Iâve had a couple of organisations ask me to clarify the Donation Electionâs vote-brigading rules. Understandably, they want to promote the donation election amongst their supporters, but they arenât sure to what extent this is vote-brigading. The answer is- it depends.
We want to avoid the Donation Election being a popularity contest/â favouring the candidates with bigger networks. Neither popularity, nor size of network, is perfectly correlated with impact.
If youâd like to reach out to your audience, feel free, but please donât tell them to vote for you. You can explain the event, and mention that you are a candidate, but we want the votes to inform us of the Forum audienceâs opinions of marginal impact of money donated to these charities, not to the strength of their networks.
Iâm aware this exortation wonât do all the work- we will also be looking into voting patterns, and new accounts (made after October 22, when the election was announced) wonât be eligible to vote.
Iâve had a couple of organisations ask me to clarify the Donation Electionâs vote-brigading rules. Understandably, they want to promote the donation election amongst their supporters, but they arenât sure to what extent this is vote-brigading. The answer is- it depends.
We want to avoid the Donation Election being a popularity contest/â favouring the candidates with bigger networks. Neither popularity, nor size of network, is perfectly correlated with impact.
If youâd like to reach out to your audience, feel free, but please donât tell them to vote for you. You can explain the event, and mention that you are a candidate, but we want the votes to inform us of the Forum audienceâs opinions of marginal impact of money donated to these charities, not to the strength of their networks.
Iâm aware this exortation wonât do all the work- we will also be looking into voting patterns, and new accounts (made after October 22, when the election was announced) wonât be eligible to vote.