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Yeah I monitor those too. And, like you, doesnāt mean Iāll do anything about it.
And WOW!! An EVE Online Dev in the EVE Online forum! Unheard of. No wonder itās raining cats and dogs here.
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Start with allowing each physical player to vote only once, regardless of how many hundred skill-farm accounts a player may have.
Only one vote allowed, from each physical player, would dramatically change the csm in a healthy direction.
For anyone trying to bypass the one-vote-per-player, drop a permaban into your toolbox, it may come handy. Also block anyone using VPN from voting as it would open up for anonymous votes. Always require an IP geo-matching the country the player reside in. Match it to both mail address and credit card data as well, to prevent double-voting as much as possible.
Also, move the election procedure away from the forums. Most players never visit the forums. Move it into the game client instead, where everyone see it. Maybe even connect a reward to the election, like 100k SP for contributing to a more democratic csm. Itās fine if candidate cards in the game client can link to a candidates full campaign on the forums, it may even increase player activity on the forums, but absolutely move the election procedure away from the forums.
If players had trust in the system being democratic, which it is currently NOT, then more players would likely vote, and not mainly the null characters who tend to have far more accounts each than other players have.
Also scrap the extremely confusing and anti-democratic āSTVā system, itās only there to boost the null candidates even more as they can funnel all their votes into their main candidate and win through that. All votes should stay with the candidate, and when the candidate is out, all those votes are out too.
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One time I get a CCP reply in my 15 years and its to prove me wrong.
lol got it.
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Lol!!!
Remember, DvP 
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I had to get elected to the CPM (Dust 514 equivalent of the CSM), fly out to Iceland for Fanfest 2014, and speak with a community manager in person to get a forum post with my real life address/threatening content removed from the site.
The day the forums actually mean anything as far as a representative voice will be the day I eat my shoe.
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I agree with your post except for the credit card. Not every player has a credit card. I donāt have one, for example. And not everyone orders stuff from CCP website so even going by last 4 digit of bank account isnāt good either.
I think voting should happen through a phone app. One person, one phone-linked app.
I wonder if this is the year that the CSM will finally āfix lowsecā (whatever they think that means) after what feels like an eternity of promising to do so while generally being a sad, irrelevant and disposable waste of everyoneās time. I really do. Genuinely. Truly. Itās at the very top of my List of Wonderings. Trust me. Iām giving you the straight goods. Iām being honest. 100% honest. I swear.
You all believe me, right? Right?
RIP lowsec.
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You forget about alt accounts. It doesnāt matter how much you are trying to limit the candidates, in this game it is more than likely for all seats to be taken by null players, directly or indirectly.
The CSM is a good idea on paper, but itās impossible to make it balanced, or even a fair race.
In an actual democracy, you can pay people to sign up people who arenāt registered to vote, get them absentee ballots, help them fill them out, and send them in. You can provide transportation to get them to the polls on election day if they need it. In some places you can buy food and water and hand it out to people waiting in line. Some places have same day registration, where unregistered people can walk up to the polls the same day as the election, register and vote.
Generating votes out of thin air is basic GOTV. Here, you need an account thatās at least two months old at the time of the election, and then youāre requiring Omega accounts (which cost money or plex) as an additional gateway to stopping the āgeneration of votes out of thin air.ā Thatās a bigger bloc to voting (and would likely be an illegal poll tax in most democracies) than it is a pathway to increased turnout.
And that happened in this election, too. There were multiple opportunities for candidates to debate each other, dozens of shows that had candidates on, and there was nothing stopping candidates from doing videos, commercials or other paid media to get their name ID and support up.
Uhā¦let me explain to you how āpolitical partiesā work.
And yet the claims that elected officials only represent constituents of their political party or ideology are rife.
The CSM elections are as democratic as any other elections Iāve participated in. There are obvious slight differences (no one-person-one-vote) and the position itself has no actual power, but to claim that the process is not democratic requires a hell of lot of willful blindness to what democracy is.
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/sigh
Because this has ever happened. I donāt even know who you are.
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Iām super sad Stich didnāt make it in, he would have made a huge difference to the CSM, but still happy Suitonia and Ibeast got in and Brisc as usual who has suffered our harrassment for ages already and still tries his best.
Gz to all those that made it in, only 2 from Goons which is a nice change compared to what 5 from last time?
And as usually Destiny Iām not surprised to see you still spamming up the forums xD
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Brisc said something about lowsec being one of his prioās this term, suitonia and Ibeast have a lot of experience with lowsec as well.
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Iām literally unable to contain my chuckling at all the ātHiS iSnT HoW dEmOCracY wOrksā.
Like lol, what are you talking about, in what world is organizational voting not allowed?
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A huge majority of the people I know in low all went for Stich and he came 14th so if more low sec guys actually bothered voting he might have gotten in.
I have more solo kills in the last week than you do in the last four months.
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