2023 MGS Forum Membership Survey

[GolfSpy_APH]

Well @GolfSpy_BOS I broke and made a new one. 

Please all who see this take the few minutes to go through the membership poll in this thread. 

The mod team is hard at work in a variety of areas and want to continue to provide a better forum experience for all. 

As always we do our best to keep things constructive and work toward solutions with any issues members are having. 

If there are other areas you wish to discuss please enter it down in the comments. 

For all the newer members we welcome feedback on how to make your life easier and enable to forum to be more accessible when first joining!

Other areas of interest I had noted, however didn't know how to enter in the poll are as follows:

Profiles
Member Leaderboard
Slider Content
Announcements
Member Zoom Calls and Community Calls

Thank you all for participating!
 

 

[GolfSpy TCB]

Updated and Completed.  

[berkeleybob]

I come for a bit of everything. I’ll be honest, my participation comes in waves, depending on what’s going on in life. Folks are great here!

Will try the Virtual tour thingy … and will try to post a marker for the course I use in SoCal.

Also, just wanted to say, management of the forum is fantastic. Top notch.

[cnosil]

I don't know what part of the forum I engage with most.   I just hit new content and then read/respond to whatever topic seems interesting.  I have no idea where on the forum the content exists. 

[GolfSpy_APH]

8 minutes ago, cnosil said:

I don't know what part of the forum I engage with most.   I just hit new content and then read/respond to whatever topic seems interesting.  I have no idea where on the forum the content exists. 

Can always be left blank. 

I would say general product is what I see you most active in. 

[sellemental]

Glad I stumbled onto this and completed it.  Results could be interesting.

Would have liked to select more than one answer for the first question, but understand why that's not an option.  Honestly, I first started for the contests and chance at winning free stuff, but have evolved to sliding all around on multiple topics.  Probably spend too much time on this forum, if that's possible, but who's counting?  Family sure thinks so anyway.

Have no idea what the course marker is, or what the AMA question was regarding though.  

Apologies for my ignorance !

[GolfSpy_APH]

5 minutes ago, sellemental said:

Glad I stumbled onto this and completed it.  Results could be interesting.

Would have liked to select more than one answer for the first question, but understand why that's not an option.  Honestly, I first started for the contests and chance at winning free stuff, but have evolved to sliding all around on multiple topics.  Probably spend too much time on this forum, if that's possible, but who's counting?  Family sure thinks so anyway.

Have no idea what the course marker is, or what the AMA question was regarding though.  

Apologies for my ignorance !

Course markers are where members can do course reviews! 

AMA or ask me anything was a feature from a year or so ago which a previous mod had created and led. When he left we had a hard time keeping up with it so it is more if anyone is interested in seeing them come back then we can make those efforts!

[GolfSpy_KFT]

Completed. I chose “Other” as my answer to the first question because I feel like I almost participate equally in each answer option. Lately, I’ve been most active on general discussion which I really enjoy. That is certainly what has kept me coming back each day. 

[GolfSpy_SHARK]

Complete. Nice to see the first two questions be high in the general area not just testing and equipment 

[GolfSpy_APH]

5 minutes ago, Lacassem said:

Complete. Nice to see the first two questions be high in the general area not just testing and equipment 

I think this is in large part to not having the best testing season last year and the whole mod team working so hard to bring life to the forum in other ways. 

[Micah T]

Testing product is cool, but what I enjoy most is the wealth of knowledge/experience on the forum. 

[MattWillGolf]

Filled in my response. I joined the forum to support MGS as a whole. I was fortunate enough to be selected to test products but I really enjoy the member interaction and the banter that occurs in the various threads. While we all love this game and mostly take it seriously I find that the forum members don’t take themselves too seriously. Which makes the forum a fun place to spend time. 

[EasyPutter]

For question 14 where you live, how is someone from Aussiland, NZ, South Africa, or Argentina supposed to respond?  

[Blueberry_Squishie]

I can't submit my answers because Q14 has insufficient possibilities.

[GolfSpy_APH]

36 minutes ago, Blueberry_Squishie said:

I can't submit my answers because Q14 has insufficient possibilities.

That is my bad. I will look for a fix! Apologies 

[GolfSpy_APH]

6 hours ago, Blueberry_Squishie said:

I can't submit my answers because Q14 has insufficient possibilities.

Resolved. Apologies again... Excuses inbound. 
It was late
Baby isn't sleeping 
I wasn't thinking

and most importantly @GolfSpy_BOS made me redo this whole thing haha

[revkev]

Completed - honestly though there were a couple that multiple answers could well have and should well have applied.

 

Andcehy I come now is different from why I first came. I first came because of a preposterous claim that Srixon was making about its golf ball. I wanted answers about “side spin” and compression. I had my answers in minutes and have been here ever since.

