Would you be willing to set up a little online voting system (or do you know of one) so we can implement this?
Assume there'll be < 10 candidates. -- Don sylvan: > 2008/12/21 Paul Johnson <[1]p...@cogito.org.uk> > > This suggests that the current effort to find a new logo for Haskell > needs to go back to the basics. Its no good expecting consensus on one > of the suggestions because there are too many options and everyone has > their favourite. Nothing will attract a majority of the community. > > I agree with this, which I why I would propose using Condorcet-voting. > Personally I find the current logo horrendous. I think it's ugly and > intimidating at the same time. I don't really care too much which one of > the proposals should win, just so long as I can weed out some of the ones > I really hate. > Condorcet voting will pick a good compromise, where someone like me could > just put all the acceptable ones at shared #1, and all the ones I dislike > at #2., and someone with stronger opinions could flesh it out some more. > The point being that the "least disliked" logo wins out. Maybe nobody will > be happy, but hopefully most people won't be deeply unhappy with it. > It would be a shame if there's lots of votes that are spread out over a > large group of fairly similar logos that are good, and then a crappy one > wins out with 6% of the vote because there weren't any others like it so > the votes for that "style" weren't spread out over multiple entries. > Wikipedia: > [2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_voting > > -- > Sebastian Sylvan > +44(0)7857-300802 > UIN: 44640862 > > References > > Visible links > 1. mailto:p...@cogito.org.uk > 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_voting > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe