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LinkPizza posted...

The poll is a horrible place to find out site usage. As others have said, I believe there is an actual place to go and get the real number of users. There are probably some people/without accounts, that can vote. Maybe some people don't even use the site daily, but vote in the poll daily. And, like Far-Queue said, some people only vote in the poll when reminded. I actually forget about it most days. And there are probably many that don't vote at all. Since you're assuming already, the rest of us can, as well. And I assuming that a good chunk of people probably don't vote. And there are probably a good chunk or people who forget to vote more days than not. Which would make a lot of sense... Meaning that there are probably way more people on a daily basis than you think/ Not to mentioned, some people probably google something about a game and get brought to this site onto a game board, thereby bypassing the poll altogether. They may become a daily user of that board, but never see the poll or the day...

Voting in the poll is still site use. I'm looking to count even the bare minimum of site use. Dedicated users as well as casual users.

And yeah, there's certainly people who don't vote. But like I said earlier...

FrothySolutions posted...

We could say "For every X amount of people who vote in the poll, there are Y amount of people who don't." Zero votes in the poll doesn't mean exactly zero people using the site, but it's a good metric for overall site usage.

The poll results don't speak for every single site user, but it's like any other sample sized based metric. If 9 out of 10 dentists recommend a toothpaste, it's fairly accurate to say 90 out of 100 dentists recommend the toothpaste.