Re: How to poll the users

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 25.04.2020 18:35, Drew Adams wrote:
> > > > Emacs StackExchange site has around 20'000 registered
> > > > users. The Emacs subreddit has almost 40'000 subscribers.
> > >
> > > ... Have you got any other suggestions of places?
> >
> > The ones I mentioned are the biggest ones I know.
>
> Also:
>
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/emacs
>
> https://superuser.com/questions/tagged/emacs

Right. But these seem smaller, and I'm not sure we can do any polls on 
stackexchange/stackoverflow anyway.

> > If I do create a poll, and the outcome would strongly indicate a change
> > of the default, we'd pretty much have to change it then, though.
>
> FWIW, I don't agree with that conclusion, in the abstract.

If the poll doesn't contain an implicit promise (e.g. "we considering a 
change of default"), the turnout is likely to be much lower. Which is 
not what we want, I think.