Wormholes

"THINGS.." Every candidate promises to do things. However what type of things are promised shows the posibillity to realize them.
I promise to make the community voice heard. If one promises to change a specific feature, I call upon him to prove it can be done. By contrary, my platform if perfectly feasible.

My platform states that I will organize a system that collects community input and presents it in a organized and justified form to CCP. It does not state that will be used during CSM meetings or used to break the NDA as wrongly has been presented by others not by me.
Ergo...is the only solution that has a chance of really helping to represent the community. ;)

So you are essentially promising to be a one trick pony then? Take a short list of things small and unimportant things with you and if they are never covered you are useless and a waste of votes and CCP's money.

Since there is a high to definite probability that the things discussed in the CSM are never even on your initial list. If something new comes up, which is CCP's job, and the reason we pay them, are you willing to relinquish your voice and say in those matters because it was not voted on previously?

What would you do when a situation arises that has not been voted on? You obviously will not be able to poll for opinions in any way because of the immediate nature of the situation and the fact that since you have been presented with said situation you are now implicitly bound by the NDA. You forget that this game is not a democracy, it is a corporate dictatorship, you do as they say. If you dislike it, goodbye.

Either
A) We are all being massively trolled,
Or
B) This guy is a self-decieved delusional individual devoid of common sense.

I'd give it a 50/50 chance.

wait so do I vote for myself or night bagle?

Real life democracy does not translate into a corporate structure where your existence is as a guest. Which is a disconnect you and your ridiculous backers do not seem to understand. I am guessing you have never operated in a structure like CCP's or any other company that fiercely guards its intellectual property or you would not be so adamant about this.

The relationship between CCP and the CSM is not like a government and its subjugated masses as you like to reference so much. It is a corporate dictatorship, they(CCP) can and will make any demands of you(CSM) they wish. Including not allowing you to speak to us regarding matters they discuss with you. As two step said, once elected you are not allowed to tell us ANYTHING at all of what goes on over there. Nothing, zip, zero, nada. It is not and has no bearing on some idiot group of pirate hackers that spew propaganda on reddit to other idiot pirate hackers to make electoral statistics in idiot riddled political structures.


If CCP has something to say THEY will do the talking and the CSM will shut up until they are told otherwise. That means YOU, will be shutting up until THEY say you can talk, and only about what they say you are allowed to talk about. Which they would have previously published anyway before granting you permission to speak. Think of it like North Korea and you are a scientist that works on their bottle rocket program.

Think about this for a little bit. You rely on the fact that you can give an opinion in the absence of a vote measure, which in a normal governmental system would work. In a corporate dictatorship, it is not allowed and punishable quite severely under the law. So you are pretty much constantly relying on your opinion, and that opinion has already been voted on by way of your platform. Which only happens once, since it can only happen, once.

So even if by some miracle your feeble brain managed to compile a list, it would be short, and largely irrelevant to what the CSM does with CCP. And once compiled however it would instantly be rendered useless because CCP can jolly well do whatever they like with their property. You are simply there as a sounding board to give opinions on the really really stupid ones.


Your job is not to be some useless parrot that sits there and does nothing until it is allowed to speak, your job is to understand those around you well enough to stand up and make a decision on their behalf. When CCP in their good graces allows you to talk, then they will give you a nice sheet of bullet points you can talk to us about but by that point we would have already read the dev blog and you would merely fade into being a puppet.

Really, name calling?
my my my!

So what is the point of any other CSM? Because according to you they are only a sounding board to bounce ideas off of. CCP can quell the discourse in any manner they chose and this is true, but let us not forget they may have the intellectual copy right but the players have the cash to pay for that property. If those players chose to spend their money elsewhere then CCP is rendered useless. They only provide a product, it is up to the players if they want to pay for that product. Thefore it is in CCP's best interest to allow the player base some actual input. So to claim that CCP or for that matter any corporation are dictatorships and that they are only responsible to themselves falls in the realm of …..

Remember the Jita monument?

Fair enough.

@Winthorp: I have stated that I was not into forum playing or types of social interaction that enriches the out of game experience, and like many other current and past candidates I intend to remedy that in order to be able to provide the best flow of information.
Therefore you can see that I am currently active in the forums, and recently on Twitter @NightBeagle .

@Bloemkoolsaus: Chris Eliot just became my favorite source of quotations for today:

Just can't beat that roundness of a native English speaker, when asking to be lead. Well, it's a matter of taste and opinion.

@DJ P0N-3


While I cannot decide who wants to talk to me, and how much knowledge one is willing to share, I do remember the Two Step offer to coach candidates. As my decision to run is fairly recent I wonder if anyone took it.
I strongly believe that any wormholer that will reaches CSM should benefit from his experience.

On a separate idea, by the looks of the comments I have received until now, not much has been said except: it won't work, we want something else and show me the leader.
I take it as a sign that is working, at least to the point where people realize that there is a proposal on the table, and it can be used, or improved further.
However if what you would consider that an attitude of openness and dialogue consists of me falling into the gallery of leader figures and measuring some body parts, I regret but I have to take a stand for what I believe in, and that is crowdsourcing.
I continue to be available for any civilized dialogue and the votes will talk at the end.

I wanted to rebut them both at once, hence the ellipsis between them. Ellipses in quotes denote skipped text between the two statements, you know. If you would like, I can split them into two quote boxes, but it's a waste of space.