Treading Dangerous Ground

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I agree that they should have had poll questions about the server merge options in the first place instead of reacting to the explosion on the forums.

But I think that for those times they fail to make a poll for an important decision like this, it's still good to notice if the forum reacts hugely and reconsider things based on that.

My believe is that in the end it's not the players who decide what happens but the Director. These forums aren't here to force descissions upon the director. They provide feedback, different views to look at a certain problem. (Like in the tv-serie House. House knows everything but needs his team to obtain more view points to find more relations between various things.) It's not about what the majority thinks or what the minorities think, it's about collecting more different point of views / arguements / data for the Director to make a more valid descission.

I can agree with what your both saying. A leaders job is to make desicions and move forward. Often times, those decisions aren't going to please everyone. If your not going to just make a decision and stick by it (which , in this particular case I wish he had done if he didnt want to poll), and instead take it to the players and cater to what they want, shouldn't you then make sure that ALL the players are given the chance to respond with what they like instead of just a small percentage that take the time to use these forums? From what I have read, the dev team was still debating with each other right up too the point when he posted option 4 as the means by which they would do this. That, too me anyway, should indicate that its time to lead, or its time to take it to ALL the players and see what they want.

I understand that the purpose of these forums is to give everyone that chance, but the numbers from the first poll prove that many people feel more comfortable using a poll to communicate what they want then they do getting on the official forums and dealing with others. (And seeing how people treat each other on here sometimes, I can understand why). To me it just seems like a slippery slope if they want to make large desicions like this based on the feedback of a small portion of the community as a whole.