wasted votes

[kinboshi]

Even if it means your vote goes to a party that seems to have no chance of winning in your constituency?  Is that not a flawed strategy?

I'm see the semantics of the words tactics and strategy in the chess sense.

A tactic has a definte gain in mind and is usually a short term thing.
Strategy is more to do with positional considerations and the gain you hope to get from it might be harder to define or might not be applicable in all continginies. It is typically a long term thing.
 
I'm not too sure if it's bad strategy or bad tactics on my part (as an opponent of proportional represntation) to try to convince you to vote libdem again.

Vote Lib Dem again?  Interesting assumption.

Looked at the link you posted and the other two options were UKIP and BNP.

My assumption was not so much that you were a libdem man, rather I made two assumptions, the first being that you weren't a UKIP or BNP man, and the second being that the link you posted listed all the candidates standing in your constituency.

That doesn't tell you who I voted for last time though, even if your assumptions there are correct.

[thetank]

You've made an assumption yourself there...

Although it is a horribly ambiguous sentence on my part. One could equally take from it that I'm stating that not only did you physical vote for the LibDems last election, but that you did so on my urging.

Might need to keep this to pm, I'm getting too dull, analyzing sentences might be too much, even for a politics thread.

[thetank]

At least you aren't in a safe seat. Nottingham North is living proof that you can put a red rosette on a donkey and it gets over 50% of the vote. Wasted vote voting for him or anyone else I guess? Got my postal voting form today, might just not bother...

I'll admit I don't know much about the politics of Nottingham North, but I do know about $69+$6 45 man sitngos on FullTilt.

The tournaments begin when 45 players have registered.

During normal hours, the first 15 register straight away. They're almost all multi tabling regs and will register withing a few seconds of the tournament becoming available.
The next 15 players register significantly slower, but after there are 30 players waiting the last 15 register quite quickly. The last 5 register extrememly quickly indeed.

During quieter periods, there are maybe only 4 or 5 regs that register straight away. It can be extremely slow to get up to a point where about 15/20 players ready to play. If this quorum is achieved within about 15 minutes then people start to actually believe that the tournament will start and stay. If not, players frequently unregister and fk off. The tournament sits with about 5-15 players for half an hour or so and eventually everyone gives up and unregisters.

Obviously if you're interested in the sitngo starting, it's always better to be registered than not. It certainly wouldn't make much sense to have the lobby open, but not register until more players have sat down. It would make even less sense to grumble about not enough people joining the sitngo when you haven't sat down yourself yet.

[redsimon]

At least you aren't in a safe seat. Nottingham North is living proof that you can put a red rosette on a donkey and it gets over 50% of the vote. Wasted vote voting for him or anyone else I guess? Got my postal voting form today, might just not bother...

I'll admit I don't know much about the politics of Nottingham North, but I do know about 45 man sitngos.

The tournaments begin when 45 players have registered.

During normal hours, the first 15 register quite quickly. They're almost all multi tabling regs.
The next 15 players register significantly slower, but after there are 30 players waiting the last 15 register quite quickly. The last 5 register extrememly quickly.

During quieter periods, there are maybe only 4 or 5 regs that register straight away. It can be extremely slow to get up to a point of about 15/20 players ready to play. If this quorum is achieved then people start to actually believe that the tournament will start. If not, players frequently unregister and fk off. The tournament sits with about 5-15 players for an hour or so and eventually everyone gives up and unregisters.

If you're interested in the sitngo starting, it's always better to be registered than not. It certainly wouldn't make much sense to have the lobby open, but not register until more players have sat down. It would make even less sense to grumble about not enough people joining the sitngo when you haven't sat down yourself yet.

Should I tick the box to join other sngs tho'? (Ended up voting anyway so wasted vote but not wasted in a sense)...

[thetank]

wiiiiii, you get a sticker.

Regarding your question, I have no idea. I've gotten lost in my own metaphor.

[redsimon]

wiiiiii, you get a sticker.

QFT before you ninja edit? ($69 sngs your balla )

[thetank]

It's not my money   

[redsimon]

It's not my money   

Does Greekstein stake you online?

[George2Loose]

This is why all politics is fucked. All the voting systems are useless. One of the reason why I'd be in favour for a more proportional system is that it might actually start engaging people.