CSM Campaigns

I am withdrawing my bid for the CSM. I hope that is satisfactory for those who consider this more than just a game.

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I've witnessed or participated in many conversations that Marlona has contributed to in various fora. He thinks critically about the pain points that affect Eve and its players and has demonstrated an ability to raise their profile and widen the conversation, bringing attention to them. Bonus: whenever he highlights an issue he usually has an idea for a solution in his back pocket as well.

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Enjoyed working with Marlona - he's someone who always took the time to thoroughly explain their position even when in heated debate. Oh, and most of those times I ended being swayed to his side. Good communicator, and very knowledgable.

Also: dat Nereus.

My name is Bhock and I am one of the contributor of the Capstable Podcast.

In early 2014 our podcast interviewed a great majority of the candidates for CSM9 and we will be doing the same for CSM10.

Here is our announcement: http://capstable.net/2014/12/01/council-of-stellar-management-x-call-for-candidate-interviews/

As we stated in the announcement, you can contact us to schedule (quickly, interview season is almost over) your one on one interview via any of the following methods:

Email: podcast@capstable.net
Twitter: @CapStable
Or via our contact form

We look forward to speaking to you about your particular skill set and expertise in EVE Online and we hope you success in your candidacy.

Sincerely,

Bhock
Contributor of the Capstable Podcast

Marolona,

As you know, the NDA is extremely important for the CSM to do its work, and there have been past CSMs (Darius III, specifically) who did not take the NDA seriously and leaked a number of CSM skype logs. One can only assume this has reduced the willingness of CCP to work with the CSM.

Given your history of leaking logs from past jobs you've worked at, like the themittani.com logs that you dumped on failheap (without any personal information removed, and with absolutely nothing interesting in them), how would you respond to voter concerns that you, too, might leak logs from the CSM like Darius III?

Thanks!

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Marlona sent me this response, which I'd like to respond to publicly:



My response to this is the below:

My question was quite respectfully phrased, and you had every chance to challenge the facts. I think it says enough that your defense is to get the post erased. There are legitimate arguments you could make about why they're different, of course. But if it was a ~grr marlona~ campaign then some PL guy I've never spoken to probably wouldn't have agreed with me.

I've looked at the evidence myself and I don't agree with your defenses. Number 1, leaking people's personal information was reckless and you should have known better. It probably was a mistake because you didn't really think through what would happen, but it is compounded by your refusal to admit that it was wrong and actually lying about if it happened. Number 2, it's not covered by an NDA but it is a violation of social trust that people put in you that speaks to your character.

That you leaked the logs is uncontested. You deny that personal information was in the logs, but that's been convincingly disproven over and over again and at this point in time it's your word against the logs themselves. If you were correct, it would be easy to prove I was wrong - and that's something you'd welcome if you were correct. After all, the logs (and scrapheap) are relatively objective sources.

You think the situations are different and that there are extenuating circumstances or other relevant facts but that's not telling me that my question is not based on "truth", that's telling me you disagree with my interpretation of the uncontested facts. If there's other facts that are relevant, the appropriate response would be to share those as well. Trying to get the questions erased and avoid any public discussion of the issue is not.

Thanks very much. Manny on the CSM is a solid choice.

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Personal attack and non-constructive content.

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