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DarkTemplar on 10 July 2013

Hey guys!

I would like to invite you to help me in one of the experiments of my PhD. It will take only a few minutes to complete it. During the experiment you just have to write your profile name, select a game and judge 10 opinions about it. I would appreciate if you could do the poll more than one time. Below is the formal invitation.

Update #1 - Thanks to all of you guys! So far we have more than 150 opinions evaluated. Our goal is to have more than 500 evaluations, since the experiment is set to take two weeks we would love if more people could do it.

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Dear vgchartz users:

You are invited to participate to a web based research study to investigate what make an opinion relevant to an online social network member. In this experiment you must judge the relevance of opinions from reviews written by other member of this site in the past. In order to respect and protect your anonymity this experiment was evaluated and approved by an Ethical Committee in Research at the University of São Paulo. The experiment was also discussed with two moderators of the forums to avoid any problems.

To participate on this research visit the link: http://allanlima.pcs.usp.br/vgpoll/terms/pollTerms.php

Thank you for considering this request.
Sincerely,
Allan Lima - PhD Student at the University of São Paulo.
P.S. If you wrote a public review on the vgchartz but do not want to have none of your opinions judged by other users in this experiment visit the link: http://allanlima.pcs.usp.br/vgpoll/blacklist/userBlacklistForm.php


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iBlah on 10 July 2013

when I hit start the poll button, the page just goes blank, is this suppose to happen ?



 

DarkTemplar on 10 July 2013
iBlah said:
when I hit start the poll button, the page just goes blank, is this suppose to happen ?


What game did you choose?



iBlah on 10 July 2013

Demon's Souls



 

iBlah on 10 July 2013

um, okay, just tried Assassin's Creed (the first game on the list), the same thing happened, is this not working for me ?



 

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DarkTemplar on 10 July 2013
iBlah said:
Demon's Souls

I just checked it using you profile name and selecting the same game, it works fine here...

What is the browser you are using?

Would you mind of trying the experimet using a different browser or even selecting a another game?



WagnerPaiva on 10 July 2013

Cool, I am also Brazilian, so I am game.



My grammar errors are justified by the fact that I am a brazilian living in Brazil. I am also very stupid.

iBlah on 10 July 2013

ah okay, I'm using Firefox now, Assassin's Creed still doesn't work, but Batman AA just got through, I think I can only get some of the games working, so I'll do as much as I can.



 

DarkTemplar on 10 July 2013
WagnerPaiva said:
Cool, I am also Brazilian, so I am game.

Thanks Wagner!

Btw did it worked well on your pc?

We perfomed many tests but it seems that at iBlah's PC the site did not work as expected.



DarkTemplar on 10 July 2013
iBlah said:
ah okay, I'm using Firefox now, Assassin's Creed still doesn't work, but Batman AA just got through, I think I can only get some of the games working, so I'll do as much as I can.

Thansk a lot iBlah I really apreciate your help.

I'm sorry it initially did not work well on you PC.

As I said at my previous post we conducted many tests including many different browsers and different screen resolutions but it is aways impossible to cover every single scenario.