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cascading vote choices (was: Re: i admit i was wrong)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Tue, 17 Aug 1999 23:09:24 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, "John VanZwieten" <john_vanzwieten@msn.com> writes:
> I think Tim was envisioning a single multiple-choice vote, i.e. pick a) do
> nothing, b) remove from lugnet.cad*, c) remove from lugnet.*. In that case,
> those votes for "c" could also be considered votes for "b".
I don't think that follows. It certainly wasn't specified in the CFV that
the votes would be interpreted in a cascading way. Note that (a) says "All
lugnet.* groups," it doesn't say, "As many lugnet.* groups as possible," and
it doesn't say that a vote for (a) implies a vote for (b) as well.
What do you do about someone who expected they were casting a vote in favor
of all or nothing? (That is, only a complete ban and not a partial ban.)
The only way that (a) can cascade into (b) without subjective interpretation
is if (a) comes out to be 2/3 or greater and renders (b) moot, right?
> If 60% say remove
> from lugnet.*, and 10% say remove from lugnet.cad.*, then you have a 70%
> super-majority for removing from lugnet.cad.*.
That's one possible interpretation.
Another interpretation -- the literalist interpretation, which is how I
would definitely interpret it -- is that 60% want either complete removal or
no removal at all. That was the question as literally written.
As Larry pointed out,
http://www.lugnet.com/cad/dev/?n=2672
it would be "more straightforward to present a series of up/down
propositions and commentary that the broader ones will supercede the
narrower ones if passed."
At this point, if people are considering a and b to be mutually exclusive,
I just hope it turns out either that a>2/3 or that a+b<2/3.
--Todd
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| (...) I think Tim was envisioning a single multiple-choice vote, i.e. pick a) do nothing, b) remove from lugnet.cad*, c) remove from lugnet.*. In that case, those votes for "c" could also be considered votes for "b". If 60% say remove from lugnet.*, (...) (25 years ago, 17-Aug-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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