In the aftermath of the 6.1 samurai changes, I got to thinking about their feedback paths and was wondering if simply polling might not be better than forums and month-later engagement metrics.

Not everyone bothers with the forums, and as much as I hate the 6.1 samurai changes, I have to admit that there's a participation bias when it comes to forum feedback.

It seems to me that simply polling the playerbase would give a better view of player sentiment compared to the forums in terms of participation bias, sample size, and easily-quantifiable results, and would likewise be incomparably faster than waiting for engagement metrics.

Any polling done could be filtered if they wanted, so it wouldn't be spamming everyone with polls - only hitting people actually affected by the topics in question - ie for the samurai changes, only players who have samurai unlocked, or perhaps only players who have samurai at 90, or maybe only players who have cleared the current raid content as samurai, etc.

What do you guys think? Good idea? Too intrusive? Other ideas?