Originally Posted by rhartshorne
Thank you for your interest and opinion on our survey. We truly appreciate your input and thoughts; and your response demonstrates the importance of us doing such work. The idea behind our research is to study whether active citizenship participation in a virtual world holds true outside of the game as well, and your taking the time to write to us is a perfect example of what we mean by active citizenship, as this can take place through discussion forums, as well as letters to a newspaper editor, blog posts, or just by voting.
It is also interesting that you make note of "lobbyists," who may "influence regulations concerning gaming." I would imagine that this might be a concern of yours. We have no ties to lobbyists whatsoever (we're all university professors, promise)...but if lobbyists or other special interest groups were interested in regulating gaming, studies such as the ones that we're currently doing would likely be cited...making participation in our study even more important!
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Also, I forgot to mention that we are not looking for a representative sample, but rather a puposive sample. We want to compare guild leaders with guild members.