For one, the only people who give a poop enough to vote are going to be the whiners who use the newsfeed, for the most part. The people who voted for the web side are probably like me, and don't really care, but wanted to vote for whatever the whiners were opposed to, just to spite them.
Above all of that, I'm reasonably sure that the votes -maybe- comprise such a small fraction of the populace, probably a fraction of one whole percent... that it doesn't mean jack crap anyways, not to mention the obvious vote jacking and compromised vote tallying. The poll is retarded and irrelevant. How big must their egos be to think that the newsfeed authors are the experts on the software, and that without the newsfeed users, the forums will not have anyone to teach them (or belittle them). How big must their egos be, to think that out of the entirety of the Autodesk user base, and forum user base, that the... what... 30-40 people who voted in favor of newsfeeds (assuming they were actually one vote per person...) are at all significant enough to be a blip on anyone's radar? Add to that the fact that any change is going to bring about people who want to complain for the sake of complaining and.... yea.