It seems to me that to do this effectively, Less Wrong will need to make a lot of good decisions. Upvoting and downvoting comments works for deciding what quotes should appear first in a rationality quote thread, but to do something as important as choosing which charities to promote or choosing the name of a Facebook group, I think we could use something higher-caliber.
Range voting looks pretty good but maybe someone who has studied voting systems can suggest something better. I’m thinking maybe a web app that would make it easy to create polls, add options, and vote on them, maybe with captchas associated with all those actions to discourage any lurking 4chan types. It’s 2 AM in my time zone, and I’m below the journeyman level in web development, so perhaps someone else would like to cook this up. If not I’ll probably work on it tomorrow.
It seems to me that to do this effectively, Less Wrong will need to make a lot of good decisions. Upvoting and downvoting comments works for deciding what quotes should appear first in a rationality quote thread, but to do something as important as choosing which charities to promote or choosing the name of a Facebook group, I think we could use something higher-caliber.
Range voting looks pretty good but maybe someone who has studied voting systems can suggest something better. I’m thinking maybe a web app that would make it easy to create polls, add options, and vote on them, maybe with captchas associated with all those actions to discourage any lurking 4chan types. It’s 2 AM in my time zone, and I’m below the journeyman level in web development, so perhaps someone else would like to cook this up. If not I’ll probably work on it tomorrow.
Edit: Looks like something similar already exists, see http://vote.superduperapps.com/