Re: What does FD Mean
On Mon, Apr 05, 2021 at 12:15:25PM +0100, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote:
> Making a system more complicated to try and address a specific
> deficiency rarely reduces its attack surface. In this case, our voting
> system involves multiple levels (quorum, majority, ranking resolution)
> each with its own criteria and threshold and (due to Arrow's Theorem)
> unavoidable flaws, and every feature of this sort increases the
> system's attack surface to both strategic voting and to just plain
> doing the wrong thing given honest votes. Moving FD around in the
> ordering is an example of this, as is a quorum boycott.
I have been a DD for nearly 20 years and I have not yet understood how
we vote. Before I joined Debian, I thought that the way Germany votes
for the Bundestag is a complex method.
Greetings
Marc
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