How true, how true...

[Lissa]

One more thing, then I'm out of this post:

When something goes wrong, some people will complain.
When something doesn't, most people won't generally speak up.

So even if the forums were deluged with tons of people complaining, you can hardly call that a majority because you don't know how many people are NOT complaining or have no complaint. There also exists no evidence that a majority of people had an easy time.

Just because our little subsection of people had issues (also not a majority of us) doesn't mean there was a problem at large either.

Generalizations piss me off.

Mio, while you're right about people not speaking up, but that extends to both complaints and when people are satisfied. Over the weeks leading up to 1.11, there were a fair number of Avarice folks reporting that they were seeing "you are behind a firewall" when they had never seen that before. There is already a given issue that a number of people had, but this was new and increased the number of people that are having issue with the downloader.

When getting a feel for what a populous may be afflicted by the interviewers never grab the whole that is effected, they look at a significant percentage of the group and go from there. Take a look at how Polling is done some times. You'll notice that when something is Polled, they take a representative percentage and go from there. The same theory is used here.