Xander ,'Get It Done'
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Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
What I keep hearing is--but people will get upset because they aren't getting what they want. But that happens already.
This system isn't the same as a run off because the deciding factor are the votes from the losing choice, but I think this is faster and easier than having a vote, and then a run off.
we've got two questions proposed on this next ballot that lend themselves to multiple options. That's all I've proposed. Let's do it for this next ballot.
Heartly seconded.
I'd like to see it happen just the once, even if just as an example.
/me notes x-posty use of "grain" metaphors in ita's post and mine...
I liked your table John.
What I keep hearing is--but people will get upset because they aren't getting what they want.
This isn't about giving people what they want. It's about giving people what they NEED!!!
And I recommend that we never ever say "majority" again, because there's been so much confusion.
I think we should use the terms "fifty per cent plus one" and "most votes" from now on.
I liked your table John.
But you were the one I thought was insulted! Cool.
No, I wasn't sure until I saw your table that I did get it right.
I'm sitting here amazed that I'm able to follow all this math stuff anyway, normally math in sentences confuses me to no end, but I'm understanding all of this. It's cool.
I think part of my gut-level desire to just have Most Votes Wins, Dammit is a desire not to get caught up in, er, bureaucracy. You know? It just seems like overkill, and I say that as someone who strongly supports the idea of voting in the first place as a way to set down rules rather than trying to get consensus.
It's just... I mean, we're not the Founding Parents here, you know? We're just trying to set up a simple system to deal with procedural issues.
(It's also probably partly that, being American and not from one of those fancy-pants academic towns with funky systems, my default assumption is Most Votes Takes All. So I think of that as the way that's fair, even if it's not optimal.)
Oh, and also? If none of you would've thought of this if I hadn't brought it up, I'm really, really sorry.
If none of you would've thought of this if I hadn't brought it up, I'm really, really sorry.
Aha!
points kravvy finger