Zudrag
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2012.09.09 22:28:00 -
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I think this system that you/the CSM/whoever is proposing is a step in the wrong direction in terms of trying to do what you're trying to do. This system from what I have seen and from what I have seen discussed will just be abused more than the current system. I don't think it should be implemented, and I think the system should stay the way it currently.
I also think that any suggested "required voting" would be in poor judgement, because to vote correctly you need to be informed about the candidates sufficiently. If you just go off a blurb and think "oh I like how that person sounds" then you're going to elect someone who most likely will not properly represent what you want, and will probably just not get the job done. Having the thread that is the voting platform and having as much information out about the candidate is a good idea, and those who at least make an effort to be somewhat informed will vote.
I'd also like to touch on something that stuck out at me:
Trebor Daehdoow wrote:
3) Reduce (but not eliminate) the advantages held by highly organized voting blocs. In the previous election, for example, one voting bloc did extremely sophisticated exit-polling; if they had chosen to use this information to efficiently split their votes, they could have won 3 of the top 7 positions on the CSM.
The only time I would see this goal as acceptable is if you were a business that would be threatened by organized groups of consumers. In this situation, it is an attempt by a large amount of consumers trying to get their demands through to the business they consume from. CCP wants to know what the majority of their subscribers want.
What this attempt to reduce the power of organized voting blocs seems to be is an attempt to promote whoever's minority to be as important as one of the larger groups. CCP is running a business, and what people in wormholes, for instance, want is probably going to have less of an impact than what say, highsec AFK ice miners want, because the miners make up a much larger portion of the overall subscriber base. CCP prioritizes content production if I am correct something along the lines of how long something takes to make, and how much of an impact it's going to have on players. If a small number of players are affected by it, then it's probably going to be a low priority idea to implement. As such, if a group can't get the votes to have a representative of their interests elected with a high enough vote count, then tough; that's how voting works.
If you are worried about special interest groups being drowned out by the larger masses, then I do have a suggestion:
You could have the runners-up to the CSM collaborate and prepare some concise issues to bring up with the CSM that goes to talk directly to CCP. Time could be set aside to discuss these issues, as I'm sure at least one person at the meeting will have a decent understanding of the issues brought up by the smaller interest group. This is just a quick and not very fleshed out suggestion, and can obviously be expanded upon. |