Originally Posted by
intuition
I'd never used a quota based on a miniscule percentage of the userbase as a proof of anything.
On a site with 700 000 members and where there is 10 000+ users online at any given moment, what does 96 out of 112 posters really say? Unless you solicit all kind of feedback from all kind of users and balance the results, the numbers tell you nothing. Especially on FT, where those who oppose things are the ones who really knows where to post about it and how to do it vocally. As an evengelist I think you know that too.
What, exactly, would be your "proof" that this release is anything except an alpha test posing as a public release?