Analysis of Council Approval Poll

[awiiya]

[b]General Approval Rating:[/b]

[b][size=6][color=#008000]36.67% approval[/color][/size][/b]
[b][size=6]31.67% neutral[/size][/b]
[b][size=6][color=#ff0000]31.67% disapproval[/color][/size][/b]

Split even on the strong opinions - 10 votes for each. The largest portion by far is the neutral at 19 votes. As far as spread goes - every other category received about 10 votes (+-2). This gives the Council a slight positive approval rating (by 3 votes).

[size=4][b]Fairness Rating:[/b][/size]

[size=6][b][color=#008000]23.33% fair[/color][/b][/size]
[size=6][b]38.33% neutral[/b]
[color=#FF0000][b]38.34% unfair[/b][/color][/size]

Unlike the general approval, more people seemed to think that the Council was at times unfair to the people of MD. A quarter of voters disagree with the proposition that the Council is fair. The disagree outnumbered the agree by a large margin (12), while the strongly disagreed outnumbered the strongly agree just slightly (2). Still a bit more than a third of voters have no opinion about the Council's fairness.

[b]Trust Rating:[/b]

[color=#008000][size=6][b]20.00% trust[/b][/size][/color]
[size=6][b]36.67% neutral[/b][/size]
[b][color=#FF0000][size=6]43.33% distrust[/size][/color][/b]

This is a mostly negative result - with only 5 voters agreeing and 7 strongly agreeing that they trust the Council. While again a third responded neutrally, 17 voters disagreed and 9 voters strongly distrusted the Council. The majority of responders to the poll find that they cannot completely trust the Council - despite perhaps approving of being neutral in the approval rating.

[b]Growth and Health Rating:[/b]

[size=6][color=#008000][b]28.33% promotes growth[/b][/color][/size]
[size=6][b]23.33% neutral[/b]
[b][color=#FF0000]48.33% does not promote growth[/color][/b][/size]

This is the most negative result of the four questions, and the most polarizing (only about a quarter responded neutrally). Almost half of poll responders think that the Council does not promote the growth of the Realm - but they also may think that the Council doesn't particularly impedes growth either. This question also resulted in the largest number of strong responses (12 people strongly disagreed) in all four questions.

[b]General Analysis and Suggestions:[/b]

While a 36% approval rating is nothing to celebrate, the most worrying results are the last two questions, especially the trust rating. The Council may not be responsible for growing the Realm (perhaps that should be the work of us), but it should inspire trust. This lack of trust may come about as response to their anonymity or lack of updates as to exactly they're working on. The fairness rating may also reflect the last few public decisions - ZenTao, Fang - that generated more negativity as to the harsh, act-first-ask-later attitude taken by the Council.

As for ways to improve - there's already a forum topic dedicated to ways in which the Council could do a better job. From this poll, it seems that the Council should focus on inspiring more trust and handling situations with a bit more tact.

People especially feel cheated when a forum is opened to gauge public opinion, and then the Council does not accept the majority opinion. If the Council is going to go ahead and decide themselves, what's the point of asking the public's opinion? It can feel that the Council asked for opinion just to give the illusion that they are considering our opinions (even if in reality they are considering them - we do not sit in on their meetings and thus cannot know this for sure).

Nearly half of responders do not think that the Council promotes the growth of the realm - and this shouldn't come as a surprise. The public view of the Council has been largely administrative - they punish, announce, and organize. Because the Council is not in-game, and their style differs vastly from Mur's thought-explosiveness, it can be harder to tell that they are in fact moving the game forward in a creative direction.

Furthermore, most of the times the Council does speak on the forum and in announcements, it sounds robotic and overly controlled - most likely because the writer of the Council is attempting to sound as objective as possible (and as much unlike themselves). This stripping of all personal flair leads to an image of coldness and perhaps even contempt.

I hope that you will take my opinions with a grain of salt, and if you would like to post your own analysis or a response to mine, by all means.

Awi

Edited January 5, 2013 by awiiya

[Peace]

[font=comic sans ms,cursive]I would like to thank you, Awiiya, for the time you took to do this for us.[/font]

[font=comic sans ms,cursive]I believe there is no need of personal commenting, the majority of the votes shows what most believe even if it was anonymous.[/font]

[BFH]

Before I make something "wrong" or not, are we allowed to post our opinions here or we should open another topic?

