You can vote for more than one candidate, but you rank them by order of preference. This way, third party and independent candidates actually have a chance.
Anything is better than what we've got. Unifying around one fairly good method that's leaps and bounds better than FPTP and then if that works, trying to use the momentum to get somewhere better than that, seems better than fracturing the effort all over the place while most of the US is still using the world's worst system in the present.
It would be good to have a place to discuss the merits of different systems. If you want to make a change, the bulk of your efforts are going to be in breaking out of the FPTP system, and that doesn't change regardless of which voting system you support.
That's a good point. I'll make a post making it clear that any content related to systems other than FPTP that is getting some traction would be welcome, too. Getting rid of FPTP is the main goal, not RCV for the sake of RCV in opposition to any other system.
Put simply you just give every candidate points out of 10 and then elect the one with the highest average.
Approval voting (not acceptance, my mistake), simplifies things a bit by only allowing none or all points. Which is the best if you want to vote tactically anyway.
This method sidesteps a couple of the issues that Arrow's impossibility theorem raises, and is easy enough to understand. Ranked choice is better than first past the post but still has the issue that adding an additional candidate can affect the end result in complex ways.
With approval voting most aspects are easy to understand. Adding or removing candidates trivially has no effect on the rest of the result. And while you can still vote tactically the only real tactic is where you put your cutoff, you should still vote for the option(s) you like best.
It's usually easier to discuss in one place that across several. Feel free to post on !fedigrow, there are already 302 subscribers, you should get some reaction.
I don't think it's the same thing? Fedigrow is discussing how to grow, whereas this one is for posting communities and asking for people to post in them (to help them grow).
Similar, but not the same. I think if fedigrow was inundated with "please post in xxxx community" that would be annoying, whereas here it's expected.
I see where you come from, but the two still seem very close to each other.
About the potential flood of posts, there is already the "How are doing with your communities?" weekly thread which could be a way to aggregate those in one place (and it kind of already does, I remember posting to a few communities after having about them there)
We're already listed in their sidebar! :) I might make a post a bit later too. The mod of !linguistics actually helped us initially set up the community!
Maybe the admin of this instance should reconfigure their server to force HTTPS in the year of our Lord 2024 before they ask for any meaningful input or collaboration.
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