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I could (sort of) see why you might get this upset if people were required to have a Google account themselves to submit this Google form, but that's not the ca

by ktm5j 23d ago

I could (sort of) see why you might get this upset if people were required to have a Google account themselves to submit this Google form, but that's not the case. Who are you to tell an underfunded opensource dev company that just lost their biggest project what tools they should use? That email you hypothetically sent will probably get delivered to an account in their Google Workspace, how on earth is that any different?

JuniperMesos 23d ago
I've run into a lot of Google forms for projects that do in fact require me to log in with a Google account in order to submit, which I think might be related to Google detecting that I'm using a VPN and treating the submission as higher-risk. I just have this reflexive assumption that if something is presenting me with a Google form, it's not gonna work unless I log into a Google account on my local machine. Which is ultimately the reason I care about this kind of thing.
- Barbing 23d ago
  Google Form authors can require login to prevent spam. Google demands logins if the Form includes any attachments at all.
- ktm5j 23d ago
  It's not their job to cater to your nitpicking. Even if this Google form didn't work over a VPN (which it totally does), you're capable of turning the VPN off if you really want to submit feedback. But it doesn't even sound like you have any feedback, so what's your problem?
  - fc417fc802 23d ago
    I think it's a perfectly valid complaint about the ecosystem at large. Not a criticism of the individuals or of this specific case to be clear, but a broader observation that this isn't how things ought to be according to a certain set of ideals and the question then of why we keep seeing it over and over. Clearly there's some sort of systemic shortcoming that applies to the entire ecosystem.
    - ktm5j 22d ago
      What exactly is the complaint? They haven't even made that clear is my point.
      - fc417fc802 22d ago
        They were perfectly clear; you're trolling.
- KPGv2 23d ago
  The person who creates the form has the option of only allowing Google accounts to respond. It's a per-form setting.

by ktm5j 23d ago

JuniperMesos 23d ago

I've run into a lot of Google forms for projects that do in fact require me to log in with a Google account in order to submit, which I think might be related to Google detecting that I'm using a VPN and treating the submission as higher-risk. I just have this reflexive assumption that if something is presenting me with a Google form, it's not gonna work unless I log into a Google account on my local machine. Which is ultimately the reason I care about this kind of thing.

Barbing 23d ago
Google Form authors can require login to prevent spam. Google demands logins if the Form includes any attachments at all.
ktm5j 23d ago
It's not their job to cater to your nitpicking. Even if this Google form didn't work over a VPN (which it totally does), you're capable of turning the VPN off if you really want to submit feedback. But it doesn't even sound like you have any feedback, so what's your problem?
- fc417fc802 23d ago
  I think it's a perfectly valid complaint about the ecosystem at large. Not a criticism of the individuals or of this specific case to be clear, but a broader observation that this isn't how things ought to be according to a certain set of ideals and the question then of why we keep seeing it over and over. Clearly there's some sort of systemic shortcoming that applies to the entire ecosystem.
  - ktm5j 22d ago
    What exactly is the complaint? They haven't even made that clear is my point.
    - fc417fc802 22d ago
      They were perfectly clear; you're trolling.
KPGv2 23d ago
The person who creates the form has the option of only allowing Google accounts to respond. It's a per-form setting.