IMHO, if we don't let people vote -1, how are devs supposed to raise legitimate concerns about an option? If someone votes -1, they should explain why - and hopefully devs are only doing this when they have real concerns, not just to push their favorite choice. If you have a solid reason to oppose something, just vote -1. If you don't care about another option either way, then don't vote on it.
I agree with what Jerek said. *it's not "who wins" but "which option wins". I don't absolutely care who* *"wins" here, but which option has the most support.* On Thu, Oct 23, 2025 at 2:55 AM Daniel Standish via dev < [email protected]> wrote: > The DAG terminology vote I think has surfaced a problem with our multiple > choice voting procedure. > > If you allow people to vote for multiple options, they seem to tend to use > it in a manner to signify their ranked preference. However, this could > easily result in an option that doesn't have majority preference getting > the win. > > E.g. suppose 4 people vote for option A, and 5 people vote for option B +1 > but also +0.5 for A. Then option A will win even though people prefer > option B 5 to 4. > > This is a bad outcome. > > It gets even stranger if you allow negative votes. Then you end > essentially invalidating other peoples votes, unless *everyone* minuses all > of the options they don't favor. And even if everyone does that, then it's > hard to see how that gets to the outcome favored by most. > > With ranked choice voting, everyone votes for their most favored choice, > but they can also rank all the options. If their most favored option does > not win, then their vote goes to their second favored option, and so on. > > This is a better way to do this. > > I propose that when doing multiple choice votes, we do ranked choice, > instead of allowing people to just vote for multiple options with plus or > minus votes. >
