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Dierdra Vaal
Caldari
EVE University
Ivy League
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Posted - 2011.03.08 14:17:00 -
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Hello everyone!
Like in previous years I'm running the CSM Vote Match! website. Vote Match! allows you to easily see which CSM candidates share your views and opinion, as well as allowing you to compare their points of view.
For those who've used this in the past you may be pleased to know candidates were now able to add explanations to their answers and many have used this opportunity! This should greatly increase the usefulness of their answers. Also, I've given the website slightly less terrible visuals.
You can get started here: http://match.eve-csm.com/step_2.php
The goal of Vote Match! is to provide an independant, unbiased platform that assists voters in making an informed choice. 45 Candidates have made a profile and are included in the matching process. 9 Candidates opted not to participate.
Note: my server isn't super beefy and the website can get quite heavy at times. Server Error 500's will probably happen occasionally due to the load. 
Dierdra Vaal
Vote Match! administrator
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Director Emeritus :: EVE University
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CSM1 delegate, CSM3 chairman and CSM5 vice-chairman
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Dierdra Vaal
Caldari
EVE University
Ivy League
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Posted - 2011.03.08 17:03:00 -
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 Originally by: Two step
I just wanted to thank Dierdra and any other folks that worked on the site, you guys did a good job. I did find some of the questions to be a bit odd, since folks could answer that several different areas were the highest priority, it seems like only once choice should have been allowed there.
I understand what you're saying, but if a candidate wants to contradict himself by claiming two different areas are both the single most important thing in Eve, they can :)
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Director Emeritus :: EVE University
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CSM1 delegate, CSM3 chairman and CSM5 vice-chairman
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Dierdra Vaal
Caldari
EVE University
Ivy League
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Posted - 2011.03.08 18:54:00 -
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Originally by: Your Client
oh and can you implement a remove button, some of these people need to be filtered out from my screen.
both your suggestions are good ones, unfortunately I dont really have time at the moment to do the website restructuring required to make them happen :/
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Director Emeritus :: EVE University
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CSM1 delegate, CSM3 chairman and CSM5 vice-chairman
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Dierdra Vaal
Caldari
EVE University
Ivy League
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Posted - 2011.03.09 10:42:00 -
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Edited by: Dierdra Vaal on 09/03/2011 10:46:56
The questions were worded as 'highest' in order to highlight the dilemma: if you have to choose one feature over another, would you? Because the CSM does affect the priority of development, and if the entire CSM tells CCP "we believe 0.0 is the single most important part of the game", that may well become reflected in the priority CCP gives to 0.0 development. It is important for voters to know which area of the game a candidate will most likely push for.
Originally by: Cearain
Not all the candidates are on this.
Can candidates still get on this or is it closed?
Some candidates (like peter powers) chose not to participate despite multiple evemails being sent to them. sign ups are now closed.
I disagree that I - as a pilot - should be completely neutral because I make this website: the website is transparent in its operation. Questions were simply chosen to be divisive and polarising, and focus on the most popular issues of the moment. This unfortunately means some people will feel misrepresented.
I also disagree that the questions are biased or leading: there is no 'right' or 'wrong' answer, just a statement you either agree or disagree with. And we see that all questions have people both agreeing and disagreeing with them. For anyone not happy with this website, you're welcome to make a better one yourself.
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Director Emeritus :: EVE University
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CSM1 delegate, CSM3 chairman and CSM5 vice-chairman
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Dierdra Vaal
Caldari
EVE University
Ivy League
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Posted - 2011.03.09 15:41:00 -
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I either allow candidates to fill in/change their profile, or allow users to vote match. If I were to do both, candidates could try to change their answers to tailor them to what they perceive are the answers most likely to give them high match percentages, as well as preventing me to get accurate metrics on the answers/matching after the elections (as data then may not necessarily be equal to the data during the election).
Candidates were given a week to fill in their profile and received a reminder mail on top of the initial evemail urging them to make their profile. Some have obviously chosen not to do this (which is entirely their call).
