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a) How long (e.g. how many years) has the person used the site? How often does s/he access it (e.g. multiple times a day? weekly? etc.)?
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I've been here for many years, and comment several times a day. Nobody can explain why.
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b) Who does s/he interact with on that site? (Who are the individuals, groups, organizations found within that site?)
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Star Trek fans, pretty much like the geeks on "Big Bang Theory" but without the hot neighbor, interesting plots, and cutting wit.
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c) How does s/he use the site?
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By posting long comments signifying nothing in meaningless threads about a fictional show that didn't have much of a point to begin with.
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d) What are his/her main reasons for using the site?
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To drain my life of what little meaning it could possibly have possessed.
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e) Are the interactions within this site meaningful to him/her? How so?
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Sadly, yes.
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f) Do these interactions differ from face-to-face or other forms of mediated communication? If so, in what ways? How significant are these differences?
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Most Trek fans won't leave their mother's basement, making face-to-face communications rare, if not impossible. Also, most don't possess faces we'd want to look at, due to the acne, horn-rimmed glasses, bad haircuts, and whatnot.
But let me help a little more.
"Conclusion: The geeks who sat in the corner of the college cafeteria decades ago - hotly debating a plot hole in episode 54 where Data's positronic brain is affected by tachyon radiation, well, they're still debating it, but now at home in pajamas, surrounded by pizza boxes."
I
love surveys like this, giving me the chance to make my life a little bit more meaningless while realizing that the only thing worse would be
documenting that meaninglessness for a school research project.
Let's see if anyone can top that one.
