On Mon, 25 Mar 2019 at 19:28, Ben Ramsey <b...@benramsey.com> wrote: > If someone enters nonsense or “n/a” or any value that doesn’t justify > their vote or doesn’t appear to satisfactorily justify it according to some > metric of justification satisfaction, then does that person’s vote get > thrown out or discounted? >
During the experiment, not at all. I'm not presupposing any outcome, and if commenting was kept after the experiment and if it was to have an effect like you describe, it would need to go through the RFC process and be approved. > What is the goal of the experiment? > To see if there's a basis in practice for the concern expressed around who can vote and the problems it may/does cause; To see how people respond to being asked to comment, explaining their choice of vote; To see what impact commenting has on the voting process. It would need to be run for a set period of time; perhaps best measured in "Number of votes carried out". Completely guessed without looking at past vote frequency, but say 4 months or 10 votes, whichever is longer. Peter
