Hm so, I'm doing this research on forums and things and blah.
And I was thinking.
(question follows)
How would you, as a forum community, reach to a researcher coming in to "study" you?
Say, I would come to the forum as a newbie, register, and say: hello, I'm doing this and this so I am here in the forum to study a certain aspect of it, but please don't mind me, I'll be like any other user.
Would you be welcoming of this, or would you be hostile? Would the fact that this person joins in not for a love of literature and willingness to share and communicate, but with a proper purpose, make you annoyed?
Any thoughts? I'd sooooo rather not be doing this...
[and, sorry but LitNet is not going to be in my work, I have had too much involvement in it in the past. I might use some ideas for an assignment about how to do this, but not for proper research]