Adding nominee should not increment vote count

[bmagby]

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[loganweilenman]

I think Adding nominee should increment initial vote count to 1. Isn't a nomination essentially the first vote?

[bmagby]

It depends on what model is used for voting. A nomination could be the first vote assuming the person who nominates the location is 100% committed to it. I've worked at a place before where everyone got a turn at writing a location on the white board, and then we would vote after. It happened enough times where the person who nominated a location changed their mind because they didn't consider another nominated location (ie I chose McDonald's, but I forgot there was KFC down the road. Or, I didn't know there was a PF Changs around here.). I think either approach is valid. I guess I would go with the consensus on which model to use.

[omockler]

I think it all depends on how you view votes. Does everyone only get one vote? If so i think @bmagby is right, but I think we should consider all of our options first.

If you are the first person to the site on that day should you be able to list a couple of places that you would be ok with eating at or should everyone only get to nominate one restaraunt with one vote? Maybe we implement a system where you have have 2 or 3 votes. That way you could nominate a couple of places that you would be ok with or emphasize that you really want to go to one particular place.

We could also get a little more complicated and say maybe you have unlimited votes but you can only vote for any single location once per day. That way no one could put very much bias toward one place or another but would be able to nominate as many places as they would like. Or consider the scenario that this person was the first to vote on the morning, but when they come back the voting has come down to 2 locations which they didn't vote for originally. Now they can vote again they could sway the vote to which ever one of the 2 contested locations that they would rather eat at.

Obviously before any of these models could work we need to have some form of authentication. I think any of them are ok depending on what the consensus is but I would lean toward the the unlimited votes option.

I think we should make a decision on this before we move forward on issue #13 as well.