This logic is exactly "Popular = Likely."
"Three People Want Isaac --> Isaac is One of the Twenty Likeliest Characters for DLC"
That is exactly what you just said, and that is exactly "Popular = Likely" mentality. You even wrote out the equation.
Edit: By insisting that people consider a character "Likely" because of their popularity, you are practicing "Popular = Likely" mentality. By claiming a person's attempted objectivism is false because an overwhelming majority wants a character that wasn't included in their predictions you are practicing "Popular = Likely" mentality.
No, it wasn't. You're presuming that I continued with the chain of thought connecting from when I spoke about three+ requests equaling popularity. But that was it's own isolated thought just as one possibly being bias and two possibly being a coincidence were. I didn't say "with that popularity" or something along those lines afterwards, I said "but there comes a point" meaning "but regardless of or despite those three situations (bias, coincidence, and popularity) there comes a point where ignoring it may indicate bias". Next you presume that suggestion is synonymous with popularity. That's not true. Did you see the number of people who included Miis on their rosters that really didn't want them there? Do you think all the people who have suggested Isaac do so simply because he is their most wanted character? I don't think Isaac is @
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's most wanted character, but suggestion is not limited to the confines of popularity. I suggested BluePikmin add Bandana Dee and K. Rool over some of the choices he had previously, and I don't want either of those two, nor did I suggest either of them due to popularity.
My point was casting popularity aside, casting bias and coincidence aside by only listening when the suggestions start piling up, more than that of other characters. The characters you listed are indeed popular, but look, none of them are seriously suggested very often, minus Ridley (whose at least at the beginning of Smash 4 speculation did have great cause for the volume of suggestion). They weren't the characters suggested by the majority (again excluding Ridley), they were the characters suggested here and there by fanboys, in certain situations, or on wishlists. Like "if there was another SF character, I'd suggest Krystal", not that people actually did suggest Krystal with any regularity, even if she did have popularity. Maybe on Miiverse they did, maybe on Youtube, but here suggestions by and large were made with more than bias to support them. Yet you implied that they aren't.
Next, I didn't even say that being suggested over and over again meant they were a likely pick, just that ignoring those suggestions could very well mean bias. Which is true!
And then I said, "that said", meaning my point was to relate to the next point I was going to make, which was talking about Isaac. It wasn't talking about Ridley or Ashley or Goroh or whoever, it was relating specifically to Isaac. I was applying what I had just said to Isaac's case, none other. And in Isaac's case, the constant suggestions are not made up solely of staunch Isaac supporters who will mix their desires with their objectivism, most people know that Isaac is indeed at least in the top 20 most likely DLC characters, and it isn't simply due to him being a popular pick. Popularity itself obviously doesn't translate directly to likelihood. My point was not that, "if people ask for a character enough, that makes them likely and ignoring it is clear bias; Isaac is likely because people ask for him", it was "bias, coincidence, and popularity are one thing, but if a character like Isaac gets suggested over and over (by the people here, on this site, in this neutral thread - something I didn't specify but also didn't think I needed to) continuing to omit him may very well be a sign of bias".
By your interpretation of what I said, bias and coincidence should also affect likelihood. Those first three points were tangential to my main argument and deliberate examples of things that can be ultimately brushed off, not stuff that counts more than anything else, which is what you seem to think I said.
Popularity can result in suggestion, but suggestion is not made up solely of popularity or pure subjective desire, especially on this site outside of individual character threads or popularity polls.
a bit. Not bashing
