Are you buying a DDI subscription?

El Mahdi said:

For those who posted the above, please, do not turn this thread into a discussion about what the poll data might mean, or a discussion about the accuracy of ENWorld polls. For the sake of the thread, I will stipulate that ENWorld polls are not scientific and have no real intrinsic value. Another thing that has no intrinsic value is turning a thread about whether you are buying a DDI subscription and why, into a thread about 4E vs 3E, or a thread about who has the strongest statistics foo. Please adhere to the "No Edition Wars" guidelines. And, if you need to prove your statistics foo so badly, I suggest you go start a thread about statistics and have at it. Otherwise, please stick to the subject of the thread.

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Unless you are a moderator, I don't think that you are qualified to tell people what they can and cannot post about. This is a POLL about who will subscribe to DDI and who won't. If this was simply a discussion without some measure of statistics then it would not have been a POLL. I think discussing the percentages of people who vote one way or the other is perfectly valid thing to do in a thread that is anchored by a poll.

For what it is worth, none of my posts stated anything about how much better one edition is than another, nor did it judge the participants of the poll.

And, again, for what it is worth, guessing that "42% of the respondents voting yes is a good thing" is not even a small measure of statistics foo. It is an observation.

I choose not to abide by your decree.

El Mahdi said:

[For those who posted the above, please, do not turn this thread into a discussion about what the poll data might mean, or a discussion about the accuracy of ENWorld polls.

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Uh, you don't want us to discuss the possible meaning of the poll in the thread...and, uh, somehow discussion of the poll is not appropriate to the thread?




I think you may need a break from here for a little while....

catsclaw227 said:

I choose not to abide by your decree.

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Second!

catsclaw227 said:

Unless you are a moderator, I don't think that you are qualified to tell people what they can and cannot post about. This is a POLL about who will subscribe to DDI and who won't. If this was simply a discussion without some measure of statistics then it would not have been a POLL. I think discussing the percentages of people who vote one way or the other is perfectly valid thing to do in a thread that is anchored by a poll.

For what it is worth, none of my posts stated anything about how much better one edition is than another, nor did it judge the participants of the poll.

And, again, for what it is worth, guessing that "42% of the respondents voting yes is a good thing" is not even a small measure of statistics foo. It is an observation.

I choose not to abide by your decree.

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I asked you. I even said please. And as the OP of this thread you guys happen to be threadjacking, I think it's completely within my perview to ask you to not screw it up.

If you feel that asking people to adhere to a certain level of respect for the subject of the thread is handing out decrees, I'd submit you're probably oversensitive to criticism.

You are right that discussing the percentages from the poll attached to this thread is part of the subject of the thread. However, making claims about what those percentages mean, especially when this is far from any sort of scientific poll, isn't part of the subject of this thread (and I highly doubt any of you are qualified enough, or in-the-know enough to be making such declarations). Also not a part of the subject of this thread, is turning this into a discussion about statistics, as all such examples of the above discourse in every other thread here on ENWorld, end up devolving into.

El Mahdi said:

I asked you. I even said please. And as the OP of this thread you guys happen to be threadjacking, I think it's completely within my perview to ask you to not screw it up.

If you feel that asking people to adhere to a certain level of respect for the subject of the thread is handing out decrees, I'd submit you're probably oversensitive to criticism.

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I am sorry, I thought that the poll WAS the subject of this thread. It is a bit confusing, though, that I can't answer a poll and then discuss it's results in the same thread. In my experience, it's been happening this way for a long time, so I am sorry if I misunderstood the purpose of your poll, and disrespected the discussion.

I will fork it out because the moderator has asked.

At this current time of this posting, yes...

1--Low level (Epic Feel-but no EPic book, YEAH!) adventure in the Eberron 3.5 setting.

Might co-DM a returning campaign next year in Eberron 3.5, but that issue is in discussion.

Reveille said:

You still playing D&D though TS?

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I'm not subscribing - but that's because I'm going to be running D&D 3.5 for the next three months, and hopefully some GURPS after that. (Pyramid's only $20/year ) Between the numerous RSS feeds I'm subscribed to, and the fact that I write most of my own adventures, I want to see how WotC's vision of 4e is going to fold out a little more clearly before I decide.

Not subscribing, I mean honestly...the playtest articles are cool...but they should be free, why am I paying to test content that I will probably be buying again. I also don't like the fact that a printer-friendly version of the articles isn't made available, as the artwork in the articles is killing my ink supply. Lastly, I'm really leaning toward going with Mongoose's Runequest for my fantasy gaming...They offer a FREE PDF magazine with no subscription that's about the same quality as Dragon/Dungeon so far.

Not for me. It offers me nothing I want.