Not to be a crocodile about this my dear Plover, but leaving dimensionality out of the equation, along with, I suppose, dementionality, a single binary vote is so inherently illogical, if not repulsive, as to cry out for a solution that will never come.
Distributed thumbs-up/down across a broad slate of candidates over multiple voting rounds might result in some change, but that change would result in my total astonishment.
Maybe we could mod candidates flushing down a firehose...
Frank
Sure, we all know and love our engineers and scientists, and I've always insisted that, to paraphrase a fictitious mathematician, "technology will find a way." Not to totally wallow in cliche here, but once a concept is fleshed out. and surely once it's demonstrated there is NO turning back - genies, bottles and stuff - no matter how hard you twist the stem of the cells.
Anyway, one of those hairy dude scientists, an A. Einstein I believe, addressed precisely that conundrum, though on an admittedly more...spectacular level, when he witnessed a phenomenally cool technology he helped shepherd to fruition, and wondered aloud whether he and his colleagues, Teller among the exceptions, might have been more productively employed otherwise.
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Not to be a crocodile about this my dear Plover, but leaving dimensionality out of the equation, along with, I suppose, dementionality, a single binary vote is so inherently illogical, if not repulsive, as to cry out for a solution that will never come. Distributed thumbs-up/down across a broad slate of candidates over multiple voting rounds might result in some change, but that change would result in my total astonishment. Maybe we could mod candidates flushing down a firehose... Frank
Sure, we all know and love our engineers and scientists, and I've always insisted that, to paraphrase a fictitious mathematician, "technology will find a way." Not to totally wallow in cliche here, but once a concept is fleshed out. and surely once it's demonstrated there is NO turning back - genies, bottles and stuff - no matter how hard you twist the stem of the cells.
Anyway, one of those hairy dude scientists, an A. Einstein I believe, addressed precisely that conundrum, though on an admittedly more...spectacular level, when he witnessed a phenomenally cool technology he helped shepherd to fruition, and wondered aloud whether he and his colleagues, Teller among the exceptions, might have been more productively employed otherwise.
Frank