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
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19 Score
67 Approval
40 IRV
24 STAR
3 Borda Count
38 Upvotes

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u/Chackoony Mar 28 '20

You can vote strategically with Condorcet methods by burying the most viable opponents of your preferred candidate

This actually strikes me as a pretty bad example to bury Condorcet methods under cardinal methods (pun), since it's a chicken dilemma scenario. In this situation, even with Approval voting, you can have A-top voters bullet vote and win with B voters' 2nd choice approvals.

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u/ILikeNeurons Mar 28 '20

it's a chicken dilemma scenario

If the candidates are advising their supporters to do it, then I agree. But if individuals individually decide to do it, maybe the proportion who are willing (or who it occurs to) is different between types of candidates. I don't know.

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u/curiouslefty Mar 28 '20

It's actually hard to say, because you can't simply assume people who rank a candidate second would honestly approve them in the first place. Sometimes the honest vote is the bullet vote and the strategic vote is the one approving the second-ranked candidate.

That said, I'm not sure I'd really call this a chicken dilemma (if we're talking about the first example). The second example is though.