Quote Originally Posted by ForsakenRoe View Post
Bit of a weird take, to basically say 'unless you main a job right now, you're not supposed to give your opinion on it'.
Good thing that wasn't my take, then, isn't it?

I only said people should mark which Jobs ARE their mains so we can see if there's a difference of opinion between those that do and don't main the Job.

For example, I'd probably list my main Jobs as WHM, SCH, SMN, PLD, possibly WAR, GNB, RDM, and SGE in there. I play some others, but those are the ones I tend to do most content on. So if I put that at the top and go through the survey for every Job and give BLM extremely bad marks because I hate BLM, it might be nice to have that listed in a second category vs the people that main BLM and are effusive in their praise of how much they love the Job, wouldn't it? Should my opinion hating on BLM be tempered by the fact I love SMN, the most anti-BLM Job in the game, or should my opinion on BLM count for as much as those who have mained the Job for a decade?

While it MIGHT be useful for figuring out why people that hate some Jobs refuse to play them and hate them, that's an argument for the SMN rework "Why did people dislike 5.X SMN and how could we change it so those people who already didn't like it might like it?" It's useful information, but it doesn't really speak to how well designed a Job is nor what people who do play it see in it. Generally, Jobs should be designed with consideration for what those who enjoy it like, not what those who hate it like, as those who hate it likely have other Jobs they enjoy, but changing a Job that people enjoy means those people are now out of a Job with no guarantees another will appeal to them (again, SEE: SMN rework).

I'm not saying they don't get to answer.

I'm saying that the answers should be segmented. Say BLM gets a 2.0 from people who hate it but a 9.0 from people who main it. Should we say BLM's average is 4.0 or 5.0 or so, or should we note the two different camps views separately?

In other words: "You should have the person list their main Jobs at the start of the survey. This way, you can crosstab to see how people feel about the Jobs they specifically play, so we won't get, for example, people downvote bombing Jobs they don't actually main."

...that is, the words I actually said. Where there does it say "If you don't main, you don't get to comment"?