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Subject: Yes, good idea.

Author: Roger

Date: 21:35:36 01/22/00

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I think this is a good idea. You should be able to vote for someone and against
someone. In a case where you are voting for three moderators from a pool of six,
I think you should be able to vote against at least one person, and preferably
two.

It often happens in life that you are not exactly sure who you want for a
position, but you are damned sure who you don't want. Voting ought to reflect
this, so that the moderators chosen conform MOSTLY to likes of the voters,
embodying their dislikes as little as possible.

That is why only this form of voting can deal with a situation in which a group
is polarized into two camps of approximately equal size, both of whom favor
their own pet candidate.

Unfortunately, voting against someone reveals the negative side of human nature,
and as such, this kind of polling is not very popular.

Roger





On January 22, 2000 at 18:55:43, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>I know is not a pleasant idea, but maybe is useful. I think is not enought we
>can propose people to moderation post and then to vote for our favourites, but
>we should have the chance to write whom are the guys we definitely we think
>should'nt be moderators. It is not enought not to vote for someone; we could
>exclude -according our views- people we just does not like or thinks are
>unfitted for any reason, like me. If only the silence is the alternative to
>someone we do not consier fine, then it could happen that a guy that produces
>bad feelings in many people here could be elected if just half a dozen people
>like his style. I suppose this does not need to be public. Just to email to
>steven and then he can discount each negative vote from the positive one. Yes,
>yes, it is ugly but we could avoid that way the action of cliques that feel
>comfortable with guys that are not specially loved.
>Prepared to be flamed  and hated, but who cares...
>fernando



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