think a pretty good examination of the end of IC. I'm hopeful that more people around here will read this, and keep in mind some of the bad shit that went down at IC near the end.

Interesting to now, aside to all this, but mentioned in some other threads, is that I for one read the IC frontpage a lot more often now. OF course, this probably has a lot to do with the constant strema of updates on it now, but is probably also tied to not being in the forums there as well.

[dhex]

quck shot - good catch. thanks. i dumped it off into my "scratch" doc for editing (because my wife is evil and made me change the word order) and didn't put it back in. and no one caught that.

there's probably a few dozen other mistakes in there that i just lost in the past week or so.

note: the updated pdf is 10x the size of the original. word file to pdf on a mac is super fucked up. it's still less than 1mb though.

[Toups]

[Corinth]

-Second paragraph, first sentence, you have "to note" twice. If I catch anything else while I'm reading it I'll let you know. You've probably already fixed it, though!

-This particularly struck me in THEMES AND ANALYSIS, but you're using "they" instead of "he" sometimes for the third person singular, which is admirably PC of you but unnecessary since you already identified all of your respondants as male. May as well be technically correct if you aren't backed into a corner.


-Last sentence before CONCLUSION: "savage?"

Well written and well presented, dhex. Thanks for sharing with us.

[Intentionally Wrong]

I enjoyed that. There were some perspectives in there that I hadn't considered before. An excellent read. I'm also really excited to have been quoted. Vanity, etc.
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[DJ]

Good stuff.
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[BenoitRen]

Beginning of page 13: "approach to writing about games as the a unique and attractive quality".

It's a good read. I've read most of it, will read the rest tomorrow.
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[BenoitRen]

Beginning of page 22: "This permeates the existence of the board and how far in can develop socially".

Read the last couple of pages later than I thought. Good read. :)
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[Iacus]