I agree, we should have clearly stated such information in the thread, mistake learned.

It is hard for us to decide such thing because what can we do? Strip mods of their powers so they can post it and then give it back to them? That would not work since they need to monitor forum. Or let some newly created account post it? Everyone would think it is a troll or just random person not worth their time. Next time we let moderators post unofficial surveys/polls, we will make sure to clearly state that it is not official one. We apologize for the confusion and all the chaos this whole situation caused.

What you can do, is be honest from the beginning. If you stated in the thread "This may not have any impact in the decision making".

That's it, there wasn't any excuse not to say it.

Though, if that was posted, you may had probably got less responses than you did. I also want to point out this was posted in the NO Community server



Which really didn't help matters as players were lead to believe our feedback was going to influence this update..