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... and if we did have an abstain option, suppose the results came out like this:
60% Yes
15% No
25% Abstain
Of the people who voted Yes or No, 80% voted yes. Would you be okay with us developing the feature in that sort of situation? Or would you say that the feature didn't get 75% Yes votes, so you'd prefer not to have it in the game?
It might be almost impossible for you to get 75% Yes on anything if abstainers are counted as No votes.
I dont think an abstain option is necessary. It would make the whole voting and updates situation messy and cause controversy over whether or not an update was wanted.
What I would rather have is that people don't have to answer 'yes' or 'no' to every question on the poll. That way if a player wanted to abstain they could just miss or not vote on that specific question, while voting on other questions. Of course by not voting on a question they would realise that an update may get passed depending on the % of players who did vote.
15-Mar-2013 05:00:36