+DavidMac Posted March 28, 2006 Share Posted March 28, 2006 (edited) Is this legit? I just received the following email about a geocaching survey: Geocaching Survey Invite Date: March 28, 2006 1:03:17 PM CST From: ***** To: ***** Reply-To: ***** You are invited to participate in this brief 5 – 7 minute survey regarding your use and satisfaction with geocaching.com. All responses will remain confidential and used in accordance with Groundspeak’s privacy policy. View Privacy Policy This survey link will be active until April 14th. We value your feedback and look forward to learning how we can better serve the entire geocaching community. Thank you, The Groundspeak Team Just wanted to check since I can't find any announcements about it on the site, and the email links to a 3rd party website. edit: ah, guess I can't fix my typo in the title, but I can try... Edited March 28, 2006 by DavidMac Link to comment
Keystone Posted March 28, 2006 Share Posted March 28, 2006 A few weeks ago, Jeremy mentioned to the volunteer team that he was planning on conducting a survey. So from the face of it, this sure looks like he moved forward on that idea. Link to comment
+DavidMac Posted March 28, 2006 Author Share Posted March 28, 2006 Sounds good. I went ahead and filled it out. It seemed official enough. Oh, thanks for fixing the title Link to comment
+WildGooseChase Posted March 28, 2006 Share Posted March 28, 2006 I also got that survey and filled it out. Since they used all the right terms about geocaching I figured it was legit. Link to comment
+Airmapper Posted March 28, 2006 Share Posted March 28, 2006 I didn't get any survey, but then again no one wants to know what I think anyway. Link to comment
Keystone Posted March 28, 2006 Share Posted March 28, 2006 Sounds good. I went ahead and filled it out. It seemed official enough. Oh, thanks for fixing the title No extra charge. Link to comment
+Maingray Posted March 28, 2006 Share Posted March 28, 2006 Sounds good. I went ahead and filled it out. It seemed official enough. Oh, thanks for fixing the title No extra charge. Filled it out too, had surverys from this company before. Link to comment
+Moose Mob Posted March 28, 2006 Share Posted March 28, 2006 I hope to see the resuls of this survey. Could be interesting. * note: let's not discuss the contents on the off chance it could skew the survey * Link to comment
+Chuy! Posted March 28, 2006 Share Posted March 28, 2006 (edited) I'm wondering if they can tell who participated by the list of characters at the end of the address; mine ends in -JQL84KAYT Edited March 28, 2006 by Chuy Link to comment
+Ziggy Crew Posted March 28, 2006 Share Posted March 28, 2006 I to took the survey. At first I wasn't sure if it was real until I looked here and saw this thread. Link to comment
+Airmapper Posted March 28, 2006 Share Posted March 28, 2006 Hey, they sent me one after all, glad I seen this thread first, or I would have reported it. I just finished it. Cool survey, I'd really like to see the results. Link to comment
+Maingray Posted March 28, 2006 Share Posted March 28, 2006 (edited) I'm wondering if they can tell who participated by the list of characters at the end of the address; mine ends in -JQL84KAYT yah, mine is v different to yours. Edited March 28, 2006 by Maingray Link to comment
+clearpath Posted March 28, 2006 Share Posted March 28, 2006 Yeah, I like the question that asks, "are you an intelligent right side of the bell curve cacher or a stupid left side of the bell curve cacher?" Link to comment
+DavidMac Posted March 28, 2006 Author Share Posted March 28, 2006 I'm wondering if they can tell who participated by the list of characters at the end of the address; mine ends in -JQL84KAYT Yes; looking through their privacy policy, I get the idea that the unique URL's are used to prevent people from skewing the results by submitting multiple responses. It's a way to ensure that one email= one survey, but I don't think it means that if you responded "yes" to the question about micros, somebody shows up at your door to "educate" you about placing quality caches. Link to comment
Jeremy Posted March 28, 2006 Share Posted March 28, 2006 (edited) I'm wondering if they can tell who participated by the list of characters at the end of the address; mine ends in -JQL84KAYT Although technically you could map the responses with a user, we went to great care to anonymize the way that emails are handled through Zoomerang. Zoomerang actually received fake emails that map to our mail server. We then map it to the correct emails and send them out from our own mail servers. Once we get the results from the survey we will delete the mapping which will completely anonymize the results (and make it so all the emails in Zoomerang's database bounce). The reason why we use the tracking is to reduce the number of duplicate surveys that would skew the results. Only those that opted in to receive emails from us received the survey. Edited March 28, 2006 by Jeremy Link to comment
+Moose Mob Posted March 28, 2006 Share Posted March 28, 2006 I am closing this thread in favor of the one running in Geocaching.Com Thanks all! Link to comment
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