ErikH2000 wrote:
the game is designed to work best when people are being honest about their preferences.
No voting system is immune to strategic voting, but the openness of this one makes me wonder if it's too easy.
For instance, suppose I'd be kind of OK with Man on the Moon--of the things on the list, it's somewhere in the middle for me--but I'm afraid that everyone else wants to see it. I might strike that one off the list rather than striking off my bottom choice, on the grounds that someone else will probably take care of the other things I don't like, but I can use my veto power to eliminate something that, under most voting systems, would probably win.
Similarly, suppose we're near the end and I'm faced with a list consisting of A, B, and C. My preference is A >
B >
C, and I know the next person's preference is B >
A >
C. In a "
purely honest"
vote, I'd strike off C as its the one I want to see least; the next person would then pick B over A, and B would win. But if I'm right about their preferences, I should strike off B--it's not my least favorite, but striking that guarantees a win for A.
I mean, I'm interested to see how this'll play out, but I think what you've got here conflates two different systems--a strategy game and a voting method--and I think it works much better as the former than the latter. (To that end, I'd actually love it if, once the game is over, everyone who participated would post and/or PM me a ranked preference list of all the movies suggested, to see how closely the game-winning movie corresponds to the group's movie preference.)
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