You are literally tried to exclude GMs from referring to how the process being used
I literally said everyone, and never mentioned GMs. You've fabricated a strawman. GMs are part of everyone.
takes steps to make their feedback & concerns less "valid" as what we are calling the munchkin brigade. Every single playtest packet survey except maybe the first where there were no classes in it has included a question along the lines of "have you played x class in 5e" or "have you played X class in any version of d&d". not one single packet has had a survey question that made any effort to identify GMs. That right there is one group being explicitly more equal than another no matter how you try to spin it.
IF you are are GM where that class was playtested, you have just engaged in a playtest of that class. It's a neutral question. It's not tailored to the player. Nobody is more equal than another. GMs are not being oppressed or dismissed by the playtest. In fact, the instructions under "How to Playtest This UA" talk about DMs and creating your own adventure for the purpose of playtesting.
It's strange that you would choose this sidequest to break from the constant efforts to provide cover for the flaws in this process through attempting to dismiss discredit & divert criticism across so many threads.
I am absolutely not dismissing or discrediting criticism. I have my own criticism. But when you make a public post here on a message board intended for a back and for conversation, you don't get to complain about getting feedback on what you're saying.
You've lost sight of the ball. The munchkin brigade voting against any slight to power came up because of your earlier claim that wotc lowers the veto threshold by padding the breakpoint for approval to correct for
Yes, that was me. That, because someone might like both the old and new rule exactly equally and exactly as favorably, it is no harm to those people's views to assume that maybe you need to pad to account for that. You were saying some votes should be dismissed which WOULD harm the views of those voters and I explained how that's a different situation - dismissing voices who care about their view being heard is not the same as dismissing those who suffer no harm from it and are fine with it.
responders who will vote positively for anything at all. The GM needs to consider all of the players at the table & can be expected to have a good probability of voting for healthier options a reasonable percentage of the time rather than the more selfish ones of respondents that are exclusively players & only interested in their own power.
That's you putting your ethical view on other people inappropriately. No, you as a DM do not have a more important voice that others who consume this product. But EVEN IF YOU DID (which you do not) it would still be wrong to split it not between "DM vs Player" but instead between "DM vs a specific type of player you personally don't like." There is absolutely nothing objectively good or righteous or just about your view. It's you saying your view is objectively better than the views of others for no reason other than it's you.
Correcting for the distortions is responsible polling when those distortions are caused by their own weighting & not about "discounting" anyone.
No, it's deeply irresponsible to assume a type of player's views is a "distortion" because you disagree with it. You're essentially saying, "I don't like the color blue so anyone who likes the color blue should be "corrected" as a distortion because I don't like the color blue and therefore blue is a distortion." It's circular logic and has no basis in any kind of ethical view.
