Tildes Survey #6: Vote for the next four surveys we do! (Results)
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- Direct link: https://survey.tildes.community/-/vote-for-next-surveys-6/
- This survey closes on May 31, 2026 at 10:00 UTC
- The results will be published on May 31 shortly after the survey has closed. I'll edit this topic and post a comment about it!
The current plans for questions that will be asked in the coming weeks are as follows:
| Question | Survey opens | Survey closes |
|---|---|---|
| How old are you? | ||
| What country do you live in? | ||
| What country were you born in? | ||
| What languages can you speak? | ||
| Pineapple on pizza? | ||
| Vote for the next 4 surveys | 2026-05-24 18:00 UTC | 2026-05-31 10:00 UTC |
For this week's survey I went over the list of questions you submitted and picked a number of them that would be interesting (and easy to visualize). Now you get to choose which 4 you'd like to see next!
You may also notice this week's survey doesn't look quite like the others from the past. That's because I've reworked the frontend of the surveys so I can make it look and work however I want. :P No longer bound by what n8n's Form funtionality provides!
For now I've chosen to get "close enough" to the look of the past surveys however in the coming weeks I will likely start changing it to look and feel more like how Tildes itself does.
This change also makes it so there's 0 JavaScript involved in the form page, woo! Hopefully that will help those who've had issues submitting their responses (like the submit button infinitely spinning). If anyone encounters issues do let me know! I'll try to fix them. :)
Please submit your ideas for questions here! Even if they've been submitted already by someone else. All input is valuable! You can view all submitted questions on this dashboard.
Thank you all for participating!
The survey has been closed and the results are in!
Thank you to all the 115 people that responded! Check out the dashboard for the full results! And the next four surveys we will do are:
- In first place with 26 votes: What is your gender identity?
- Second place with 25 votes: What's your favorite video game?
- Third place 24 with votes: How optimistic are you about the future?
- And fourth with 23 votes: How often do you visit/read Tildes?
Thank you all again for participating! Hope to see you in the next survey! :)
Question for those interested, what would be a good way to pose the next question "What is your gender identity?"
I have some ideas but I'd like to hear other people's thoughts too since I think historically this has been one of the more debated questions in the demographics surveys. And I think this one's an important one not to mess up. Let me know!
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The survey has been closed and the results are in!
Thank you to all the 115 people that responded! Check out the dashboard for the full results! And the next four surveys we will do are:
Thank you all again for participating! Hope to see you in the next survey! :)
Question for those interested, what would be a good way to pose the next question "What is your gender identity?"
I have some ideas but I'd like to hear other people's thoughts too since I think historically this has been one of the more debated questions in the demographics surveys. And I think this one's an important one not to mess up. Let me know!
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Open-ended input with as little standardisation/"label-fitting"/categorisation as possible (aside from capitalisation and spelling), please.
The only downside to this is having to code answers for data visualization. Since if the person doing the survey isn't familiar with the answers they get it can be more complicated. But it is probably the best way to avoid the pitfalls of the question.
I'd happily volunteer my knowledge to help with that, or the whole thing could be a big old list of answers. I'm not pressed about that end.
Likewise. @Bauke hit me up if needed
I fully understand why this would be the best as just a free text input, but yeah as DefinitelyNotAFae mentions this will make it difficult to then turn into a visualization that doesn't misrepresent people's answers.
Would you (and everyone else) be happy with a multiple choice of categories (like male, female, non-binary, cis, trans, ...) that I could somewhat group responses by without being misrepresentative, in addition to a free text input? Then people's answers could be something along the lines of:
(Also thanks for the offer to help, you too DefinitelyNotAFae, I'll keep that in mind once I get some responses in!)
So I often answer surveys as "woman" or "non-binary", but I sometimes struggle identifying as "trans" as non-binary folks are under that umbrella, but because I most accurately identify as a demi-woman, or perhaps a mostly gender-apatheric non-binary woman, I'm not always sure "trans" makes sense either... But I am not cis really either.
Which is why it's complicated. I can answer an exclusionary survey question but you wouldn't be getting my actual data.
