On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Kai Meyer
<kai@unixlords.com> wrote:
On 06/09/2011 01:21 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:02:08 -0400, Walter Bright
<newshound2@digitalmars.com> wrote:
On 6/9/2011 11:03 AM, Robert Clipsham wrote:
So there is going to be a next one?
Yes, maybe in 6 months or so. I'm very happy with how this one turned
out.
But next time we need to devise a tie-breaking rule. Any suggestions?
A runoff?
We're all developers here, I think people might be open to an instant
runoff:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting
Essentially, you rank the articles 1 to x, and then the algorithm
figures out the winner. It's still possible to have a tie, but unlikely.
I think for the next time, someone should write a newsgroup-to-vote
program that automatically counts the votes (must be in D of course!)
BTW, there's nothing in the rules preventing an author from tooting
his own horn and doing a bit of marketing of their article(s) for votes!
We're developers, not politicians :) If you allow this, then we'll have
to start creating youtube ads showing the other articles' past records
of infidelity and such, and it just turns ugly.
-Steve