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From: dveditz@dbase.UUCP (Dan Veditz)
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Subject: Re: Newsgroup Guidelines Survey Results
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Date: 13 Dec 89 01:57:22 GMT
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Reply-To: dveditz@dbase.A-T.COM (Dan Veditz)
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There were a few interesting results of this survey.  The first
(fairly comforting) result was that the top six were the same in
both STV and Alien's MAUVE scheme (with slight differences in order).
If we eventually adopt either of these voting systems we can feel
confident that the winner is really the one with the most support
in most cases.  There are pathological cases, but they are not
going to be as much of a problem as cases of abuse (cf. your fave
net.controversy).

I also noticed that the STV results gave me no feel for how well
supported any of the top 6 items were.  I suppose I could have gone
through the votes and tabulated them, but Alien's scheme gave
nice X-number of YES votes, Y-number of NO votes answers.  The
MAUVE summary clearly showed that there wasn't very much support
for most of the top 6.  In fact, the only items that *might* pass
a current style vote at this point are the 2:1 ratio addition
(btw, how's that going, Greg?) and perhaps the independent vote
takers (which we already have volunteers for).

-Dan
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