>>46767003that is a mechanism, not a policy. i am talking about the latter. what is the justification for this method? to what end is it employed? are the implications known and agreed upon, or was it just something that triangleman came up with and everybody accepted passively?
even last summer the previous manager wrote about some sort of "affirmative action" for lesser-voted reps, and accordingly he didn't provide a pure voting poll, but rather a delta poll + non-holo suggestion box (as far as i remember).
but let's say that there is a sensible reason for the current method. discussion can be had as to which candidates to include and which voting method to use. i think we can both agree that 225 candidates are a bit too many, but merging or removing any of them before casting votes will no doubt cause drama, accusations of rigging, and so on. i didn't really pay attention to how this was handled in the past so it'd be great if anyone knew and was able to enlighten me.
as for the voting method, allowing multiple votes per ballot is retarded, because it strongly favors bulk voting towards one's preferences as well as the most generic palatable choices; a better system would be some kind of ranked-pairs where you can pick any amount of choices and rank them from most wanted to least wanted. nonholo slots wouldn't be needed anymore, and every voter would have the same voting power, unlike now.
