[conlang_learners] Voting

[Padraic Brown]

--- On Mon, 7/13/09, Jim Henry <jimhenry1973 at gmail.com> wrote:

> > I suspect that there will be a bunch of people who
> want to try again with a different language. How long do you
> keep them waiting before discussing round two?
> 
> What about this: a month or so after we vote on what
> conlang to learn,
> when we've all had time to study it concentratedly for a
> while and get
> a feel for how hard it is and how enjoyable it is to learn,
> we then
> vote on how long we want to stick with it, or on when we
> want to vote
> on the next conlang to learn?  Vote then on a number
> of months to keep
> with this conlang, or the date for the next vote to start
> the next
> iteration of the project.   The results
> should be tallied by a
> different method than IRV -- since they're numbers on a
> continuum,
> probably just taking the mean or median would be fair.

Good idea, though I think that sort of decision could be made via general discussion and concensus within the group of learners rather than some kind of formal voting. At that point, it's their project!

Padraic

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