Some Survey

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Dominus
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Some Survey
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007 at 8:01 am
Dear MUD administrator of Realms of Hell,

In advance I apologize for this maybe unwanted mail. This is a one time only mailing, however, with a humble request to contribute to my research.

I am researching MUD playing styles in the tradition of Richard Bartle's theory for Tilburg University in the Netherlands. I am currently running a survey that tries to either validate or correct his theory. I got your email-address from www.mudconnect.com to request your help in this. I would kindly ask you to notify your player base on my research, asking them to take part in the survey. It will only take about 10 minutes and might get rewarded with a $15 gift certificate for amazon.com. To do so you could use the specified text below or your own.

The input of any MUD user is invaluable for the research and the results might be very interesting to you and your MUD as well. So please take the survey yourself as well. You can indicate if you want to receive a summary of the results or the full resulting article. It could be useful for your own MUD. Many thanks in advance.

http://www.rofv.nl/survey

Richard van Meurs,
Tilburg university

Proposed Text:
"Are you always trying to achieve the highest status on a MUD or would you rather find out everything there is to know about the MUD world? Are you trying to make friends among your fellow players or would you rather slice their throats and make them feel miserable?" What do people consider fun and rewarding when they are playing their MUD and in what way do these behaviours relate to their character traits in real life.

This survey is part of my research in Leisure Studies at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. As I am a MUD administrator myself (after playing extensively for several years), I am very much interested in the results. Your contribution to this research is extremely valuable and it will only take about 10 minutes of your time to complete the survey. Of course everything you submit will be handled anonymously and with care and will only be used to draw general conclusions about playing styles for my research.

At the end of the survey you can indicate if you want to receive a summary of the results or a full copy of the resulting article. In addition to this, you might be rewarded with a gift certificate for amazon.com of $15. More information about this will be at the end of the survey. You can find the survey by visiting:

http://www.rofv.nl/survey

Thanks in advance for your cooperation and time.

Richard van Meurs
Angel Heaven doesn't want me and Hell is afraid I'll take over. Evil

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