I think I agree mostly with what Daniel says. We should arrive at a preference based voting to eliminate any sort of voting power bias.
I would second Daniel to have a rank based voting for ballots which can have multiple choice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting. The ad-hoc +/- voting has more problems than we can imagine, and those can be solved by ranked ballots -- giving everyone equal power while also being easy to explain and implement. Thanks & Regards, Amogh Desai On Thu, Oct 23, 2025 at 9:20 AM Kiruban Kamaraj <[email protected]> wrote: > IMHO, if we don't let people vote -1, how are devs supposed to raise > legitimate concerns about an option? If someone votes -1, they should > explain why - and hopefully devs are only doing this when they have real > concerns, not just to push their favorite choice. If you have a solid > reason to oppose something, just vote -1. If you don't care about another > option either way, then don't vote on it. > > I agree with what Jerek said. > > *it's not "who wins" but "which option wins". I don't absolutely care who* > *"wins" here, but which option has the most support.* > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2025 at 2:55 AM 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. > > >