Perhaps like you're suggesting..."select all of these that apply" for all of those categories and then a free entry box that allows folks to fully describe their own gender. Maybe also a line about asking folks, in the spirit of Tildes, not to use this particular survey for a joke since that can end up being more pointedly hurtful than some of the other one, or exclude the specifics of those answers.
Please check any/all that apply to your gender identity.
Man
Woman
Cisgender
Transgender
Nonbinary
Intersex
Gender Non-Conforming
Agender
Genderfluid
Bigender
This isn't exhaustive and could be edited (and could be alphabetized rather than listed in order of familiarity)
I appreciate your and @TaylorSwiftsPickles input, it has already helped a lot. :)
I agree on possibly adding some text not to submit joke answers and I may remove them if any do get submitted.
I've started setting up the survey page if you/anyone wants to take a look: https://survey.tildes.community/-/testing/what-is-your-gender-identity-7/ (responses won't be saved if you press submit and I still need to sort out some CSS stuff) but let me know about the wording so far. I've included your list and alphabetized it. Nothing final yet of course.
I prefer the original list order but with "intersex" between "cisgender" and "transgender". I would also advocate for "transsexual" after "transgender" as there is a slight semantic difference imho. I would also advocate for a "genderqueer" option and an "other" option.
Edit: I have chosen against suggesting "Questioning" because it's not someone's identity per se. It's rather that they're unsure of their identity. If someone is questioning, they should pick whatever they currently identify with in q2, and add "questioning details" in q1.
Do you feel the "other" box is needed with the text box at the end?
Super fine with edits to the list I wrote it was just off the top of my head and I knew I wasn't being all inclusive. (And I know some folks prefer "transsexual" but wasn't sure if they'd label that their gender identity so I hesitated.)
I think "Other" already pairs well with the free-form answer in the 1st part of the survey, so an additional one is not needed. We might instead just poke them in the sense of "feel free to add as many or as few details as you'd like in question 1"
For question 1, perhaps a good addition to description would be something alone the lines of "Extra assumptions will not be made". E.g. "Man" should translate to "<unknown>, Man", not "Cisgender, Man"
I've made the changes you and @DefinitelyNotAFae mentioned to the list, and added some extra text/the introduction. Let me know what you think!
It's pretty solid without being overly bloated imo. If you need any clarifications in the analysis phase feel free to poke in private
Ditto that
well if someone wants to identify as an attack helicopter it can be my guest. But then chubba-chubba has no right to get pissed when I start using it/its/chubba-chubba/chubba-chubbaself pronouns for it.
The anonymity from even tildes usernames and folks inclined to make jokes on surveys (assuming even good intentions) was my reasoning for thinking of a "please don't" message.
Because you won't even know who chubba-chubbaself is. (I had not seen that pronoun response to the meme lol)
Well, I personally would; I'm a very binary trans woman and I don't actively consider my intersex status as part of my identity. But identity for many people is much more complicated than that and, in my view several responses would be inaccurately represented unless you create an super exhaustive list.
I think these at least one of these questions could be enhanced.
Like the toilet paper over/under thing... it's not just which do you think is the right way, but how strongly do you feel the alternative is wrong on a deeply moral level.
Also requires a followup of "do you have a cat, dog, or similar animal".
My cat has zero interest in my toilet roll so I hang it the right way.
I'm open to ideas!
Some surveys have 5 options, from strongly disagree to strongly agree. That might work here. Or a sliding range (or similar) from strongly prefer over to strongly prefer under, with "don't care" being right in the middle.
Even though I hate it, I think it might be more in the spirit of these particular surveys to have an even amount of options so we can't hide behind a neutral centre.
In this particular case, the middle two options could be "don't care, but it's currently over" and "don't care, but it's currently under". Though maybe we also need an option for people who just have a loose roll of toilet paper sitting on the cistern.
For other questions though, I do think neutral options have value sometimes.
Ooh! I like that, having a middle option for the empty roll (or maybe a bunch of middle answers for different ways to not use toilet paper like left hand, right hand, cloth, separate bide, built in water jet, etc?)