[awiiya]

Post any opinions you like here.

I asked people not to post opinions on the other board so that a person about to vote would not be influenced by our thoughts. But that's not a worry here!

Awi

[awiiya]

As per Chewett's added alt information, this will be changed soon to be more positive.

Awi

[Ackshan Bemunah]

I get the feeling that people created alts simply because we discussed the possibility.

Pret-ty fun-ny.

[Chewett]

[quote name='Ackshan Bemunah' timestamp='1357461439' post='129837']
I get the feeling that people created alts simply because we discussed the possibility.

Pret-ty fun-ny.
[/quote]

What fun lives these people must lead.

As an interesting point for most polls of importance people have felt its fine to vote as "alts" Mur and I were looking to have a unified MagicDuel account that worked for the forum as well as the game but there were some issues that needed to be resolved before doing it.

As an interesting point for most polls of importance people have felt its fine to vote as "alts" Mur and I were looking to have a unified MagicDuel account that worked for the forum as well as the game but there were some issues that needed to be resolved before doing it.

[Udgard]

What was the final sample size of the vote? I'm just wondering at what confidence level we can interpret this.

[Chewett]

Poll - http://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/13456-council-approval-rating/

apparently 65 members cast their vote, plus alts

[Muratus del Mur]

These numbers came in very handy in the current situation me and council debate at this point.

please explain me..what means "trust the council" ? trust they can do/solve things, trust as in confidence, trust in abilities?

You can not trust a faceless figure unless you trust its actions blindly, you wouldn't trust me if i didn't had a name .. the trust concept in this poll is a bit confusing and i would like to understand those numbers better

[Mallos]

[quote name='Muratus del Mur' timestamp='1357701760' post='129940']You can not trust a faceless figure unless you trust its actions blindly, you wouldn't trust me if i didn't had a name ..
[/quote]

Thats exactly it for me, I dont trust them if I dont know who is making the decisions.

[awiiya]

The statement with which people agree or disagree:
[b] "I trust the Council's decisions"[/b]


So each person interpreted that statement for themselves and decided whether they agreed with it.

Awi

[Muratus del Mur]

but isn't the decision to be judged and not the judge itself?
i know what you mean because i lived it on my own skin so to speak, people accept what i decide even against them because they respect ME, and that respect/reputation is afterall what you struggle for in md

if any council member reads this, consider this thought

[awiiya]

Well - yes, but judging the judge is just shorthand notation for judging everything you know about them.

The question could have just as easily read, "Do you trust the Council's decisions."

Awi

[Udgard]

Personally, when asked the question I am answering by referring to council's decisions the whole time we have a council. IIRC we had a council rotation a while ago (not sure if there were more than once, and if all members were rotated or just a part of them), so my answer is probably not the best one to reflect my thoughts on the current council, but more of the track record of the council in general (it's hard to specifically point your thoughts on people you don't know). I wonder how many are in the same position as me.

[Eagle Eye]

All we need to do is trust the council's because we love this game
Give him the honor and the respect he/she deserve it

[No one]

I thought this was already understood but it seems it isn't.

[quote name='Muratus del Mur' timestamp='1357701760' post='129940']
please explain me..what means "trust the council" ? trust they can do/solve things, trust as in confidence, trust in abilities?
[/quote]
Unless explained before what each poll means, the generality of the poll invalidates itself on a different level of details.

The pools were:
- I approve of the Council
- I trust the Council's decisions
- I think the Council promotes the growth and health of Magic Duel


That mean that there might be a chance for one
- to aprove the council but not to trust it or to think they are doing NOK (promotes the growth and health of MD)
- to disaprove the council but trusts the council of think they are doing OK

I don't see how that can be unless some specific cases or mental issues and neither were under questioning.

The only result is seen only if you take this poll as a single question and you with the average for each Strongly agree/ agree / Neutral / Disgree / Strongly disagree.
And in this case we see that the council is quite neutral.


Any interpretation based on particular cases of what "might" mean will lead to wrong conclusions.


[b][color=#0000ff]“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”[/color]
-- Ernest Hemingway[/b]