On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Casey Brownlists@caseybrown.org wrote:
Which you can ignore. It's beta-testing, the whole point is to gather feedback and make things better, so I don't have a problem with it.
If you mean "ignore" in the sense of "click away from the questionnaire form without submitting", the user will still remain in beta-mode.
I appreciate the importance of feedback, but I would suggest an alternative approach: A. Go back to the normal skin first, then prompt the user for feedback. B. Put a "skip this" button at the top of the questionnaire, even if it does just submit an empty form. C. (my favorite) Direct all feedback to SOME TALK-PAGE ON THE WIKI (or even to this mailing list).
I should apologize for the harshness of tone. I meant "stupid questions" in this context as opposed to "smart questions", i.e. specific ones asked based on previous responses as during normal communication between humans.
My hypothesis is that you'll get better feedback if users have greater reason to believe someone will read it, address it, and even reply to it.
At least I know I would never have bothered to explain all this in the feedback form (for this exact reason).
Thanks.
C.W.