Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Referee] Recusal (attn H. Arbitor)

2019-05-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Sun, May 26, 2019 at 9:25 PM James Cook wrote: > I would be honoured, but would it be more appropriate to assign this > case to someone who hasn't already shown a preference for one outcome? > I invite whoever judges the case to refer to my arguments if they seem > helpful. Unless you have a

Re: DIS: [Draft] Refactoring IRV

2019-05-27 Thread Owen Jacobson
On May 25, 2019, at 5:24 PM, James Cook wrote: > Some bugs: > > * R955 specifies invalid options are eliminated before the process > starts; it's probably good to keep that. > > * The voting strength of each ballot should matter. > > * When determining whether an option has a majority, votes

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Referee] Recusal (attn H. Arbitor)

2019-05-27 Thread James Cook
> Hmm. I admit that I am not sure I follow this. But I think we are in > agreement about the ultimate outcome? Yes, I agree that you own no blots. I'm curious to see how H. Judge G. rules on your original CFJ reintroduced by Aris.

DIS: Weekend court

2019-05-27 Thread James Cook
> It's not related to time of week, it's related to case load. Day court > judges get most of the cases, weekend court judges get occasional cases > now and then. (This is all Arbitor's discretion, thus isn't precisely > defined, and is a system set up by the Arbitor rather than an inherent > part

Re: DIS: Score Voting

2019-05-27 Thread Owen Jacobson
I don’t find a computer simulation of something as subjective as satisfaction to be very convincing, even given the relative soundness of the paper itself. I’d be against score voting _specifically because_ it appears to encourage - and indeed work best with - strategic rather than honest

DIS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 8178-8179

2019-05-27 Thread Owen Jacobson
I vote as follows: On May 27, 2019, at 4:43 PM, Aris Merchant wrote: > IDAuthor(s) AITitle > --- > 8178 Trigon 3.0 n’t AGAINST. Or ain’tn’t, if you prefer. I don’t generally mind

DIS: Re: OFF: [Arbitor] Court Gazette

2019-05-27 Thread James Cook
A reminder that my CFJ "the Lost and Found department owns no more than 87 Coins." is still unassigned [0] [0] https://mailman.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-business/2019-May/040375.html

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Referee] Recusal (attn H. Arbitor)

2019-05-27 Thread ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk
On Mon, 2019-05-27 at 04:25 +, James Cook wrote: > I'm happy to try being on a court. How does weekend vs. day court > work? I have the most time on weekends, but if a case comes in on the > weekend I might end up dealing with it during the week depending on > circumstances. So really I don't