Is it not possible to just make a simple online website poll thing and then just link us to it? better still, a questionnaire that meas you could take more details. This is benifitial for many reasons:
A) "a bunch of OcUK forum users said so" is not a valid source of information for your dissertation, and yes, you do have to ensure validity.
B) It looks professional, and can be linked to everywhere, you can go to evey forum you are on and ask people, and ask people all over the place rather than limiting just to the OcUK forum
C) we wont have to tolerate yet another argumentative thread whereby light humor gets controon as a dig by people with poor reasoning skills.