Talk:Smith//Score: Difference between revisions

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|Sarawolk|date=03:08, 28 July 2022}}

:Thanks for the clarification, Sara, and for updating [https://equal.vote/condorcet equal.vote/condorcet]. I fully agree with you that "Smith//Score" is a very good method with a terrible name. Did [[w:Robert Smith (musician)|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 [https://musescore.com/ the score] for The Cure's "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2aBn-QuPVw Just Like Heaven]"? So many mysteries; so little time. -- [[User:RobLa|RobLa]] ([[User talk:RobLa|talk]]) 09:07, 28 July 2022 (UTC) <br/>(p.s. I generally sign my comments with four tildes "<nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>", and MediaWiki puts my name and date in for me. See [[Help:Signatures]] to learn more. -- [[User:RobLa|RobLa]] ([[User talk:RobLa|talk]]))