I would like if nobody mentioned the wording of the questions or their answers here until the end of the poll to avoid influencing the results. Until then, feel free to give generically worded feedback here, or to explain why did you like or not a certain change beyond giving it just a numeric mark.
If for any reason you're unable to take that survey, please pm me and we'll do it that way. At the end of the poll, on February 7th after Ryder posts the results, we will add the answers received via pm, and I will recalulate all the averages myself, I've got no problems with doing that. I will also share how I have personally voted and why for each question at that point.
Thanks everybody for all the feedback you can provide. I'm preparing March right in this moment, and I might bring back the things people liked the most for another test then, so the feedback is invaluable to me in this very moment.
EDIT - I and Ryder have successfully received Caspernicus's answers via pm and they will be added to the results at the end of the poll. Thanks again to Caspernicus for the feedback.
I'm ready to do the same for everybody who might be unable to take the survey.
Everybody, if you can't take the survey for any reason, just pm me and we'll do the same for you.
Caspernicus, out of their own will, has also written brief notes in addition to giving the required numeric marks. There is nothing sensitive there, so I will share those right here and right now omitting the questions and the numeric marks they gave to each question. Hopefully that can be the start of a discussion here.
Caspernicus (slightly reworded by me to remove questions and numeric marks) wrote:
At the beginning of the month I felt 1/2 as default for the Main Challenge was too harsh, but by the end of the month I felt that it was definitely the right call.
I absolutely loved Round 3 pairings depending on the scores from previous rounds, do this every time.
I enjoyed the main challenges well enough.
I absolutely did not enjoy the Subchallenges being relative to other players. The meta subchallenges were incredibly annoying because you knew that only one person was going to get it, thus they were going to have a leg up. In the future, this could cause problems because contestants wouldn't submit anything until the last minute, leading to more hastily put-together cards and a relative decrease in card quality.
The color assignment in Round 3 was fine, I wouldn't say I despised it. I don't think we should do it again, but it was fun as a one-time thing. People should be able to use the whole color pie when creating their cards.
The timing was the best part of this month! It actually felt like the contest was moving along, instead of stalling well into the next month.
EDIT - I've just made a local spreadsheet (local Excel file on my pc, not on the internet) taking all the current votes from the survey, adding Caspernicus's marks and automatically recalculating total and average for each question. I'll keep it updated and I'll post the data once the poll is over.