Still, it was talked about earlier in the thread that people don't KNOW what they want. We give them what they want, they complain; we do something revolutionary on our own, they complain. The best way, IMO, is to get information from discussions like these - and then move forward with what was discussed and/or what the staff thinks is best. Aren't they, after all, chosen to make this community a better place? Don't we entrust them to do the right thing for the community? If it is made apparent that the wrong thing was done, we trust them enough to reverse the changes and implement something else.

 

 

 

The benefit of threads like these is the fact that people who care about what happens to the community take the time to post. Polls collect data from everyone, that's true, but it isn't necessarily worthwhile to gather information crucial to forum development from people who don't give a crap either way.

I do agree for the most part in your point but, We as users of this forum have no choice who is appointed to be moderator/admin. It is the current moderators and admins who choose. So we dont entrust them with anything we just hope they do a good job.

True. But you choose to stay here and with new signups every day, it seems that people have a desire to look around. Since the number of active users isn't falling, they (the Staff) must be doing something right. :P

 

 

 

To sort of build on my comment about polls, I wouldn't mind the users being made aware of discussions like these. I'm sure it is missed by many due to misleading topic titles and select boards in which the threads are located. But I think a poll where people simply hit "yes/no" to changes is not the correct way of gathering information and then using that information to give users "what they want."