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04-12-2017, 09:11 PM
(04-12-2017, 09:00 PM)Mordent Wrote: The poll thing I still feel somewhat strongly on. No suggestion was made that the poll results would guarantee changes. At best, it's a way to roughly gauge opinions on the change. If we want to go with using the strawpoll as determining the way to go, 79% of people would not be okay with the thing being reverted outright. That's kind of my point with the poll: it hasn't given you actionable information. If you want to argue "it's still the way to make the most people happy, as any other options has less of a percentage", 42% are for "reduce the penalties to some degree". 19% are for "keep things exactly the same or with minor tweaks". I agree that you can't just add numbers together in the strawpoll because each player could vote in more than one category, but we don't have enough information to go on by virtue of how the poll worked. Ask any good statistician, the data is mostly meaningless/unactionable.
You do have a point, but the fact of the matter is that some choice has to be made. There is no separate option to abstain from doing something because that's included right in the poll.
By default, since some action must be taken, the most popular option should be the one chosen.
You do however have a point that it would be unactionable in most circumstances.
We could rectify this situation by simply making another poll with a default [PLEASE CHECK THIS BOX] option so we can get a rough estimate of the number of people actually voting.