6.2 Patch Notes

[Lauront]

Might want to actually read a thread before commenting lol...it falls a little flat when you say "there's no evidence" AFTER that evidence has already been provided

I read it. I commented on the two pieces of 'evidence' you routinely stick in there - try reading. My apologies for not referencing the Scion polls or the Reddit one, but given that they are self-selected fan samples, they suffer from exactly the same issues as every other sample you try reference, besides a Scion poll being orthogonal to the question of both their or EW's overall popularity in the broader playerbase (i.e. this goes back to the question of how representative their samples are) - polls I might add where they fall below certain non-Scion characters in popularity, in some cases by significant margins. So no, I'm afraid the 'evidence' in question doesn't meet the threshold outlined by Kazhar, and in spite of your frequent attempts to tone police others here for not neurotically qualifying their posts, you yourself don't bother doing that when you bluster on a rampage through various threads using fairly meek evidence, given the certainty you claim... almost like a puffer fish.

At our level, we can't know what is truly popular or not. We can make observations and get something that might get close to correct, but by implying numbers like when you talk about "extremely tiny minority" you're making the exact same kind of unfounded claims than those who says that their views are shared by an "wide portion of the community". (which you also do, btw)

Exactly. They're fine to use provided you acknowledge their limitations, those being that they tend to come from sites that skew very positive and are rather self-selected samples. I'd say the same of the OF - while it does lean more towards complaining (because it is set up for the very purpose of accommodating that), and while some complaints also have broader traction beyond its own confines, you still only have a starting point there before you undertake wider and deeper analysis. Unfortunately, to the extent that SE does this (maybe it's buried somewhere in those exabytes of data it pours over?), we have no clue what insights these statistics yield, what happens to them beyond that point, etc. I'd love it if they were more transparent with it, but I won't hold my breath.