Jita Park Speakers Corner

In compiling these recommendations, I am not giving any weight to how the candidates play EVE, how much they agree or disagree with me, and whether or not they are also supporting me. My major criteria is "do I think this person will do a good job if they are elected?" I expect that all of these candidates will be hard-working team players who will strongly but fairly advocate for the entire community.

None of my recommendations are bloc candidates. This is not because there aren't excellent bloc candidates this year, it's simply that their blocs will ensure they get elected, and supporting them isn't tactically wise under STV. I want a diverse CSM that represents all areas of the game.

My recommended ballot for CSM8 (Version 1.0)

1. Trebor Daehdoow. My polling indicates that 35% of my voters are voting for me because I'm experienced, 31% because I work hard and get results, 18% because they are old and/or bald like me, and 16% because they want to annoy Poetic Stanziel.

2. Tie: Ripard Teg is knowledgeable, hard-working, and a great writer, while Malcanis is probably the all-time champion goodposter on these forums -- he's been around forever and nobody has a bad word to say about him.

4. corebloodbrothers impressed me when he ran for the first time last year, but the voting system conspired against him. With any luck, the change to STV will mean the second time will be the charm.

5. Tie: Nathan Jameson and James Arget would be great voices for Wormhole residents. If the stars align, both of them will be.

7. I have served on CSM with both the major Russian candidates, and I like both of them personally, which makes choosing between them painful. However, I think Korvin is the better choice given the challenges and opportunities that CSM 8 will face.

8. Ali Aras is a rare bird, the experienced newbie. I want CCP to put more resources into making EVE more newbie-friendly, and her voice will help convince them to do that.

9. Mangala Solaris brings yet another important perspective to the table, and is well-respected in his community.

10. Given how much crap I've taken from his supporters, you may be surprised to learn that Psychotic Monk is going to be on my ballot. I disagree with some of his positions, but he argues them fairly -- and anything we do agree on is likely to be correct. I am hoping he will be CSM 8's Alekseyev Karrde.

11. Unforgiven Storm is a good industrialist candidate who has the bad luck to be a Goon who is running as an independent. That means he probably won't get much love from bloc voters, and a lot of other people won't vote for him because he's a Goon. If he doesn't make it, I hope he does well enough to try again next year. If so, he could be the corebloodbrothers of CSM 9.

12. Roc Wieler will either be a decent CSM, or he'll be able to role-play a decent CSM. Either works for me.

13. Mike Azariah wants to represent the casual player, and has shown he can work hard on community-related projects.

14. To Be Determined. I am really undecided about who to put in my final slot, and I want to sleep on it. Think you know who it should be? If so, post in this thread and tell me why.

Or perhaps another candidate will make me an offer I can't refuse -- Politics makes strange bedfellows, after all.

Ok I do have a question, ignoring the fact that no one seems to be able to tell me what you did during CSM 7 except the parts I consider an abomination.

So here is my question.

Given the levels of expertise that will be on CSM 8, what areas of your expertise do you feel that you should go to Iceland for Summits?

In another words, in what areas are you better than the rest of the CSM candidates?

So CSM elections are but a dog and pony show?

Which bloc with the most votes wins?

And candidates have to worry about assasination if they actually did vote their conscious?

I thought this was a sandbox game, not American politics!

You should make Grand Admiral Simo-Hayha your 14th slot candidate.

With all the hard work you do, you deserve to have some fun every now and then.

Is it possible to be in more than one of these categories? Though admittedly... that last one does appeal the most...

And it does this at the cost of essentially forcing organized voting blocs to use their 'tactical voting opportunity' to its fullest, whereas before the potential gains of the blocs was purely hypothetical stuff based on best-case results of what would have effectively been gambling.

That's the ***** about trying to defeat organization with a system - it doesn't work without going to "Trebor's systemic voter fraud disguised as a STV variant" levels, which nobody sane will go to.

So... you want me to believe that Goonwarm either doesn't have the ability to organize votes, or they won't out of the goodness of their hearts. That's why they are attacking the new system and trying to suppress voter turn out, because Goons just care about whats best for the game and are very upset that the rules have changed to benefit them.

Are you going to try to get me to pay a 500m isk recruitment fee and contract my stuff for you to move out to null, too?

Posted: 2012.02.09 12:14

While he was Secretary of CSM 6

Well which is it? Either Trebor is exceptionally bad for not producing results, or he's exceptionally bad for producing a list of results.

You can't criticise a leader for not executing enough criminals one minute and then condemn capital punishment the next.

A somewhat related question is: if the situation was reversed and he believed three to five WH candidates would be elected, but only one nullsec bloc candidate would, would he be encouraging people to include one of the later and none of the former?

Since we are not going to see that situation anytime soon, one could be very cinical about his answer to the above.