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:Although the differences in properties and behavior are IMHO significant enough to make River a separate method, I wouldn't imagine it to have its own article on Wikipedia, since the procedure itself is so similar. But I don't know for sure what Wikipedia's convention is in these matters. [[User:Kristomun|Kristomun]] ([[User talk:Kristomun|talk]]) 21:43, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
:: Interesting, thanks! Are there any advantages to RP, or is River+ pretty much just an improvement (by reducing sensitivity to very weak candidates)? I'm struggling to think of possible downsides to this modification, relative to MAM or MMV. --[[User:Closed Limelike Curves|Closed Limelike Curves]] ([[User talk:Closed Limelike Curves|talk]]) 23:59, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
::: The main advantage would probably be legibility. If you were to tell someone, "lock in all defeats except when that would make the resulting social order nonsensical", he could probably follow along; but if you were to say "lock in all defeats except that a candidate can't be defeated twice", then he'd probably ask why there's such a strange exception. That and the RP algorithm by its nature gives you a full social order, but for River you'd have to run the winner method n times, which could seem more clunky. These are not ''big'' advantages, but if I had to name any advantages to RP/MAM/MMV over River, those would be it. [[User:Kristomun|Kristomun]] ([[User talk:Kristomun|talk]]) 01:45, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
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