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From: herbie@polaris.UUCP (Herb Chong)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.group
Subject: Re: Re: Fear and Loathing on the Clouds
Message-ID: <266@polaris.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 9-Nov-85 14:25:31 EST
Article-I.D.: polaris.266
Posted: Sat Nov  9 14:25:31 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 19-Nov-85 05:42:29 EST
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Reply-To: herbie@polaris.UUCP (Herb Chong)
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Summary: 

In article <1095@trwrdc.UUCP> frith@trwatf.UUCP (Lord Frith) writes:
>I don't expect you to live and die by voting.  I don't expect voting to 
>decrease the net traffic.  I DO expect a voting system to be somewhat 
>fairer and less prone to the caprice of an administrator than the current 
>methodology.  Nice topic for research too.

simple voting never has been, and never will be fair.  it can be proven
that by using game theory.  consensus is much fairer, but much harder
to do.

Herb Chong...

I'm still user-friendly -- I don't byte, I nybble....

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