Re: Conlang Flag: Voting

--- Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> wrote:

> I tried it and it worked. Very good!
>
Several remarks have already been made here, and I
agreed on most of them. I don't remember if it has
been noticed that you can mark, for ex, "equal in
preference to number 11" without giving any letter as
number 12. It seems that the program doesn't really
care, but to me the error should be mentioned to the
voter.

Also, I submitted several times as "Tarzan" without
being rejected. I suppose there will be a human
intervention at that level ? In case the pseudo is
perfectly free, let's hope that there won't be two
people using the same one, otherwise both votes will
be considered null (?) And if it is a human control,
let's hope that there won't be five thousands people
voting, because checking will give someone a hard time
(well, the Americans already know this, and they were
more than 5.000).

What I would love, of course, would be that, (for ex)
when  clicking on any of the flags, a window would
open giving me the designer's comment about this very
flag. But the main link is on top, so it is
acceptable.

Surely, it the program had to be used many times, the
whole thing should be improved in many ways
(especially presentation), but, if it has to be used
only once, I guess it could do so. Of course, what
will happen of the votes, and will the result be fair,
is quite another question. Probably the only way to
know would be to publish the choice of all voters
namely later, so that everybody could check his own
one and the general result. But is this allowed in a
democratic surrounding ? I'm afraid not.

(Suppose all the guys I paid for voting for my
favourite flag took the money and did it just their
own way ?)

[A remark to another remark: flags haven't to be
exactly of the same shape or size. "The most common
proportions [for national flags] are 2:3 (this applies
to more than half of all flags), about 20 per cent of
flags having dimension of 1:2 and only 9 per cent 3:5
(1). Two flags alone are square (2), and one is
neither rectangular nor square (3)" (Flags & Coats of
Arms, Ludvik Mucha & Stanislav Valasek, GRP Praha 1987
- this has probably evolved since).

(1) There are other proportions too. Sweden and
Guatemala are 5:8, Norway 8:11, San Marino 3:4, Niger
6:7...
(2) Switzerland and Vatican.
(3) Nepal.]




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Philippe Caquant


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