Jita Park Speakers Corner

My suggestion is simply this. Have all manifestos stickied in General discussion so that we can see exactly how many candidates there are and what they are proposing. They are reviewed by CCP so that they are not inane/trolling and posted.

The Mittani is the CSM chairman, but i have never seen his manifesto and i have no idea what he stands for.

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If you posted them all in General Discussion it would give highsec/lowsec people a greater chance to be elected as their message would be heard by far more people. At the moment the nullsecers dominate CSM membership because they have access to the block votes.

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We should have a CSM representative for highsec. lowsec and nullsec

Each sec has its own style of play. its has its positives and its negatives which should be addressed separately and this cannot happen in a CSM dominated by nullsecers who are by a large only interested in nullsec.

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Your views and nullsec trolls are very much welcome here.

CCP has been doing a great job moderating the general discussion that said. I dont see how those things wont be posted automatically by players in general when the CSM election really takes off.

So many things leak into general it will be like they are stickied, unless busy CCP mods keep them out or so.

I think pretty much all parties agree that the bulk of the EVE population avoid or ignore the firums because they are much, much smarter than we are. That means the election threads will mostly go unread. You need a different approach. There were some good ideas and tools last year. However, once again you had to already know they were there to find them. That brings us back to the CSM being a shadow organization hidden in the forums read only by a minority of players.

GET OUT OF THE BOX! Think of something else.

The election information, no matter how pointless it actually is, must be moved off the forum and into a different format. I know facebook was tried last year with a little success. I don't think anyone was actually assigned to keep it going though so it faded. There were a few sites dedicatd to just the election, but there wasn't a direct link between the in-game experience, the forums and any 3rd party sites. That's a huge mistake. I understand that CCP is a bit standoff-ish to 3rd party sites, but they really need to start embracing them. They tend to offer very good services that only help CCP's product(s).

Not enough since I'm sure most players blaze right past that without a glance. Its actually a pretty tough problem that would probably require a lot of approaches to getting the word out.

Then more people can experience the the disappointment in EVE's meta-game along side that which they already experience in-game.

I am still not sure about this.
 As much as I would like to have a high sec representative in the CSM, there is still one technical problem: The CSM is a council, they do not decide for CCP, they just counsel them. As nice as it would be to have everybody represented in the CSM, it is of equal importance to have a unified CSM that can have a strong, unified voice, instead of constantly fighting each other.

There are many candidates here with a lot of good ideas that disqualify themselves for the job because of their irrational hate for GSF. Love them or hate them, but you WILL have to work with them, because at least 2 of them WILL be in the next CSM. People that keep declaring here how they would fight The Mittani once elected would be detrimental to our cause, because we need diplomats, not berserkers.

Well, I am just going to wait and see who will run as the highsec-representative and decide then if I give my vote to the good guys or the evil.

So you agree with me, then, seeing as how you can't think of anything even remotely resembling a counterpoint and instead go straight for the ad hominem.

Anyway, the point remains: filling up GD with a bunch of pointless threads when there already is an entire subforum dedicated for those threads sounds rather counter-productive. Also, if you want representatives for [whatever section of space], just vote them in — that's what the election is for, after all.

Pavel this is the reason you dont answer a Tippia thread. notice the two likes. thats two alts. notice how they make no sense. Its just pointless to even acknowledge their existance.

"So you agree with me" wft is a perfect example

Americans flying anywhere are a dissappoint.

They think they are Wright all the time when in fact they could be Wong or even Stuttegartenfiedlerhousen.

"Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians."

— Che Guevara