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[Ant__.]

Originally posted by paulhager:
May I recommend that instead of using truncated Borda for your voting method you use either Approval Voting or Condorcet voting.

Theoretically, Condorcet is the best voting system - the "true majority winner" is also known as the "Condorcet Winner". Condorcet matches every contender head-to-head with the contender that beats all others becoming the overall winner. You could call it instant round robin voting. To do Condorcet, just have people rank their choices as before - putting two choices at the same rank is also permitted. Instead of only picking top two, voters can rank as many or as few screenshots as they like. To evaluate, put the results in a 2 x 2 matrix. Here's a link to a to the Condorcet Method that explains how to do it. In the event of a tie, use the Borda Count (untruncated) as the tie break.

The alternative approach, Approval Voting (AV), just allows everyone to vote for as many contenders as they like. All of the votes are totalled and the winner is the contender with the most votes. AV is nearly as good as Condorcet and it's a little simpler, though if you just set up an Excel spread sheet and plug the Condorcet ranking info, the answer will pop right out.

Why use a different voting system at all? Once you decide to use some other system (truncated Borda) besides the one most people know (first-past-the-post, the system of voting for only one contender - it's what we use in elections in the U.S.) then why not go with the system that produces the most fair outcome?

Why am I suggesting this? In part because I'm interested in voting systems and in part because I'd like to educate people about alternatives to the systems that are used in elections. Americans who are unhappy with the candidates we're going to have in the November Presidential election should ponder how likely it is that split vote effects probably resulted in the preferred candidate being knocked off early. It's say this is almost a certainty in the GOP primaries and probably has already happened in the Dem primaries as well.

My personal preference would be Condorcet, with Borda for a tie break. Give it a try and see what you think.

Thanks for your interest and comments paulhager. I will take a look at your link.

[tombo1984]

Gathrun, hate to be a moaner, but doesnt lightening picture come under the category of Editing? Correct me if in wrong...

[Gathrun]

I don't know for sure. This is the first time I've entered, but I was figuring that's what was meant by rule/step #4 up there.

If not, it can be ignored.

[tambor198]

Wow, the competition is going to be rough this month. There are some terrific screens already posted for the month of March. Below you will see my four entries for this month.


Stalking The Sun




Plane Disaster




Sun Cruiser (this one is not edited)




I Think We Hit Something

[Whisperer]

i liek that plain disaster of yours Tambor198, What hapend there? Did you hit some king of critical spot or something. Think that's one of the biggest bang's i've seen so far!

[tambor198]

Originally posted by Whisperer:
i liek that plain disaster of yours Tambor198, What hapend there? Did you hit some king of critical spot or something. Think that's one of the biggest bang's i've seen so far!

I picked that carrier up heading south out of Tokyo Bay. I fired a total of ten torpedoes to get that baby. I got two hits on the starboard side out of six fired the other four either ran under, prematured or didn't explode. Headed deep, went under the carrier with the escort dropping DCs where I had just been and fired all stern tubes. Got two more hits, the third one started a chain reaction, I snapped the picture a couple a seconds after the torpedo hit. I thought it was the 4th of July. After the forth one hit the carrier exploded one more time and than bottomed upped and head for the bottom.

[BlueSabor]

Good luck everyone!


Confrontation



The Hit



Flaming Fires



Death of the Big Guns (edit like this one better)

[Doolittle81]

Originally posted by tombo1984:
Gathrun, hate to be a moaner, but doesnt lightening picture come under the category of Editing? Correct me if in wrong...

Originally posted by Gathrun:
I don't know for sure. This is the first time I've entered, but I was figuring that's what was meant by rule/step #4 up there.

If not, it can be ignored.

I don't run this competition but I do sometimes compete. It's been clear to me that
Lightening(brightening) Screen Captures has been specifically allowed...almost encouraged for dark/night pictures. It is not considered as 'editing'.

[Ant__.]

Gathrun and Doolittle81 are correct. Lightening very dark screenshots in not considered editing them. Rule number 4 covers this

[tombo1984]

Originally posted by Realjambo:
Gathrun and Doolittle81 are correct. Lightening very dark screenshots in not considered editing them. Rule number 4 covers this

Fair doo's...