Also worth considering in the current state, someone can vote multiple +1 +0,5 ec..., virtually 'increasing' their voting power compared to people that only +1 a single option. (Sum of your votes should be +1 or something like that to balance out values).
Otherwise that just encourages you to always vote multiple options so you get your 'second' favorite option an edge. On Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 11:26 PM Daniel Standish via dev < [email protected]> wrote: > The DAG terminology vote I think has surfaced a problem with our multiple > choice voting procedure. > > If you allow people to vote for multiple options, they seem to tend to use > it in a manner to signify their ranked preference. However, this could > easily result in an option that doesn't have majority preference getting > the win. > > E.g. suppose 4 people vote for option A, and 5 people vote for option B +1 > but also +0.5 for A. Then option A will win even though people prefer > option B 5 to 4. > > This is a bad outcome. > > It gets even stranger if you allow negative votes. Then you end > essentially invalidating other peoples votes, unless *everyone* minuses all > of the options they don't favor. And even if everyone does that, then it's > hard to see how that gets to the outcome favored by most. > > With ranked choice voting, everyone votes for their most favored choice, > but they can also rank all the options. If their most favored option does > not win, then their vote goes to their second favored option, and so on. > > This is a better way to do this. > > I propose that when doing multiple choice votes, we do ranked choice, > instead of allowing people to just vote for multiple options with plus or > minus votes. >
