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Bob Perl: the Markov chain saw  Re: Re: Negative Voting  by
saucepan (Scribe) on Jan 04, 2001 at 08:16 UTC
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Re: Negative Voting in thread Negative Voting  What about having
a vote budget? For example: say you have a collection of votes,
each of which is one of -2, -1, 0, +1, or +2. Spending a vote
uses it up, so when you've run out of (say) +2 votes you can't
use any more of them until you get some more. Every time you
vote, you gain back vote fragments in the following proportion:
1/9 of a -2 vote; 2/9 of a -1 vote; 3/9 of a 0 vote; 2/9 of a +1
vote; and 1/9 of a +2 vote.  This way, your total number of
votes never changes, but over the long term you'll find yourself
constrained to follow the curve. (The curve doesn't need to be
bell shaped or even symmetrical, but this was just an example.)
The power of individual voters can be adjusted by doling out
additional vote fragments to pe