Do people who ask for anonymous feedback via admonymous.co actually get good feedback?

By yanni kyriacos @ 2024-03-14T00:04 (+23)

I've seen quite a few (assumably pretty online) people ask for anonymous feedback via this website. 

I'd be interested to learn from people that use admonymous.co whether;

1. They actually get feedback
2. Whether it is useful feedback

I send a message to the top 40 people I interact with every six months asking for feedback on (anonymously);

1. What is one thing I should stop doing, or do less of?
2. What is one thing I should start doing, or do more of?

I am wondering if getting feedback from people I don't know well is worth it, considering the effort I'm already making.

Bella @ 2024-03-14T08:55 (+5)

I have gotten feedback on my admonymous a total of 7 times, in the ~year that I've had it.

I haven't really properly solicited that feedback at any point, just had it passively linked on my social media & Slack profile.

I'd say none of those 7 feedback items were really really useful, but they were mostly a bit useful, and often made me feel happy/good to know.

Yanni Kyriacos @ 2024-03-14T21:20 (+1)

Awesome, would you mind providing an example or hypothetical of the type of feedback?

Bella @ 2024-03-15T10:35 (+2)

Two generically positive compliments (e.g. 'You're cool!' (not a real example))

A couple of items where someone I work with felt the form was the best medium by which to give some work-related feedback — they did actually de-anonymise, but it gave them a place to put their feedback which was a) accessible to nobody else and b) unobtrusive & didn't immediately prompt a conversation.

One person said words to the effect 'I thought you did a good job at [x public event where they saw me]'

One person commented on my social presence, in a slightly off-beat way that I think would have been hard/unlikely to say in person.

One person commented on someone I follow on Twitter.

Yanni Kyriacos @ 2024-03-15T23:49 (+3)

thx! Based on your experience it seems like it is worth setting up, even if not hugely impactful.

OllieBase @ 2024-03-15T10:53 (+2)

'You're cool!' (not a real example)


Relatable content

Yanni Kyriacos @ 2024-03-15T23:49 (+1)

@OllieBase speaking of relatable, the boys are back 

aaron_mai @ 2024-03-14T16:29 (+1)

Very similar for me!

Yanni Kyriacos @ 2024-03-14T21:20 (+1)

Good to know :) would you mind providing an example or hypothetical of the type of feedback?

Amber Dawn @ 2024-03-15T09:40 (+3)

I think I've never gotten real feedback! It's possible I'm not promoting it often enough/not making specific requests of people, so people don't know it's an option.

EffectiveAdvocate @ 2024-03-14T13:37 (+3)

You should also tell us how well you feel your experiment with explicitly asking a large group for feedback is going! This seems like a much more interesting approach than just having the form available somewhere, which in my experience results in very little input. 

Yanni Kyriacos @ 2024-03-14T21:21 (+1)

Yeah I might do that. It's been a great experience.

Jeroen Willems @ 2024-05-13T08:40 (+2)

I've had admonynous for ages, my guess would be 2018-2020, but I've only had 2 submissions so far. One was recently, because I mentioned it in my recent fundraising post. This was actually useful feedback. I felt slightly frustrated because I wanted to refute some points, but I believe it's best to just let it be. This post does inspire me to promote/highlight it more.

yanni kyriacos @ 2024-05-14T04:44 (+1)

Thanks for the feedback Jeroen!