On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 06:03:54PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > This is not a full draft. In this post, I'm only including > text for replacing A.6 of the constitution. I wanted to > also rewrite the changes to A.3, but I've got to run some > errands tonight and I'm not going to have time to write up > a full draft. It's just as well that we review the changes separately, IMO. I concur with all of Anthony's revisions from Message-ID: <[🔎] 20021113055101.GF26235@azure.humbug.org.au>, except that I would say "among" instead of "amongst"[1]. > Definition: An option F is in the beat path of option G if > option G defeats option F or if there is some other option > H where option H is in the beat path of G AND option F is in > the beat path of H. I'm not crazy about recursive definitions. Definition: An option F is in the beat path of option G if option G defeats option F, or if there is another option H which defeats G, AND option F defeats H. With this definition you can mentally "build up" a beat path, applying F, G, and H to different options as you iterate. Your definition does have the advantage of functioning better as pseudocode, though. :) I suggest this because, being American and thus unaccustomed to preferential voting mechanisms, I was unfamiliar with the concept of "beat path" when I was first exposed to it. > The more votes in favor of a defeated option, the weaker > the defeat. Where two pairs of options have the same number > of votes in favor of the defeated option, the fewer votes in > favor of the defeating option, the weaker the defeat. I find the second sentence awkward even if it is grammatical. I suggest: Where two pairs of options have the same number of votes in favor of the defeated option, the pair with fewer number of votes in favor of the defeating option is the weaker defeat. I have made these suggestions because I think it is important that people have a firm understanding of how the proposed new voting procedure works. We will require a lot of votes to successfully pass this GR, and while those who have taken the time to educate themselves on election methods seem unanimously convinced that this GR is a good idea, we need to able to rely on more than faith in authority figures to persuade the developers. [1] How small a nit can I pick? Only Ian Jackson knows for sure... -- G. Branden Robinson | I just wanted to see what it looked Debian GNU/Linux | like in a spotlight. branden@debian.org | -- Jim Morrison http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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