Recent content by DonaldKronos

In a sense, yes. You put positive points toward a negative vote. That is, you put positive points into a vote directly against that person, and that vote is then counted as a subtractive vote, such that their total net vote count goes down rather than up. In other words, there should be a place...

That is a type of instant runoff voting called ranked-choice voting. You actually described it quite well. The way it's done with ranked-choice voting is that your favorite would be marked as number 1, your second favorite as number 2, your third favorite as number 3, and so on. There are good...

Thanks for the heads up on that. Reminds me of back in 1997 when I first joined active worlds, just as the organization that owned it went through a major split. It was chaos, but we got through it. I ended up being the prototype for what later became The Gatekeepers and the peacekeepers. Taught...

That sounds pretty intuitive. Not everything in here is, but that's to be expected. I'm working on that learning curve.

I appreciate the details. It looks from my perspective like either hardly anyone has seen my posts or I've done a terrible job of writing them because nobody seems interested. I'm guessing that too might also have something to do with stuff I don't yet understand about this site. Maybe in time...

I thank you very much for that explanation. I just now discovered where my notifications are, and found a bunch of stuff waiting for me to read that I didn't even know was there, including this. I like the concept behind this site and it seems to be rather well implemented. It's not going to be...

Thoughts on precellular biological evolution. I don't know who might be interested in my thoughts about non-cellular evolution, but consider the "life form" described at 7 minutes and 9 seconds into this video. --- Please continue reading this thread... This is actually very close to the way...

I sent you a reply, and I just realized I might have made an error in understanding what I was replying to. As I mentioned in my reply, I'm new to this forum. It wasn't entirely obvious who you were replying to or who you were speaking about. It maybe should have been obvious, but it wasn't to...

I'm new to this forum. If there is a rule that you're only allowed to post one thing on the Forum, somebody should have let me know about that rule. I have not received any personal messages or private messages or whatever exactly you mean by PM. If your intent is to chase new users off of this...

I'm not sure, but I think the link to my write-up was mistaken for an advertisement. My intention was to present my proposal for consideration and discussion here. The write-up goes into extensive detail about the proposal so it made more sense to include a link to that right up rather than...

It's not an advertisement. The link is to a write-up on the proposal for further information, because that seemed preferable to making an extremely long post here.

This is my second reply. I already edited my first reply to add a paragraph for clarification, and I don't want to edit it again, so I'm making this one. The epicene pronoun "le" which I suggested earlier is basically a singular for the plural epicene pronoun "they". Since many people already...

I honestly think science has nothing to say on the issue, unless perhaps you mean linguistics, the science of language. What makes someone a man or a woman depends on what it meant by those terms. If one means a male adult or a female adult, then sure, we could go with a biological definition of...

#PeoplesPrimary -- Imagine a system where political parties were powerless to prevent popular candidates from ending up on the general election ballot. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1295820749102411776.html Introducing, the concept of a People's Primary where an approval vote for as many...

#BIRNY #ElectoralReform -- Wouldn't it be nice if we could have more options to choose from in the general election, without having to worry about similar candidates splitting the vote between them and potentially handing the election over to something worse...