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by mig39 1527 days ago
Whenever I see one of those on a site, I actually to the survey and fill it in with "it's annoying to be asked to do a survey before I even get to view the content." And hope that gets through to them.
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At first I didn't see the survey, and then suddenly there it was. I had probably 60 full seconds to see the website.

Worst part is that it's a poor survey too. I couldn't even answer the final question because "Your comment uses an invalid format." It's possible it's because I put in some punctutation, so I took all that out. Still errored, so I thought maybe it was because the long form let me put in like 450 characters and I did, so I wrote a short one and still errored out.

Just terrible.

But I did fill out the survey. I don't know how to sound disappointed without it ending up as aggressive..

I worry that will just encourage this practice since "it worked, we got feedback"?
I’m not a data scientist but doesn’t this just dirty the data pool and lower the confidence of any actions taken or is it rather easy to clean?
LOL, that’s great. I just did the same.