Re: Conlang Flag: Voting

 --- Adrian Morgan skrzypszy:

> > Both options are fine with me. Note however that if you work with
> > a format like "C>A=D>B" you will probably get a lot of emails
> > that are not according to the standard and perhaps even
> > undecypherable.
>
> At least I could email the person back and ask for a resubmission
> :-)
I suppose the e-mail route is preferable after all... First, it is
easier for you, second, the voting will be more or less anonymous
(i.e. only you will know who voted what), third, multiple
participation won't be easy.

> As Paul says, at real elections they record who has voted without
> recording how they voted, but in this context there's a few
> problems with that. Suppose someone *does* vote twice, but the
> second time they enter a different name. AFAICS, you can't detect
> that unless you have a list of people who are eligible to vote,
Well, we dó have such a list, don't we? It's easy to get a list of
those who are subscribed to Conlang.

> > Excellent. One question though: would this mean that a voter has
> > to express his opinion about all 22 flags? What happens if you
> > only "do" the first five flags of your preference?
>
> I'm planning to make that perfectly OK.
Good!

Actually, I have two more questions.

What happens with flags who are very similar to each other? Like A-B,
C-D, F-G, K-M, R-U? I would propose to work out the results per group
instead of per individual flag. Like this (not looking at the flags):


if   A = 5 votes
     B = 7 votes
     C = 2 votes
     D = 8 votes
     E = 9 votes

then A+B = 12 votes
     C+D = 10 votes
     E   =  9 notes

and the winner would be the winning flag of the winning group, namely
B!

NB This is how our (Dutch) parliamentary system works: two separate
lists (usually of parties who share similar views) can be linked, so
that when it comes to counting the votes they will be treated as one
party with regard to other lists; subsequently, the seats are divided
between the two.

Second question: what will be the practical use of this flag? I
thought of that earlier, when you said that the thin gold lines in
Jeffrey's Bable Tower were unpractical (a view with which I disagree,
BTW). Do you intend to produce real flags, or will its use be
primarily electronical?

BTW, Roger's flags still show up as "Image hosted by Tripod".

Jan

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