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These polls have an insane selection bias though.

Sure, but isn't it in the other direction? The users are most affected by the change are those using third-party apps, but you can't vote in polls in third-party apps.

what's your point? the users who care are the users who post the stuff that the others come to see. yeah the majority are lurkers, but they actually like the high quality content or they wouldn't be there. without the power users there's no site.

So you're saying... the participants in the polls were the people who write and manage the content?