amb@cs.columbia.edu (Andrew Boardman) (11/30/89)
What is the point of trying to run a vote with a voting system that hasn't even stabilized yet? People are not going to vote simply because... -they will think they have already voted on "the aquaria thing" -they (correctly) percieve the system to be a kludge; note that Peter didn't actually go so far as to explain how the votes would be counted except for the magic invocation of the phrase "100 vote margin". Margin over what? I for one am not going to vote on this one at least until I know what will happen to my vote... [For the record, I voted "yes" on the first one. If you read the traffic in sci aquaria (if you don't get it (yet) in your neck of the woods I'll even give you a feed (if NY Telephone ever goes off-strike and gets around to fixing my lines, but anyway...)) you will realize that it's a hell of a lot more scientific than most of the other crap under sci anyway...] /a