Baby wipes gang
...Are we gonna find out that some Tildoes don't wipe or clean after at all?
But some folks really don't care which way the toilet paper hangs. (Or never replace the roll and it just sits upright on the counter)
I think accounting for that, not in a Likert scale but in answer options will be more entertaining IMO. Just like how "pineapple is not for me but idc what you eat" vs "you belong in hell for such an abomination" are very different answers
Mmm, I'm just saying that actually having to force yourself to answer something else than
Is in general more fun, but then again the particular I that is me doesn't really care since I won't answer any surveys anyway
I mean then they also just won't answer which I think decreases the fun. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Excellent point!
Maybe a comment field? Or is that too much of a pain?
The commend field is obviously in addition to the only two possible answers to the question.
I like how in the pizza pineapple poll, the poll measured an easily quantifiable metric (yes/no). And for the qualitative metrics we had the Tildes topic to discuss without limitations.
Missed this last week, but I feel over so strongly that I will change it at anyone’s house or business establishment when I have the ability.
Man that's just a jerk move. Some of us have cats.
See, that's what happens when you let cats into the bathroom. You find yourself hanging toilet paper the wrong way round... and before you know it... you are committing Dr Evil level atrocities like trying to kidnap the president... oh wait. never mind. carry on.
I genuinely don't care which way people hang their toilet paper and I personally think the argument is dumb. But I think changing other people's is a dick move. /Gen
Oh come on, the entire idea of someone switching your toilet paper around is comedic gold.
If someone switched my toilet paper around, I would want to discuss who did it, and why? What are they the toilet paper police? Do they have a cat? I don't have a cat. Are they preparing me to get a cat? What are they, the cat police? Is it unhygienic to have a stranger messing with the toilet paper? Especially as they seem to have a cat? Do I need to research toxoplasmosis? Should we just toss the toilet paper out? Can we alarm the toilet paper roll holder so it alerts us to unauthorized tampering? Should we invite everyone back over to identify the culprit? Or is that also a dick move? What do my friends think? What do you mean some of my friends think under is the right way to hang toilet paper? How could I have gone through my entire life without knowing this about them?
I get that Tildes may not be the best place to debate dumb arguments in such a flippant and light hearted manner, but I do think you are over reacting to what I presumed to be a light hearted flippant jest. Because, I mean really. If there were people going around and switching toilet paper rolls in peoples houses, I think I might have heard about it by now?
Edit: I am completely in the wrong. Apparently I have been living in a world of privilege. Not only are overs the silent majority at 70%, but 27% of overs have indeed flipped a toilet paper roll over at a friends house. Source
I think I need time to emotionally process this.
If someone flips my toilet paper I won't notice until it's unraveled on my floor because my cat got bored. If they're going to clean this up and replace the roll, I no longer care again. But I'm probably having to do it. So I'd be annoyed at the person who wanted to "correct" me.
I think having the argument as a joke is whatever, but actually changing other people's stuff around is taking the "joke" more seriously than me saying it's a dick move. 乁( ⁰͡ Ĺ̯ ⁰͡ ) ㄏ
Could it be partly cultural? I feel like where I come from we pull innocent/light-hearted pranks and jokes a lot and view them as a sort of bonding activity of sorts, whereas where I live it's far from the case and they have a whole-ass different sense of friendship, humour, and team-bonding activities.
Just how, for example, American users here make jokes towards me, in the sense of affectionately being mean towards me, but me interpreting them as honest feelings because the culture I live in is very direct to the point of being blunt.
Just a random showerthought.
I really am just taking the statement at face value, so if they're also "fixing" the TP at businesses that's not a prank between friends. And if they as a friend "fixed" mine and then cleaned up the pile of unraveled TP when my cat was bored, I'd be like "whatever, please don't do that." But if I have to pick up the mess I'm gonna say "that was a dick move."
I understand the "lighthearted joke vibe" and I think my "dick move man" is being ascribed some level of deep thought or rage or something. It's a "I think it's a dick move," that's all. I proceed about my day without further thought, ya know?