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Director Emeritus :: EVE University
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CSM1 delegate, CSM3 chairman and CSM5 vice-chairman
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Dierdra Vaal
Caldari
EVE University
Ivy League
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Posted - 2011.03.09 19:01:00 -
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Edited by: Dierdra Vaal on 09/03/2011 19:07:40
Originally by: Cearain
Why do you think itĘs a bother to keep it open? The op never said it would be any sort of bother to allow those candidates to submit their views. I think the op doesnĘt like the candidates who didnĘt submit their answers so decided he would close it. CCP is giving this personĘs views of candidates he likes or doesnĘt like a top spot on the forum.
Bottom line: candidates were excluded from this (not just peter powers btw) and no good answer is offered as to why. CCP knows that, yet they are still going to give this persons biased website a top spot on the forum. ThatĘs not how you run an unbiased election.
Oh how wrong you are 
The cut off date was set when I sent evemails to everyone, regardless of which candidates did or did not fill in. If you're campaigning for a seat on the CSM and you cannot manage to check your evemails once during that week then I'm sorry but I have to enable voting before the election starts. Even now voters only had a day to use the website BEFORE voting opened. Personally I feel a week during a promotion period should be sufficient for any candidate who is serious about wanting to get elected.
If you're donating money to have the system rewritten so candidates can ADD a profile but not EDIT an existing profile during the voting period, I'd happily give you my bank account.
As for implying I'm excluding candidates I don't like is ridiculous since I really hope Peter Powers will get elected, while there's several people who did make profiles whom I hope won't get elected.
Originally by: Kalrand
As someone actually running for CSM, I've never heard of this website before today.
I've also had no interaction with the owner, and don't see why she's presenting this as some table of who you should vote for based on all of the CSM candidates' positions.
You received an evemail from me with your login details on 2011.03.02 00:31, you also received a reminder evemail 2011.03.04 13:41. I'll happily provide screenshots of my Sent folder :)
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Director Emeritus :: EVE University
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CSM1 delegate, CSM3 chairman and CSM5 vice-chairman
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Dierdra Vaal
Caldari
EVE University
Ivy League
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Posted - 2011.03.09 19:15:00 -
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Originally by: Kalrand
If you had any idea how many eve-mails I get, you would know why that's a bad way to reach out to people.
A forum post will always attract my attention. Why was this the first announcement of this project?
I'm sorry you didn't pay attention to your evemails. This is the first announcement of this project (this election round, there were announcements for the CSM5 and 4 elections too) because this is the part where it is useful for the community at large. I'm a bit surprised none of the other 4-5 goons mentioned this to you; the mittani was one of the first people to fill out his profile and I'm quite sure he too gets a lot of evemails.
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Director Emeritus :: EVE University
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CSM1 delegate, CSM3 chairman and CSM5 vice-chairman
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Dierdra Vaal
Caldari
EVE University
Ivy League
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Posted - 2011.03.10 00:04:00 -
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Originally by: Cearain
This is the first time you indicated it would cost extra money. How much extra would it cost to add a profile late? Who charges it? And can you offer a link to what you are talking about?
No I'm saying in order to change the websites programming to allow candidates to be added later you're looking at at least a few full days' work. Time which I don't have, or at least not time I can just spend on that project.
Despite some of them being being very busy corp and alliance level CEOs, 45 candidates managed to fill in the survey in the week that was allotted to this. I was a director every time I ran and despite getting 40+ new mails every day (this was back when directors still got a mail for every person that applied to their corp) I was able to check my mails and act on/reply to them in a timely fashion. Now you may not like it, but I'm happy with the signup period and the messaging and it's not going to change. Checking your evemail is not a requirement to run but trust me, it becomes a requirement to be a good CSM once you're elected.
I'm not excluding anyone, people exclude themselves by not keeping track of their evemails and that is not my fault.
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Director Emeritus :: EVE University
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CSM1 delegate, CSM3 chairman and CSM5 vice-chairman
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Dierdra Vaal
Caldari
EVE University
Ivy League
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Posted - 2011.03.10 09:28:00 -
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Sorry guys, server errors will happen occasionally as my little server strains under the load. Pressing F5 after 30 seconds or so should fix it :)
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Director Emeritus :: EVE University
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CSM1 delegate, CSM3 chairman and CSM5 vice-chairman
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