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Re:UTorrent For Linux Is Coming, Finally by pilif on Thursday June 03, 2010 @03:47AM (#1400757)
These 3254 people voting for the Linux client might encompass the whole of the future user base of the client.

Linux users traditionally have been more involved in a community, so it's entirely conceivable that next to 100% of potential uTorrent Linux users have taken the opportunity to vote whereas only a fraction of a percent of utorrent's total user base voted for the second highest rated feature.

I would probably not use a poll like this to direct the future planning of my product.

Re:UTorrent For Linux Is Coming, Finally by dice on Thursday June 03, 2010 @03:53AM (#1400766)
I use Linux as my primary OS, I would use uTorrent if it were available for Linux, and I did not vote in this poll.

That said, though, you're probably right. Internet polls are easily manipulated by e.g. social news sites with dedicated target audiences.

Re:UTorrent For Linux Is Coming, Finally by india on Thursday June 03, 2010 @05:20AM (#1400840)
In that case, it is already pretty remarkable that 3254 from a group of people who currently can't even use your product want it to be developed for them. If that happened to a product I were making, I sure as hell would begin targeting that platform.
Re:UTorrent For Linux Is Coming, Finally by grignr on Thursday June 03, 2010 @04:09PM (#1402380)
It's 1300 people, not 3254 people. The way the idea bank works is that when you make a new account you get 10 votes, and can allocate up to three of them per idea, which is what happened here.