Hey, I'd like to get a sense of what sorts of multiwinner methods are currently known that are reasonably good and don't require districts, parties, or candidates that are capable of making decisions (I'm looking at you, asset voting).
I had an idea for a variant of STV where the "elimination order" for candidates is the reverse of how often they are approved (i.e. given a rank on the ballot instead of no rank). This method may already have been proposed some time ago, but I think it warrants attention regardless. This somewhat changes the interpretation of an STV ballot because a truncated ballot is no longer strictly less powerful than a non-truncated one. Since the elimination order is fixed from the beginning and doesn't depend on subsequent decisions, I suspect this modification to STV would at least reduce non-monotonic behavior (however one might quantify degree of monotonicity).
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