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From: arnold@ucsfcgl.UUCP (Ken Arnold%CGL)
Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.news
Subject: Re: A proposal for a modified voting rule
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Date: Sun, 15-Sep-85 22:07:54 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 15 22:07:54 1985
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In article <1471@cbosgd.UUCP> mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton) writes:
>In article <3215@nsc.UUCP> chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>>I propose the following rule -- each site can generate a weighted vote
>>on any subject. The weight of the vote is equal to the number of
>>OUTGOING news feeds a site supports.
>
>I think we need to go further than even this.  There should be a transitive
>closure rule applied - you get credit for everybody downstream from you
>if all their news goes via you, in addition to your direct neighbors.

Fine, actually.  I could live with either of these voting systems, for
many reasons already enumerated by others.

However, before we all weigh in on this too much, maybe we should have
some discussion on how we determine how a site's vote goes.  Maybe I
have missed something, but I don't remember any definitive discussion
on this.  Certainly we don't want to make the site administrator the
"elector" for a site (i.e., the SA decides for him/herself what the
vote shall be).  Does the SA become the local vote counter, and the
majority rules?  Maybe only the highest ranking individuals at a site
should vote, which would be consistent with the ideas that the people
who pay the bills make the decisions.  It is, after all, the managers
who decide to pay, or allow the payment of, the usenet bills.

Before everyone starts buying into this per-site vote bit, we better
decide what we mean by a vote.  If we can't agree on that, it is rather
pointless to decide that it would be nice to use a per-site vote, since
we'll never get one.
		Ken Arnold


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