[EM] Backfiring burial benefits you.

[Michael Ossipoff]

Though I prefer Approval, the activists and organizations seem to prefer
rank-methods.

 And some overcompromisers, and some sets of mutually-inimical rival
parties, might vote better with rankings. That possible need for rankings
is due to voting errors.

Plus, I must admit that MMPO's weak CD, and burial deterrence (helping
against burial-defection in a chicken-dilemma situation) give it some
genuine advantage, making its comparison to Approval not so unfavorable.

Say the method is wv or MMPO:

I and others have been speaking of it as a problem, or at least
undesirable, if burial is attempted, even if it backfires. Well, the CWs's
voters wouldn't like that, because their candidate doesn't win. But that
isn't true for the non-burying wing.

Talking of a 1D spectrum, a middle CWs, and two "wing" factions of voters,
to hir sides:

Suppose that you're in the CWs-supporting wing, maybe the smaller of the
two wings. The opposite wing, the larger one, buries the CWs.

Maybe they do so because they're relatively indifferent between the CWs and
the opposite wing. Or  maybe they're taking a chance that the CWs's voters
won't plump.

Well, if their burial is thwarted and penalized by CWs voters plumping,
then the winner comes from your wing. Nothing wrong with that.

The only problem is that (if rank sinerely and if you aren't
majority-favored) you're counting on either 1) The CWs voters plumping; or
2) The opposite wing being deterred by the possibility of the plumping
counterstrategy and the consequent penalty.

Who would complain about penalized burial? Not you, if penalized burial by
the opposite wing hands the win to your wing. Not the buriers' wing,
because they're the ones who did it.

Only the CWs's faction would object. But, unless they're a majority,
there's no angry majority when the burying wing hands the victory to your
wing.

The only problem is that (if rank sinerely and if you aren't
majority-favored), then you're counting on either 1) The CWs voters
plumping; or 2) The opposite wing being deterred by the possibility of the
plumping counterstrategy and the consequent penalty.

But, in Bucklin, if you rank sincerely and aren't majority-favored, you're
counting on your wing not ranking past the CWs, and, in particular, you're
counting on the CWs voters plumping. The difference is that, with wv or
MMPO, that failure to plump is ok if the burial is deterred by the
possibility of the plumping.

Michael Ossipoff
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