Create Poll Questions to gather users opinions before launching anything

[NDesai]

For the sake to keep the heat out of the community and to keep it clean, PM should post a poll question to gather users opinion before launching anything. May be there is a way to enable only for reputed members to exclude new users. Yes, it might reveal the surprise, but its better to not launch something they are likely not happy about. If majority is disagreeing, PM might want to rethink it through instead of launching it out of the wind. Some strategies could be used here to gather what reputed users are agreeing to. I remember that we used to have a poll question on the community front page, and i am sure many wish for it to return. Using it to gather users opinion would be a good idea. Many things PM wants to bring such as the price increase, users opinion might not matter in this case, but community is the only place to get help, help others and share our opinions. So, its easy for PM to quickly lose its reputation when members find out something undesired all of the sudden. And none of us want that to happen ? 

[TheOldVR]

Great idea... but what would a "Less for less" poll look like?

Half questions in turn for half responses that could only be responded too if you had a particular unique half a browser?

"Less for less"....

Ok, I'm done now. On to lesser things....

[srlawren]

@NDesai while I think this is a great idea, I don't see it happening.  For example, had PM polled the community on some recent moves, the overwhelming feedback would have beee negative and "dont' do it".  However, I don't think they have the luxury of taking that kind of feedback when setting direction.  I suspect this is coming from Telus and is not considered optional.

[TheOldVR]

@srlawren.... I think you are right... the problem is that when you ask for feedback, it becomes pretty insulting if it is completely ignored.

PM is facing this now with no real way of addressing the concerns regarding all of their recent changes - so it's pretty much dead air as a response.

This is similar to the dead air received when service has slowed down during the last promos. They get the work done but stay away from the negative feedback with the hope that it will vanish on it's own.

I'm going to try and stop posting about the #LessForMore campaign now as it's taking away from the community with everyone focussing on #LessForMore vs. our normal focus on helping others.