[EM] Poll Topic Nominations

[Bart Ingles]

Foods in general (say, restaurant meals) might be better than just pizza
toppings.  That way you can have a few similar candidates (similar
toppings), along with a few "radicals" (e.g. sashimi).  

Bart



Richard Moore wrote:
> 
> 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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