Le lundi 05 avril 2021 à 14:07:13+0200, Marc Haber a écrit : > 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 It's probably because I'm a mathematician, but I really enjoy our voting system, despite it also having flaws. -- Pierre-Elliott Bécue GPG: 9AE0 4D98 6400 E3B6 7528 F493 0D44 2664 1949 74E2 It's far easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
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