Quote Originally Posted by ty_taurus View Post
The first is that there is a large sum of 0s, and since we can look at who is responding, we can see why. The 0s generate largely from former summoner players who found the rework was a major downgrade,
Genuine question: How can we be sure that it's that new SMN is bad in their eyes and NOT that they hold a grudge against it displacing former SMN? That is, would they be voting this way (or even voting on the SMN at all) if it was a separate Job? I get it's a hypothetical that's difficult to parse out, but that's the reason for the question, since it's effectively asking two different things:

1) Is new SMN bad?
2) Are you upset that old SMN is gone?

Thing is, I'm not sure how to separate the two. In theory, if everyone was honest, they'd put it into their reply, but people tend not to do that. Some did, I noticed, but a lot of people don't because the mental thing with us Humans to generally present face better. That is, "I hate that I don't have new SMN so I'm vote bombing this one because I hate that" doesn't carry over as well as "I'm a former SMN player and this one is now braindead". Though, again, some people were outright honest in the "I hate that my old SMN has been changed".

Though I suppose the bigger issue right now are the response numbers. BLM has only 40. If 100 gives you a 10% margin of error, I wonder what 40 gets you...