Dear ___Scott__,

Thank you for your interest in
[x] hackerspaces
[x] makerspaces
[ ] commercial maker-oriented enterprises
[ ] anarcho-syndicalist communes
[ ] help with your homework
[ ] Matt's ego
[x] unwittingly inviting snarky responses to your earnest survey

Unfortunately, due to the volume of such requests received, we cannot promise a personal response to each one. Indeed, if the results of past surveys were published, you would almost certainly find 99% of your answers in the existing data. If struggling to understand the low response rate to your survey, please consider:

[x] searching the hackerspaces-discuss list archives and contacting previous researchers for their data
[x] asking questions that haven't been asked before
[ ] writing your request in clear and correct English
[x] that your survey has structural attributes (e.g. many small pages instead of one big page) that frustrate respondents
that the options available in your multiple-choice questions are:
 [ ] woefully inadequate to represent the diversity of opinions here
 [ ] structured clearly to push an agenda
 [ ] conceived from a worldview so limited that it's obvious you haven't spent much time on -discuss
 [x] conceived from a worldview so limited that it's obvious you haven't visited very many actual spaces

In addition, [write-in]
___you_posted_this_already_last_week_________________
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It may interest you to note that many of the occurrences on this list and surrounding hackerspaces in general, are so common and so facepalm-worthy, that someone started a tumblr for cataloging these phenomena, commiserating about them, and occasionally, dare I say it, poking gentle fun at the well-intentioned folks behind them. To wit:
http://runningahackerspace.tumblr.com/post/57077553819/please-fill-out-our-survey-on-hacker-culture

Thank you for your interest,