It's nothing more than fancy notes for my game. The problem would only come into play if I distribute it in any way.
But WotC can rest assured, I have no desire spending a day typing everything.
Since the comparison is with a public website (withsome future content behind a paywall), it just made me think he meant a public website for everyone to use.
Oh, I think that there is a basic misunderstanding here. I am not looking for a survey that WotC would use for providing products, I am just wondering how we as players of the game could figure out which setting is most popular among ourselves. I have no doubts that anything said here has a minimal impact on the people creating the game if any at all.
The actual answer I believe is none, followed by Forgotten Realms, followed by everything else. The books and games help FR as well as Greyhawk was less supported. You could do a poll to find out what the people on this forum think, but that would not indicate much.
Twitter is probably the best single place for a poll, but really you want aggregate data from as many sources as possible.
The wotc surveys are good because they get info as to the preferences of people with DnD "buy-in", including players that don't purchase much of anything, but twitter is better for some questions because wotc can get a poll retweeted by everyone involved in DnD in any way, and get a wide sample of people who play table top RPGs, computer RPGs, watch critical role, etc.
every poll I've ever seen on this topic has the same basic result, though. FR is most popular, Eberron is second, and then DL and DS scrap it out for 3rd and everyone else is somewhere under them. And sometimes there is a big jump between FR and Eberron, sometimes they are close, but the distance between Eberron and 3rd place is always a big jump.
And homebrew always wins when it is included.
Which is why a World Builder's Guide/Guide To The Multiverse is the best option, IMO. Every setting, more or less, has at least a few mechanical options that are key to that world. FR has its own book already, so give DL, Eberron, DS, Greyhawk, Mystara, Planescape, and Spelljammer, some amount of space in the book, with player and DM options. Include sidebars on how to use those options in other worlds, and advice on how to accomplish different things when world-building.
We do bones, motherf***ker!
But then you only get the results for people who use Twitter which isn't necessarily large subset of D&D players.
Basically you wouldnt want to make any important decision from using only Twitter.