What you come here for?

none

Not sure if that's the right place but since it's one of the most popular forums I think it makes it eligible;) Basically, I'm doing some research and hoping to get some feedback here. My first investigation is aimed at examining what attracts people to the Internet or, in other words, what characteristics a Web resource must possess to be successful.
Your votes and/or opinions are more than welcome:)

Thomas_S_Hunterson

I got lost on the way to work one day and just ended up here. I can't seem to find my way back.;)

monkeyfudge

Boards.ie

Come for the Atari Jaguars... and stay for the random photos of cats.

aidan_walsh

what characteristics a Web resource must possess to be successful.

Quite simply, the same characteristics that anything else must possess to be successful - value. What that value is depends on the resource, and thats no less true here on boards.

biko

Came for the porn, stayed for the abuse

DonkeyStyle \o/

Other.

Kojak

Does talking sh1te count as a reason??

InFront

I wanted to vote for all of the above...

Dustaz

The strippers and blackjack

Sinfonia

Basically, I was doing some research and hoping to get some feedback here, but everyone just took the piss, so I decided if ya can't beat 'em, join 'em

Rb

Yore ma.

Now that thats out of the way, killing time mostly.

xebec

Heard there was nice women, still hoping...

petes

biko wrote:

Came for the porn, stayed for the abuse

I only found this place when I was looking for porn!!

Faith

Originally came looking for information, then stayed for the fun.

Ruu_Old

Came looking for other dial up users trying to find a way out of 56k goodness and stayed for the delightful company. ;_;

Ghost Train

the intelligent conversation

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

1) To annoy people
2) Read the sig

faceman

what a stupid survey. thats like asking what do you come to a car park for or what do you come to a shopping centre for.

Jimoslimos

petes wrote:

I only found this place when I was looking for porn!!

Thats some f**ked up search engine you're using

none

aidan_walsh wrote:

Quite simply, the same characteristics that anything else must possess to be successful - value. What that value is depends on the resource, and thats no less true here on boards.

True. What I'm going to find out is what value people attach to this particular Web site.

Kojak wrote:

Does talking sh1te count as a reason?

Probably Killing time is your choice;)

faceman wrote:

what a stupid survey.

Let it be such... if only useful;)

Thank you all! No right or wrong answers so please keep the ball rolling:)

Savman

Where's the poll option for sex?

carbonkid

Well if your reading this means your posting on After Hours so has to be out of boredom!

Thrill

My love of polls drew me here, cant get enough of them.

(no polish jokes please):)

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Talliesin

Friends and colleagues kept going on and on about this website they owned. Also, they'd already gotten me to hack about with a couple of bits of the code.

monkeyfudge

Are the 11 people who voted for 'other' the same 11 people who voted for 'don't know'?

I'm willing to bet they also voted for everything else as well... I know I did.

dermot_sheehan

Originally for broadband forum to compare providers, then got sucked in by the amazing ability to time waste on the internet with this site.

Black Swan

Ever seen the play, "No Exit?" Some of us are experiencing such online due to boredom or missing home being far away.

tallus

It beats the **** out of irc

Hal1

Jimoslimos wrote:

Thats some f**ked up search engine you're using

ahah ahah hah

none

Don't let it die, guys, I still need your help:) And thanks a lot for a terrific activity!

Dara Robinson

where the hell is the Atari Jaguar option?

catspring

I voted for fun, information, and killing time. Not necessarily in that order though...
Good luck with the research none

none

Dara Robinson wrote:

where the hell is the Atari Jaguar option?

Sorry, it's not scientific enough;) But I think it can be classified as fun:)

none

Who's interested in interim results in different regions, here they are:

What you come here for?  Australia  Brazil  Germany  Ireland  Japan  Netherlands  USA
Information                     49       1        5       38     13            4   34
Knowledge                       37       0        2       32     13            1    3
Fun                             50       2        4       46     10            1   35
Killing time                    45       1        9       56      5            2   49
Don't know                      14       0        2       20      1            0    9
Other                           21       2        5       22      2            6   23
                                73       6       27       87     20           14  153

Thanks for your help and you can keep up good work and continue voting

WindSock

I came here to enforce my opinions on everyone else

Sierra Oscar

To complain about komplett....

miju

strange as it sounds i picked all the options

Thrill

I was looking for a solution to a broadband problem.

I'm with eircom, so it was inevitable really.

paconnors

I Googled porn and boards.ie was the sponsord link

Agent Smith

i came looking for neo....


kinda got distracted...