I agree with Brandon insofar as the modular community consists
largely of feature-junkies who mostly don't consider the cost factor
or business sense when requesting another bell and/or whistle.

I feel that Dieter is quite gracious in encouraging user input in the
form of polls, which give us all a bit of a say on the final product.
I mean, he's suffered our endless suggestions on, begging for, and
bickering about certain features... and still asked for more.

On the other hand, and I know I've said this before, it's my opinion
that too many simultaneous polls about a particular module (or set of
features) makes the ouput of the polls less meaningful. My
suggestion is to limit the number of polls to one or two until said
polls are closed. Then, if another poll is required for the same
module(s), refine the questions based on the measured output of the
closed polls. Maybe by limiting the number of active polls, more
would participate.

Regards,
Kevin

--- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com , Brandon Daniel <bdu@f...> wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, unknown freak wrote:
>
> > Do you think, in other words, we're wrecking our own credibility
>
> Not necessarily, but modular users in general tend to consider
money and
> time to be low priorities, and have never seen a feature they
wouldn't
> like. This is especially true of modular users who would take the
time to
> answer an internet poll about modular features. This will give
results
> that may or may not be representative of your userbase as a whole,
and
> most certainly is not going to result in maximizing product sales.
Since,
> from a business perspective, time and money ARE important
considerations,
> at some point Dieter needs to just stop listening to us modular
nuts and
> release a module in it's currently functional state.
>
> -Brandon