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Actually my family is from Chicago & my dead grandpa is still voting for Dailey's Democratic Machine there...
This is EVE OF COURSE I'LL CHEAT

I thought you might be Russian after reading your first reply. I kinda understand your frustration with what you see as no available good candidates, but I think there are some very good people running at least outside of the Russian community. Why not send a vote their way? The point is, in the end, the more votes CSM gets, the more power it will have when it somehow runs into disputes with CCP. This could hardly be a bad thing. (Also, Krutoj seemed like an active candidate from the outside, but ways of the ru forums are mysterious.)

But you have a point - there should be an abstain option. It used to be there in the past elections.

I worked with Korvin on CSM5. He will be a hard-working delegate if he gets elected to CSM8. Russians who have yet to vote should vote ballots with Korvin in first place. Me in second, of course!

While the skeptics and naysayers will deny it, the community has been extraordinarily lucky with the composition and actions of recent CSM’s. Each of the last three CSMs were the right CSM for the time, with the right people on them to keep pushing things forward. CSM 5 showed that even a partially unified CSM could make enough waves to rock the boat; CSM 6 proved the CSM was a force for positive change and could not be ignored; CSM 7 hammered CCP to ~deliver~ on the true potential of the CSM project by demanding and getting unprecedented access. Whoever ends up on CSM 8 will be in an excellent position to keep things moving forward.

As a CSM candidate, if you think you’re running for CSM so you can go to Iceland and be a Junior Game Designer, that’s not the case. You are not going to sell your T3 Modular Titan, Capital Mining Ship or T2 production replacement idea to Soundwave or Greyscale no matter how drunk they are. Well, probably not. What you CAN do is take those ideas and, along with your fellow CSMs, present them in a context that drives the larger conversation forward; because that’s really what being on the CSM is all about – you are part of a very large, daily and important conversation with the makers of the game. They are people just like you, with many of the same in game frustrations as yourself. Talk to them as you would a corp director about what is pissing you off about some game mechanic and, more often than not, you’ll find common agreement. Where you don’t, it’s an opportunity for intelligent and articulate debate. Should you be elected, expect to work WITH your fellow CSM members more than against. Yes, there are and will be disagreements but time has proven that when you get a bunch of spaceship nerds into one room, be it as a CSM summit or Fanfest, you’re probably going to agree on 95% of everything that is right or wrong about the game.

As a voter, realize there is no such thing as a ‘perfect politician’, but you should strive to elect people that are capable of seeing all sides of an argument while still being able to stand up for their / your views.

Thank you to CCP for posting this dev blog and I hope all of this helps people understand a little more about the CSM and what all the fuss is about.

I really appreciate the time and kind words given by so many members of the CCP staff that I work and talk with on a daily basis. But yeah, this needed come out a week ago. It's a wonderful testament to how far the CCP/player relationship has come but unfortunately I expect most people will be reading it going "Well darn, wish i could have voted"

For someone who was AWOL most of the year, you're kinda straight-up full of yourself.

God no. Remote AOE DD was even worse.

I'm just calling you out for taking credit for **** you didn't do.

Neither Poe nor Seleene are CSM8 candidates, bro.

As the CSM is the Voice of the players, don't you think endorsements from players would be more relevant?

This has been CSM7s biggest failing, they forgot who they actually work for.