Fergus, thank you for your quick correction of your previous statement.
Not
everyone would be that forthcoming. It leaves me with a better
understanding of how the system works. And in particular, I see that it
is
apparently true that truncating makes little or no difference. I will
also
agree that the Condorcet method will apparently give the least
objectionable results.
I do think that the change in the way games are voted on in this second
poll does allow for the possibility of gaming the vote a bit.
Specifically, I think some of the variants that are called clones are
sufficiently different that they should get an appreciable difference in
ranking. My personal preferences tend more toward the outre, so I would
like to play CRC, Falcon 100, Mir36, and the D versions of Great and
Grand
Shatranj, rather than the other versions. I would have been inclined to
rate what I would call the lesser versions below some other games, but I
want to play some version of these games, so I am now inclined to rate
the
lesser versions directly below the preferred versions, and other games
below them, to assist in any tiebreaks.
My question to you becomes then: why should not this change in my voting
pattern benefit these games? For example, I would like to play Alice. But
some of the variants I would previously have rated below Alice I would
now
rate above Alice. Does, or better, how does the Condorcet method
alleviate
what I see as a skew in the results, that I have deliberately introduced
to counterbalance what I see as Mr. Good's valid objection, that running
these games against each other in the second poll dilutes their votes?
Fergus, thank you for your quick correction of your previous statement.
Not everyone would be that forthcoming. It leaves me with a better understanding of how the system works. And in particular, I see that it is apparently true that truncating makes little or no difference. I will also agree that the Condorcet method will apparently give the least objectionable results.
I do think that the change in the way games are voted on in this second poll does allow for the possibility of gaming the vote a bit. Specifically, I think some of the variants that are called clones are sufficiently different that they should get an appreciable difference in ranking. My personal preferences tend more toward the outre, so I would like to play CRC, Falcon 100, Mir36, and the D versions of Great and Grand Shatranj, rather than the other versions. I would have been inclined to rate what I would call the lesser versions below some other games, but I want to play some version of these games, so I am now inclined to rate the lesser versions directly below the preferred versions, and other games below them, to assist in any tiebreaks.
My question to you becomes then: why should not this change in my voting pattern benefit these games? For example, I would like to play Alice. But some of the variants I would previously have rated below Alice I would now rate above Alice. Does, or better, how does the Condorcet method alleviate what I see as a skew in the results, that I have deliberately introduced to counterbalance what I see as Mr. Good's valid objection, that running these games against each other in the second poll dilutes their votes?