Re: [EM] Gaming the Vote
On 30 Jan 2012 23:51:56 -0800, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote: > > On 01/31/2012 01:48 AM, Ted Stern wrote: >> I've been thinking that one way to spread information about >> alternative voting systems might be to gamify one or more systems. > > [...] > >> Has anyone out there in the EM communities thought about this? > > I saw someone made a game out of gerrymandering. Did it work to raise > awareness of the problem of gerrymandering? I don't know, but its > results might give more information of whether doing something like > that with voting would work. One reason I thought that a voting game had promise was this article: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/12/ff_cowclicker/all/1 If a silly game about clicking a cow can gain a following, wouldn't something real have a chance? Ted -- araucaria dot araucana at gmail dot com Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
Re: [EM] Gaming the Vote
On 01/31/2012 01:48 AM, Ted Stern wrote: I've been thinking that one way to spread information about alternative voting systems might be to gamify one or more systems. [...] Has anyone out there in the EM communities thought about this? I saw someone made a game out of gerrymandering. Did it work to raise awareness of the problem of gerrymandering? I don't know, but its results might give more information of whether doing something like that with voting would work. Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
Re: [EM] Gaming the Vote
On 1/30/12 7:48 PM, Ted Stern wrote: I've been thinking that one way to spread information about alternative voting systems might be to gamify one or more systems. Wikipedia explains gamification better than I could: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamification wow, that says something because i would vote to delete that Wikipedia article. it's cheerleading or sales pitching. i can't learn a thing from it or from the "Funware" article. Basically, it's a form of crowd-sourcing where you give game-like points and rewards to get masses of people to engage in large social interactions. On Facebook, for example, one could set up a ranking site to enable users to do their own version of Oscar voting, political favorites, etc, and award prizes for things we might be interested in (like criteria satisfaction). A site like FB would also have the advantage of ID-checking to limit vote-stuffing. Has anyone out there in the EM communities thought about this? are you suggesting setting up experiments on FB where participants vote about stuff, and then apply different voting systems to it? -- r b-j r...@audioimagination.com "Imagination is more important than knowledge." Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
[EM] Gaming the Vote
I've been thinking that one way to spread information about alternative voting systems might be to gamify one or more systems. Wikipedia explains gamification better than I could: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamification Basically, it's a form of crowd-sourcing where you give game-like points and rewards to get masses of people to engage in large social interactions. On Facebook, for example, one could set up a ranking site to enable users to do their own version of Oscar voting, political favorites, etc, and award prizes for things we might be interested in (like criteria satisfaction). A site like FB would also have the advantage of ID-checking to limit vote-stuffing. Has anyone out there in the EM communities thought about this? Ted -- araucaria dot araucana at gmail dot com Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
