Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!maytag!vlsi!watale!tom From: tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: These stubborn group champions Message-ID: <3315@watale.waterloo.edu> Date: 10 Oct 89 15:39:21 GMT References: <8910081919.AA15665@helios.enea.se> Sender: daemon@watale.waterloo.edu Organization: WATMIMS Research Group, University of Waterloo Lines: 26 Erland Sommarskog writes: > Did I hear single transferable vote? Modified of course to allow votes > like: !sci.aquaria or even !sci.* meaning that you vote NO as long > as sci.acquaria is there. Admitted, this is more complex than the > current scheme, but it is certainly more efficient than having two > votes as in one of Peter's many proposals. Well, give [the name czars] > the right to introduce an alternative to the vote. If they come up with > an alternative, it must be included in the call for votes. (Which is > easily controlled with Greg as moderator). Yes, YES, YES! YES!!! I think STV modified with !votes is the most workable idea around. It lets you vote for a group, with preference for specific names, it lets you vote against a group, and it lets you just vote against specific names. The vote is indeed complex, but counting could surely be done by an awk script or something similar. And it's a lot less bureaucratic and a lot quicker than running two votes, one on the name and one on the group. Down with namespace abuse! \tom haapanen "now, you didn't really expect tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu my views to have anything to do watmims research group with my employer's, did you?" university of waterloo "I don't even know what street Canada is on" -- Al Capone