I like how a lot of people are still trying to give reasonable arguments for why unvalidated voters are a problem. You guys are all giving these arguments as if the team is going to entirely base their release on how the poll is going to end up. I'm pretty sure that they already know what they want to do and just want to see the opinion of what everyone thinks of it. I also don't see how being an unvalidated member or validated member makes a difference on whether your vote is a quality vote or not. What is your definition of a quality voter, exactly? Someone who votes and doesn't have a blue name? I'm pretty sure the color of your name in a poll isn't going to make you a quality voter. A quality voter should be someone who not only votes in a poll, but also gives a reasonable explanation for why they voted for x option, which both unvalidated and validated members have done.
Whether or not they're new, old, unvalidated, or validated, the masses are going to come out of the woodwork and vote on a poll like this. If you look at other polls outside of this website, a lot of them have votes from the unknown masses.
As for what Grega said, you people should really stop comparing the Open Beta's feedback to the feedback that Phase 1 would get if it were to be released. I don't know why you guys think that Phase 1 would be incomplete and unstable like the Open Beta's have been, but I can almost guarantee that it won't happen.
And I ******* love you Raven, lmao.
Edit: This is related to my first point: Why should a Force Pit member have more say than someone else? Most of the recent Force Pit members (who happen to really be the only ones who are active on these forums) are mostly people who stopped playing this game long ago and just decided to stick with the community. A lot of ESF veterans either aren't Force Pit members or part of the community. If anything, the veterans should have more say than anyone else, including Force Pit members.