Quote Originally Posted by SweetestLily View Post
For years these forums have been littered with the we need a lottery post. There have been probably over a hundred of them. Now you come here and see the exact opposite tone. I've literally seen a few of the same people who begged for a lottery now crying about it. So yes it's funny to see a complete 180 and no you don't need to "monitor" anyone to see threads that are plastered on the front page for all to see. Nice try though.
i would be careful of drawing such quick assumptions. I far, far prefer the lottery system even though that doesn't mean that I may (in fact have not yet) won. That doesn't mean that I consider it acceptable long-term, I agree that instanced housing would be fairer long-term.

I would hope that SE is able to pull the numbers of people that are applying and then use that as well as as the feedback from the community to justify the effort it would take to develop it.