Flight Rising Crimes™ Survey @fr-crimes - Tumblr Blog

So it’s been a month

Hello!

Our small group suffered some rather unfortunate unforseen circumstances, causing Flight Rising, and thus this project, to fall off our list of priorities for a while.

In our absence, the survey recieved far more responses than we ever expected - over 500, which is a huge number for a survey like this. Because the survey is so long, that’s several thousand cells before we begin analysis! Google sheets strains under the weight of this much data.

The survey is no longer accepting responses, and data aggregation will begin shortly.

We apologise for the delay, and thank everyone for their time.

#flight rising #survey

have you posted the survey in communities other than tumblr, likes ones more likely to have cheaters?

Good question!

We've tried other social media platforms without success (so far, at least). Both Reddit and Twitter immediately removed the posts as spam. We're awaiting feedback from support on those issues.

We planned to post on the Dreamwidth community Anonrerising tomorrow, and known cheating boards a couple of days after that.

As there is such a great overlap between users of Tumblr, Dreamwidth, and individual cheating communities, we hope to reach a wider audience by spreading out our posts across a few days.

As such, if anyone can name specific known cheating communities that would likely host Flight Rising players, please let us know. Please do not link directly to the community as Tumblr will silently remove your message without telling either of us about it. Simply name the domain it is hosted on, in the same manner we discuss Tumblr or Reddit.

#ask

what if you did nothing but the survey? can we get into trouble for doing the survey even if we follow all the rules?

While I am not a member of Flight Rising staff and cannot guarantee they will think otherwise, it is extremely unlikely that you will face any on-site actions just for participating in the survey.

As discussed in this post, you may recieve a warning if you talk about the survey on Flight Rising, as it is a discussion of the rules, which is not permitted.

As a reminder, Flight Rising staff (or anyone, at all) have no way of knowing if you answer the survey.

Only one(1) person has eyes on the raw results, and not only are they not staff, but it would be extremely difficult to identify anyone by their responses to the survey unless they were very careless with what they entered into the text boxes.

I appreciate that the subject of the survey could necessarily create a lot of anxiety, but the survey itself should not in any way affect your account's standing.

#ask

When I filled in the survey a few days ago, I checked the box for account sharing, sharing a little information on the why, but expecting another "free-er" text box later on in which I could detail that I hadn't actually successfully shared my account. Is the fact that my only attempt was a failure a detail worth adding, or nah? (for anyone wondering, I shared my log-in info but gave the wrong password, so the person I shared it with couldn't even log in 😬)

To answer your direct question: The fact that you tried to share means you broke the rule, so you did answer the survey correctly.

The fact that you were not successful is not relevent to the data, though it may be significant to you.

Looking over that section again, we did fail to give you a clear opportunity to express that.

There are a couple of free text boxes at the end of the survey where you could have shared this information had you wanted to, but clearly it did not occur to you to do so by the time you reached them.

Our original draft of this survey included a free text box at the end of each section, but we worried that they would be overwhelming for respondents and cause too many to drop out mid-way through.

This is a surprisingly real concern in surveys. Too many free text boxes that lack a clear question can stall respondents, and too many such stalls will cause them to quit early, meaning we get no data from them at all!

We're also trying to avoid collecting too much specific information, which is why our demographic section contains some unusually vague questions. We worried too many free text boxes would result in gathering enough information to theoretically identify a respondent, and we really didn't want that to happen, even accidentally!

#ask

Will the staff kick those of us who did the survey off the site if they find out?

In short: Almost certainly not, unless you also detail specific rules you broke.

It is possible to take this survey without having broken a single rule. Participation does not indicate that you have broken a rule.

Flight Rising staff are usually reasonable about punishing users for their behaviour.

If you do something that Flight Rising isn't okay with, you will only be punished if:

You did that thing on Flight Rising itself*

AND they are (almost) certain you did it

* As far as we know, there have been no instances of someone being punished for behaviour that did not happen at all on Flight Rising.

We highly doubt anyone will be punished for participating in this survey, and then admitting to that participation on Flight Rising.

You might recieve a warning for mentioning the survey, because of the subject of the survey itself. This is the reason we are not advertising the survey on Flight Rising: Discussion of the rules is, in itself, against the rules.

If you admit, on Flight Rising, to breaking a rule, you should expect to be investigated and appropriately punished.

