On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Don Stewart wrote:

gwern0:

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On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Don Stewart wrote:

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Oh, we had a long discussion about the need for condorcet voting, not a system like the reddit which is prone to abuse.

Also, it would be good to have the images inline.

Perfect, please meet better. Better, perfect. Now get along you two!

Since January 1st, we could've had hundreds or thousands of votes and easily compensated for any abuse.

Unfortunately, reddit isn't a suitable voting site, as submissions decay over time, dissappearing off the page after a day or two. It does have up and down mods, but in no other way is a voting site.

-- Don

That's how the what's hot works, I understand. But it seems to me that Top works just fine for vote tallying purposes eg. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/top/ lists quite a few posts posted months ago (4 months seems to be the oldest). -- gwern

2009/2/7 Don Stewart :

Quite so, biased by the fact that they dropped off the page.

I'm not saying reddit is unsuitable for communal decision making -- I've thought hard about this -- just that isn't perfect, and this isn't really its purpose. It would make a good backup if we can't find a proper system.

-- Don

And how long do we wait? Is a month long enough? 2 months? Do we just make a note on our calendars for February 2010 - 'get moving on that logo contest thing'? -- gwern

Don Stewart wrote:

Help identifying and implementing a voting process is very welcome.

Maybe we could have an administrator who receives the votes by email and we confirm our emailed vote by appending the MD5 of our email to a Haskell wiki page. The machine-readable email format might be: I vote for these three logos in order of preference: 23 5 78 Here is my random salt: kauhgfhgh Here is the MD5 of the above: e4d909c290d0fb1ca068ffaddf22cbd0 The administrator can check the MD5s he has received by email and mark them as good on the wiki page, count the votes and publish the result. Richard.