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

[Paul B Mahol]

On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 3:10 PM Derek Buitenhuis <derek.buitenhuis at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 11/28/2023 1:23 PM, Anton Khirnov wrote:
> >  The system will assume you want to maximise the sum of weights of
> >  selected candidates. E.g. if X is given a weight of 10 and Y and Z have
> >  weights 8 and 6 respectively, then the voting algorithm will assume you
> >  prefer a committee with both Y and Z over one with X, because 14 > 10.
> >  However, giving Y and Z weight of 4 and 2 instead would have expressed
> >  that X is preferred to a combination of Y and Z, because 6 < 10.
>
> This is the opposite of clear or concise, it is word soup.
>
> Given that some already voted the opposite of what they intende, and
> this trainwreck of an explanation, I think these votes should be
> nuked.
>
> Really. I *still* have trouble understanding what to enter even after
> reading this.
>
> What drugs were the devs on when they thought "yes, having voters enter
> free-form data is reasonable"?
>

Looks like average IQ dropped bellow room temperature.


>
> - Derek
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