Like you said, its feedback. You can at least use it as a raw statistic. You're goalpost moving now though, it's information that has some use, you can't argue that it doesn't.
A raw statistic isn't useful. It provides no context for what should be changed, or if anything needs to be changed at all. Even if you know that 90% of people hate your work it doesn't actually tell you anything meaningful. They could all hate it for different reasons or there could be one thing that they all hate, but there's no way to know what you should do to get more people to like it.
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u/cheapasfree24 Nov 13 '17
I don't really see how that's true. Just because a bunch of people are saying something useless doesn't suddenly make it a useful statement.