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Originally Posted by eschwartz
..Thus your entire poll is suspect and assuming you get the results you wish, any conclusions based on it are worthless....
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What makes you think, I have any kind of "wish"?
I don't have any agenda, nobody is paying me for whatever result.
And a poll in a user forum certainly falls in the hobby category and doesn't have any impact on my "real" life. Although I already admitted that you did annoy me with your constant head-smacking which I took as you calling me an idiot repeatedly, so it did have some impact yesterday...
I already stated: The wording of the poll was ambiguous. It still is, changing the wording in an ongoing poll (can this even be done?) conclusively would falsify the results entirely. I had an idea behind the ambiguity (MR regulations and so on), but it obviously fell flat.
Basically, there should be 3 groups of readers:
a.) Only buying their stuff. I'm in that category. I'm not into freebies, I don't pirate.
b.) Only pirating. I guess, only few hardcore pirates exclusively have pirated stuff. Even your average pirate from time to time might buy some stuff. Then he can (multiple answers possible) tick (a) and (b).
c.) Theoretically, those 2 groups would cover it. There's the downloads of freebies, PD and such. But even those consumers for some content will fall in categories (a) or (b). And if the voters saw the point about "somewhere else" being ambiguous description for pirating they could vote (a) to make a point.