Editing WikiVote

A '''WikiVote''' is just a vote taken via a wiki.  Some issues:

* can you change a vote after you make it?
::Sure. You can remove your vote simply by removing it from your [[User:UserName/MyVotes]] page perhaps to switch to support an another more credible, better-argued campaign.

* which [[w:voting system]] should you use?  for what purposes?
::The question is already answered elsewhere, though disagreeing views are welcome. The current proposition is a one-to-one vote: You have one WikiVote per issue. A more interesting question is how and by who is defined what is an "issue". Obivious issues are a [[company]], a [[brand]], a [[product]] and a [[product group]] so we should start with these basics and then expand.

**See [[m:TIPAESA]] for an outline of a typical issue position argument structure.  Presumably something can't be a [[Consumerium:issue]] until it has had some time to be elaborated, if this is to be a [[w:deliberative democracy]].

* how is [[w:user authentication]] performed?  By just accounts and passwords, or by IP number, or what?
::The existence of multiple levels of authentication is the basic approach, but the details are yet quite open.

:::This could be [[factionally defined]] if there is a way for [[faction]]s to register [[distrust]] in each other's methods and reduce their power if a [[Consumerium:audit]] shows them abusing proxies or something.  Make them compete to create invincible systems of authentication, or none, as long as they dont claim to speak for [[individual buying criteria]] that they don't speak for.

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= Old obsoleted plans =
The voting pages are most obviously "noindex, nofollow" ( stops search engines from indexing ) and furthermore copyright of the wiki user i.e. '''not copylefted'''. If someone wants to publish vote sets in another namespace this surely will be allowed or even recommended. ( If NGOs want to publish vote sets it's sort of the revival of the [[indirect vote]]. )

''See [[edits, votes and bets]] for the debate about how to decide the final
[[Consumerium buying signal]].''

Some basic paradigms have been suggested to measure the support of [[campaigns]]:
*[[Direct Vote]] requires many votes and rewards heavy participation, and,
*[[Indirect Vote]] requires fewer votes and rewards [[faction]] organization
*and the oddly-named [[WikiVote]] which seems to overlap with both of them

==To vote or not to vote?==
The Policy on Consumerium is that '''voting''' is discouraged for various reasons. 

#) By voting you open up yourself to severe consumption pattern profiling. Please consider [[not using real name]] if you intend to vote.
#) We don't want any sorts of census effect à la facebook. So please, srsly, don't vote.
#) Voting is unwiki
#) ...
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==Planned onwiki vote structure==

*[[User:Username/My representational vote]] (i.e. proxy or [[Indirect Vote]], this is probably not used at all in the end)
*[[User:Username/Boycotts]]
*[[User:Username/Avoids]]
*[[User:Username/Supports]]
*[[User:Username/Recommends]]
*[[User:Username/Hedges]]
*[[User:Username/Hedges heavily]]

Use following syntax (vote only once on each "thing")

*[[Company X]]
*[[Country X]]
*[[Product group X]]
*...

One can add any number of reasons by prefixing like this (you can intermix commas with "and"s so don't worry about that.

'''[[Company X]] for [[Reason 1]], [[Reason 2]] and [[Reason 3]]''' 

in the above articles to cast your votes. Vote only once on one thing

==Voting in the future==
In the future you can use one line to vote on multiple entities on one line.

*[[User:Username/Prefers]]
*[[User:Username/Prefers strongly]]

All votables that are before the keyword '''over''' gets voted up and every votable after that gets voted down.

*<font color="Green">Prefers [[X]]</font><font color="Red"> over [[Y]] </font>results in  +1 and -1 respectively

*<font color="Green">Strongly prefers [[X]] and [[Y]] </font><font color="Red">  over Z </font> results in  +2, +2 and -2 respectively

* <font color=green>Strongly prefers [[Product X]] and [[Product Y]]<font color=red> over [[Product Z]]</font> <for [[reason 1]]>

etc.etc.

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==What's this I keep hearing about a dual voting system?==
[[Indirect Vote]]s probably won't be implemented due to lack of interest