devtrackers.gg
Read moreA poll was released today, and it made a very questionable choice. I am not talking about the wording, but the way they went about the poll. Usually the default is no change and 75% support is needed to make a change. In the current poll that is not the case.
What and Why?
In a recent poll we were asked "Do you want A? B will happen as a result." A lot of players were fine with A but didn't want B. Both were polled in the same question and it passed with 86.6%. But a lot of players were still unhappy with this, so they polled B separately. Yet despite it being a change to how the game currently is, instead of needing 75% to be added, the poll was worded so that it needs 75% to not be added.
This is an extremely bad practice and goes against the polling system. We weren’t given a chance to vote for what we wanted. We were forced to vote for more than we wanted and given an unfair poll to keep existing behavior.
"If the commun...
We polled something not everyone was entirely happy about, but we weren’t in a position to bypass the poll system for what was favoured so highly by so many.
The only thought that was going through my mind when doing this poll question was that the previous question, which included the icons being bigger, had already passed a poll.
At that point we are obliged to add it as per its wording in the poll because the community wanted it - going against that would entirely undermine the polling process.
The only real option was to state “We know this passed, however, if you want we can change it before it’s added to this instead. If not, then it’s going to be as per what you initially voted on”.
That’s what the question aimed to do and there was no other intention other than to give the community the opportunity to decide what they’d prefer happen with it. It had to state that if it failed the previous would be implemented because it had already passed a p...
Read more