Thread:LOTRMod/@comment-25859803-20150213005046/@comment-25101089-20150213192351

It's not that I'm not interested about it.

Imagine that you own a zoo. This is a very nice zoo, where all the animals are treated well, but it doesn't have a great many animals.

While people are wandering around your zoo they often speak to the staff who run it and let them know how they feel about the zoo. One of the most common opinions that guests express is that they'd like to see new animals at the zoo. Maybe someone thinks the zoo would be better if it had a zebra enclosure. Someone else wants a bird of paradise. Another person would like to see a tropical aquarium full of exotic fish. It might be that 50 out of every 100 guests at your zoo express this opinion.

Sometimes people ask you to bring in more of a certain type of animal that you already have. Or they might say they think the lion enclosure would look better with more trees. All popular opinions. Perhaps 25 of every 100 guests say something along these lines.

But sometimes, somebody makes a rather different suggestion. Perhaps someone thinks the paths around the zoo should be repainted, or you should build some amusement park rides in the zoo. Maybe only 1 or 2 out of every 100 guests will say something uncommon like this.

Now of course those guests' opinions are no less valid just because they're less commonly expressed. But the fact remains that by listening to the more popular suggestions first, you'll create a zoo that more people will enjoy more. Also, perhaps it would be quite quick and cheap to expand the lion enclosure or build a new enclosure, whereas it would be long and expensive to build more restaurants around the zoo, and why would your average guest care about that when there's a town full of great restaurants right outside your zoo gates? They're more excited about the possibility of seeing crocodiles at the zoo soon, and to be honest, so are you.