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RE: Witness Survey v1

in #witnesssurvey7 years ago

There are things decentralization makes sense for and things it doesn't. IMO you would be wise to work with someone knowledgeable about survey design and to brainstorm with some people knowledgeable about witnesses to construct the base survey structure, and ask the community for maybe a couple of open ended questions.

It is admirable that some witnesses are taking the time to answer the questions in their current iteration, but this needs a lot of work. Even if you get better questions from the community, you will never end up with something as useful as a well designed survey gathering quantitative data on these topics. But again, my humble opinion, etc. Sorry I was snarky on my initial response. But honestly, I think you kind of blew it by including some of those questions without exercising editorial control.

Good luck! - Carl

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No offense taken at all @carlgnash! I enjoyed reading your thoughts and certainly think they would help provide more quantitative data but don't feel that is the mission of this project. I'm more interested in expanding the ideas of each witness and allowing the community to democratically ask what they feel is the most important questions. There are certainly drawbacks to this method but my belief is that the benefit of openness outweighs the costs.

I do sincerely hope to partner with you in future iterations though! I hope you will review version 2's questions next quarter and help move the most important questions to the top. If you find questions that are not quite to what you'd consider par I hope you will submit a new comment with a better formatted question. This will allow the project to have editorial abilities while still keeping the decentralized mission alive.