Best article vote tally - WE HAVE TWO WINNERS!

Brad Anderson eco at gnuk.net
Thu Jun 9 14:27:14 PDT 2011


A lot of technical groups that do voting use the Schulze method <
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulze_method>.  Similar to IRV but
technically better.  I'm not sure how easy it is to do in practice.

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Kai Meyer <kai at unixlords.com> wrote:

> On 06/09/2011 01:21 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:02:08 -0400, Walter Bright
>> <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
>>
>>  On 6/9/2011 11:03 AM, Robert Clipsham wrote:
>>>
>>>> So there is going to be a next one?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, maybe in 6 months or so. I'm very happy with how this one turned
>>> out.
>>>
>>> But next time we need to devise a tie-breaking rule. Any suggestions?
>>> A runoff?
>>>
>>
>> We're all developers here, I think people might be open to an instant
>> runoff:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting
>>
>> Essentially, you rank the articles 1 to x, and then the algorithm
>> figures out the winner. It's still possible to have a tie, but unlikely.
>>
>> I think for the next time, someone should write a newsgroup-to-vote
>> program that automatically counts the votes (must be in D of course!)
>>
>>  BTW, there's nothing in the rules preventing an author from tooting
>>> his own horn and doing a bit of marketing of their article(s) for votes!
>>>
>>
>> We're developers, not politicians :) If you allow this, then we'll have
>> to start creating youtube ads showing the other articles' past records
>> of infidelity and such, and it just turns ugly.
>>
>> -Steve
>>
>
> I second the vote for IRV.
>
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