Hello out there! Can anybody hear me?!

If you don't want to read the rest of this post, please take the poll here:
http://hzping.steelclaw.dhs.org
Please pass it along to your friends and guild members who play or used to play. This is open to all -- you don't need a forum account to participate.

Can't remember the url?
hz (short for Horizons)
ping (a probe to see what is out there, like a sonar ping)
<dot>
steelclaw (that's me!)
<dot>
dhs.org (no idea how to remember that)

Thanks!

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Now, an explanation.

I'd like to get a better idea of what the community is like these days. I know, you're probably thinking: "Well, duh, SC, can't you see that the forum is dead and Marketplace has only x users at peak?". I can, but that's not the whole picture. It doesn't include the people who can't register, or the ones who play invisible and avoid Marketplace.

I don't think I'll reach everybody this way either, however, it should give me (and everyone who sees the summary when I'm done) a better idea of what's going on. At the very least, I'll have an idea of how many people can be reached in this manner.

So, take the poll, spread the word in-game and in-guild, and we'll see what the results look like in 2 weeks!