2 Asking a totally open question about personal behavior; no response suggested:
Question: ‘How do you decide if information is reliable or not?’
Actual response: ‘Usually there is a set pattern. The person is not going to be very outward. Most people do not want to report a Bigfoot sighting, but deep down they know what they saw and eventually it eats away at them if you will and they have to tell someone. Also, We do some field research on reports that are received near our database.’
Examples taken from: Dmytriw, D. (2003) Information Acquisition and Exchange Within Cryptozoological Virtual Communities, unpublished dissertation, Northumbria University. (Winner of the LIRG prize for best student dissertation 2004)