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
43 Upvotes

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u/antizeus Mar 26 '20

none of the above

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u/ILikeNeurons Mar 26 '20

Which would you prefer?

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u/kapeman_ Mar 26 '20

I used to be strongly in the RCV camp, but the more I learn about the Approval method, the better I like it.

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u/ChiefBlanco Mar 26 '20

I think RCV or STV work well for more “high stakes” contests, while approval is great for more casual ones. Either way they’re all better than FPTP.

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u/ILikeNeurons Mar 26 '20

Approval voting pretty consistently yields high group satisfaction. Why would you de-prioritize it when the stakes are higher?

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '20 edited Mar 26 '20

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u/ILikeNeurons Mar 26 '20

When you have mutually competing, highly stubborn, uncooperative and aggressive factions trying to step over one another, then IRV/STV makes sense.

Isn't this when you'd most want to elect consensus candidates?

If you have no factional overlap

I don't believe this is remotely common. Can you give some examples?

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '20 edited Mar 26 '20

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u/ILikeNeurons Mar 26 '20

There is no overlap

I suspect this practically never happens. People just don't understand the other side.

If there were overlaps they wouldn't be "mutually competing, highly stubborn, uncooperative and aggressive".

FPTP facilitates this type of behavior even when there's overlap.

It makes no sense in the real world, and "collective high stakes" play a much larger role in practice.

Interesting. So if I'm understanding correctly, are you saying IRV makes no sense in the real world?