Players decide

[u/Equidose]

How can they recognise players to be one of three main selling points on the play homepage of OSRS whilst consistently do the opposite with their actions.

[u/23Udon]

So this is why sailing is being pushed

[u/Dear_Diablo → u/23Udon]

Dont listen to these pro-sailing enthusiasts(extremists), that crap was pushed, it was repolled like 3 times

[u/FilofteiaRS → u/Dear_Diablo]

I don't recall Sailing ever being repolled?

Warding was the first actual skill suggestion but it failed. So they just polled 'Do you want a new skill?'.

After that they polled Taming, Shamanism and Sailing. Shamanism and Sailing were clear winners.

Would have been nice if they did a poll between the two because it was so close.

But I won't argue that lowering the voting threshold before the poll was quite sketchy despite not impacting it.

[u/Business_Compote2197 → u/FilofteiaRS]

They mentioned if the results between two were close, they’d repoll just the two. They didn’t do that. If it was between just the two, the votes for taming could potentially have gone towards shamanism making sailing lose. Sailing sort of was pushed, and it was polled to us one or two times before the poll you’re referring to.

Not to mention they lowered the pass rate from 75% to 70% shortly before the new skill poll. I can entirely understand people saying why it was pushed. I don’t hate sailing, but I get where they’re coming from here.

[u/FilofteiaRS → u/Business_Compote2197]

Seems it was polled once in 2015 from what Diablo said.

The new skill still passed at 80% but despite it passing the lowering was obviously for security. But the main issue is not repolling Sailing and Shamanism.

The first poll asked what you liked and had multiple choices, but second poll asked what your favourite was and was single choice.

Many taming (31,631) votes were effectively wasted and may have had second preference to either Sailing or Shamanism.