[Members] Metaproposals 3 and 4 - Council Candidate Limitations and Appointment Appeals
Dave Cridland
dave at cridland.net
Thu Oct 8 04:46:12 CDT 2009
On Thu Oct 8 10:40:48 2009, Nicolas Vérité wrote:
> Again, if we begin to apply too much rules, we could use the
> Condorcet
> method, but then we would have to recode memberbot. But... that
> maybe
> usefull and reusable for other communities online...
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method
>
> Or else, I remember having voted in the past through a web form.
> I'll
> search this software.
Condorcet is actually gamable, and leads to some very non-intuitive
results. It's better than first-past-the-post in some respects, but
not all, and it still succumbs to Arrow's Theorum.
Range voting, if you want to change mechanisms, by no longer being a
binary system, escapes Arrow.
Dave.
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