# survey in GD **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 15, 2013, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survey-in-gd/663580 "2013-07-15T19:00:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![yottaflop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a183cd/32.png) [@yottaflop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yottaflop)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survey-in-gd/663580/1 "2013-07-15T19:00:34Z")
What’s wrong with including a link to a survey in a GD thread about the topic of the GD thread? Sounds pretty arbitrary. I guess it’s true that my survey could cause the minds of everyone in GD to become infected with the more scientific notion of using anonymous surveys to more accurately gauge opinion and it could lead to the end of the universe and by extension this message board as we know it. Sounds pretty unlikely though. Which forum would you prefer that I put it in? Are we allowed to discuss the topic in that forum? If not, GD seems fine. [[LINK DELETED AGAIN]] ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survey-in-gd/663580/2 "2013-07-15T19:03:10Z")
Like I said - and perhaps you didn’t see this because you were working on this post - > [@Red Pill vs. Blue Pill](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-pill-vs-blue-pill/663578/3): > > **yottaflop** , if you want to have a discussion about the Matrix scenario on this site, that’s fine. But don’t use this board to get responses to your survey. I’m closing this thread and breaking the link. If you want to use the board that way, you have to ask for permission. > [@yottaflop](#): > > I guess it’s true that my survey could cause the minds of everyone in GD to become infected with the more scientific notion of using anonymous surveys to more accurately gauge opinion There’s nothing scientific about doing a survey that way. We do have a polling function in certain forums here (IMHO, for example), but they’re for fun and not scientifically valid or anything. ---
**Author:** ![yottaflop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a183cd/32.png) [@yottaflop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yottaflop)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survey-in-gd/663580/3 "2013-07-15T19:09:13Z")
I did see your post. It didn’t say to get permission, it said “don’t use this board to get responses to your survey.” ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survey-in-gd/663580/4 "2013-07-15T19:44:45Z")
The problem is you were using this site to drive traffic to another website. That’s almost never allowed here. You can talk about The Matrix here. You can start a poll about The Matrix here. You just can’t say “Hey, everybody go to this other website and vote in my poll”. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survey-in-gd/663580/5 "2013-07-15T20:11:35Z")
That’s the general idea, yes. You can go ahead and start a poll asking this question in Cafe Society or IMHO - but without the link to your site. ---
**Author:** ![Ibn\_Warraq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@Ibn\_Warraq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibn_Warraq)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survey-in-gd/663580/6 "2013-07-15T20:25:30Z")
Why was a question about the Matrix in GD in the first place? Shouldn’t it have been in Cafe Society? Edit: Oops, just saw Marley’s post.