Mike,
--- MIKE OSSIPOFF <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a �crit :
> What you need, then, is something quite different from WDSC. You need to
> define the No Silliness Criterion. Go for it. In the meantime, though, I'll
> settle for methods that don't require those voters to reverse a preference.
I don't need to define a criterion to explain why I don't like another
criterion.
> If I could make a suggestion for your No Sillliness Criterion, you might
> consider SDSC. It requires that that majority additionally not need to vote
> equal two candidates that they don't prefer equally. As I define "vote
> equally", it applies only to candidates whom that voter votes over someone.
I'm surprised you don't know that I like SDSC. Only I use Steve Eppley's
votes-only wording under the name "Minimal Defense" since he has offered
such a wording.
Why do I want a votes-only wording of this? Because it's very easy to use.
Votes-only Minimal Defense says certain candidates can't win given some
situation. I can program this into a computer. But I can't easily program a
computer to search for how a majority "needs to vote."
> I'd said:
>
> >Now, maybe you'd like to hypothesize a method with which, under certain
> >conditions, the _only_ way that that majority can keep some Y from winning
> >would be for them to alternately vote "=" and ">", or to use ">" and "=" to
> >spell out "WDSC" in Morse code. Silly? Sure. Would that be a silly method?
> >Of course. Would that mean that the guarantee that those voters don't have
> >to reverse a preference in order to make someone lose is not a meaningful
> >or reasonable guarantee. No.
>
> You say:
>
> I don't agree with you.
>
> I reply:
>
> Ok, then you must be saying that guaranteeing that those voters won't need
> to reverse a preference isn't a meaningful or reasonable guarantee.
"The majority might need to vote in morse code" is not a very meaningful
guarantee.
> But you have a right to want more, and to write a criterion that requires
> more, and to tell us which methods meet it and which don't. Or would you
> rather just complain because I haven't written your criterion that you want?
I was just commenting. Please don't feel that I'm urging you to do anything.
Kevin Venzke
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