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CR4 Survey

Posted April 15, 2012 4:59 PM by Mizuti
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Hey everybody!
Do you want to help improve CR4?
Do you like talking about yourself?
Do you like CR4 coffee mugs?!

We're conducting a survey to learn more about the members of our community. We also want to know what you'd like to see on the CR4 site. . The survey is a quick 10 questions and will give us a better representation as to what the users (you!) would like to see in the future. Adding your username to the survey is completely optional, but if you do, you put your name into a drawing for a CR4 coffee mug from our store.

Hit the link below to complete the survey and enter the contest!

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/P5VDWPD (Filled, good job everyone!)

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/QMPZQ2H (Same as first)

Deadline to enter the contest is April 29, 2012 12:00AM EST

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#1

Re: CR4 Survey

04/15/2012 5:51 PM

Strange quiz.

So why do you need my credit card numbers, bank account numbers, and social security numbers to improve the site?

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04/15/2012 7:55 PM

Have to get funding somehow ;)

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04/15/2012 10:57 PM

Join the club Mate!

Same here.

http://www.zazzle.com/kysley

Not even sure if this is off topic.

Good luck, Ky.

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04/17/2012 4:35 AM

Give him a break, after all he tells me he's an African prince so he must be ok.

Bazzer.

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04/26/2012 7:23 AM

didn't ask me for any personal info but username-sounds like you got caught by a phishing site

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04/15/2012 8:05 PM

I did not see a category for making CR4 compatible with Safari browsers!

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04/16/2012 3:40 AM

I guess that part would fall under 'Comments.'

I'd like to see CR4 made suitable for mobiles of all stripes. The editor drives my Android phone bonkers - and me with it (not that it takes much of a push in that direction lol).

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04/17/2012 11:31 AM

What do you use on the Android? Opera Mini is the best I've found so far - but it's still lousy for CR4. Individual comments aren't too bad, but replying to PMs is terrible.

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04/26/2012 7:42 AM

Chrome Beta handles the forum quite nicely. Have to be on ICS though (for now).

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04/30/2012 11:43 AM

Still on G at present , but Samsung say I should be getting an upgrade to ICS in Q2 of this year (i.e. now-ish), so I'll give it a try as & when.

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04/16/2012 11:27 AM

I rarely use any browser, other than Safari, and have never experienced problems.

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04/16/2012 12:02 PM

When responding or composing a message Safari does not support the HTML toolbars and formatting.

You must be putting in manual page breaks [ p ] and line breaks [ br ] if you want formatting.

I also see you have only about 60 posts.

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04/16/2012 12:32 PM

That's the problem I have with Safari (among many other problems - like it's being self-mutilating for example). I don't use it anymore. For anything. Really, there aren't any browsers I do like. Some I did, but they've been 'improved' to the point of uselessness (or worse).

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04/16/2012 8:32 PM

Under "List any new forum category would you like to see."

I put

"A single general forum category for homework/conspiracy theory/free energy, etc that just redirects people to the google search engine home page."

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04/16/2012 9:25 PM

I asked for a 'Things that cant work.' catigory.

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04/19/2012 9:07 AM

As scary as this sounds, I was thinking of a category called "other". It would fall under the "general" heading, and like the "commercial" category, wouldn't be splashed on the front page.

My thinking is, that this would keep traffic numbers up, work towards eliminating long, meandering off topic conversations that go on in the front page blogs and forums, and give people a place to go to discuss conspiracies or anything else. I've seen these conversations attempted via the PM system, and it's a complete mess. The same rules of behavior would apply, but it would provide a place for different subjects to be discussed, that may not be in the engineering realm.

If admin was worried about more broken bathtub threads being spawned, they could set a post limit to 200 per thread.

I'm not suggesting this as a place to go argue, but being that I respect the opinions of most everyone here, I'd like to have a place to bring up topics, and get feedback, (from engineers), on things like the economy, investments, thoughts on the future of the US and Europe, etc.

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05/01/2012 11:46 AM

I left and a right handed mug....? wow.

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05/01/2012 2:15 PM

UPDATE: We have a winner! We will post the lucky member shortly, we are just contacting that person individually first.

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