If you admit, on a different platform, to breaking a rule, you might trigger the following chain of events:

Someone (thinks they can) identify your Flight Rising account, and reports it

Flight Rising investigates the account. They do not take off-site activity into consideration, but they always investigate reports.

They find evidence, on Flight Rising, to indicate you most likely did break that or some other rule.

You are punished for the rule(s) Flight Rising believes you broke. These might not be the same rules you confessed to breaking.

To summarise: Participating in the survey is harmless. Discussing the survey on-site might get you a warning. Discussing beaking specific rules on-site will definitely get you in trouble. Discuss breaking rules off-site with caution, as you may be reported and investigated if your accounts are easy to connect.

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Just wanna say that this is a really cool survey, one I haven't seen before. I'm really curious to see the results! Two questions: when does the survey and and results are posted? And I know you said you'd be posting aggregate data, but does that apply to all wisdoms? (For example, would you post "X number of people said they multiaccount", or "X% of survey takers"?)

Hello! Thank you for the kind words. We haven't seen a survey like this either, and it seemed like a glaring gap in the community's knowledge.

When does the survey end?

The short answer is: The survey ends when very few new responses are coming in, or in two weeks, whichever is longest.

We expect "two weeks" to be longer, but we want to be prepared if it isn't.

When will results be posted?

I don't want to promise an exact date, but results will be posted as soon as we are able after the survey ends. It will take time for us to aggregate results and present them in a neat, coherent manner.

We may post aggregated results across several days, and then one final post summarising our findings and linking back to the previous ones. This is not a firm plan, but it is probably the most workable solution.

Will you be posting exact numbers in aggregate data?

Yes. In the interest of data integrity, and being as clear as we can, we intend to reveal the following information:

The number of respondents who answered the relevent question.

The percentage of those respondents who gave specific answers.

The value of that percentage - the exact number of respondents who gave the answer.

If any two of these data are visible, it will be easy to guess the third. Thus, to keep the value private, we would also have to hide the sample size of the question itself.

Failing to reveal your sample size is a bad idea, and it helps no-one. A sample size of 20 is significantly less representative of the wider population than a sample size of 2,000. If we do not reveal our sample size, we render all of our data unusable and leave its validity subject to question.

To make it clear to everyone, we mocked up some quick example data:

Fruit Preference recieved 79 responses.

Of those, 40 (50.6%) preferred apples; 13 (16.5%) preferred oranges; and 26 (32.9%) did not like either fruit.

We do not expect giving values in addition to percentages to harm anyone's privacy, as there is no way to know who answered the survey or who answered a given question. They are just numbers.

We will also be dealing with much larger numbers than in the example, which is beneficial for everyone.

#ask

For the attention of the 30-35 anon:

Your information was sufficient. I have identified your response and altered your age range. Your ask has been deleted. Thank you for letting us know.

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Imo you should make it so that people who have taken the survey can see the results after they're done. I really wanted to see what other people answered.

I understand wanting to see the results immediately, but the choice to prevent this was carefully deliberate and important for the integrity of the survey itself.

First is a commitment to privacy. We cannot promise that respondents will not be directly quoted if we then permit their exact wording to be publicly visible verbatim.

A close second to that is overall data integrity. With a small sample size, people may assume something is more or less common than it really is. Not only would this create potentially irreversible false impressions in the community, it would directly bias future responses to the survey and create a feedback loop of bad data.

Opening the google form responses to the public is fun and harmless for a small, casual survey; but for a project like this, privacy and data integrity are vital.

Data will be pruned of personally identifiable information and aggregated, then made available for public viewing. This will happen only once the survey has been closed to future responses.

Therefore, please have paitence!

Thank you for understanding.

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hi! i have a question about theoretical rulebreaking. if i know for a fact had i found flight rising before i was 13 i would have created an account without a doubt even if i had read the rules forbidding it, do i tick the box still? it sounds silly but i suppose it depends on what kind of data is needed and i just want to be sure. thank you! i love filling surveys

If I'm reading this right, you should NOT tick the box for under 13.

The intent of the question is that you at least theoretically had the opportunity at the time, - I.E. you were already aware of Flight Rising - but ultimately did not break the rule.

We will shortly clarify the question in the survey to ensure everyone understands this.

If you DID in fact find Flight Rising while under 13, you can tick the box; but if you found it too late to join below the age of 13 then that likely doesn't apply to you.

