{"id":14973,"date":"2010-02-11T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2010\/02\/11\/a-sense-of-the-term-anonymous-with-which-i-had-previously-been-unfamiliar\/"},"modified":"2010-02-11T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T07:00:00","slug":"a-sense-of-the-term-anonymous-with-which-i-had-previously-been-unfamiliar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20100211-00\/?p=14973","title":{"rendered":"A sense of the term anonymous with which I had previously been unfamiliar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was filling out one of those online <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2010\/02\/10\/9960892.aspx\"> satisfaction surveys<\/a>, and in the introduction, it reassured me that<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p> This survey is anonymous. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> The first question on the survey:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p> Enter the support request (SR) number below. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Yeah, because they&#8217;ll never be able to trace the support request number back to me.<\/p>\n<p> (I suspect that the reason for this contradiction is that the organization that wanted to conduct the survey used a site that supports either anonymous surveys or tracked surveys, and they opted for the anonymous survey for whatever reason&mdash;maybe it&#8217;s cheaper?&mdash;but they actually wanted a tracked survey, so they made the tracking number part of the survey itself.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was filling out one of those online satisfaction surveys, and in the introduction, it reassured me that This survey is anonymous. The first question on the survey: Enter the support request (SR) number below. Yeah, because they&#8217;ll never be able to trace the support request number back to me. (I suspect that the reason [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-14973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>I was filling out one of those online satisfaction surveys, and in the introduction, it reassured me that This survey is anonymous. The first question on the survey: Enter the support request (SR) number below. Yeah, because they&#8217;ll never be able to trace the support request number back to me. (I suspect that the reason [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}