MM Questionnaire, sent via email to all members today Options

[Cleo_Serapis]

Dear MM member,

Mosaic Musings is always looking for ways of improving the site for members to allow you to be more involved.  We'd appreciate it if you could spare a bit of time to complete our questionnaire so that we have some idea of what our members think of the site. ALL member feedback is most appreciated!

Please reply with your suggestions as we value the opinions of our members. I will also post this questionnaire in the Cuneiform Chronicles forum should you wish to respond there in public. Could you also indicate in your reply if you give permission for me to post your thoughts in the public thread, and if so, with or without your member name please?


1. How did you find out about MM?

2. What persuaded you to join?

3. How long have you been a member of MM?

4. How often do you log onto the board? If less than once per month, what can we do to encourage you to become more active?

5. What do you enjoy most about MM?

6. What do you like least about MM?

7. Do you find the staff and other members friendly and helpful? If not, please explain why.

8. Do you find the board easy to navigate? If not, what changes would you like to see?

9. Do you have any suggestions for improvements on MM?

10. As an active member, have you at any time read the rules (Terms of Use and forum participation rules) of MM?

11. Had you read them before/while registering or sometime after active posting?

12. Are the critiques given thoughtfully written, constructive and positive? If not, please explain why.

13. When receiving critique and feedback in a poetry forum, does it interfere with your process of improvement for the poem at hand if another member posts their own poetry into your tile?

14. When receiving critique and feedback, does it interfere with your process of improvement to your poem or story if others become involved in an unrelated discussion?

15. Do you have any other comments (especially any which would help us to improve MM)?



Thank you for taking the time to complete this questionnaire in advance!

Lori Kanter aka Cleo and the entire MM staff

Lori Kanter
Manager
Mosaic Musings, LLC
PO Box 39
Stow, MA 01775
USA

[Cybele]

Good morning Everyone,

Having read through all the questionnaires, the question of 'clannishness' jumps out at me.

I think the answer to this is just a matter of TIME.

I, for one (and I suspect most people) tend to post first thing in the morning while we are fresh.

Bearing in mind that we, in Britain are a quarter of the way into the day before our American friends stir in the morning, we are going to receive replies from Britain first. By the time America comes online there might be quite a few replies already posted in our threads by others here who happen to be awake!

I can see that if say Lori, were to come on line at 9am American time the thread may already have received 7 or 8 replies and responses, which would indeed make it seem very 'clannish'.

The only answer I can see is for us to stagger the times of our postings throughout the day, or post in the evening! The staggering would  have to apply to all members of MM for this to make a difference.

The idea of a 'clan' is misconceived, since those so accused are the first to reply to  nearly every post!

Having read through this, I realise that I reply to posts, almost invariably by saying 'Good Morning!'

I hope this will be of some help. Speaking for myself, I wish only to read good poetry and prose, and interact with all my friends here on MM. We are very lucky to have such a site, so well managed by Lori and Peter. It would be such a shame if it became as bland and uninteresting as most other poetry sites on the net.

We have members who really care about helping and advising and I am always grateful for the crits I received from others. Sometimes they come up with points that make my work shine much brighter than my first efforts and find little errors that I have completely overlooked. Sometimes I prefer my original thoughts, but no matter what, I am always pleased to receive the feedback. I feel I have grown as a poet since joining MM in a way a could never have achieved without you all, and for this I thank you. I value all my friendships here and want to keep them.

I am sure we can resolve all those little niggles if we try.


Oh yes Lori, just one other thing. I find all the forum names VERY confusing, and have to keep thinking hard about where I have seen a posting I want to visit again. Could we perhaps, have some simpler titles? I realise your theme is Egyptology, but it's all Greek to me.