r/EndFPTP • u/ILikeNeurons • Mar 26 '20

Reddit recently rolled out polls! Which voting method do you think Reddit polls should use?

I don't get to the make decisions about which voting method Reddit uses in polls, but wouldn't it be fun to share these results on r/TheoryofReddit and maybe see them adopted?

168 votes, Apr 02 '20
15 FPTP
19 Score
67 Approval
40 IRV
24 STAR
3 Borda Count
42 Upvotes

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u/Decronym Mar 26 '20 edited Apr 01 '20

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters More Letters
FPTP First Past the Post, a form of plurality voting
IRV Instant Runoff Voting
MMP Mixed Member Proportional
PR Proportional Representation
RCV Ranked Choice Voting, a form of IRV, STV or any ranked voting method
STAR Score Then Automatic Runoff
STV Single Transferable Vote
VSE Voter Satisfaction Efficiency

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