Official 10th Anniversary Survey

[Boblawblah]

I didn't include any "snarky comments" nor was I (hopefully) as condescending as your post. Perhaps you didn't intend that.

No, not meaning to be condescending at all. The reality is, 99% of our individual responses won't matter in the slightest, so for some, getting their frustrations out, even if they know it's essentially meaningless can be a good thing for them. Whether or not you meant to be snarky, anything that is off-topic from the post will be removed/ignored (even if it's not snarky). So people putting "yoshi-p needs to be removed" and similar thoughts simply won't accepted. And I was very serious about the devs never seeing individual feedback, they simply don't have the time to look through that. They'll have an analyst work through the data first.

[IDontPetLalas]

No, not meaning to be condescending at all. The reality is, 99% of our individual responses won't matter in the slightest, so for some, getting their frustrations out, even if they know it's essentially meaningless can be a good thing for them. Whether or not you meant to be snarky, anything that is off-topic from the post will be removed/ignored (even if it's not snarky). So people putting "yoshi-p needs to be removed" and similar thoughts simply won't accepted. And I was very serious about the devs never seeing individual feedback, they simply don't have the time to look through that. They'll have an analyst work through the data first.

Thanks. I don't know anything about how SE works , however the verbatim (i.e. the free text responses) can potentially be automated through various ways. It doesn't require someone to individually read through (potentially) thousands of responses in order analyze them unless they're back in the Stone Age. The results are then presented, most likely as you say as aggregates, even if it's as relatively high level as a WordCloud.

There is usually someone required to start this process, so there is some manual effort, so it's entirely up to SE if they want to disregard some comments like your example that contain references to "yoshi-p". (or obscenities , etc) Personally I wouldn't , but hey not my company.