Polls for future game changes

[Shironeko_Narunyan]

The problem with Runescape's ingame polls is that 95% of the time, the playerbase always voted "yes" just off of that, without going to the forums and reading the threads discussing the implications of X. They just see a tagline "do you want X in your game?" and just vote yes. So ingame polls were to the detriment of Runescape, and lo and behold, the bad things that people in the discussion threads feared came about, but they couldn't do anything about it because they were an informed minority while the majority of people who voted didn't know what they were voting for.

Doesn't that sound suspiciously like real life elections?