[EM] IRV variant

Jameson Quinn jameson.quinn at gmail.com
Tue Nov 8 10:18:46 PST 2011


2011/11/8 robert bristow-johnson <rbj at audioimagination.com>

> On 11/7/11 2:24 PM, MIKE OSSIPOFF wrote:
>
>> Robert:
>>
>> /I'd said:
>>
>> />/  I've watched someone vote in a rank-balloting presidential mock
>> />/  election. Though she
>> />/  prefers Nader's policies to those of the Democrats, she ranked all of
>> />/  the Democrats
>> />/  over Nader.
>>
>> /
>> You replied:
>>
>> it depends on how the ranked ballots are tabulated.
>>
>> [endquote]
>>
>> Quite.
>>
>>  ...
>
>> >/  Is there an FBC-complying method meets UP and SDSC and that does
>> />/  better by other criteria?
>> />/
>> />/  Is there an FBC-complying method that doesn't fail in the Approval
>> />/  bad-example?
>> />/
>> />/  ...and maybe that also meets at least 1CM and 3P.
>> />/
>>
>> /
>> too much alphabet soup going on here.
>>
>> [endquote]
>>
>>
>> We typically abbreviate the names of criteria, using the initial letters
>> of
>> some of the words of their names.
>>
>>
>>
> On 11/7/11 2:47 PM, Jameson Quinn wrote:
> > How about a new rule? We only get to abbreviate if there's an electowiki
> > article / redirect at the abbreviation name (preferably linked from the
> > abbreviation), or if we've fully spelled it out earlier in the same
> message.
>
> > I unilaterally promise to follow this rule. This might be annoying to
> have to
> > do sometimes but it would more than pay for itself if others followed
> suit.
>
>
> On 11/7/11 2:49 PM, Andy Jennings wrote:
>
>> I like it!  I'll follow it.
>>
>>
> how 'bout also refraining from ALL CAPS, the use of a really dumb text
> quoting protocol (is that what Hotmail does for you?) that makes it very
> difficult to read, and the assumption that one speaks for the group when
> they've been around for an entire month.
>

R B-J, I sympathize with what you're asking for here, but I think it would
make for healthier group dynamics if you contained your frustration in a
more civil tone.

Jameson
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