With respect to community surveys, I think they can be a good thing, but they're annoying when it looks like the author is on a fishing trip rather than trying

With respect to community surveys, I think they can be a good thing, but they're annoying when it looks like the author is on a fishing trip rather than trying to identify the answers to a few new specific questions. Usually my off-the-cuff response is "What are you trying to understand which isn't already discussed heavily?". New areas of research and some small amount of redundant work is fine, but too often everyone covers the same base without aiming to take a deeper dive on something new.