Bitcoin Community Survey

[simulacrum]

Greetings new forum members,

Community survey below is open to noobs and veterans alike. I conducted a similar survey last year and am keen to see how things have changed since then.  So please take a few moments to share your experience of Bitcoin. Like last year, all responses will be publicly available afterwards.

Direct link to the survey:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1cjzskJf1RgQFXmY0GrGrK5rQMnnJ3wanDMnrFhM387E/viewform

Updates and results will be posted here:

http://simulacrum.cc/2014/02/01/bitcoin-community-survey-2014/

Thanks!

Lui

[simulacrum]

There's been a solid response so far but this forum is currently underrepresented (I guess because this post initially got buried)...please take a few seconds to fill it out and then let the world know you did so, it will obviously count as one of your first five posts

[guybrushthreepwood]

No pay, no way lol. I think people are used to getting paid a few satoshis for filling out surveys 

[Kiki112]

quite a long survey but I solved it...

though on the language part you had an option

Srpsko-Hrvatsko (Serbo-Croatian)

I don't know what language you're talking about because that made-up language doesn't exist since the fall of communism in the 90s, I have picked OTHER as my language because I speak Croatian

[hilariousandco]

quite a long survey but I solved it...

though on the language part you had an option

Srpsko-Hrvatsko (Serbo-Croatian)

I don't know what language you're talking about because that made-up language doesn't exist since the fall of communism in the 90s, I have picked OTHER as my language because I speak Croatian

Why does it not exist any more? Surely people still speak it? According to Wikipedia millions still do.

[Kiki112]

quite a long survey but I solved it...

though on the language part you had an option

Srpsko-Hrvatsko (Serbo-Croatian)

I don't know what language you're talking about because that made-up language doesn't exist since the fall of communism in the 90s, I have picked OTHER as my language because I speak Croatian

Why does it not exist any more? Surely people still speak it? According to Wikipedia millions still do.

Serbo-Croatian puts Croatian,Serbian and Bosnian as 3 dialects of one language (Serbo-Croatian) which can't be true as Croatian itself has 3 different dialects and only one of them is simmilar to Serbian..

no one can still speak it because it's not an actual language if you understand where I'm going with this?

the "language" was invented when the first people started to suggest creating a country which would contain all of the south slavic nations, such a language has never been mentioned before..

Croatian language has been mentioned as early as the 9th century, I'm not sure but I think that Serbian is first mentioned at the end of the 12th century while Bosnian is also a made-up language which never existed before

While Serbo-Croatian is first mentioned in the 20th or the 19th century, before the forming of the 1st Yugoslavia.

It was just an attempt to make everyone think we're speaking the same language so it would be easier to embed all nations into a new nation of Yugoslavs, but they didn't even accept some languages for example they considered Macedonia as Southern Serbia and that their language is also Serbo-Croatian
And of course Albanians in Kosovo had the same destiny as Macedonians

[apsvinet]

No pay, no way lol. I think people are used to getting paid a few satoshis for filling out surveys 

This is quite true.
Least you could do is reward people with a
faucet amount (100 satoshi-ish) just to get
people the slightest interested in it.
I got captchas to fill out rather than this! :>

[simulacrum]

No pay, no way lol. I think people are used to getting paid a few satoshis for filling out surveys 

This is quite true.
Least you could do is reward people with a
faucet amount (100 satoshi-ish) just to get
people the slightest interested in it.
I got captchas to fill out rather than this! :>

This is a really interesting development, thanks for pointing it out!  I happily splash out a few satoshis for interviews, but I would worry that a financial reward for a largely multiple-choice survey would be vulnerable to repeat answers, and that would make the results less reliable.

[simulacrum]

quite a long survey but I solved it...

though on the language part you had an option

Srpsko-Hrvatsko (Serbo-Croatian)

I don't know what language you're talking about because that made-up language doesn't exist since the fall of communism in the 90s, I have picked OTHER as my language because I speak Croatian

Thanks very much!  And oh man, I know all about the sensitivities around Croation/Serbian/Serbo-Croat...but I couldn't justify listing all three of them as options without also including the Chinese dialects and various other Asian languages with tens of millions of speakers.

[Kiki112]

quite a long survey but I solved it...

though on the language part you had an option

Srpsko-Hrvatsko (Serbo-Croatian)

I don't know what language you're talking about because that made-up language doesn't exist since the fall of communism in the 90s, I have picked OTHER as my language because I speak Croatian

Thanks very much!  And oh man, I know all about the sensitivities around Croation/Serbian/Serbo-Croat...but I couldn't justify listing all three of them as options without also including the Chinese dialects and various other Asian languages with tens of millions of speakers.

lol

Every single of these countries has it's own language, these are not dialects, Chinese men speak Chinese with various dialects but it's the same language, and so you can put it in

Croatian isn't a dialect and so isn't Serbian
Both are languages which our nations used since they came to these lands

Serbo-Croatian was something made-up by the Yugoslav supporters, it does not exist today
it was a failed attempt of merging a couple of completely different languages into one

If you ask a Serbian which language he's speaking he will say Serbian
If you ask a Croatian which language he's speaking he will say Croatian

Altough the Croat might speak chakavica,stokhavica or kajkavica dialect which is spoken in our capital, his language is Croatian
The same goes for Serbians

Every country has it's own language.
None of these nations speak so called "Serbo-Croatian".

A language can't just be invented, a language has to exist
To claim something  first mentioned in the 9th century is a dialect of something first mentioned a 1000 years later is apsurd

For example if you put one Croatian who speaks kajkavica dialect (around every 3rd Croat speaks it along with Zagreb ) to talk with a Serbian the poor Serbian wouldn't understand shit
We only understand each other if we speak our standardized language, but our languages are different in so many ways..
The only thing why we understand each other is because Yugoslavia fell apart recently and we have all been tought a new language which was basically Serbian in a Serbo-Croatian disguise,
some of our words are simmilar but a lot of our words are simmilar to Russian words, does that make us Russian?
no, that's because we are a slavic nation

I live around 18 km away from Vukovar, try entering the city and tell them they speak Serbo-Croatian

[simulacrum]

There is *huge* variety in the various languages that we simply call "Chinese", and they are usually mutually unintelligible.  But I take your point that Croatian has a rich and independent history.