EVE General Discussion

Oooo, zing!

Look over the recent minutes and you'll find the part where CCP wants to make some changes to the regulations when it comes to qualifying as a CSM candidate.

Likewise, a lot might change prior to the next CSM election, and the rules of today may not be the same by then.

EDIT: I'll just post that part of the minutes here. Give me a moment to pull them to text.

The CSM
Present: CCP Xhagen, CCP Diagoras

During this session CCP detailed three changes to the CSM project (all these changes will also be listed in a devblog that will be forthcoming in the buildup for the upcoming election). While these proposals are not very controversial as such, CCP felt it was necessary to include the CSM in the discussion and do this in cooperation with the council, rather than forcefully implement them.

The first change mentioned was that a candidate would need to demonstrate he/she had X supporters to appear on the ballot, where X is a number between 50 and 500. The proposed method of gathering these supporters is to write a nomination post on the Jita Park Speakers Corner and then count the number of supports the post received. If the candidate receives at least X supports, they appear on the final ballot.

The reasoning behind this is to reduce the number of candidates to a more manageable level, down from 70 to perhaps 30-40. (although CCP doesn't have a strong preference towards a particular number). The number of candidates can (and does) have an influence on voters, being presented with a huge list of candidates is intimidating and having to form an informed opinion about 70 candidates is daunting to say the least. CCP expressed the desire that the supporters' number should be meaningful without being crippling, and asked for feedback as to what a reasonable threshold might be. The CSM responded in turn that if (for example) a candidate cannot get the support of 50-100 people there is not much change of that candidate getting the 1500-2000 votes needed to actually get on the council. The CSM did however agree with CCP's concern that the 'little' guys could potentially be excluded from the race, i.e. highsec dwellers might not get the support they needed to be on the ballot.

The second change proposed was to drop the concept of alternate in the CSM, but only fly the top 7 available members to Iceland (instead of the top 9 as with the previous CSMs). If a voting needs to happen within the CSM, the top 9 members available at that time would perform that vote (the CSM white paper states that the minimum of 7 members are needed to hold a legal vote).

The third change proposed was changing the election system from the current form to a single transferrable vote (STV) (i.e. any surplus or unused votes are transferred according to the voter's stated preferences should their highest preference not need them or not make it in). The timeframe for this change would be the election in 2013 (thus, no changes would be made for the next CSM election).

**Some text excluded. For the entire transcript see page 4 and 5 of the most recent CSM summit minutes**

Don't you remember Ankhesentapemkah? The queen of spoons? :P

Which means, the null sec puppet masters who want to control everything "recognise" that it may be difficult for certain parts of EvE to get noticed but then of course do nothing to make the process any more equal. Since, just because they confirmed the notion of inequality with CCP doesn't mean they will do anything to address the issue. And they say they are not corrupt?

But people will sit on you, hat if its someone really really heavy?

So in other words you are a kid.

not that i plan on running because ahahaha iceland