Time to retire the current poll asking for feedback on the new WinCustomize.com. In the two weeks we ran the poll, 1,024 votes were cast, making it one of our more successful polls to date. We were looking for the general reaction to the new site design and here's the general gist of things:
Fully 58% of you either loved it or really liked it.
About 16.8% of you are OK with the site.
5.96% are simply indifferent.
And we've inflicted emotional pain and suffering upon a whopping 18.75% of our user base.
All things considered, those are very good numbers for a site redesign and launch! We know people don't always like change and that it's hard to get accustomed to, but overall, the community here at WinCustomize has handled it well and embraced the new site.
With that said... it's time for a new poll...
Here at WinCustomize, we interact with many people from all over the globe each and every day. We take it on a certain degree of faith that the person we're chatting with on the forums or IRC that they are who they say they are... at least for the most part. Sure, we may lie a little about our age, maybe fudge a bit on how glamorous our job may be, but we figure we've all been around enough to get a feel for who the person on the other side of the screen is.
Well, maybe not.
Read/WriteWeb.com has been running a reader poll asking users "In your current web activities where an identity is required, do you ever fake all or part of your identity?" Turns out this question has yielded some interesting results. Fully 55% of the respondents say they regularly or always use fake web personalities. Only 12% claim to always be honest about who they are. This is particularly interesting as increasing amounts of attention are given to sites like MySpace and other social network systems where teens seem to be giving away too much information about who they are.
So our new poll is more or less lifted from R/WW, but I'm interested in seeing how the WC community specifically responds. My guess is we're more honest than most places.