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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 9170772" data-attributes="member: 7006">Of course you can.  You write all your critique in the comments section.The thing I think most people forget is that not a single person at WotC cares about (general) YOUR opinion.  Not your specific opinion.  (General) you might have the greatest critique in the world... but you are still just one of thousands of people, all of whom have opinions.  So the best any of us can do is participate in the manner WotC has laid out for us.Which means if you like something foundationally but have major issues on specific things (like say for example Flex in the Weapon Mastery system)... you need to score things such that you lend your voice to keeping something in place, and then lend your voice to comments that collectively show WotC where they might have made a mistake.  But (general) your individual comment?  Won't have any impact.Some folks here went into really in-depth detail as to why Flex was a bad Mastery.  They might have had the most precise and indicative evidence and proven without a shadow of a doubt that it shouldn't be in the game.  But guess what?  Even if those comments were 100% on target... it wouldn't have mattered if they were the only 6-10 people amongst the 40,000 respondents to make that case.  If everybody else didn't care and found Flex to be perfectly acceptable as-is... then there's a pretty good chance WotC wouldn't have done anything.  And that's the issue-- NONE of us can make an individual effect here.  We can only be one of many voices offering up critique that has import.So we have to go into these surveys and not try and "stand out" by making a grand show of ourselves... like trying to thumb your nose at the entire process by voting '1' straight down the line in an effort to show WotC how bad you think their process is.  No one cares that you felt "so offended" by what WotC gave you that you felt you had no choice but to make this personal grand show of downvoting every single thing in some new section they were asking your opinion on (because again... all those '1's were merely just a single voice of probably 100 to 500 OTHER voices that all voted '1' straight down the line too).  Rather... we need to just be smart about it.  If there are things that have a good basis to start but poor execution... you vote middle of the road.  You lend your voice to the thousands of people who also go middle of the road so that WotC ends up curious as to why there were all these '3' votes and maybe then spends a little more time looking at the comments to figure it out.  Instead of your '1' vote lending itself to the large group of other '1' and '2' votes that absolutely decimate the opinion level and tell WotC it isn't even worth wasting their time.</blockquote>

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