Lack of interest The case for a proper survey system

[Stuart Wright]

The most valuable asset of a forum is, of course, the community. If you have built a good forum, and gathered a membership then what you have at your disposal is a concentrated group of people usually with a particular interest.
What a lot of forum owners don't realise is the value of the marketing potential of that community to related commercial organisations.
If sold properly to the right people, there is significant money to be made if you have a large enough community.
Larger companies tend to spend a lot of money on marketing.
For example, movie studios will be interested in knowing what the members of a DVD forum think about 3D movies on disc, and will potentially pay a lot of money for the ability to have your community answer surveys.
If you have a motoring forum then your sales team will be able to approach the manufacturers to sell surveys on your communities opinion re motor vehicle features and functions. Satisfaction surveys etc.
LG have their own forum on AVForums and they paid for a modification to the vBSurvey plugin to allow the surveys to run within posts. So there definitely is a demand.

Polls are good for simple information gathering and we have run some polls to help our sales team present useful information to advertisers. E.g. what % of our members own Wiis or intend to purchase soon.

But proper surveys with branching and different question types, integrated into threads/posts would offer a new revenue stream for larger forums and anything which gets revenue from non banner advertising related activity is very welcome.

There is also the advantage of internal information gathering with surveys. What do members like about your forum, how would they like certain features to be improved etc. What are their interests (prompting the addition or removal of certain forums). You get the idea.

So can we have proper surveys please?

 

[Biker]

I can't see where this would be used but by a very small percentage of sites.

 

[Alpha1]

I understand that this suggestion has not received many votes, because its worded towards a specific niche. But this is a topic that comes up regularly and actually useful for many sites. I often get questions if I know if there is an advanced poll addon or a surveys addon.
People need advanced polls and surveys. Surveys are little more than polls with multiple questions and custom fields. IPS has taken this a step further than XenForo.

With xenforo 2 having thread custom fields, have poll threads with custom poll fields would be a logical next step.

 

[Alpha1]

@KawaiiHannah If you would like to see this happen then please vote on the first post by Liking it. More votes will bring this thread back to the general suggestions forum.

 

[KawaiiHannah]

@KawaiiHannah If you would like to see this happen then please vote on the first post by Liking it.

Just did clicked thenwrong post I agree would love to have a survey system allows me to get better feedback on our site

 

[Joeychgo]

I understand that this suggestion has not received many votes, because its worded towards a specific niche. But this is a topic that comes up regularly and actually useful for many sites. I often get questions if I know if there is an advanced poll addon or a surveys addon.
People need advanced polls and surveys. Surveys are little more than polls with multiple questions and custom fields. IPS has taken this a step further than XenForo.

With xenforo 2 having thread custom fields, have poll threads with custom poll fields would be a logical next step.

I agree