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Wouldn't the people at the front of the line start leaving and coming back to the end?
by pkaye 11y ago
Wouldn't the people at the front of the line start leaving and coming back to the end?
- rabbyte 11y ago> It could be open to manipulation, with people leaving the queue and rejoining from the back in order to get served more quickly.
- Dylan16807 11y agoIs that even manipulation? You're not allowed to leave the line now as everyone after you hurts your standing? That sentence does not even come close to properly addressing it.
- rabbyte 11y agoIt's a quote from the article.
- Dylan16807 11y agoI know. pkaye mentioned one of the critical flaws with the plan, and you quoted the article as if he missed the part where it addressed the flaws. But it doesn't address them, it just says "maybe my plan doesn't make any sense, not my problem".
- rabbyte 11y agoI quoted the article where it concedes the point. Usually a system is only coherent within a set of assumptions, in this case the assumption is people can't easily rejoin or see their placement. That maybe doesn't hold for physical lines but the example the article goes into is an internet service where people have no control or awareness over their place in line. In any case, I'm just reiterating what the article says about this point, not sure what there was to disagree about.
- macspoofing 11y agoMaybe not. Maybe they wouldn't for the same reason why the last person doesn't generally just walk up to the front of the line. Social pressure.
- cornellwright 11y agoThe incentives don't quite work like that though. With normal FIFO queues you're free to abandon your place in line if, for example, you decide it's taking too long and you'd rather do something else. If later the line dies down you're free to go get back in line and you're not being a jerk. However if you get stuck too far back in the LIFO queue, then it's actually in your best interest to abandon it and come back later. But there's no socially appropriate way to do this. I think if you tried to do this in the real world it would quickly devolve into a mob. Random order would probably work better.
- Grue3 11y agoThere could be a machine that scans a person's boarding pass and assigns them a number. Then everyone is served by their number. And you can't get a different number if you try to scan your boarding pass again.