Hm, you mentioned in your
original answer reveal thread that only 22 people participated in the poll. On a forum with 400k+ members with there being around 1k+ members online at any moment (plus a few hundred unregistered guests), I don't feel this is in any way conclusive. Having a poll is never a bad thing especially if it's about some general questions, but I think you went too small scale here. A random forum thread with threads more active was never going to take off or attract enough viewers. There's two ways you could have gone about this if you wanted to case as wide a net as possible:
- Contact the moderators of Smogon's webazine, The Flying Press, and if they approve do a even bigger poll not only asking these questions but a batch more. You'd be working with other members, notably editors, so shouldn't be to hard to expand the scope.
- Instead of waiting for answers be more proactive and asked the Smogon Discord throughout the day for a few weeks.