Minecraft Server Site Selection Sparks Voting System Debate
2024-12-21
A Minecraft server's site selection problem led to an in-depth discussion of different voting systems. The initially used plurality voting system resulted in the least popular option winning due to the "spoiler effect." Subsequently, instant-runoff voting was tried, which solved some problems, but violated monotonicity when candidates changed. The author further introduces the Borda method and Arrow's impossibility theorem, ultimately recommending score voting and approval voting as superior options because they satisfy the three conditions of Arrow's impossibility theorem: unanimity, non-dictatorship, and independence of irrelevant alternatives.
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