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

[Guest_Jox_*]

Hi all,

Lori you keep asking for views. I have taken the view it is better to let the questionnaires come in before commentating. However, it has become too hard to stand back.

Sylvia, I like and respect you greatly but I think you and I disagree on almost everything you've said, I'm afraid. I’ll just answer your point about the House of Windsor.

Princess Diana  - I am her biggest critic - I loathed her. I was delighted when she was excluded from the Royal Family. I simply cannot tell you the damage I think she did to the UK political system - much of it, in my opinion, for her narrow personal ends. This is a system I must live under and to have the Head of State's position undermined by a young woman determined to seduce the media and indulge in showbiz really sickened me for years. Sarah Ferguson (who actually comes from the next village to me so I have no distance axe to grind) was almost as bad. Between them they undermined and demeaned the Monarchy. This is a monarchy which I would fight (in a civil or military sense) to support. Without it we'd become a republic and I think that would be very wrong.

I don't mind you likening her at all - your prerogative but I do not think anyone can simply take umbrage because they like someone. I don't generally attack showbiz characters because they are powerless. The Princess of Wales and the Duchess of York had great power. in my opinion they abused it and damaged my country. I shall never forgive either for that.

More generally, all...

As regards competitions etc; I think they are valuable and encouraging. One can have too many and I have recently urged a reduction myself but, in general, I think they have merit. If one does not wish to vote in them, one can abstain. In truth, many people can’ be bothered, rather than abstain for ethical reasons.

As regards Wizards I did urge a reduction in their influence and I was led to believe that this had been implemented until I was rudely told it had not a few weeks ago. I don’t understand Lori’s latest Wizard suggestion - why give a Wizard to signify another award - makes no sense to me, sorry. On balance, I would like to keep Wizards as I do think lots of attention deserves recognition. But I won’t argue this strongly as I’m aware I have benefited by many Wizards and I don’t wish to be seen as self-serving. But I do honestly feel they have much merit in the scheme of things.

As regards cliquey - I’m sorry but I’m running out of patience of wearing that hair shirt. I for one - and I know this goes equally for everyone else at MM have NEVER excluded anyone in any way. We all live where we live. Languages etc and topics differ. But if anyone has asked for clarification (as I did with the US Memorial Day recently - such has been available. I think people regard things as cliquey at MM only when they don’t join in as much as others do. They may not wish to nor have time to. That is fine but it is very unfair to brand others as cliquey because of it.

Well that is my steam vented, But I will say this - I don’t mind in the least anyone making their points. I am only deeply offended when others decide to take their offence at my comments to the point of believing I should not make them. Why should they? Art and politics are about subversion. Without that they are nothing. We’ll become so politically correct if we follow that route that MM would be a place where nothing was worth saying. I shall fight against that. Far better (for example) that Sylvia’s position on those young royals deeply offends me (as it does) that I ever deny her right to make them (as I would never do). It’s the old thing - I strongly disagree but would, for ever, defend people’s right to say things with which I strongly disagree.

Thanks, James.