It's funny we're using this exact voting method to rank the comments in this conversation. Imagine promoting IRV for this: "Everyone just sort all of the commen

It's funny we're using this exact voting method to rank the comments in this conversation. Imagine promoting IRV for this: "Everyone just sort all of the comments into your preferred order, and then we'll do these rounds of selection based on that data to pick the top comment. Simple." Sorry, I'm being very unfair -- politics has different tradeoffs -- but the idea amuses me.