[Lnc-business] Feedback on LP religion poll / tracking?

[Wes Benedict]

Starchild, thanks for the observations and suggestions.

Click-tracking is a widely used practice to help measure the 
effectiveness of emails. I don't plan to stop our use of it. Others can 
debate the pros and cons of the practice. If the LNC wants us to stop, 
I'll abide.

I prefer the way I lumped all the Christian options at the top so you 
can kind of add them up quickly.

I was somewhat closely mirroring the sorting used at this wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_United_States

*Religious Self-Identification of the U.S. Adult Population*

There are probably many thousand religions across the world and U.S.

I included several that Libertarians requested in the past that were not 
included in a previous survey, but I did not choose Transhumanist. It 
did cross my mind, but I figured we had enough details for this 
unscientific survey.

It's not easy to make a list of the top religions, because things like 
denominations and the difference between a religion and a denomination 
make it complicated, not to mention the feedback along the lines that 
"government is a religion" and "environmentalism is a religion.

NOTA got 3%, so I think we covered most people's choices.

Take care,

Wes Benedict, Executive Director
Libertarian National Committee, Inc.
1444 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314
(202) 333-0008 ext. 232, wes.benedict at lp.org
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Join the Libertarian Party at: http://lp.org/membership

On 12/15/2017 6:43 PM, Starchild wrote:
>
> Hi Wes,
>
> When I attempted to click through from today's Libertarian email to 
> the poll on religion, I got an error page indicating there was a 
> tracker being used:
>
> chrome://ublock0/content/document-blocked.html?details=eyJ1cmwiOiJodHRwOi8vY2xpY2suaWNwdHJhY2suY29tL2ljcC9yZWxheS5waHA/cj04NTUzMDAzNyZtc2dpZD02MDg4MjUmYWN0PThCQkkmYz0xMTE1MTA4JmRlc3RpbmF0aW9uPWh0dHAlM0ElMkYlMkZ3d3cubHAub3JnJTJGd2hhdC1yZWxpZ2lvbi1hcmUtbGliZXJ0YXJpYW5zJTJGIiwiaG4iOiJjbGljay5pY3B0cmFjay5jb20iLCJkbiI6ImljcHRyYWNrLmNvbSIsImZjIjoiWzAsNjIsXCJpY3B0cmFjay5jb21cIl0iLCJmcyI6Inx8aWNwdHJhY2suY29tXiJ9
>
> What type of tracking are these emails employing? I do not think we 
> should be tracking people's clicks without their consent.
>
> On the poll itself (I went directly to LP.org <http://LP.org> and 
> found it there at https://www.lp.org/what-religion-are-libertarians/), 
> I have a recommendation for an additional response category – 
> *Transhumanist*.
>
> This may not ultimately be the most precise term for my own religious 
> views, which also encompass non-aggression and 
> decentralism/individualism, but as a "none of the above" respondent, I 
> feel it would fit me better than any of the terms currently listed, 
> and suspect there may be a few others who feel similarly. For anyone 
> curious about the religious aspects of transhumanism, this page has 
> some good material:
>
> http://www.metanexus.net/essay/toward-transhumanist-theology
>
> Finally, I would also urge that the poll response choices be listed in 
> alphabetical order (with the exception of leaving "Decline to state" 
> and "None of the above" at the bottom), rather than all the Christian 
> options being listed first.
>
> Love & Liberty,
>
>                                    ((( starchild )))
> At-Large Representative, Libertarian National Committee
> RealReform at earthlink.net <mailto:RealReform at earthlink.net>
>                                (415) 625-FREE

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