[FFmpeg-devel] [ANNOUNCE] upcoming vote: TC/CC elections

[Cosmin Stejerean]

> On Nov 29, 2023, at 3:14 PM, Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc> wrote:
> 
> If you give Jerry a weight of 10 and give Tom a weight of 9, that means
> you prefer Jerry over Tom because 10 > 9
> If you give Spike a weight of 20 that would mean you not only prefer Spike
> over Tom OR Jerry but also over Tom AND Jerry. Because 20 > 10 + 9
> 
> OTOH if you give Spike a weight of 18 that would mean you prefer Spike over
> Tom OR Jerry but you prefer Tom AND Jerry over Spike.
> Because: 9   < 10    < 18     < 9 + 10
>         Tom < Jerry < Spike  < Tom and Jerry

Is this last example the kind of preference that people are likely to want to express in practice? It seems much harder to reason about and much more likely to lead to mistakes. 

Given a list of say 7 candidates running for 5 positions that's 21 possible combinations and in theory weights would have to be assigned such that the sum for each one of those 21 combinations is correctly ranked by order of preference.

I think the simplicity of the simpler ranked choice voting might outweigh the benefit of expressing complex preferences with the sum of weights.

- Cosmin