Quote Originally Posted by ty_taurus View Post
I find it mind boggling that you can look at a job you enjoy being overwhelmingly disliked and write that off as not honest feedback, but a job you don't like being overwhelmingly liked is artificially inflated.
Quote Originally Posted by Aravell View Post
I'd assume the argument is based on BLM having a smaller playerbase and SMN having a larger playerbase. But let's take a look at MNK, MNK is also one of the jobs that aren't played very much at all, MNK also has a generally positive score across the board, so I don't really see artificial inflation of scores, I just see a dedicated playerbase who love their main job.
Yeah, but that's my point. Most people who don't like BLM don't play it and aren't going to its survey to give it 0s.

A lot of people that don't like SMN and don't play it ARE going to its survey to give it 0s to tank its score.

It's also why I thought it would be nice to separate out the results between those who do and don't play Jobs to see if it's the people who do play them that are rating them high or low vs those who do not play them. If a Job is fun to the people that actually play it, then that's what matters. If it doesn't appeal to those that do not...well, that's why there are other Jobs. The distinction is kind of important. A lot of people who don't like BLM may hate it, but if the people who play it love it, then it doesn't matter since it's appealing to the people to whom it matters; those that actually engage with it.

And there is very much a phenomena of people who like to attack things they see as beneath them or try to over-inflate egos by praising things that are "hard". And it's really difficult to actually parse that out in a survey so we can see what things really are like, which is why you need a very large sample size representative of the whole.

Regardless, the point stands: If people are votebombing Jobs they dislike to make them look worse than they otherwise would, that does taint the result unless everyone is doing it to all the Jobs they dislike so that it washes out. I feel like there's no way we're going to get that, which is why the SMN results are pretty much invalid on that question, just as they were the last time.