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I'm sorry, I didn't see that comment until now.
I did think about this, and decided that there was no real expectation of privacy in the survey. I'm only some random person on the Internet, after all; why would you give any information to me if you didn't want other random people on the Internet to know it? I thought the text data might be valuable to those who wanted to look at the survey results, and none of the information seemed too embarrassing or identifying, except for the bit I removed.
That said, you have a point; it may have been better to be conservative and not post the text data at all.
Perhaps it would be helpful if a few people who did take the survey weighed in on how they feel about it.
I am not worried about my own data, because it's been out there on the Intertubes since before your survey, because I published it. That said, the choice whether to release personally identifying information should be mine, and mine alone, not yours. I am somewhat unpleasantly surprised that you chose to publish people's personal data without their explicit consent.
Because, to a very, very rough first approximation, the risk of someone doing something nasty with your personal data increases proportionally to the number of people that you give access to it.