I truly don't care which way the paper hangs, which leads to me fucking up and getting a pile on the floor at times. But that's me dealing with my own consequences. But if you flip it, and I end up with paper on the floor, dick move.
Valid, I admit I didn't pay too much attention to this particular subthread
It's all good, I'm not like big mad or anything, just disagree with them.
I will absolutely admit that I had never considered that before and stand corrected. While I will continue to vastly prefer over, I’ll leave it alone (which was mostly a joke before, though I have done it once or twice).
Appreciate the consideration!
For the video game question, I'm thinking we might get more interesting data if we ask for, maybe, people's top 5 or something like that? I feel like then we'd see a lot more overlaps and end up with more consensus choices, rather than a disparate list of lots of different games because people were limited to giving only 1 title.
That might make visualizing the data a lot harder though. Thoughts?
Ya. I am a little worried it just won't be a great survey if it's just over open text field. My thought was maybe guiding it into categories like most played game, favorite story in a game, most impactful, that kind of thing.
Also maybe instead of a top 5 we could encourage just submitting multiple times for other games you consider a favorite. It's less demanding than choosing 5 specifically, and may help with people remembering games they loved throughout the survey period be able to add them to the list.
I'd be up for that! Or maybe a top 3, to keep it somewhat limited?
I vote for whatever you think is best, given that you'll be running the survey and know how long it takes to do all the fancy footwork to prepare the data and visualizations.
Also worth considering is what kind of games is this intended to include? Are mobile game answers acceptable? Or mocked as not really gaming (I'd hope not). are time management games as included as inanimate object simulators and AAA epics? What about games about dating your furniture?
I should certainly hope it's inclusive of everything. Games are games!
Me too but not everyone feels that way when talking about games :)
I'd accept all answers as long as it's a video game in some way!
Joke
JD Vance would submit this furniture dating game as his favorite 100%
It's called Date Everything! And it's way too "woke" for Mr Vance. (Aka queer aka diverse, etc.)
Honestly I'm confused why it got so many votes? We have lots of great video game chats and I think I already have a pretty good idea of what more than a few Tilderinos play and enjoy. An anonymous vote for every video game ever isn't going to really show anything that interesting that's not talked about in far greater detail in the many (great!) threads we have.
Though, maybe I'm just upset that we didn't get the survey question for the Tildes moniker to finally put to bed the most popular (obviously it would be binding vote :p)
Dang. Amazing work with the form page. I voted and can’t wait to start!
Also, someone asked how many holes a straw has? How is the answer not obviously two!?
straws are just very elongated cock rings
I would have gone with a doughnut, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The interaction reminded me of this
"Oh, to be borne blind, to have mine own memory of that moment exiled by some deft party's handiwork from within me, to unsee what I have doth seen!"
never let them expect your next move
Follow-up with this logic: how many holes does a pair of pants or shorts have? That's just two straws that share an end, so is it one hole, two, or three?
pants/shorts are really just spatially distorted BDSM ball gags with 3 ventilation openings
even the thought of bottoming makes me very dysphoric
Someone's not accounting for buttonholes or the fly, which is probably only sometimes a hole.
"Hole" is reaching semantic satiation
Not all pants have a buttonhole or fly. Leggings or sweatpants don't (some have a drawstring, but it's not connected to the main hole section), same with bicycle shorts. Thus, for the purpose of this exercise I'm choosing to ignore them. They are inconveniences like air resistance or friction in physics.
But reality matters, I'm not interested in spherical cows!
Assumptions matter since, for example, fabric is woven and has holes throughout. Many many many holes.
At the end of the day so are the gaps between/inside atoms. Etc.
We're all holes this fine day
Indeed! Holes (in turtles) all the way down.
Let's not pre-empt the great (or not so great) discussion that would ensue when the question is officially asked in a Tildes Survey. :)
Umm, akshually, a straw has only one hole 🤓
Topologically it is one hole and topologically identical to a coffee cup, just like a sock is topologically identical to a disc
Is it a singular, long hole? Is it two holes? Is it an infinite number of stacked holes? Somewhere in between? etc. etc.
-1/12 holes
lets do heights!