Quote Originally Posted by van_arn View Post
I don't see how this would improve anything. Imagine Square asking the forums "Do you think we should add an official parser?"

There would be war for a month. Then, whichever path SE took -- to add or not to add -- half of the community would still be at war, eternally, showing how "back then we were right." "They made a mistake listening to the majority."

Net result would be the same, people bickering over the forums forever. SE already knows where people stand on this particular issue, as well as hundreds of other issues-- so in a sense, they've already done their surveys.

Were they to do an official survey at this point, it would probably be theater.
The forums will always be a war zone, but there is some truth to some of the feedback here. It just gets lost in the chaos sometimes. The poll doesn't have to take place here though. Nothing bad could come of a player poll every so often, so I have no idea why you're truly against them no matter where they'd decide to post one.