I’ve had a couple of organisations ask me to clarify the Donation Election’s vote-brigading rules. Understandably, they want to promote the donation election amongst their supporters, but they aren’t sure to what extent this is vote-brigading. The answer is- it depends.
We want to avoid the Donation Election being a popularity contest/​ favouring the candidates with bigger networks. Neither popularity, nor size of network, is perfectly correlated with impact.
If you’d like to reach out to your audience, feel free, but please don’t 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 audience’s opinions of marginal impact of money donated to these charities, not to the strength of their networks.
I’m aware this exortation won’t do all the work- we will also be looking into voting patterns, and new accounts (made after October 22, when the election was announced) won’t be eligible to vote.
I’ve had a couple of organisations ask me to clarify the Donation Election’s vote-brigading rules. Understandably, they want to promote the donation election amongst their supporters, but they aren’t sure to what extent this is vote-brigading. The answer is- it depends.
We want to avoid the Donation Election being a popularity contest/​ favouring the candidates with bigger networks. Neither popularity, nor size of network, is perfectly correlated with impact.
If you’d like to reach out to your audience, feel free, but please don’t 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 audience’s opinions of marginal impact of money donated to these charities, not to the strength of their networks.
I’m aware this exortation won’t do all the work- we will also be looking into voting patterns, and new accounts (made after October 22, when the election was announced) won’t be eligible to vote.