Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 00:49:08 01/24/00
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On January 24, 2000 at 01:26:04, Roger wrote: >On January 23, 2000 at 15:36:27, Dave Gomboc wrote: > >>On January 23, 2000 at 14:06:56, Roger wrote: >> >>> >>> >>>The idea is to minimax likes and dislikes. Your example is perfect. If you have >>>a highly polarized situation, then you two camps, by definition. Each camp LOVES >>>its candidate and HATES the candidate of the opponent camp. If either camp were >>>to win control, the members of the opposite camp would be in an uproar, and >>>would cause trouble, or might leave the group (note that I am not saying that >>>these things are inevitable given a polarized group, I am saying that this is >>>the definition of polarized). >>> >>>Consequently, the two groups tend to cancel each other out, and candidates that >>>are acceptable to all sides move forward. After all, the members from the >>>opposing camps are minimaxing their dislikes, too. >>> >>>The candidates may indeed be perfectly fine, morally upstanding people with high >>>IQs, but not from the perspective of their respective opposing camps. :) >>> >>>Roger >> >>We aren't selecting _one_ moderator, though. We are selecting three. >> >>In the above scenario, both major candidates will be elected, and a third person >>as well, who might well end up breaking a few ties in moderation votes. :) >> >>Dave > >I never said we were selecting _one_ moderator. I said that extreme groups tend >to cancel each other out, and that candidates (plural) more acceptable to both >sides move forward. In the situation where you have two large minorities whose >platforms are mutually exclusive (All group A vote against group B, All group B >vote against group A), NEITHER candidate gets elected, not both. > >Obviously, this extreme example is not like CCC... [rest snipped] I did not say or imply that you said we were selecting one moderator. I brought attention to the fact the "extreme example" is not analogous to CCC's situation. Dave
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