ADMIN NOTICE : OFFICIAL FACTION RIGHTS

[carlabrams]

Finally, I'll restate my point about statistics. Your 70% is not even the community's 70%, Dieter. I do not mean to be offensive, but by last two posts in this thread, which were obviously not really read or regarded by most of the community pretty much highlighted just that. Your 70% came from a skewed convenience survey that has extreme bias due to the fact that a large number of those who feel strongly about the issue submitted an answer.

If you want to conduct a survey to get results, conduct one correctly and then base your decisions off it. Otherwise, just make the decisions regardless. You are administrators.

In practically every US election, there are many, many more people that are registered to vote than actually DO vote. Most of the time you end up with 30 - 40% of people that actually bother to do so that decide an election - and then we call an 80% positive vote to be a mandate.

Point being - you're not going to get 70% or, hell, even 20%, of all the registered members of this forum to actually vote. But if you get 70% of those people that are ACTIVE to vote for (or against) something, then it sounds like you're doing something right. (Let's face it - how many people actually come here more than once per week, or have registered for the forums and never came back?)

---

Sentient Machine Alliance