Keep in mind that only about 10% of the population of players ever registers for a forum account, and of that 10% only a small percentage actually post regularly. So anything that we do would be far from representative of the gaming community as a whole.
Obviously those who are here and participating on this thread like this idea, but you (plural) represent a small percentage of those who play Istaria, and thus anything we implement based on your (again, plural) thoughts here that would effect everyone would not be fair to those other 90% who simply want to play the game, not participate in the forums.
Please do not misread anything I've said here... You are a very valuable part of our gaming community. Without you we would have many more bugs that go unreported, not get nearly the suggestions we do, and not have your feedback when we need it. And we do need you. But we also have to keep in mind that you are only a small percentage of the player population as a whole.
And yes, there is the argument that we could advertise that a poll was happening and go participate in it, but that would only increase participating by a small percentage.
We don't want to do anything which forces players to participate in the forums simple to prevent their game from changing.