The current up & coming winter patch being what it is, a failure, is however a good example of bad influences by currupt CSMs More interested in self gain for there particular alliance rather than EVE community gain.

+1 for a purge

Ansolutely agree with Hilmar on this one. The current CSM has done some good things, but let's not kid ourselves. Rarely are Goons good for the overall playing experience of an MMO. Mittani is looking out for himself and his own lulz, not anyone else's. And before he pipes in and says "But I supported the super cap nerf and I have super caps!" -- you also have more players than your potential targets, so weakening their supers really just makes them easier for you to take down. It's not selfless, it's blatantly self serving.

Why not make it so that; unless you are a trial, when election time rolls around you need to cast a ballot to actually get past the character selection screen? I think that would get a more evenly distributed pool of voters that I'm doubting the goons could effectively combat with ballot stuffing.

I don't disagree. But it was hardly a selfless act and in the end will just allow Goons to expand territory. A truly selfless act would have been to nerf supercaps and work out a way to make holding massive amounts of space all but impossible. Split up null into lots of little competing parts.

Funny how Goons want to disrupt and weaken high sec and wormholes but sure don't have any problems keeping blob warfare and massive power blocs around in null.

Not what I said, but people with weak arguments often have to put words into their opponents mouths to make a point so I'll overlook it.

Let's use a real world example: nuclear weapons. And before you start your inevitable whine about comparisons to the real world, it's called an analogy. Look it up in the dictionary.

Country A and country B both have nuclear weapons. The traditional army of country A is twice as large as country B. Country A manages to convince country B that both sides would be better off if all nuclear weapons were destroyed. And so they sign a treaty and abolish all their nuclear weapons. Now, with the equalizer gone, who is at a massive numerical advantage? Country A.

I wonder if the unrestricted freedom & democracy you seem to be a proponent of was implemented how well you could tolerate it?

Being a citizen of a real nation that has a representational government installed under the control of a constitutional democracy that protects the freedoms of all against the changing winds of the majority is a wonderful thing. I think the historical phrase is "Protecting the minority against the tyranny of the majority."

The majority of the player base is in High sec, they exercise their freedom of democratic majority to nerf the hell out of everything you like about null sec and EVE. For example make transit from null to high sec impossible for anything but shuttles and industrial ships. They vote to make it impossible for anyone with a negative sec status to fire a weapon in offense in high sec, you can defend yourself but can't gank .

Let's just fix the flaws in the CSM structure and not discard it. Maybe a way to recall members that are perceived as too biased against anyone who did not vote for them would be a good starting point. That way your voting power block could get you elected but only working for the greater good of the greater player base would keep you in office. Otherwise be careful what you hope for, ........ you might get it!