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Anonymous Cow Herds Can't Vote (Score: 1, Informative)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-04-28 13:56 (#17K)

Ugh, I didn't find that out until deliberating and making all my selections.

:(

Also, the 1 is most trusted, 8 is least trusted (but yield 8 and 1 point respectively) methodology could be made more clear.

It's this kind of confusion that may have led to inaccurate voting results on another site recently.

Re: Anonymous Cow Herds Can't Vote (Score: 1)

by bryan@pipedot.org on 2014-04-28 14:10 (#17P)

The linked wikipedia article goes into great detail (with samples!) of how points are given. There is also a rather large "voting methods" section in wikipedia that give sample ballots of actual elections. I did find it odd that the name-vote from Soylent had the order swapped. In every ballot on wikipedia, "1" is always the highest priority.

Re: Anonymous Cow Herds Can't Vote (Score: 2, Insightful)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-04-28 14:28 (#17S)

Right, but for what it's worth I do think it was a good idea of zafiro to remove the language about the points in the summary. 1 is 8 and 8 is one, just no. :)

(These are the best damn (and most human-friendly) captchas I've ever seen. Was this your own idea?)

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Time Reason Points Voter
2014-04-28 19:06 Insightful +1 bryan@pipedot.org
2014-04-28 16:55 Underrated +1 songofthepogo@pipedot.org

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