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<blockquote data-quote="hewligan" data-source="post: 4639245" data-attributes="member: 19688"><p>I personally think you are reading way too much into things. First of all, this poll represents little, and unfortunately represents less and less over time. As someone mentioned above, polls work best as a snapshot of opinion. The longer they are open the more noise you are likely to get. Also, your poll's margin of statistical error does not change much once you reach a certain point.</p><p></p><p>Then there is the thing about RPG.net and comparing it to here. ENWorld was consumed for quite a while with edition wars. ENWorld is a DnD site, first and foremost. RPG.net covers many systems, and thus the people that visit that site are not identical to the people that visit this site (although clearly there is some cross-over). You have the edition-war fanatics on here (and yes, things have calmed down nicely now) that you will just not get to the same degree on RPG.net.</p><p></p><p>And then we move on to the fact that you now seem to be consumed by this poll and thread. You seem afraid to let it fall off the front page. You have invested in it some strange importance, as if it is now a proxy for the entire health of our hobby. It is nothing of the sort. The length of a single thread on ENWorld can, in no way, indicate the importance or health of our hobby. </p><p></p><p>ENWorld has (and I quote from the main page of this website) "Over 80,000 members and counting!"</p><p></p><p>That is one proxy of the health of this site, and perhaps from that one could infer to a small degree the health of a single segment (DnD) of the hobby. Of course, even that is mislead as many of those accounts will be inactive or duplicates.</p><p></p><p>So please, can we let this thread slowly sink to its natural place and stop the redundant bumping and rather far fetched claims for it. I know you are proud of the success of the poll, and I even voted in it, so I am not dissing your work, but I would prefer if it could naturally slip off the front page of the forum list now that its useful purpose has been spent.</p><p></p><p>Grumpy rant over!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hewligan, post: 4639245, member: 19688"] I personally think you are reading way too much into things. First of all, this poll represents little, and unfortunately represents less and less over time. As someone mentioned above, polls work best as a snapshot of opinion. The longer they are open the more noise you are likely to get. Also, your poll's margin of statistical error does not change much once you reach a certain point. Then there is the thing about RPG.net and comparing it to here. ENWorld was consumed for quite a while with edition wars. ENWorld is a DnD site, first and foremost. RPG.net covers many systems, and thus the people that visit that site are not identical to the people that visit this site (although clearly there is some cross-over). You have the edition-war fanatics on here (and yes, things have calmed down nicely now) that you will just not get to the same degree on RPG.net. And then we move on to the fact that you now seem to be consumed by this poll and thread. You seem afraid to let it fall off the front page. You have invested in it some strange importance, as if it is now a proxy for the entire health of our hobby. It is nothing of the sort. The length of a single thread on ENWorld can, in no way, indicate the importance or health of our hobby. ENWorld has (and I quote from the main page of this website) "Over 80,000 members and counting!" That is one proxy of the health of this site, and perhaps from that one could infer to a small degree the health of a single segment (DnD) of the hobby. Of course, even that is mislead as many of those accounts will be inactive or duplicates. So please, can we let this thread slowly sink to its natural place and stop the redundant bumping and rather far fetched claims for it. I know you are proud of the success of the poll, and I even voted in it, so I am not dissing your work, but I would prefer if it could naturally slip off the front page of the forum list now that its useful purpose has been spent. Grumpy rant over! [/QUOTE]
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