You are welcome to mention this in one of the free-form responses if it feels important to you, however!

(As a note to all respondents, don't worry too much about answering questions "wrong" or misinterpereting them. You won't skew the data much because most respondents do appear to be interpereting questions as intended; and as long as your clear we'll understand how you read the question anyway!)

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fr-crimes

Flight Rising Rules Survey

And related rulebreaking behaviour.

Because tumblr doesn’t like external links, please go to https://fr-crimes.tumblr.com/survey to find a direct link to the survey itself. MOBILE USERS: Please check the reblog for direct links.

You are invited to take this survey if you have ever played Flight Rising.

You do not need to have broken any of the rules the survey asks about, or any rules at all, to participate. If you have completely quit Flight Rising, you can still participate.

Vitally, due to the method used to capture data, THIS SURVEY IS ANONYMOUS.

It is impossible for anyone to determine who you are based on your responses. Google Forms does not display your IP or any browser information to the creator of the form. The only information I will see is what you enter into this survey.

The raw results of this survey will not be public. Only aggregated data will be public.

(”Aggregated data” means statistics like “15% of respondents broke this rule” or “most respondents who broke rule A also broke rule B”)

Further clarifications and definitions can be found on the first page of the survey itself.

If you have any questions or concerns about this survey, please direct them to the following page: https://fr-crimes.tumblr.com/ask

If you are currently logged in to tumblr and wish to communicate anonymously, you can try any of the following:

Select the “ask anonymously” box next to the Ask button.

Log out of tumblr. To logout immediately, click this link: https://www.tumblr.com/logout

Open a private browsing session

Use a different browser to sumbit your message

Please note that tumblr’s “ask” feature has a short character limit. It will silently delete any messages that appear to contain bad language such as slurs; and any URLs, including partially disguised URLs. If I do not respond to your message in a timely manner, try submitting it again without a URL.

Please remember that it is not possible to reply privately to an anonymous ask.

Once again, please go to https://fr-crimes.tumblr.com/survey to find a direct link to the survey itself. MOBILE USERS: Please check the reblogs for direct links.

Finally, because tumblr actively punishes new blogs, I ask that you reblog this post. The survey’s data will be of no use to anyone if it does not get a good sample size.

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Gathering anonymous data about various rulebreaking pixel dragon activities.

For the benefit of mobile users, here is a direct link to the survey itself.

And here is another one in text form if you need to copy and paste:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScCDofGv7S8kXGzeEHH_ZkqNaI4teiG4SUuk0zeVoIxVswacw/viewform?usp=sf_link

#reblog

That makes perfect sense. I wish I had waited to answer, hope it doesn't skew your data too much!

Thankfully we're getting a very robust sample size, so it shouldn't skew much at all!

If you answered any of the text questions, feel free to tell us what you can remember and we will change your response to 30 - 35 for you.

Your ask will of course not be published, and will be deleted once we've changed your age.

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Related to the ages, everything overlaps. I'm exactly 30 so I just did 25-30, because 30-35 was missing, but now that it's been added I do feel like 30-35 better represents me because most of my crimes happened years ago, but I was still an adult, vs somebody 25 doing crimes years ago would have been a teen.

That's understandable, and I apologize for the earlier error in missing out age ranges.

The overlap is deliberate, for exactly such situations as your own. Some 30-year-olds feel young and identify more with the lower age range of 25 - 30. Some feel older and identify more with the higher age range of 30 - 35.

Respondents on the very edge of one age range may misrepresent their age and choose a lower or higher range than is accurate because they do not want to be grouped with individuals who are predominantly older or younger than themselves.

The goal here is to accommodate such respondents by allowing them to choose which range to group themselves in.

#ask

Mobile issue

I’ve been informed the survey is inaccessible to mobile users. Sorry about that!

Unfortunately, this is difficult to test for us due to the frustrating problem of the link working for those of us who can test it.

If the link isn’t working for you on mobile, please use the askbox or replies to let us know exactly what is or isn’t happening.

I’ve changed the link on the survey page, and added a shortened link, in the hopes that it helps some of you.

UPDATE: I have reblogged the original post with direct links, which should hopefully help. You can find it here: https://fr-crimes.tumblr.com/post/664861109306671104/flight-rising-rules-survey

#flight rising #survey

ayy you forgot 30-35 as an age option

So we did, whoops!

Thanks for letting me know, this has now been rectified.

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