I posted a link to the 2014 survey in the ‘Less Wrong’ Facebook group, and some people commented they filled it out. Another friend of mine started a Less Wrong account to comment that she did the survey, and got her first karma. Now I’m curious how many lurkers become survey participants, and are then incenitivized to start accounts to get the promised karma by commenting they completed it. If it’s a lot, that’s cool, because having one’s first comment upvoted after just registering an account on Less Wrong seems like a way of overcoming the psychological barrier of ‘oh, I wouldn’t fit in as an active participant on Less Wrong...’
If you, or someone you know, got active on Less Wrong for the first time because of the survey, please reply as a data point. If you’re a regular user who has a hypothesis about this, please share. Either way, I’m curious to discover how strong an effect this is, or is not.
I have been an on-and-off lurker for ~15 months, and only recently created an account (not because of the survey though). I have participated in both 2013 and 2014′s surveys.
I posted a link to the 2014 survey in the ‘Less Wrong’ Facebook group, and some people commented they filled it out. Another friend of mine started a Less Wrong account to comment that she did the survey, and got her first karma. Now I’m curious how many lurkers become survey participants, and are then incenitivized to start accounts to get the promised karma by commenting they completed it. If it’s a lot, that’s cool, because having one’s first comment upvoted after just registering an account on Less Wrong seems like a way of overcoming the psychological barrier of ‘oh, I wouldn’t fit in as an active participant on Less Wrong...’
If you, or someone you know, got active on Less Wrong for the first time because of the survey, please reply as a data point. If you’re a regular user who has a hypothesis about this, please share. Either way, I’m curious to discover how strong an effect this is, or is not.
My first comment was after I completed the 2014 survey. I’ve only been lurking for about a month, and this was the first survey I’ve participated in.
I have been an on-and-off lurker for ~15 months, and only recently created an account (not because of the survey though). I have participated in both 2013 and 2014′s surveys.