Talk:Smith//Score

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Tiered Count?

User:ThirdEyeOpen, could you give a reference to where Smith//Score is called Tiered Count? I tried to do a web search and couldn't find anything; so one might be useful to readers who'd like to know more about the context. Kristomun (talk) 18:02, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

Naming of "Smith//Score" by equal.vote

A question mainly for User:Sarawolk: I see that you deleted the line stating "The Equal Vote Coalition also calls this method Condorcet STAR." and removed the link to https://www.equal.vote/condorcet . I'm okay with removing the line (especially if it's the executive director for the organization correcting an inaccuracy about their org), but it looks like the equal.vote site hasn't been updated. Is updating the website in the plan? I'd rather that we keep the line intact if there are still credible websites out there that refer to "Smith//Score" as "Condorcet STAR". -- RobLa (talk) 06:42, 27 July 2022 (UTC)

Re User:RobLa

Hi Rob, yes I just updated that page to match. It came to my attention that there was some pushback to the name due to the fact that the smith set and Condorcet cycle are not the same thing, in light of that, and because Equal Vote isn't actively promoting this method specifically anyways, I deleted the reference. Smith//Score is a very good method that is in many ways the inverse of STAR Voting, (ranking + rating instead of rating + ranking) and it does deserve a better name, but I'll leave that to others for now. For my 2 cents, I think voting theorists should stop naming things by their inventors or by their technical specification and instead focus on naming great methods descriptively, unless the goal is to make the technical names "working titles" only and then rename them for public consumption. -- unsigned comment by Sarawolk - 03:08, 28 July 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for the clarification, Sara, and for updating equal.vote/condorcet. I fully agree with you that "Smith//Score" is a very good method with a terrible name. Did Robert Smith invent "Smith//Score"? Is that a forward slash or a backward slash in the name? Why two slashes and not just one? Where is the score for The Cure's "Just Like Heaven"? So many mysteries; so little time. -- RobLa (talk) 09:07, 28 July 2022 (UTC)
(p.s. I generally sign my comments with four tildes "~~~~", and MediaWiki puts my name and date in for me. See Help:Signatures to learn more. -- RobLa (talk))