The pledge is private. When you exercise your private vote, you can either vote directly on a policy or delegate to someone else. If you delegate, then your private vote is counted as the other person’s public vote (so you can know where your vote actually went). It is also possible to delegate your public vote, in which case the private votes delegated to you are delegated further down the chain of public votes. But in either case nobody knows how you used your private vote.
Oh, I see. So just to be clear: not everyone has a public vote, only the people who have already been delegated private votes?
I still prefer the original, because if I think about myself using the system, I would want to put my private vote and my public vote towards the same person. But then I’m outing myself. So then I’d have to water down my opinions when casting the public vote.
Basically I think the problem is only important for people who are casting thousands of pledged votes. So having a cutoff where people above that point are public and those below are private seems to get almost all the benefits, while avoiding the personal costs to almost everyone.
Everyone has a public vote, but if you haven’t been delegated anything then your public vote has no effect. It seems a little strange to worry about outing yourself. If you expect people to delegate their votes to you, then you should probably state your opinions publicly. If you don’t expect people to delegate their votes to you, then you can abstain from voting publicly. I guess it’s also possible to make the public vote “semipublic” so that only people who delegated their vote to that person know where it went.
The pledge is private. When you exercise your private vote, you can either vote directly on a policy or delegate to someone else. If you delegate, then your private vote is counted as the other person’s public vote (so you can know where your vote actually went). It is also possible to delegate your public vote, in which case the private votes delegated to you are delegated further down the chain of public votes. But in either case nobody knows how you used your private vote.
Oh, I see. So just to be clear: not everyone has a public vote, only the people who have already been delegated private votes?
I still prefer the original, because if I think about myself using the system, I would want to put my private vote and my public vote towards the same person. But then I’m outing myself. So then I’d have to water down my opinions when casting the public vote.
Basically I think the problem is only important for people who are casting thousands of pledged votes. So having a cutoff where people above that point are public and those below are private seems to get almost all the benefits, while avoiding the personal costs to almost everyone.
Everyone has a public vote, but if you haven’t been delegated anything then your public vote has no effect. It seems a little strange to worry about outing yourself. If you expect people to delegate their votes to you, then you should probably state your opinions publicly. If you don’t expect people to delegate their votes to you, then you can abstain from voting publicly. I guess it’s also possible to make the public vote “semipublic” so that only people who delegated their vote to that person know where it went.