On 2021-04-20 18:12, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote:
Bernd, sometimes the devil is in the details, and that's certainly the case with voting systems.Why should I rank options if there is only a limited number of options I care about, and the others are just equally bad choices imho?I feel like we're sort of belaboring a point. If someone voted 1------- does it really seem plausible that they actually thought Option 2 was exactly as bad as Option 5? So if Option 1 were removed from the table, and they personally would pick which remaining option would be chosen, they'd be just as happy with any of Options 2-8?
Basically my vote was like 12------- with 2 being FD, but 1----- would also have been fine for me, although I wanted to have FD higher than the other options in this case. So if 1 would have been removed, I'd most likely have voted 2------, with ------- also being an option Which is also even in democratic/political voting systems something you can express with your vote (at least in Germany). I did not want to spend time on figuring out if voting ------- in our voting system is the same as not voting at all, but in political votes it actually makes a difference. Also I think voting "I don't care about the outcome, all is fine for me" is better than not voting at all, even in Debian. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de http://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F