On Sun, 30 May 2004 00:39:39 +0000 MIKE OSSIPOFF wrote:
Mike wrote:
I already said this, but it was buried in a long posting, and I wanted to say it with its own subject-line.
If the A & B voters apply ATLO below their favorite, and rank sincerely,
the co-operation/defection dilemma in James' example doesn't happen.
Defection is foiled. In particular, when the A voters use ATLO and vote sincerely,
the B voters, if they truncate or order-reverse against A, can't accomplish anything but the election of C. They'd know that, and they wouldh't try
it.
Mike Ossipoff
James replied:
Sorry, Mike, but I don't know what ATLO is. Please don't expect me to keep track of all your acronyms... there are just too many.
I reply:
James, I couldn't care less what you keep track of. I've defined AERLO & ATLO on EM in recent months. The intially posted definitions were in postings that had the unabbreviated names of the options as their subject line, so it can't be that they're difficult to find. But I repeated their definition for you recently on EM.
The posting "ATLO foils defection in James' example" wasn't posted just for you. It was posted to the list. It doesn't matter if there's someone (you) who doesn't bother looking up the definition of the term used in the posting that you were replying to. Nor does it matter what opinions are held by one person (you) who's more inclined toward arrogant posturing than finding out about the subject that he expounds on.
The world is full of jackasses, and one more or less doesn't make any difference.
No, we have too many and they get in the way of progress.
James posts a LOT of words, but he makes sense as to accessibility of definitions. I do not know how to do a search and thus find the agreed on definition of an acronym.
Perhaps someone could accept responsibility for maintaining a dictionary;
Someone else sort out resolution when there is disagreement as to definitions.
The rest of us honor a written procedure that keeps the dictionary current with minimum effort by the above.
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