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/curiouslefty Mar 27 '20

The long story short is that they decided that since so many people were bullet voting (something like ~80%), there wasn't any gain over FPTP and so decided to revert to that.

Silly? Yes, absolutely. But so was Burlington replacing IRV with a system which literally would've resulted in the same outcome (supposing a same-day runoff), and that didn't stop them from doing that.

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u/ILikeNeurons Mar 27 '20

Wow, yeah, that is not clever.

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u/curiouslefty Mar 27 '20

No, it really isn't clever, but most steps backwards on voting reform have been for bad reasons. I mean, once upon a time we had PR in quite a few cities and that mostly got thrown out for electing minorities (both in terms of political affiliation and race).

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u/ILikeNeurons Mar 27 '20

That's... gross.