Help us make LumberJocks even better!

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-- Max "Desperado", Salt Lake City, UT

Sorry Martin, no can do… With internet cookies, it is too easy to track personal information even without entering it, and without it being on a secure server it is just too much of a risk for profiing customers and endless spam.

Tom

-- Anybody can become a woodworker, but only a Craftsman can hide his mistakes.

i just finished so lets hope that doesn’t happen, right martin.

-- Roper - Master of sawdust-

Why spam, Tom? We’re not asking for the email address in the survey.

And cookies are used by each membership based site on the Internet anyways. Not just by surveys.

-- Martin, http://lumberjocks.com | My Facebook: http://profile.to/msojka

Hi Martin.

What puzzles me is how you’ll get those prizes to respondents if personal info isn’t given or gathered when one does the survey. I was just able to take the survey without having logged into lumberjocks since I cleared all cookies/passwords and restarted my browser.

-- johnjoiner

I’m Done.

I’ll add some information as well. Cookies are not just for spam or personal information. They are a mechanism for web pages within a site to talk to each other. The information is obviously for advertisers, but LumberJocks needs advertisers to stay free and if Martin can provide valuable information to them, then he can continue to maintain and increase the functionality of LumberJocks. As for distribution of prizes, the survey asks for your LumberJocks nickname so that Martin can get the prizes to the right people.

The internet is a scary place, but I figure if you can’t trust Martin and LumberJocks, then who can you trust?

That would be my perspective.

-- Working at Woodworking www.VillageLaneFurniture.com

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I agree 110% with Russel. He took the words right off of my fingertips.

Martin is one straight up kind of guy.

-- The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them

johnjoiner, you’re right.

My apologies for a small error… I sent the survey a little hastily without adding in the final question:

“To be entered into the draw for prizes, please enter your LumberJocks nickname: “

...it was added shortly after.

IMPORTANT: For those of you who filled out the survey and did not see the section asking for your LJ Nickname, please send me a PM.

-- Martin, http://lumberjocks.com | My Facebook: http://profile.to/msojka

i would be one of those people.

-- Roper - Master of sawdust-

done…if providing potential advertisers information…great…I dont mind a banner ads along the sides and tops…

as long as the editorial content of the web page is produced by the membership that is all that matters…

if you read a review and you trust the lj that wrote it…great…

good luck martin…

-- Matt, Napa, CA...fun is beautiful...just trying to have some fun...

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I guess the next time the shrinks sit down they will have to come up with a fancy sounding name for internet paranoia. I mean if you have information that you don’t want out then don’t keep it on your computer. as far as spam goes browsers today, with a small effort on your part, they can block most spam. with this type of survey there is no one who gives a hoot about any of us as individuals but rather us as a group so thier marketing can be focused in those area where it will at least get read. Perhaps those who can’t see this would perfer if we had to all kick in to support the site ?

-- RTB. "dumb animals are not stupid they simply can't talk "

Martin, My apologies if I implied you or Lumberjocks would spam. I believe that you are an honorable person. A while back, I filled out demographic questionair (“with no personal info”) before, just to have a rush of spam, and even people calling me to sell me something. Fluke? Maybe. I would prefer not to confirm my suspicions…

Tom

-- Anybody can become a woodworker, but only a Craftsman can hide his mistakes.

I know those things happen on Internet, Tom. Sorry to hear about your case.
The survey is not asking any sensitive privacy questions and is voluntary so you can decide whether to participate or not.

Keep enjoying the site ;)

-- Martin, http://lumberjocks.com | My Facebook: http://profile.to/msojka

rtb, thank you for the personal view of internet marketing, even if it is dead wrong. You may want to educate yourself to the ways of internet marketing and electronic tracking. Paranoid? no, I don’t think so. I just choose not to be bothered by people who have a a limited scope of my personal traits, that feel empowered to sell me somthing over the phone while I wish to have dinner with my family. Another note… If paranoia was an issue, I guess I should not use my real name… I guess I could use rtb… Nope, someone beat me to it.

-- Anybody can become a woodworker, but only a Craftsman can hide his mistakes.

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-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

I did mine.
and russel said all I could add.

-- www.darrylmasterson.com ~ www.darrylmasterson.etsy.com

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Martin you run the best site on the internet—bar none, hands down, and all that other stuff.

Keep up the good work.

As far as ads, I have no problem with ads——I do however, detest those ads that move and shake and get your attention only by being annoying. So no animation would be my vote.

Thanks again Martin.

-- You can't get a hug from Facebook.

I did it just because you can never have enough LumberJock teeshirts…and no to the animation adds or the ones that make noise.

-- http://www.woodsongsfurniture.com

Done.

-- Andy Stark

The difference between junk mail and good mail is the relevancy of the message.

-- My favorite piece is my last one, my best piece is my next one.

nothing wrong with a little “paranoia” when it comes to the internet. There are a lot of tricks out there you don’t learn about until it is too late.

I appreciate all the above discussion so that I can make “more knowledgeable” decisions about what I respond to.
(and I did take the survey. I hope the information helps you out, Martin.)

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

draw my prize number yet ?>grin<

-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever

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-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

no draw my number, i’m a poor student of the arts.

-- Roper - Master of sawdust-