Hi gang - is there any way to turn off the survey pop-up after we've responded to it? It's quite irritating.

CJM... that is a 'spy satellite' run by the churches that sits in your computer and rewrites all your documents that deny the existence of gods.

I hope you didn't click it?

Or, maybe it was a virtual-microchip, sent by the Muslim president of the USA, now working its way, via your fingertips every time you hit a key, that is going to convert your thinking into that of a Baptist.

You are doomed, CJM, if you clicked on that pop-up.

Goodbye.....

No, seriously.

It's a pain having it pop up all the time.

Mine just says "Here at," as well, without the courtesy of telling me whose quick survey it is. Yet another reason not to click.

What's the story? Too many visitors, looking for subtle ways to turn people off?

I use Firefox and stopped the pop-up by disabling Java script in the Tools/Options menu. Oddly the disable pop-up's items did not stop that pop-up.

R0bert

I started it, because I remembered Graham mentioning how those things pay his bills ... so fine, no worries. I've been coming here long enough to warrant picking up a broom.

I started but found the questions starting to get to personal for my comfort. I worked in marketing so I know the potential people have with that sort of info, so no thanks.

It's annoying having it pop up with every single page you open, especially after deciding against it.

Graham might join this to explain hisself?

After all, he happily joined a Xtian related posting the other day.

All pop ups give me the shiiiits, but particularly this one.

I am signed up to the OLO political survey, and do that happily whenever it arrives.

Can we not have this crud delivered the same way?

Or, it it is for spontaneous rsvps, then at least have it read the machines that say Fuckoff when it first pops up, like an eager teenager?

Thanks for your feedback.

I let this one through because I wanted to see how widespread the issues were with that questionnaire, otherwise I would have treated it as being something to deal with technically with the provider of the survey software.

The survey is run by the advertising agency that sells the advertising space on our site. Unlike my questionnaires, which sample people who've opted-in to my list, and who aren't necessarily readers of OLO at all, this one is supposed to randomly pop-up and ask people reading OLO for some demographic questions. This should give us a sample of readers.

The survey has been in operation since late last year, but the other day it popped-up on me for the first time. It's done that a few times since. So I'm trying to work out what appears to be going on on the site as a first step to getting the advertising agency to get the mechanism sorted. It's not supposed to sample the same person twice, and certainly not in the one session, but this appears to be happening.

I'm also not sure why it seems to be popping-up more frequently lately.

Your responses are anonymous. They're only being used to build a profile of readership, not individual readers. We don't have any ability to work out who is online and deliver material specific to them.

Thanks Graham. FYI - it's stopped doing it now :)

Having read this thread this morning I knew better.
But as it helps GY to pay the bills?
I let an idiot at the key board,ME! The bloody thing is haunting me, every page I open it pops up.
It must be addressed too many of us will be too careful to get caught again
GY please help!

Correction - it's off again. At least we know it's from OLO though :|

Er, I meant ON again, with a vengeance.

Like Belly said, GY please help!

CJ's computer obiviously has taken too much viagra.Mine is a very latent in it's pop up ability.

Actually the survey was not well composed.It assumed choices like newspapers that I don't read, and political parties that I don't support.There should have been a third option.It was just too shallow to deliver any worthwhile results.

LOL Arjay. Suffice to say that the Toshiba seems somewhat more priapic than its owner. Agreed about the survey - though I think it's the same one I responded to months ago...

Damned thing's still popping up like a 14 year-old on his first date :O

Yes, it was popping up on me earlier this afternoon and I sent an email off to the agent, along with the address for this thread. It's a weekend, so realistically I don't expect anything to change until Monday at the earliest, but I will be on the case.

It has not gone away for me, it has popped up without fail with every page I open, 3 or is it 4? just to get here.
Can it be others are using it than those who first did?
gun shy about such in future.

CJMorgan,

I was initially a little mystified as to your problem with the pop-up OLO survey, as I did not think I was experiencing it.

Then the penny dropped.

For some months now there has been what I took to be an advertisment on OLO being blocked by Firefox on my computer. Perhaps it is the survey pop-up! Here is a screenshot of what I intermittently see (or not, as the case may be) in the bottom right hand corner on various OLO pages: http://www.twitpic.com/1en4kc

I recall that I answered some of an OLO survey's questions some months ago, if that could have been the one now in question as an intermittently recurrent pop-up annoyance.

When you are on the 'Welcome to the Forum' page, if it happens to be displaying, this (blocked) pop-up partially obscures the 'Users currently on line' and 'Newest users' displays, an obscuration that cannot be overcome by scrolling, nor by clicking a 'close' button as when blocked there is no 'close' button showing.



It would be good if it could be made to go away.



I sometimes wonder whether or not there are 'back doors' to the OLO site and software potentially able to be used by person or persons unknown to tweak how OLO operates or siphon off site-statistical information. The sometimes seemingly eratic premature falling of the red post-recency flags on the index pages being a possible example of such activity.

A reasonable conspiracy, don't you think?

Well at least it has gone GYs e mail seems to be the reason well done.