On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 01:31:41PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> When the majority of voters agree that something should be done, it's
> pretty clear that [1] is better than [2].
> When the majority of voters do not agree that something should be done
> it's pretty clear that [2] is better than [1].
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 01:31:41PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> When the majority of voters agree that something should be done, it's
> pretty clear that [1] is better than [2].
> When the majority of voters do not agree that something should be done
> it's pretty clear that [2] is better than [1].
[There's an irony here which is probably worth noting. In past
discussions, Anthony Towns had been in favor of eliminating all options
which don't beat the default option early on in vote resolution, rather
than including any special treatment of the default option in any
iterative part of the vot
[There's an irony here which is probably worth noting. In past
discussions, Anthony Towns had been in favor of eliminating all options
which don't beat the default option early on in vote resolution, rather
than including any special treatment of the default option in any
iterative part of the vot
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 03:03:37PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> Well, you just said a message ago that you didn't like using terms that'd
> been used before either, so that's a bit contradictory. It's weird
> to think that x can be "preferred" over y while y is also "preferred"
> over x, but proba
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 03:03:37PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> Well, you just said a message ago that you didn't like using terms that'd
> been used before either, so that's a bit contradictory. It's weird
> to think that x can be "preferred" over y while y is also "preferred"
> over x, but proba
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On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 11:30:46PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> > *shrug* Then how about "An option A is said to master an option, B,
> > if A beats B, or if there is some other option, C, where A beats C and
> > C masters B." ? Or "transitively beats" ?
> In my first draft, I used "Option j is PREF
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