Yes because making an educated choise between 1-14 candidates out of dozens takes the same amount of time as a post on the forums. Or would you us rather vote like sheep, judging candidates by the alliances they belongs to or some other bs?

there already is an abstain option; it's called not voting.
quite clearly, it's the overwhelming winner.

oh as an aside; votes are in may, been a while since i've been in education but i'm pretty sure may is exam season. sensible people value their education over space politics even if they do care.

It's more than that. Is CSM primarily there to be unpaid junior developers or to hold CCP accountable? I want the latter, but it was abundantly clear that CSM 8 was only interested in the former.

seriously, mynnna is indefatigable in this regard, he casually deflects every stupid idea we tell him

And how exactly is highsec supposed to organize? Are we a lobbying group?

People are in highsec exactly because they don't seek power blocs, but all of a sudden they are expected to be in one to get a representative on the CSM? It's no wonder none of them bothered to vote.

And if someone is dishonest about that when running, and CCP makes that illegal, their seat would just go to the runner up and so forth. At least that's how it happens in real life, if someone breaks rules of office.

Maybe we should not have this mimic real life and instead, have CCP elections where the staff votes for players they would like to speak with about upcoming things they are working with. It would be more "developer oriented" and not this, death by committee they want to put themselves in the corner in.

CCP have all the power, and regardless of real life applications, they are a business and are a developer, not a government.

From a business point of view, and I mean this without any disrespect, that's the worst thing I've ever come across for a development house. No clear direction. No tough as nails vision of this is what we are doing, and this is how we are going to do it. "This is where the game is headed in the future." We don't like A and B, so we are going to do C. That is what you need to be successful, not listen to some player elected muppets, who have no qualifications and no idea what it is like to run a gaming house or the hierarchy of development. No experience to really work there, but log in everyday to blow up spaceships and play the game everyone else is playing. A game that you developed.

I personally saw no need to vote this year as the CSM seems more worried about access than with bringing up player concerns.

That is exactly the point. The CSM is acting as a barrier to CCP and the end result is that CCP do not feel the need to communicate properly with the playerbase like so many other games.

please don't encourage him to write a blog it'd probably get all the highsec carebears talking like he does

I find it fascinating that discussion of the meta surrounding CSM elections is more interesting than actually logging in.

I cant tell if you are trying to respond to me, or just the thread in general. You are commenting on things that i am asking but are strangely specific about things i have not said.

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