Price of next GSTL - Page 25

On June 20 2011 17:34 iTzAnglory wrote:
Ahhh just purchased it, kind of regret now since I promised my parents $10 tops per month...

On June 20 2011 20:51 legatus legionis wrote:
Please stop making poll threads without putting proper thought into designing the actual poll. makes me cringe every single time. How can you look at this poll and not have it scream bias in your face? How can you then look at the poll and give it's results any value?

Where is the option for it being a bargain/a steal. And where is the option to blanco vote?

First should be really obvious, I'll explain the second because I think that might be because my country always does that in elections but it's not a global thing, not sure on that though.

Blanco vote is used so that you can register voters, who do put thoughts into picking a result, but then come to the conclusion they can't or they won't. What happens is that when you get people who show up but vote blanco, it means they do care but they say for example, I cannot (I'm not qualified) to make a good decision here or I really don't give a shit what the result is but I do care about the topic.

In addition to that, the results you get are not taken against the total pool of players who vote for one of the solutions, but against the total pool of voters period. I believe this gives a poll the ability to allow for more accuracy, less votes that are deluded or influenced and thus makes it overall more meaningful and useful to pursue.

I want to pick, it's cheap and I'm buying. I can't. Do I now pick other? But then my buddy think it's also cheap but isn't buying it. Does he also pick other? What does other represent now?
Do I want my opinion to fall in this ambiguous basket? Will I make the decision to then not handle the voting this way and choose an option that is the closest, like it's ok and buying it?
Not only is that inaccurate because my real vote loses its value, when a group of people handles their vote in this manner, they don't all do it the same. Their votes get randomly spread over the different options. All those then lose it's value.

In general, when you add other as an option to the poll you are basically saying, I don't care if there are other options that I should include, I'm not gonna bother to give it any thought to think about if the votes contained in other are their own vote and should be included independently.

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On June 20 2011 23:45 Soleron wrote:

I added the poll much later at someone's request. The intention of the thread wasn't to be a 500 page whine fest but instead pointing out how expensive the GSTL could be considered relative to before. I'll say that again. RELATIVE TO BEFORE.

Notice how the poll options cover the majority of those who answered. If people had a problem they should answer Other and do a post like yours explaining how they feel.

Cheap = about right. The GSTL price has not gone down, so RELATIVE TO BEFORE it is either about the same or more expensive as a feeling when buying. The poll is to see whether people agree it feels expensive.

I could have ten million poll options and not cover the range of feeling. The ones I did choose seem adequate for most but your complaint is valid and if you care that much you should make a new thread.