Attention ICS Community!
Hello, ICSers!
Wow! I want to tell you all how impressed I have been (for the most part) with the quality of many of your surveys. There is an unending quantity, so you are keeping me busy, but there is definitely some good quality out there, too. So kudos to you!
Since we have so many new members since I last wrote, I want to reiterate some of the points to remember when writing and submitting surveys:
Your name will be on it. Take pride!
Spelling and grammar count. I know this is the Internet and abbreviations proliferate, but if you are using ‘u’ for you and not capitalizing and using poor grammar, I am not usually going to spend time editing it, unless it is AMAZINGLY original and funny or thought-provoking.
Capitalization… Ok let’s spend a little time on this. You only have to capitalize the first letter of the beginning of the question and answer, not Every Single Word That You Write. The same goes for locking down YOUR CAPS AND WRITING LIKE THIS. When I see this, unless the survey is Pulitzer Prize caliber, it won’t make the cut.
Subject Matter…The following subjects have been done, overdone, and killed. If you want to write a survey on this subject, it will have to be Robert Frost-Edgar Allen Poe-Emily Dickenson good to be accepted.
- Pets/Animals
- Food
- Video Games
- Love/Relationships
- Colors
- Weather
- Seasons
- Kids
- Obama/Politics
- Travel
- Movies
- Books
- School
- Winning money
- Superheroes
- Favorites names
- Cell phones
- TV
Miscellaneous
You are of course free to write about anything you want, including the above subjects, but if the content is not outstanding, it probably won’t be published. However, if your grammar, spelling and capitalization are flawless and the survey is not terrible, you still have a good chance of seeing it :o)
Also, if your focus is narrow, like, say, NASCAR, give them an option like Other-None.
Don’t write surveys aimed at just women or men, they will not pass. Think about PEOPLE taking surveys!
Remember that these are surveys, not trivia questions or quizzes or tests.
If you have an opinion on certain kinds of surveys you want to see, don’t want to see anymore, etc., then comment here! Don’t write a survey asking what kinds of surveys others are sick of!
Garbage…Hey, it’s a free country, if you want to name your survey ‘qwekrtj’ and have all the answers be ‘lol’ then by all means, go ahead! I am not here to stifle your creative juices! But know that if you do it, you will be banned from writing any more surveys. Same goes for obvious profanity, scatology and crude sexual references. It is simply unfair to the rest of the ICS community for people to get lottery tickets for writing bogus surveys.
Rating….Don’t forget to rate each survey you do. If you are sick of a certain topic, you can ‘vote it off’, and if you really liked one, it made you laugh or think, then give it a high rating! We give a $100 prize EVERY MONTH for the top rated survey! Come on!!!
Keep the creative, fun, funny surveys coming and keep the instant cash rolling into your account!
Clare
2 years ago