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Lucario621 wrote:

Sunrise-Moon wrote:

Lucario621 wrote:

Yeah, there's a couple things I want to point out that I've noticed. Firstly, running to become a nominee is quite difficult since you have to get the Scratch Team's approval of quality, as well as tye Scratch Community's majority vote.

Typing that out, it makes me wonder - what voting system will the Scratch Team use? There's the common method of selecting your favorite and counting to see who is chosen the most, however we could also have the other version where we rank the candidates from most wanted to least wanted, which we can then work off of. Which will it be?

I think it's going to be "vote for your favorite" since we aren't choosing multiple moderators this time around.

I can see what you mean, but other methods still have their advantages. For example, the Borda count involve the candidates getting points based on what rank you put them in, so it works as wikipedia says, "as a consensus-based electoral system, rather than a majoritarian one." So who knows.

I can see how that would lead to perhaps a more balanced result. We'll see what they decide on though.

sparks wrote:

England recently voted on a referendum to use the voting system Lucario describes above to vote in new political parties. It's an interesting system and the referendum was called by some of the parties that never get voted for. From studying this type of voting system before I voted, it seems that the system favours the underdog a lot more that the single vote system.

I wish the US would give that a try. Independents almost never get elected, even though they often have the best ideas and aren't tied down by party allegiances. Maybe that would finally give them a shot.

sparks wrote:

I wonder what time the Team announce the nominees... It should be sometime today!

I sure hope it's soon... the suspense is killing me!

sparks wrote:

It's 10:25 here in England, what time is it at MIT? I will fall asleep waiting at the keyboard soon! 

It's 5:24 pm EST, which is MIT's time zone.

Last edited by Harakou (2011-07-19 17:24:35)

The chosen four have been announced by lightnin'    Congratulations to harakou, jji7skyline and gettysburg11, You all seem like great people who really deserve to take a place among the team!

Gratz to everyone to the four chosen nominees! Good luck to all  .

jji7skyline wrote:

Because I am a candidate, does that mean I can't vote? 

No actually. Pretty sure you can.

I'm pretty sure the American Pres does actually.

Hey, I'm one of the candidates! Thank you, and congratulations to sparks, gettysburg11 and jji7skyline. 

Last edited by Harakou (2011-07-19 21:04:21)

I think Sparks is DEFINATLEY my vote.

I know who I'm going to vote for 

I wasn't around last election so could you please explain how the ranked system works?

I've just looked it up and I understand now 

Just want to point out that Harakou and Sparks prefer their names capitalized. 

jji7skyline wrote:

scimonster wrote:

Just want to point out that Harakou and Sparks prefer their names capitalized. 

I prefer it all lowercase 

For this account, me too. 
And I'll remember that if you win. ;P (wikiwikiwikiwikiwikiwikiwikiwikiwikiwiki XD)

sparks wrote:

I don't mind my name being typed out as capital or lower-case. I registered with a lower-case 's' because a few years ago grammar wasn't what I was thinking about when I registered! I usually capitalise any Scratcher's user name when I type it in a sentence to fit proper noun grammar rules but either way works 

I'm really looking forward to the vote on thursday now, and I have to say the other candidates all seem to me people who will do the position proud if they get it, the Scratch Team were right to choose them! 

I thought nowadays you prefer it capitalized...
I also didn't care about grammar when I started: Look at old comments of mine to see that. XD

What does the term "do the position proud" mean? Is it the same as "do the position well"?

Sounds English.