[conlang_learners] Now or in September?

[Philip Newton]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 17:33, Jim Henry<jimhenry1973 at gmail.com> wrote:
> With range
> voting, or the variation of it that Larry proposed, you have to choose
> between helping your favorite option as much as possible, or hedging
> your bets by spreading your votes out among several acceptable
> options, to minimize the probability of something you don't want being
> selected.

That sounds like a reason to use straight range voting -- rank each
language on a scale of 0-5 (or 0-10 or 0-100 or whatever), without the
limitation on total number of votes.

Then you could rank seven languages as (for example)
100-90-87-85-13-2-1 if you wanted, or 100-100-100-100-100-0-0, or
100-80-60-40-20-0-0, or anything else.

It would also make it easier for the vote counter since they wouldn't
have to add up the numbers to make sure the voter hadn't spoiled their
ballot by using more than their number of votes.

Cheers,
Philip
-- 
Philip Newton <philip.newton at gmail.com>