Discussion and Questions regarding the Community Owners and Moderators Survey
Realising that there are those who'll want to discuss the survey, that's what this post is for. Have away at discussions.
Post survey responses to the survey post itself, thank you.
https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/FyQfCkKDWpZ
Realising that there are those who'll want to discuss the survey, that's what this post is for. Have away at discussions.
Post survey responses to the survey post itself, thank you.
https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/FyQfCkKDWpZ
Andi Droid: Please post your questions here, thanks.
ReplyDeleteEdward Morbius
ReplyDeleteAh!,... Dankeschön, lieber Edward, ich glaube, ich habe es schon erledigt...
Ich habe in die weitergeteilten...
meinen Kommentar geschrieben... Bitte die Umfrage ~ Beantwortung in den Original Beitrag geben, Dank!!!
Ich hoffe es klappt und es kommen reichlich Antworten!!
Einen gelungenen Tag voller Fröhlichkeit, für dich und beste Grüße : ))
William Robison, you'd written:
ReplyDeleteThis is actually one of the more interesting questions that is come up in this community. I am.one of the mods of a community that has some interesting content (beyond the sitting around and chitchat).
Is migrating the posts someplace an option or do we just pick a place and start over. Maybe we start over in several places and expand the universe.
(Yes, I'm being a hard-ass about no comments on the survey post itself.)
Edward Morbius sorry I misunderstood what you had written. Couple points.
ReplyDeleteA survey is normally looking for opinions. That's what survey means.
Second, if you don't want comments on a posts, you can click the three dots in the lower right corner (mobile), and click "disable comments).
William Robison Answering your question: if it can be exported, it can at least in theory be imported.
ReplyDeleteThe problem with Google+ Community content is that there is no G+ Community exporter.
Individual members can export their own posts, from everywhere on G+.
I believe it's possible to export a list of URLs from the Community. Those can be "web scraped" by various means. Because of idiosyncrasies of G+ itself, only the most recent few comments are captured, so that a full archive of a discussion isn't possible. (You can see this yourself looking at a G+ post on the Internet Archive's Wayback machine, which operates similarly.)
There are also some tools starting to emerge which can capture at least some Community content, though specifics vary.
We've requested Google provide a tool that does this properly, at least to Community owners.
William Robison I want specific and structured information on that particular post, so that it can be extracted, abstracted, analysed, etc. Having a bunch of other-formatted material there gets in the way. That's the first problem.
ReplyDeleteThe second is that G+ only allows 500 comments per post. I'm already thinking of how I'd like to get around that, I'll probably fire off a secondary survey page, and link it from the original, if we get to that problem.
I recognise that people will want to comment and discuss stuff. So rather than fight that, I created and linked a thread where that discussion can happen without disrupting the survey. And I've either pointed people to it or taken the trouble of migrating their comments myself, as in your case.
Which is where we are here.
Thanks for understanding.
Shelenn Ayres you'd written:
ReplyDeleteShould probably offer an alternative method for survey responses as many owners have communities they do not have known publicly. In addition, the public responses are to communities with large memberships and low post volume discouraging owners of small communities with small memberships and more active post volume. In general, survey responses should be anonymous.
Shelenn Ayres: Fair suggestion.
ReplyDeleteI've actually prepped a Forms version of the survey, I'm trying to decide if I would rather use that for responses, though I'm thinking of modifying it possibly. Review:
docs.google.com - DRAFT Google+ Sunset Community migration survey
I agree that it is a tricky call as the comments on the post and the Forms version both would serve well. Though I am unsure which one would be easier for you to export and categorize the data in for a survey result once concluded.
ReplyDeleteDon McCollough Good point, I've not worked with forms before.
ReplyDeleteI am quite versed in copy/paste and text processing via sed / awk, etc., so that's highly tenable. If people do strictly copy and paste the questions into their responses.