Not everyone is going to OSRS gold make sound decisions while voting, or create the"right" choice. If literally everyone left the most informed, most goal voting options. The United States wouldn't have the president it does. Real world example of voting, nothing more. Our voting system isn't perfect, but its all we have to make sure we don't end up with the garbage that got pushed RS3 players down. Our throats. There are definitely improves that may be made that don't endanger it though (which are not being done or attempted).

What ruin and will kill this game and its integrity is the system's disregard that jagex is trying to push as evident with this poll and has been performing. Then they would not have unclear and confusing wording in polls if jagex appeared as much as they say that they do about it. Its a thing. You'd think it'd get something or proof read. Not even bare minimum effort. To the contrary, the polling system works to actual life democracy.

I'm certainly not advocating to dismiss or abolish the polling system and it is a tool in holding the devs. On the flip side, the current polling system does not function and requires flexibility or improvements to meet the requirements of the participant base. When 99 percent of content is left to the neighborhood to pick, I can not agree with the exaggeration in your post about the disregard of items. It's important to be aware that the events when Jagex have believed they needed to diverge from the result that is polled, it was because they felt compelled to by the difficulties with the voting system.

The VLS addition is a obvious and current example of the: Jagex poll minor PvP changes/updates which don't pass and don't believe the community are evaluating the content on objective merit. This implies Jagex either accept that PvP buffs/content won't ever pass surveys or perform them. Polls either need to become a) pitched to people who knowingly engage in or understand that the relevant content, b) taken as strong advisement and not gospel, c) lower threshold, or d) just earn more integrity changes.

While occasionally a developer has missed something important and players may assist thembecause it is the players that actually play Runescape--that the player base often makes quite dumb decisions because they do not really spend much time considering what a change could do, they do not have some development experience, and they are often very self-interested. In the instance of all OSRS, the gamers have completely vetoed bad ideas multiple times before, however they have also vetoed great thoughts, and also the absolute dumbest ideas generally aren't the items that get polled, they're the things that have suggested and buy runescape 3 gold upvoted right on the subreddit.