Soleron said:
The university are OK with you implying they endorse the study?
Yes they are, my work was not only evaluated by a ethical committee, but also by 3 other professors (PhDs, one of them from another University) as well.
The data I'm gathering here is going to be used as input to a multi disciplinary Relevance Model related to research fields like Information Retrieval, Artificial Intelligence, Personality Models, Memes, Opinion Mining, Social Search, etc.
This type of experiment is widely used to evaluate information retrieval models. If I had the resources I would love index data from a general propose social network (like the facebook, but that would take months or even years). Then I have to work with domains like games, books, movies, animes, etc. where the amount of data to index is relativelly small.
During my PhD I intend run this experiment in two different domains, the next one is probably going to be books or animes.
If yes, do they have such low standards for substantial original work that they consider surveying a gaming forum to be PhD worthy?
There is nothing wrong with forum (in this case, also social network) users. If we look at the internet it is easy to find out researchers from other universities conducting experiments with the same type of people. Recently researchers have been working with users from social networks in many different projects. It's becoming a trend.
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