no need to imply like its very complicated man… if a player coming from one spesific null aliance… for over a half decade that shows his compass and loyalty pretty clean …
ahm you talk about that guy???
i can imagine him talking for the name of players who had been burned in jita so many times
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Hope Kenneth Feld running again, he get my vote, he did a lot in the CSM
for?? to get ignored by ccp?
Why are Alphas allowed to run for CSM?!
• Characters on both Alpha and Omega accounts are eligible to run
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Why not?
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Yes, he is. And he’s using Aryth as an example precisely because of that. CCP considered Aryth a ‘high sec’ player, because most of his activity was in high-sec. You know who was responsible for CCP fixing that method of identifying where their players’ interests were?
Aryth.
Point is, you cannot say ‘we need to have X people from HS or LS or NS’ because that’s just impossible to reliably lock down. CCP can’t even figure out where the hell their players are. And that’s before we get into alts.
I’m a director in Goonswarm, in a job that’s purely administrative and doesn’t actually require me to get out in space in null at all if I don’t want to. I’m a market trader in Jita. I’m a FW pilot operating out of Hek. And I love exploring J-space. Which part of space am I from?
You’re going to find the vast majority of people in the null blocs have a similarly broad set of interests.
You should. Aryth put a lot of work into things like trying to fix HS wardec mechanics, reduce structure spam, and other issues that contributed to the health of the game, and benefited HS/LS more than null. Almost all of the CSM do that: focus on the good of the game, not the good of their group.
Almost. I mean, then you get the ones who obsess over their particular interest so much, even Vily starts publicly calling them out on it, then mocking them when they get their own playstyle nerfed and start whining about how CCP screwed them by adopting their ideas.
Great! Remember! Every non-goon vote that doesn’t happen is another effective vote for Goons!
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Thanks for that, your Goonswarm. We need a couple of true high sec players on the CSM for the next session. Mike being the only voice isn’t enough
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Vote Ramweezy for CSM
several people that know me or my combat main dorfsorc have suggested that i run for CSM. I am not clear on how i would actually do that. My qualifications are 12 years in EVE, all facets of gameplay, and one of EVE’s few blind players. it gives me a broad perspective on gameplay. Let me know if it is even viable for someone not from a huge alliance to get elected/
Getting elected without nullbloc support is possible but much harder. For CSM 15, Torvald Uruz and Mike Azariah got elected despite not being in nullsec, and some other guy did too but I don’t remember their name. So this year’s CSM was 70% nullsec 30% not-nullsec
The independent guys were streamers though, so they had an established fanbase.
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Read this - should help you understand the details a bit more. https://imperium.news/so-you-want-to-run-for-csm-heres-what-you-need-to-know/
Yea, you definitely need to be well known in the community to have a chance
Having seen the viewers watching Eve on twitch, that could be misleading, as there aren’t that many 
I know what you mean though
Can I be bold and state that if you are incapable or unwilling to (have) put in that ground work yourself that you’re unfit to be part of the CSM.
The more important question is, why would he want to be on the CSM?
Here’s the problem with trying to force highsec representation on the CSM:
Highsec doesn’t give a damn.
They don’t. Again and again, CCP’s own numbers have shown that highsec runs fewer candidates, and the vast majority of highsec doesn’t vote for the CSM. They don’t even read these forums. They just don’t care enough to bother getting involved, giving feeback, or even voicing an opinion about changes to the game. They just don’t care.
So if they don’t care, why should they get specially catered to? If they’re not going to bother being part of the community, why should they get guaranteed extra representation?
Mike puts the work in to be known, to be involved, and to build support. Steve did the work, too. You put up a HS player who’s doing the work and getting his voice out to highsec, and convincing them to actually get out and vote for him? He’ll get elected.
But if they’re not doing the work, and HS can’t be bothered to care, why should the get elected?
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Yeah I’m calling you out on this.
Not voting in the CSM elections does not make you not part of the community, there are many ways to engage with the community and you do not need to do every single one, or an arbitrary selection of activities, to be participating with/in the community.
The rest of your post, eh sure, I do think that it biases the CSM towards certain things over others the way it’s a popularity contest and a measure of brand recognition, but short of doing it via CV like job applications and a massive exam, you can’t get past that and it’s as fair as it could be.
But lets not be exclusionary and declare people not part of the community because they don’t participate in a particular activity.
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I’m not talking about the people who don’t participate in ‘a particular activity’, I’m talking about the ones who don’t get involved with other players via any of them. In the past (obviously not last year) at presentations at FF, EVEsterdam, Vegas, etc, CCP’s said that’s the majority of the people who don’t leave HS, the ‘true high sec players’ Wargod’s asking to have on the CSM.