[Icehouse] Design Competition?

[Dale Sheldon]

On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Don Sheldon wrote:

>> 7) Ranking will be tallied using [insert clever and fair method here; 
>> ideas? I don't understand the Condorcet Ranked-Pairs system. We have to 
>> be able to handle partial ballots.]
>
> I highly recommend Instant-Runoff Voting 
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting) for being both fair 
> and, well, instantaneous, as well as very easy to use from a end-user 
> perspective.

I prefer any kind of Condorcet method over IRV.

Read the example to see how the two differ in practice: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRV#Example

Condorcet is no more-difficult for voters than IRV, only slightly harder 
on the vote-counters, is easier for determining runners up, and produces, 
I think, a better evaluation of over-all acceptableness (IRV is more 
likely to get you a game half the voters hate and half the voters love; 
condorcet is more likely to get you a game that everyone at least likes).

There's just that nasty annoying Condorcet paradox that you have to come 
up with some kind of tie-breaker for.

-- 
Dale Sheldon
dales at digitalfreaks.org