There has *always* been demands on the DE's to be transparent about drop rates and other hidden stats stuff, now that I think about it. I've seen it on the KOL forums, the GW forums, STO forums, and I'd bet you they'd be around on WoW forums too.

I think the main difference between a good and bad community is that in the good ones, there would actually be people who'd take the initiative to find out the stats themselves.