Some people don't want a say.

Some people won't join if they have to do the poll.

Some people don't think they're in a position to choose on some of the issues.

[...] Yes you can when they are not educated enough to form a well reasoned opinion. If I went out and took a pool of 1000 random people on whether global warming was happening and whether nuclear power was a good idea, I'm sure you'd find a fairly sizeable chunk of people who didn't "believe" in global warming, and thought that nuclear power is a bad idea because "look at japan and chernobyl", entirely ignoring literally piles of evidence proving global warming and the fact that Chernobyl was a one off accident due to people not following safety procedure, and that orders of magnitude more enviromental damage has been done by burning oil refineries in Japan, than is remotely likely to be caused by Fukushima at this point.

you can not ignore the opinions of 50% of the user-base

I'm an idiot

[...] My opinion on unlocks or how they work has nothing to do with this thread, you can not ignore the opinions of 50% of the user-base to manipulate a poll to get your desired result edit since a poll (and result if followed) will never satisfy 50% of the community let's have two leagues one with vanilla rules, and one that is fun to play and keeps the game interesting by introducing new ways and means to solve problems... oh wait

[...] I hear this being said a lot, but in my own experience, more pub players are turning to comp because they are sick of dealing with the increasing number of ridiculous unlocks.

[...] who???? And if that was the case, a vote with no weighting would yield a result of V+M, as all the div 6 shit-nerds would vote for no unlocks

[...] As I suggested first make an announcement so people could actually apply for it. I can not really thing about the way how to promote new persons to be "popular" since there are basically only 2 sides, and some people already has an image of themselves. Also the lack of players that are interested in participation of picking representatives might make votes useless, so the only way I would see it is that one of current admins would pick out the best from volunteers. This should actually lead to bigger interest from both heavy vanilla lovers and haters, and if it won't happen, then means one of those sides are not that interested as other and well that means they care less about the legue and changes. Just a quick idea that needs to be improved.

I don't think

J [...] Any ideas who should be a representative and how they should be picked? Will add that to my first post then.

who???? And if that was the case, a vote with no weighting would yield a result of V+M, as all the div 6 shit-nerds would vote for no unlocks