Re: Result for vote regarding new members for the board of directors

>>>>> In article <20030223111503(dot)GC14177(at)wiggy(dot)net>, Wichert Akkerman
>>>>> <wichert(at)wiggy(dot)net> writes:

> Previously Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> Why is that undesired in Debian? Indeed, since you cannot force
>> anyone in Debisan to stop discussing anything anyway, how is the
>> reject this proposition any different whatsoever than further
>> discussion?

> This is not Debian; I'm not really interested in how relevant this
> might be to Debian.

Cute. You cut away the context that shows that this is indeed
about debian voting. Let us see what the exchange was, really, with
context:

>>>>> Previously Anthony Towns wrote:
>>>>>> A.6 Vote Counting
>>>>>> 1. Each voter's ballot ranks the options being voted on. Not all
>>>>>> options need be ranked. Ranked options are considered
>>>>>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>>>> preferred to all unranked options. Voters may rank options
>>>>>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>>>> equally. Unranked options are considered to be ranked equally
>>>>>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>>>> with one another. Details of how ballots may be filled out
>>>>>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>>>> will be included in the Call For Votes.

>>>> In article <20030222215239(dot)GC25781(at)wiggy(dot)net>, Wichert Akkerman
>>>> <wichert(at)wiggy(dot)net> writes:

>>>>> Sounds like you are trying to introduce the concept of
>>>>> 'everyone else equally' into Condorcet, which feels a bit
>>>>> awkward. If you start doing that you might also want to
>>>>> consider adding an 'anyone but X' option.

>>> Previously Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>>>> Debian already has this; rank the one person unacceptable to you
>>>> below the default option, rank everyone else equally above the
>>>> default option.

>>> Yes, the default option it the trick Debian uses to accomplish
>>> that. However it can also cause an election result that is
>>> undesired: the 'further discussion' outcome.

>> Why is that undesired in Debian? Indeed, since you cannot force
>> anyone in Debisan to stop discussing anything anyway, how is the
>> reject this proposition any different whatsoever than further
>> discussion?

> This is not Debian; I'm not really interested in how relevant this
> might be to Debian.

Heh. After 6 email exchanges where we are talking about the
Debian draft, you suddenly want to say this conversation was not
about Debian's voting system?

manoj
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