D&D General Bob World Builder Recreates WOTC's "Do You Like Me?" Survey!

[el-remmen]

Yeah I recently unsubscribed because one of his videos was just so pointlessly negative and incredibly smug about it.

Would you mind sharing which one?

 

[Nikosandros]

One more time for the folks in the back, who might not have been paying attention:

This is also true about all the surveys from WotC since the sample is self-selected and not randonly selected.

 

[CleverNickName]

This is also true about all the surveys from WotC since the sample is self-selected and not randonly selected.

Yep, absolutely. Wizards of the Coast is collecting specific information, from specific people, for specific reasons, and there's nothing wrong with that. It's only a problem when those of us on the outside start trying to look for deeper meaning...we tend to start seeing problems that aren't really there.

Wizards of the Coast is probably just trying to plan their next big project , but we don't know for sure--and that's causing some people on the Internet to go absolutely feral. "The survey didn't behave the way I expected, so obviously they aren't listening to us! What are they hiding!?"

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Wizards of the Coast is probably just trying to plan their next big project , but we don't know for sure

Them asking how we feel about the WotC brand does suggest that someone in-house is concerned about whether the past year has damaged them in a meaningful way. It's smart for them to ask, but it doesn't mean that anything will happen as a result of it that we'll ever know -- the results of the survey are going to be fed into the internal company politics and recent history has shown that not everyone inside Hasbro and WotC is on the same page.

A company that has the money to do so should be asking its customers questions all the time. It's useful for both short-term planning ("Do they want more Campaign Cases?") and long-term ("Do we need to do some brand rehabilitation?").

 

[mamba]

I'm not exactly sure The Nightly News on TV (or Newspaper) is any less biased or uniformed. Yellow journalism, tabloids, scandals and people since forever complaining about reporters not knowing what they are talking about have been around forever.

based on the channel that is probably correct

 

[mamba]

When YouTubers live in fear of libel and slander lawsuits, they'll have the same checks and balances traditional media does.

if I see what makes it onto TV, that is not much of a deterrence

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

if I see what makes it onto TV, that is not much of a deterrence

Contrary to what politicians and celebrities say, it's extraordinarily easy to sue (and win) against the media when they get stuff wrong. That doesn't mean that they can or will devote more than five minutes to a subject that might be best explained in an hour, but it certainly does mean that there's an incentive to make those five minutes accurate.

The bigger issue is that a lot of those folks on TV aren't journalists. As mentioned above, a lot of them are comedians or commentators, who have chosen to sit behind desks that look like anchor desks and use all the same sorts of graphics. But they aren't holding themselves to the same standards and are pretending the audience knows that Fox & Friends or the Rachel Maddow Show or the Daily Show are offering opinions, not pure fact-based information.

If you actually watch the actual news shows, you will see that even the ones that have the most spin on the ball still are operating within guardrails where they won't say anything that strays from the strict truth. Some of them will get around this by having guests on who will make all sorts of outlandish claims, but the journalists themselves won't.

 

[Vaalingrade]

"The survey didn't behave the way I expected, so obviously they aren't listening to us! What are they hiding!?"

Of course they're not listening to us. None of us are canceling DDB subscriptions at the moment.

 

[mamba]

Contrary to what politicians and celebrities say, it's extraordinarily easy to sue (and win) against the media when they get stuff wrong.

given that Fox is wrong about 100% of the time, how come they basically always get away with it? Good lawyers?

It sure does not seem all that easy

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

given that Fox is wrong about 100% of the time, how come they basically always get away with it? Good lawyers?

It sure does not seem all that easy

Because the people you're probably referring to are commentators, not their anchors. They've made this explicit in lawsuits -- those folks aren't journalists.