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In lugnet.cad.dev, Tim Courtney <tim@zacktron.com> writes:
> About these voting options, the votes for a more severe restriction should
> carry over to a less severe restriction if that particular restriction
> recieves the 2/3 majority votes. For example:
>
> 25% vote for removal from lugnet.*
> 50% vote for removal from lugnet.cad.*
> 25% vote not to remove JW's privileges at all
>
> Now this is an oversimplification of the case, but this is to prove a point
> and kill a headache on my part by making things a little mroe realistic :)
>
> The votes for lugnet.* would be counted as votes for lugnet.cad.* since
> cad.* is included under lugnet.* and lugnet.cad.* received more
> votes. This would push the votes for lugnet.cad.* to 75%, thus exceeding
> the 2/3 majority requirement.
That doesn't follow. The choices aren't mutually exclusive, are they? I
thought these were separate, independently voted-upon percentages. If so,
then they can't be combined mathematically as described above. Consider:
If you had
95% vote for removal from lugnet.*
98% vote for removal from lugnet.cad.*
2% vote not to remove JW's privileges at all
would you say that pushed the votes for lugnet.cad.* to 193%?
With sets and subsets, the only way they could be considered combinable is
via the 'maximum' function:
F(x,y) = x if x >= y
= y if x <= y
So if you had
55% vote for removal from lugnet.*
60% vote for removal from lugnet.cad.*
then the effect of the upper portion on the lower portion is zero. If you
had
60% vote for removal from lugnet.*
55% vote for removal from lugnet.cad.*
then the effect of the upper portion on the lower portion is to raise it an
additional 5% to 60% by proper subset inclusion.
--Todd
[followups to lugnet.admin.general]
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