I think it's pretty hilarious that you are being serious about that quote.

Either that or I took the b8, good job I guess.

Why can't CCP only let people I like run for elections?

Then I wouldn't even have to vote.



Voting is a lot of work and it's pretty hard.

Picking 14 isn't required, you know. You pick up to 14. The "not filling in your ballot" mockery that Weaselior is engaging in is directed at the Provibloc folks, the vast majority of which put Corebloodbrothers and literally no one else down.

e with numbers: 2944 people listed Core as their first pick. 1736 of them listed no one else. By the end of the election over 800 of those votes transferred their way off into the void instead of doing anything.

uh it's not voting as a bloc i'm making fun of them for and I can't encourage them strongly enough to vote exactly like they did this year next year

Well if you can't find 14 people that you do want on the CSM then you could ponder the ones you don't want on the CSM and sort in reverse.

That way your vote goes to the least bad one, instead of possibly helping the ones you really don't want in.

if I give you three boxes filled with money and you trip and drop one into the river because you tied your shoelaces to each other by mistake, you've still got two boxes of money

but that doesn't change that you lost an entire box full of money by being unable to tie your shoelaces

Yup.

Ignore the goon spin doctors.

I voted for 8 people, even ones I disliked, but felt would counter the cartel control of the CSM.
I could only find 8 of the 14 that I could stomach, and even then, I knew some were highly sympathetic to other concepts I find abhorrent.

So if you see only 1 person you want on the ballot, and the rest you hate, then vote for the one, and you will be able to sleep at night.

i was going to explain more why you're all nuts but i then realized that i want you to stay this way so i will agree that you did exactly the right thing, thanks buddies

when your argument is "i was being willfully obtuse due to laziness and/or mental defect" then we are more than happy to let you be right

you were right, I was wrong to criticize your voting strategy

please accept my apology and inform everyone else that you were correct

you are right

all, i was wrong to suggest you should vote for more than one person. please accept my sincere apologies, and i hope you vote according to your view of strategy next year and not mine

sincerely,
weaselior

Totally sounds like you missed the point of everything that was said, but ah well.

The point seems to be that people who chose to vote for a single individual could have used at least some of their other voting slots to vote for people who they wanted after the first, or failing that, opposition to people who they don't want. They was STV work, the votes cascade when full, so if the person you vote in 1st place makes it in, you listing 13 other people won't affect that in the slightest, but what it will mean is that more excess votes will filter down the vote afterwards.

So if you wanted only 1 person and no other people you cared about either way, then voting with just 1 vote is fine. In all other cases there are smarter ways to play your votes. Now nobody is saying that you personally can't vote however you want. You can wipe your ass with the ballot for all I care, but as a group, there were smarter ways for it to be played.

Yup, I'm super mad. Grrrr, and all that.

And it's great that you voted how you wanted. When you are suddenly representative of everybody, let me know. the point is there are a lot of people who vote by saying "I want that one person", then don;t finish their ballots. They don't realise they can use the rest of their votes without affecting their first vote, possibly even thinking a sole vote has more weight than a full ballot. Realistically people can vote not only for people but against others. Exhausting your vote is not a way to do that, it's a way of you pulling out completely, leaving the rest of the vote up to the full ballot bloc voters, so thanks for that I suppose.

Perhaps the Broader Community to raise a(ny) awareness of the CSM is shrinking ?

As a small part of the community, I am aware you raised a lot of awareness for CCPgames to "fix" pos

We can kid all we want Two Step, but the question I raise is sadly a legitimate one.