Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!udel!burdvax!gvlv2!lock60!mhw From: mhw@lock60.UUCP (Mark H. Weber) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Newsgroup Guidelines Survey Results (STV) Message-ID: <368@lock60.UUCP> Date: 5 Dec 89 05:04:54 GMT Reply-To: mhw@Schuylkill.Canal.Org (Mark H. Weber) Organization: Lock #60 on the Schuylkill Canal, Phoenixville, PA Lines: 136 [This is part 2. Still to come are comments and conclusions.] Here's the second set of results for the newsgroup guideline change survey. This is the Single Transferable Voting (STV) results. There were 68 total votes. The winning proposal is: 2) Add check for 2:1 Yes:No ratio (Note 1) Further analysis, which would be similar to the procedure for selecting multiple winners (as in a Board of Directors) shows the following top 6 choices: Round 1 - 2) Add check for 2:1 Yes:No ratio (Note 1) 2 - 8) STV multiple voting scheme 3 - 11) Independent vote counters 4 - 7) MAUVE multiple voting scheme 5 - 6) Hold name vote for popular but controversial groups 6 - 9) Newsgroup Committee To refresh your memory for comparison, here are the top 6 MAUVE winners: Prop. Proposal Description Approval Disapproval ## % % ---- --------------------------------------------------- ------ ----- 2) Add check for 2:1 Yes:No ratio 71 20 Note: 1 11) Independent vote counters 63 9 7) MAUVE multiple voting scheme 44 25 8) STV multiple voting scheme 44 28 9) Newsgroup Committee 38 39 6) Hold name vote for popular but controversial groups 37 34 Note: 1 - This would be in addition to the current 100 more yes than no requirement. In early versions of the survey, this was not explained clearly. If you included a note or a write-in vote indicating you would support proposal 2 if it was in addition to the current rule, I included your vote here. Raw vote: (Note that the proposal (1-13) has been replaced with a letter (A-M) -------- The letter N indicates no further choices were expressed). Prop. Proposal Description ## ---- --------------------------------------------------- A) Raise NO vote threshold to 200 B) Add check for 2:1 Yes:No ratio C) Less restrictive requirements for moderated groups D) 100 NO's vetoes a new group E) Hold preliminary name vote for all groups F) Hold name vote for popular but controversial groups G) MAUVE multiple voting scheme H) STV multiple voting scheme I) Newsgroup Committee J) Newgroup Czar K) Independent vote counters L) Trial Newsgroups M) No change N) No preference Thanks again to all these people: -------------------------------- FKBAHMGCLIJDE From: dwillis@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Alden) DAEFMBGHIJKCL From: nih-csl!elsie!ado@uunet.UU.NET (Arthur David Olson) ABKGICEFLHJDM From: bmaruti@wpi.wpi.edu (B Maruti) ICGLHKJMFEABD From: bard@cs.cornell.edu (Bard Bloom) HFCBLKGMADEIJ From: burdvax!cbmvax!uunet!belal (Bela Lubkin) BEGKIDCFHMLAJ From: sluka@stoch.fmi.uni-passau.de (Bernd Sluka) GIBMNNNNNNNNN From: Bob Sloane LBHFEKJIGDCAM From: ames!claris!bar (Bourne-again Roy) JKAMLFGNNNNNN From: cals@cals01.Newport.RI.US (Charles A. 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