The BBC wants to hear what we think

[OhHolyJesus]

No, really.

www.bbc.co.uk/send/u61149175?fbclid=IwAR19-3XJ4CEo92DtGMejkgcf24-8v4yhD7H-3g_gkDhNjKjcYtS8Iq6l144

And "sorry, something's not working right now" when I sign in. They don't really want to hear from us, do they.

The survey results and how you use the BBC will remain totally anonymous.

But you need to sign in to fill in the survey.

🤔

Ooh thanks. I submitted mine.

Well that was cathartic.

Flipping enjoyed that

I have completed too

Done

It won’t like it!

Will do.

I did wonder what it is about.

"Survey about the BBC

We are really interested in understanding your views on the BBC and some of the other services you use. Here is a short survey that should take no longer than 5 minutes to complete and your answers will be completely confidential.

We will be looking at the results of the survey, alongside looking at how you and others use the BBC’s services when you are signed in to your account. For example, we might look at whether people who use the BBC a lot have a different view to those who don’t use it very often. This is to help us better understand how people feel about the BBC. The survey results and how you use the BBC will remain totally anonymous. "

Now I'm starting to wonder if it is a ploy to get more people to sign up or to sign in. It's a muddled form of reasoning to say that they might use it to assess views of people who don't use the BBC very often, when that category must include people who don't have accounts. Does the BBC think or hope they are going to sign up just to complete a survey?

I don't want a BBC account. I guess in that case they don't want my thoughts. I hate things that say they're anonymous but collect superfluous data, I won't play that game.
takes tinfoil hat off again

That felt good.

If you used the link in the OP it may be discarded for spamming the survey, and it includes the link from the Facebook page that originally shared the post.

When you copy a link from Facebook you need to remove everything after the question mark, so the link is;

www.bbc.co.uk/send/u61149175

I don't know if it's linked to this article in The Times today about attitudes to the BBC. www.thetimes.co.uk/article/half-of-britons-feel-the-bbc-does-not-share-their-values-gm0z9cfxf

they won't be overly happy with my response - I told them exactly what I think of their deliberate lies and anti-woman/safeguarding bias.

For what it's worth, I have a BBC account in one particular name linked to one particular email account. It has one particular password.

They clearly keep them all, unencrypted, available in the same place, since I have had spam to that address, with that password as its header, and with that name in the text.

Luckily the spam was that old one about "oh you naughty boy, I have taken control of your machine and watched while you jerked off to those terrible movies you access, send me bitcoin or I'll send the tape to your whole address-book", which would have scared me more if 1) my machine had a camera or 2) I had an address-book in it. As it was I sat behind the a thorough fire-wall, Linux and no way the spam was in any way accurate, and laughed a little.

What was slightly concerning was that there seemed to be no way I could report this security-breach in their website arrangements to anyone at the BBC. It just ended up going round and round in circles through their "complaints" procedure, which does not did not allow any communication over a certain number of characters which was inadequate, or concerning anything outwith a few set complaints which they gave as a sort of multiple choice.

(The password etc works perfectly well for listening to something from R4 today; it just isn't allowing me access to the questionnaire.)

Well that was fun. I should have mentioned the gender bias issue I raised as a complaint just over a year ago which they haven’t replied to yet...

Just done mine. Nice cathartic exercise for 2021.

My expectation is that all the presenters will be very diverse, but what they present will not change

Did it they won't like my answers.
@Chrestomanci3 do you have a share token for that article?

I managed to sign in after twenty-four hours or so.

I now have an email from them telling me that

"We’ll keep it until 31/01/2023 – and if we don’t use it we’ll then delete it and any other information you sent us."

This suggests to me that they may plan not to use anything they don't like.

Well for what it's worth I told them exactly why I am using the BBC less and less.

I’ve been trying to fill this in for a week or so.. it keeps telling me it has emailed but it hasn’t.

Same here Apollo as PP said it was cathartic. The link Inebriati sent worked for me. Sorry for the cock up in the OP.

Well, my spleen is now empty 😁

Dammit I saw a tweet in Spiked of a report that said about 1/2 of people thought the BBC ‘was for them’. I forgot to copy the link.

Half’s a bit generous these days.

I've tried over 3 days to get access to the survey but just end up in a loop.

It recognises me and shows me my email address when I go to the web page and says if this is you continue. Click on continue. Says I have to verify address. Click on this link. Email eventually arrives. Click on link there and goes to web page saying sorry something went wrong, click to resend email.

After 3 days have totally lost interest - and they dont even have a place to report tech problems with web site which they used to do.