Wormholes

I have posted my announcement in Jita Park Speakers Corner and chose to open this topic as I am a WH dweller and more inclined to have WH life as refference and way of play..

My initial statement, followed by some explanations is below.



For now I have only three statements to make:

- I live, play, have fun in WH's. My game is pew
- I will install and run my own Liquid Democracy server to be used by the community
- I am available to participate in any debate, via forum, ingame, live or registered podcasts. Although I carefully watch the forums, please contact me if interested in my views.

While it's all nice and good that you'd try and represent everyone based on what the votes say, that doesn't really tell anything about your own credentials. Tell us why you would be the best candidate to voice our thoughts and ideas? Tell us what are your own thoughts on what areas of the game need improving and how would you go about fixing them? Tell us what you would do if a vote would go against your own opinion in an issue that you consider extremely important? Can you still objectively go against your own thoughts and still push for that opposing issue?

In short, please give us at least one good reason to vote for you. Selling your opinion based on the votes really isn't one.

I don't really think this idea can work. On the one hand it's an interesting idea that you would crowdsource all of your opinions, but the reality is that when you're in CSM meetings you're not going to be able to canvass opinion or contribute properly unless you have a clear and unambiguous stance going in.

It's not like you can ask them to pause the meeting while you find out what your opinion should be based on the public vote, and the chances are any vote is only going to be meaningful with a significant number of WH dwellers participating, which will take time, awareness and motivation. Without that the "WH consensus" is only going to be as accurate as your time and patience permits.

tl;dr: Your idea, whilst different and well intended, won't work in practice.

@corbexx I consider that all platforms should be tested before and I will take the opportunity to participate in the primaries. I intend to win by proving that the best way for the community proposals is crowdsourcing and that the current type of managing the community input is failing.

@Durzel The apparent fluidity of CSM discussions is being made useless by the CCP interaction with them. I strongly believe that a CSM member should raise the issues identified by the community and any answer can be prepared in advance.
The direct democracy idea worked in ancient Greece where citizens decided on the city issues. The need for a representative democracy arisen apparently when the option of consulting the population on multiple times or on a shirt notice was considered unfeasible. We now have the Internet as base for tools that allow enormous number of people to interact with reasonable speed.
From my point of view, running for CSM is not a job interview, nor a political option. The community does not chooses the brightest mind for a specific task (as no test is being administrated) or the best political platform, as nothing else but relaying of message can be done in relation with CCP. More, the number of votes given to any candidate is not a guarantee of community reaction to specific issues, a problem that can be easily solved by my proposal.

@Borlag Crendraven I choose to adopt a different mindset and deviate from the savior/leader/know it all stereotype. I have a minimum set of skills that qualify me to participate in the elections from CCP point of view, time and resources to do what I propose, RL qualifications to raise up to the task and traits to make it work. To be put into practice my proposal require a person that has the flexibility to understand technical aspects, use the knowledge of the community and not be involved in a partisan way in a specific type of gameplay.
If this counts for you, I am European, lawyer and consultant in IT policies, and English is not my primary language.

@trolls Keep it going and do not forget to vote for yourselves :)

@Doc Hollidai Please define the term relevant corps.

Based on your answer, which pretty much said "I fill the minimum requirements, vote for me", I highly doubt you'd get any votes at all outside your own circle of friends. Selling your opinion based on what majority wants is never a good idea, especially in cases where you simply don't even have the luxury of waiting for the majority decision. Do you really think you can open up a vote in the middle of a CSM meeting and base your opinion on that? There's a thing called non-disclosure agreemement, which might or might not be familiar to you, considering you say you're a lawyer. While I'm sure that qualifies you more than properly for a poiticians job, it does anything but qualify you as the voice of the people.

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Doc Hollidai

You don't. I'll explain below.

@Borlag Crendraven @Doc Hollidai @Tisisan
You asked the reasons to vote for one candidate or another, thus implying a comparison of some sort. Am I taller, smarter, better looking, better literate or a smother talker? Is this in anyway relevant for the discussion? Am I or am I not is pointles to even try discerning, but I think the asking that questions it helps to determine the roles we play on the election stage.
It seems like a measuring competition, and might be in some cases, but we discuss in a false dichotomy. There should be no split between the candidates and the community, as the real parties are CCP and us.
Maybe some prefer the type of candidate that promise to change EVE and ensure a happy and bug-less gaming for everyone. Maybe others feel they need a better person, in whatever way you can think off, to take split second decisions and provide them a better gaming environment.
I cannot promise to be that person, in fact I am not here to offer you something, but to rock your boat and show that you do not "need" anyone.
CSM is not a almighty decision body that makes or breaks the game in a meeting. It is in fact a slow moving wheel in a mechanism that might or might not be used by CCP.
I am running to put you in charge, to wake you up and give you responsibility. To make you all that Greek citizen with a voting right.

with less then a year in WH space, and coming from a corp that has really only been in c5 space how do you plan to represent the group that you will have very little knowledge about? also in your system why don't i just send a computer and cut out the middle man

so need to have combat on the resume to vote .. cool I support this

now we need a new candidate

http://eve-kill.net/?a=pilot_detail&plt_id=692598

cause this one needs to go back to basic

This is not a diplomatic thread this is politics, check friendships, and pleasantries at the door, there is a job to do. What others within the WH community do you interact with? You just returned to WH space some 2 weeks ago and I have heard no mention of you in diplomatic or really any talk with any other WH groups or even from within my own, Due to how the CSM works with the NDA how will you have issues voted on that cannot be mentioned to the public? Members of the CSM are expected to have a level of knowledge about the game that they can present the opinions of their respective electorate on all issues, on the fly. Given your killboard is nearly blank what do you do in game? after 2 years what aspects do you consider yourself well versed in?