[EM] Express any wish for democratic choice of poll-parameters. Do-able if desired.

[Kristofer Munsterhjelm]

On 2024-04-09 01:58, Michael Ossipoff wrote:
> When proposing this poll, I assumed that people would prefer the 
> simplest & least elaborate poll-proposal.
> 
> I wasn’t trying to be autocratic or favor my favorites when I suggested 
> Schulze & Approval as the polling-methods. Schulze isn’t my favorite 
> Condorcet anyway, but it’s popular.

I don't have any particular opinion, as long as the method is Condorcet 
and doesn't fail too many criteria. I think it's likely that the 
cloneproof defeat-droppers will all give the same result. There might 
even be a CW, which would solve the problem outright.

I proposed Ext-Minmax more to reduce the chance of ties, since Schulze 
has a higher tie rate than other methods and RP breaks ties in a 
somewhat opaque manner. But again: the EM posts are public so anyone can 
run whatever voting method they'd like on the ranked ballots and report 
their results. If ties end up being a real problem, we can deal with it 
later.

I'm not an Approvalist myself, but having an Approval ballot be part of 
the poll doesn't bother me either. In any case, I don't think it's 
necessary to complicate matters by having a vote about what voting 
method to use, or by inventing a meta-voting method.

In short, let's keep it simple!

-km