At design school, I get surveys all the time. I do some of them. Actually, I do a fair number of them if they are for a class or to help the school improve in some way. Surveys are a easy way to get quick quantitative information from a large sample size without doing user research.
Now, I just made a survey for the first time at ID, and unfortunately, I didn’t get many responses. Well, that kinda stinks. No reciprocity, people!!
What if there was a SNS called “Backscratch” that you could essentially telegraph to the community when you contribute something… Whether it’s an idea or a service, or a tip. It could be as little as filling out a survey, even. And when it comes your time to ask for a favor, people will feel more obligated to fill it out because their online reputation or “backscratch” score is visible, hanging on their doorstep. No one wants to have a horrendously negative score.
It’s kinda like the notion of a ratio or something similar on an IRC, P2P file sharing software, or Torrent tracker.
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