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[top-politics] Re: Content added to Wiki
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On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 03:35:50PM -0000, Serge wrote:
Hey,
About recalculations, couldn’t a duplication step be included ahead of the counting? This would ensure a snapshot of the voting position remains available for reference should a malfunction / delay occur.
There should probably be something like that, to make sure calculations are non destructive and can be traced back in time.
About formulas and making d and the process of accumulation over time more intellegible, if I get this right, the basic logic is that for proposals with a high proportion of the population voting and agreeing, a proposal can be passed fairly quickly. Equally, if not many people are voting or agreeing, then a proposal will drag on.
Explaining this in layman’s terms therefore seems pretty straightforward. You could define d=7 as corresponding to a period of one week for ratification of a vote if 100% of the population votes in favour. Accordingly, as the proportion of participation / support drops, the time for ratification increases in proportion, which ensures no loonie proposal can be passed discreetly and quickly without proper participation and scrutiny. That would probably make it more understandable than calling it a democratic constant.
This is exactly my point, to transform a constant in something more comprehensible.
It also highlights the one remaining important item: “t”, the number of iterations. Those iterations being over time, it in effects introduces an interesting time factor.
One consequence is that all proposals will be evolving at each iteration unless their (yes-no)=0.
Does it have consequences?
The argument for it is that the issue is well known by the voters and majority switches might happen many times in even issues, 49/51 to 51/49 etc. This might lead to very long voting times thus impractical.
In regards to close calls without a clear majority, wouldn’t it actually make sense for these to drag on until a proposal is satisfactory enough for a larger support to gather and tip the balance?
Agreed.
And it would remove one “special case” and thus make it simpler to implement :)
Regards,
Are you in paris or going through it in the near future? I’d like to offer you a drink, and speak about all that!
echarp – http://leparlement.org
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One consequence is that all proposals will be evolving at each iteration unless their (yes-no)=0.
Does it have consequences?-A very small risk indeed. But in those cases, I’m sure that the originatior of the proposal starts to build more opinion around his proposal in order to make it advance, jsut as he would do if there are too few voting making the progress very slow.
In regards to close calls without a clear majority, wouldn’t it actually make sense for these to drag on until a proposal is satisfactory enough for a larger support to gather and tip the balance?
Agreed. And it would remove one “special case” and thus make it simpler to implement :)
-See my answer above, we should have the resetting as an option, possible to use since there are many cases, today at least, which are very near even.
It is possible to tell without more practical experiense if the option is needed or not, I would say.
And is it really a big deal to implement?I’d like to offer you a drink, and speak about all that!
-Programmers ready for the next step of democacy will be offered many drinks by AD and the rest of mankind!! ;-)
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But what would be the name for d? Participation constant?
The point is, not to have a constant :)
Besides, it is no such thing, because it can be changed.
It could be called a “ratification threshold” (buffer does seem strange). The one above which proposals are passed. When you explain it you would then just describe the calculation, and: “this goes on until a democratically chosen ratification threshold is reached” :)
One consequence is that all proposals will be evolving at each iteration unless their (yes-no)=0. Does it have consequences?
A very small risk indeed. But in those cases, I’m sure that the originatior of the proposal starts to build more opinion around his proposal in order to make it advance, jsut as he would do if there are too few voting making the progress very slow.
In regards to close calls without a clear majority, wouldn’t it actually make sense for these to drag on until a proposal is satisfactory enough for a larger support to gather and tip the balance?
Agreed. And it would remove one “special case” and thus make it simpler to implement :)
See my answer above, we should have the resetting as an option, possible to use since there are many cases, today at least, which are very near even. It is possible to tell without more practical experiense if the option is needed or not, I would say. And is it really a big deal to implement?
Any “special case” or “option” is a big deal. Because it not only has to be implemented, but also to be tested and supported. The inevitable problems, bugs and evolutions will have to go around one more bump to be properly corrected or implemented.
Every “special case” in a project, is one more rule to remember. The less the better, for everybody, even the users.
echarp – http://leparlement.org
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