I’ve also never gained a Srixon ball and won’t because their claims were BS and they never once answered my inquiry. Every other OEM has answered when I’ve sent a question in, 

[GolfSpy_APH]

5 minutes ago, revkev said:

Completed - honestly though there were a couple that multiple answers could well have and should well have applied.

 

Andcehy I come now is different from why I first came. I first came because of a preposterous claim that Srixon was making about its golf ball. I wanted answers about “side spin” and compression. I had my answers in minutes and have been here ever since.

I’ve also never gained a Srixon ball and won’t because their claims were BS and they never once answered my inquiry. Every other OEM has answered when I’ve sent a question in, 

I know many could have had multiple selections and gave that consideration. However then when we look at it all it leaves some ambiguity to the data and more room for Interpretation. This way we have some more concrete answers and ability to move forward with the data provided. 

[JohnSmalls]

I think this will be echoed, but the first question could use the option of offering multiple selections. While my answer would have changed over the years, I certainly come to the forum for all of the selections offered; with general discussion being the most frequent. 

[russtopherb]

Completed, and agreed on the ability to select multiple choices on some of the questions. 

[Pvicary]

Completed

[Golfizit]

Like many I would have liked to pick 2 answers for question one. But I  enjoy and use the discussions and testing often and find I have discussions with friends about some of the equipment testing.  I am not on consistently varied by what is going on in life. But always refer to topics of interest and love the level and openess of the discussions and know moderators are doing great in the way everything is presented,.  Thanks for being here and doing all you do.

[GolfSpy_APH]

Appreciate the feedback about multiple selections. 

In future I will see if I can break it down or maybe find a way that answers can be ranked. 

For our purposes it is important to see what is most used. It allows us to shift focus one way or another and put resources in the appropriate areas. 

I spend time all over as well, much like many. The key is to see what many spend the most or majority of their interactions.

Some prefer the social side vs others who like reading reviews and so on. 

Multiple while  convenient would make it a little more unclear where to put some focus and resources without the ability to rank. 

I will look at a potential future poll which can expand on that section and question.

[ParFore74x]

My participation fluctuates depending on time of year. I’m definitely on here more when I can get out and play golf buy, during the winter months I tend to get busy around the house. Not sure why it works out that way because during “playing season” in the Midwest, I really enjoy coming to the forums to see what everyone else is up to. 

[GolfSpy_APH]

15 minutes ago, ParFore74x said:

My participation fluctuates depending on time of year. I’m definitely on here more when I can get out and play golf buy, during the winter months I tend to get busy around the house. Not sure why it works out that way because during “playing season” in the Midwest, I really enjoy coming to the forums to see what everyone else is up to. 

I wouldn't say that is uncommon by any means. When many are golfing they think golf and we always see a uptick in activity when golfing season approaching. I think your situation is very common for many and I would expect to see several names pop back in over the next month or so as golf season kicks off!

It also is in line with when testing season usually begins too, which brings a lot more eyes and members back. 

What I have been impressed with is how membership this offseason has really come together and found different ways to get involved, be active and find good off season threads and activities to take part in. It has really brought new life to the forum and mean that we have been busier than we have been in well over a year and a half. Which is saying a lot because it has been January and February. 

As a mod team this just makes us thrilled to see what is to come for the spring and summer months. 

I've said it before and will say it again here, it is great to see so many new names on the forum and participating. 

[Headhammer]

@GolfSpy_APH

Question 1 should have an "ALL OF THE ABOVE" answer.

What the heck is AMA's?

[Fjd]

Interesting!  Interestingly there were some things I never heard of but still consider MGS the best.

[GolfSpy_APH]

3 minutes ago, Headhammer said:

@GolfSpy_APH

Question 1 should have an "ALL OF THE ABOVE" answer.

What the heck is AMA's?

Again,  Question is 1 is the way it is for a reason. Again, in the future we can look at expanding on it, however this gives us valuable information. All of the above doesn't provide value to where we can make improvements or focus some efforts. 

AMA is Ask Me Anything
It was the question and answer video series done about a year ago with special guest etc. 

[Headhammer]

1 minute ago, GolfSpy_APH said:

Again,  Question is 1 is the way it is for a reason. Again, in the future we can look at expanding on it, however this gives us valuable information. All of the above doesn't provide value to where we can make improvements or focus some efforts. 

AMA is Ask Me Anything
It was the question and answer video series done about a year ago with special guest etc. 

Sorry, I didn't read any of the responses.

[GolfSpy_APH]

25 minutes ago, Headhammer said:

Sorry, I didn't read any of the responses.

Not a worry at all! I think it was the 4th or more time it was asked haha 

Just means everyone will get a follow up poll once we have ended and broken this one down.