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Hardin
Imperial Dreams Curatores Veritatis Alliance
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Posted - 2008.03.19 08:57:00 -
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A quick question relating to this section:
All candidates must verify their identity to CP before they can officially be acknowledged as a candidate. I n addition, a valid passport is required for travel and admission to I celand and participation on the CSM . B ecause election winners will ultimately make appearances on EVE -TV and EON , candidates must run under their real-life names, and may either create a new character or use an existing account name to give themselves an in-game identity.
Does that mean that candidates have to disclose their real life name to the EVE community or can they run using their established account name?
I am slightly concerned that in this age of Google etc. that Members of the Council of Stellar Management could be the victims of real life harrassment not necessarily because of their involvement in the Council but due to people taking ingame conflicts too personally... While it hasn't happened in EVE there are examples of ingame vendettas being carried into real life with tragic consequences.
Once a real life name is published it doesn't take an internet genius long to track that person down. For the candidates it also has a potential impact on future career prospects. As someone who has responsibility for recruitment in my company I often check out Google/Facebook/Myspace upon receiving CV's. While I personally would have no objection to employing someone playing an Internet Space Game I am not sure all other employers are as open minded and there is no doubt that the names of the candidates will be published on various sites which will eventually be Googleable. This will be particularly hard for candidates who fail to get elected - as employers will be sure to wonder why.
Maybe that is just a risk the candidates have to take for the 'honour' of being selected and I know of course that real life politicians have to take this risk but would like some clarification on this from CCP...
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Hardin
Imperial Dreams Curatores Veritatis Alliance
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Posted - 2008.03.19 10:24:00 -
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I would imagine that the real reason is Public Relations.
CCP will want to use the Council of Stellar Management as a major news/PR opportunity and they will no doubt want the candidates to be interviewed as 'real people' to give the story more authenticity for non-gaming media.
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Hardin
Imperial Dreams Curatores Veritatis Alliance
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Posted - 2008.03.19 10:40:00 -
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Originally by: CCP Xhagen
Originally by: Goumindong
Was there any thought to not releasing the names of the Candidates?
Cause i don't see a good reason for doing so except opening up candidates unnecessary retribution and harassment.
Appearing on Eve-TV and EON is not a legitimate reason, while i haven't been watching the duration of the run. I have not witnessed anyone being referenced by their real name. Even developers are referenced by their moniker or handle.
If you know who we are, and we know who we are, then why does everyone else need to know, especially if they will be voting for Goumindong or Verone or Bane Glorious and not John Kilgore or Barry MacDaniels? It very unlikely that anyone will run on anything other than their forum presence, but making the disclosure optional would be a better idea to allow someone to run on their own good name while not forcing everyone to open themselves.
It was decided very early on to require people to give up their real life names in order to run, and that the real life names were going to be made public.
It is decisions like this that the first CSM should be scrutinising as the 'public' justifications offered here (EON/EVE TV) really do not hold water...
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Hardin
Imperial Dreams Curatores Veritatis Alliance
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Posted - 2008.03.20 15:54:00 -
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Edited by: Hardin on 20/03/2008 15:54:30
Despite my concerns about rl information being provided I have decided to join Verone and throw my hat into the ring.
If you want to find out more about why I am standing please and some other stuff please visit:
http://hardinfaq.blogspot.com/
I intend to keep it updated and add fresh content over the course of the campaign...
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Hardin
Imperial Dreams Curatores Veritatis Alliance
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Posted - 2008.03.20 16:16:00 -
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Edited by: Hardin on 20/03/2008 16:17:14
Originally by: Omber Zombie like Hardin (and his Disco ball) and Verone, I too am dropping my hat into the ring. A website and assorted media will be coming soonÖ
also, on the voting system: why not have a preference based system. Instead of just one nomination, give people the ability to vote for 3 seperate candidates in order of preference. Those votes can then be weighted as 3, 2 and 1 points each, which means that even though large alliances may want to vote their first preference for their own members, there's 3 other 'points' that then get spread out to other nominees and would help balance out the final vote tally.
just a thought, Oz
Welcome to the race. Looks like some tough competition
Re the voting do you mean like this?:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote
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Hardin
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Posted - 2008.03.21 18:25:00 -
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Originally by: Max Torps I'm throwing may hat into the ring too.
And, there is a blog here.
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Hardin
Amarr Epitoth Fleetyards Vigilia Valeria
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Posted - 2008.04.18 20:04:00 -
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Edited by: Hardin on 18/04/2008 20:04:14
Originally by: CCP Xhagen Candidate list is up ladies and gents.
Here it is.
Thanks. Just to point out that at present the list of candidates incorrectly links my site:
The proper URL is:
http://hardinfaq.blogspot.com/
Please can you correct this!
Cheers
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