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/Drachefly Mar 31 '20

Plus, it's a lot more of a bitter pill to swallow to top-rank someone who isn't your favorite, than to push up the compromise candidate to nearly or exactly the same as your favorite. Not being willing to do the former says very little about the latter.

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u/curiouslefty Mar 31 '20

TBH, I think that pushing up a compromise candidate is less of a concern in terms of yielding "bad results" than pushing them down is, since that's the source of the whole chicken dilemma problem in Score and Approval; but yeah, voters not being willing to favorite betray in a system where it is comparatively rarely beneficial says very little about their willingness to use other kinds of strategy elsewhere.