If this is already planned / mentioned / discussed, then perfect! See this post as a vote for it with some additional explanation why I think it is important.
Please hear me out: The way things have turned out to be, I see no possible way to ‘fix’ this situation any more. So the questionnaire is NOT that. Not a fix. It’s only a mitigation. Derpi will lose users over this situation. From different interest groups. And different ideologies. The damage is already done. The best thing Derpibooru staff can do (in my personal opinion) is to finally rid themselves of the sampling bias in their forums, give the users the voice they deserve, and actually ask all of the users of their site about their opinion.
They clearly mention they want to ‘gather feedback from our entire community’. And the only reliable way to get this, is to add a questionnaire banner to the site. You know, like those announcements, about ‘Pony with care’ and such? Derpi has done it in the past, so why not now, when it’s clearly urgently needed? I would personally even go as far as sending an email to all accounts, but I don’t know if that is legally a viable option.
Whatever the result of that questionnaire will turn out to be, it will have better representation of the actual middle of the bell-curve than the vocal part of the community which uses the forums. For example, I almost never used the forums. And I wouldn’t even be here, if my partner wouldn’t have linked me to the currently ongoing discussions. I would not have had my opinion taken into account at all. And also, the forum is full of anonymous posts. People post multiple times. Visual cues play a role in human perception. Etc. Etc. All further tainting the sample.
Get rid of it! Go the only sane route, and actually ASK your users. Don’t wait for them to come to you in the forums!
Again, I’m sorry if this is already being discussed elsewhere. But this is important enough for me to try and get myself heard as clearly as I can.
Stay focused, everyone.
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