[EM] Poll Topic Nominations

[Richard Moore]

I like the suggestion of TV shows. Movies is good too, except that a voter
who hasn't seen all the candidate movies would have to make a lot of theatre
trips, or rent a bunch of tapes or DVDs, before he could cast an informed
vote.

But the problem with TV shows is that would tend to limit participation
to voters from a single country, since a lot of U.S. TV shows may not be
available to foreign viewers. Movies would be certainly allow more
international participation.

 -- Richard


MIKE OSSIPOFF wrote:

> I suggest that Don's decree for a poll on Presidential candidates of
> 2000 should be taken as a nomination for the demonstration poll's topic.
>
> Also, I'd like to suggest a few more. As much as I like the pizza topping
> and ice cream flavor nominations, there's no pizza topping or ice cream
> flavor that I don't like. There's no "greater evil".
>
> But there are some really abominable TV shows & movies. And so I'd
> like to add 2 more nominations: TV shows, and movies.
>
> That makes 8 nominations so far:
>
> A. Months
> B. List Conduct Petition
> C. Voting Systems
> D. Pizza Toppings
> E. Ice Cream Flavors
> F. TV shows
> G. Movies
> H. Presidential Candidates of 2000.
>
> Recent discussion brings out the desirability of doing a poll on
> voting systems. I wouldn't know how to vote on months.
>
> One thing--I've nominated a lot of topics. In Approval, if people
> use an estimated 0-info strategy, that typically would mean voting
> for more alternatives when the number of alternatives is increased,
> meaning that there could be a chance that I've made there be an unfairly
> large chance that one of my alternatives will win an Approval count.
> Voting an Approval balloting, then, you might want to compensate for
> that by not voting for a lot of my nominations.
>
> Anyway, should we say that as soon as there've been no nominations for
> 24 hours, the nominations will be closed, and that it would then be
> time to vote on the demonstration poll topic? Or should it be 48 hours?
>
> By the way, I actually did once conduct a vote on movies. I was in
> a group of 4 people who intended to go to a movie. We got a newspaper,
> and some people mentioned a movie, and I write a short list including
> those and a few other interesting ones. We voted by PC, with the idea
> that Smith//PC would have been too time consuming (SSD & BeatpathWinner
> weren't yet known to EM members at that time). Actually, Smith//PC
> probably wouldn't have taken too long.
>
> 3 of the 4 voters had as their 1st choice _A Man & a Woman_, a movie
> depicting how alcoholism affects a marriage. Sounds pretty dull.
> Someone noticed that that movie was my last choice, and said that
> since my 2nd choice was _The Mask_, and that was also nearly everyone's
> 2nd choice, that would be the right compromise. I said, "No, I insist
> on majority rule".  We went to _A Man & a Woman_, and it was
> _boring_!
>
> Mike Ossipoff
>
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