Antiwar.com Reader Survey: Tell Us What You Think
Eric Garris,
December 17, 2008
We’d like to know more about Antiwar.com readers.
If you can take a couple of minutes, please answer this brief survey to help us improve the website.
Email us if you have any problems with the survey.
Thank you.
~ Eric Garris, Webmaster
Cody
December 17th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
I took the survey and added some constructive criticism about the site. One criticism I will note here is that the front page overwhelms the vistor with a barrage of links, assaulting him or her with an abundance of information.
Bill
December 18th, 2008 at 8:23 am
I think the front page is perfect….All the info and links are there in an easy to read font type and size.
Bob Bogus
December 18th, 2008 at 9:26 am
I disagree. I hope they don’t change the front page. I also like being able to go back to the previous days front pages.
Andy
December 18th, 2008 at 10:01 am
Whta’s wrong with an abundance of information Cody?
Louise
December 18th, 2008 at 10:53 am
I agree, the front page is well organized into subject areas and easy to navigate. I rather think it’s useful information presented logically, if I objected to too much information, I’d click over to Fox news!
Vassili
December 18th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
Well – I can’t donate to this site, since I’m VERY opposed to foreign intervention in internal affairs, but, I love it. This site is something that gives me hope that ideals of freedom and Govt. being for the people do have some chance.
Willard D. Gray
December 18th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
A great page to access news of the world.
baz
December 18th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
The best thing about the site is that it is an excellent source of legit news. Please expand on that and try to make it more mainstream in image to the public. We need to entice some of our less informed and stubbornly ignorant fellow citizens to educate themselves about reality rather than let the racists and nutjobs and Fox and CNN pollute their brains with lies and propoganda. Perhaps Antiwar could use a video outlet. i would certainly contribute to make that happen in some capacity
Rowan Berkeley
December 19th, 2008 at 12:06 am
I just had to reinstall Windows, so I don’t want to tangle with the javascript on that survey right now.
What I like best is when the automated news bots that compile AntiWar.com’s front page post something exactly a year old, thinking it’s today’s news. That has happened I think twice in the last year, that I have caught, and I always send Eric an email about them.
Rowan Berkeley
December 19th, 2008 at 12:55 am
I mean, exactly one or exactly several years old, in fact. It’s great fun picking them out.
Cody
December 19th, 2008 at 3:21 am
There is absolutely nothing wrong with an abundance of information. The problem is in how that information is presented to the visitor. For example, there is nothing wrong with water, but it would be an uncomfortable experience to be sprayed by a fire hose.
Another criticism I noted was how the blog is infrequently updated.
subHuman
December 19th, 2008 at 4:23 am
INMHO it is the perfectEST!
PS.Sorry for my enlesh.
John Lowell
December 19th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Yes, Eric, here’s a suggestion. Please quit showcasing Glenn Greenwald here. Other than the most conventional, Obama supporting, DailyKos type pap, he hasn’t had anything to bring to Antiwar.com that one couldn’t easily extract from about seventeen authentically anti-system writers that appear here regularly but with less obvious personal ambition.
the legendary Bill
December 19th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
Just read Glenn Greenwald’s excellent column ( The Real Moral Offense )…So, on the contrary, by all means keep showcasing such excellent work..
John Lowell
December 19th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
Just read Glenn Greenwald’s adultery apologetic (The Real Moral Offense)… So, yes, please, by all means, can hacknied, leftish, ca-ca like this and replace it with articles by writers capable of criticising torture without at the same time shoving their tawdry amorality down our throats.
Rowan Berkeley
December 20th, 2008 at 12:47 am
I think that salon.com is somehow an unhealthy environment, and perhaps given that atmosphere he over-compensates with a certain air of personal puritanism in the way he presides over his own bit of it – look at that picture of him. Those eyes, they follow you around the room.
Brad Smith
December 20th, 2008 at 6:28 am
I hope they don’t change the front page. This is for purely selfish reasons, I don’t want to spend time trying to figure it out all over again. I would however like to comment on more of the articles and I noted that in the survey.
As for Glen Greenwald, If you don’t like his writting don’t read it!
Peace!
John Lowell
December 20th, 2008 at 8:30 am
Rowan Berkeley,
“I think that salon.com is somehow an unhealthy environment, and perhaps given that atmosphere he over-compensates with a certain air of personal puritanism in the way he presides over his own bit of it …”
Yes, always a bit oppressive to read Greenwald when he’s dressed up as a kind of Bizarro World Jonathan Edwards. You’d almost suspect that he was pointing to something extrinsic that grounded his sermonizing.
“… look at that picture of him. Those eyes, they follow you around the room.”
Maybe he’s looking for Brad Smith who doesn’t read his writing when he doesn’t like it. :-)
Marina
December 20th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Vassili,
What sort of “foreign intervention” would you be committing by donating to this site? The themes in this site are applicable to the entire world.
In Europe we have very similar problems to the US (EU, Sarkozy etc). I donate as I have not been able to find a European site of this high quality.
Rowan Berkeley
December 20th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
essential reading:-
THE GODS ON WAR
Robert de Grimston
Process Church of the Final Judgment
http://feastofhateandfear.com/archives/robert_07.html
Rowan Berkeley
December 20th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
But returning to the original topic, I think the AntiWar news operation as a whole, if you include antiwar.com, news.antiwar.com, and wire.antiwar.com, you have the best news service in north america.
You should enjoy the work of your Russian counterparts:
http://www.iraq-war.ru/
Brad Smith
December 20th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
John Lowell. Did I say I don’t read his stuff? Or did I say that people should decide for themselves who to read?
Eric Garris, Pleas keep up the great work and thanks for the chance for us to give you our opinions. I’m sure any changes you make will be for the good.
Peace!
John Lowell
December 20th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
Brad Smith,
Given the principle you annunciated – “As for Glen Greenwald, If you don’t like his writting don’t read it!” – and assuming that you take the principle seriously enough to apply it to yourself, one couldn’t feel comfortable reaching the conclusion that you’d not read Greenwald’s writing when you didn’t like it? :-)
Brad Smith
December 21st, 2008 at 10:19 am
John Lowell, don’t assume, you know what that does. I happen to like Glen Greenwald, so I will continue reading him. You obviously don’t like Glen Greenwald, so why waste your time reading something you know you will only put down? Actually I don’t know why I ask questions when I have a good idea of the answer. You seem to take great enjoyment out of putting people down. Whether it’s my English or Glen’s writing, or just about anyone’s politics or thoughts. You might want to take a hard look at yourself to see why you feel the need to behave this way.
Peace!
Cody
December 21st, 2008 at 11:25 am
I think it would be a great idea if we, the visitors, could get some feedback from the editors and webmasters over the survey data.
John Lowell
December 21st, 2008 at 11:39 am
Brad Smith,
You excuse me, of course, if I broach the thought, as for John Lowell, if you don’t like his writing don’t read it. :-)
Brad Smith
December 21st, 2008 at 6:01 pm
I’ll second that. It would be great to see the results.
Peace!