a big thank you to all the people who told folks not to vote

How many votes did each candidate get?

Transfer from "Sion Kumitomo":
Votes: 4314.000000, Factor: 0.516226, Excess: 2227.000000
2116.011358 votes to "mynnna"
36.135837 votes to "Angry Mustache"
27.359991 votes to "Ali Aras"
6.710941 votes to "commander aze"
5.678489 votes to "PsychoBitch"
5.162262 votes to "Mike Azariah"
5.162262 votes to Exhausted

Transfer from "corebloodbrothers":
Votes: 2944.000000, Factor: 0.291101, Excess: 857.000000
507.388247 votes to Exhausted

Transfer from "mynnna":
Votes: 2902.011358, Factor: 0.280844, Excess: 815.011358
583.253075 votes to "Ali Aras"
114.498132 votes to "Angry Mustache"
20.121332 votes to Exhausted

time to make myself stupid; am i the only one that doesn't quite get this seemingly unnecessary STV system? especially since there weren't 14 people i wanted to vote for.

(think i'm one of the high sec people weasilor is laughing at for not filling my ballot)

Dolan is leaving Community team? Why? I thought he was doing a great job.

tbh it looks like a pretty decent slate.

I'm hoping for another rather boring year of relatively drama free contructive work from a professional team.

This blog is useless without the ballot file (I understand the CSM is on the case though!)

Edit: (after getting the ballot file)

Here is my analysis that I ran last time around. Key:
Top Votes - # of votes with *all* the people at the top
Complete Votes - # of votes with all the people in the ballot somewhere
Partial Votes - # of votes with at least 2 of the people in the ballot somewhere that is not a top or complete vote
Solo Votes - # of votes that had just one person listed in the group

...

Bloc - Provi (corebloodbrothers)
Top Votes 2944 (9% of votes)
Complete Votes 2945 (9% of votes)
Partial Votes 0
Solo Votes 1736
Total Votes 7625 (24% of votes)

Lol - how dare they vote as a bloc.

I may be misunderstanding, certainly not an unheard of occurence, but if their objective was just to get Core into the CSM then they succeeded.

Even if every other vote they could have taken was wasted, it's still mission success for them. No?

Lol - run out of arguments so will just say I am right.

Good work.

Carry on being told how to vote by someone else and realise that this is just a game.

CSM8 was by far the most productive council yet and it has been a pleasure to work with them. We have released the raw data on voting, and if people want to speculate or run math on it then that's fine by us (:

You're right that CSM8 was really vocal and spoke a lot in the media over the course of their term, they were also pretty active on the forums. However only a small percentage of EVE players actually read our forums and news feeds. This is something we would like to change, but it will take time. It is out feeling that the downturn in votes is due to a lack of awareness, and we will be working with CSM9 to raise more awareness of the council and exactly what they do, and will be looking at new methods of communication to reach out to players that are currently not engaged with the CSM.

Choosing candidates to vote for was easier. But some of the voters did not bother to choose at all, they voted as their bloc had predetermined. It is in THEIR best interest that other lesser blocs or other voters believe the process to be flawed or useless. Thisd is what Weaselior is laughing about. Every person who declaims the election process as broken or the entire concept a farce hand the power to the organized groups who do vote.

Dinsdale for CSM!

I just want to know one thing, how many votes did I get? Excel can't seem to open this document.


I dream of a CSM that is not built up almost entirely of CFC candidates and their pets.

I guess that makes sense.
The CFC ballot had me right after Riverini. I am not saying that PTP was better than the current STV, I am just saying that being able to nuke a candidate by having your bloc put them in last place on your ballot is silly.

You are beginning to act like like a Tippia alt, posting for the sake of posting, and, as I have said before, the best thing to do with Tippia is to let him have the last word as soon as possible, so I grant you the last word on this.

Take care.

Stop having a tantrum and act your age.

I may be terribly ill-informed, but is there a link to this "rational, sensible, progressive, inevitable plan"? So far all I've seen is CCP failing to address long-standing complaints about their game over the course of 4 years which, as you mention, is enough time for them to have completely re-written the game. There are words for people who have plenty of time to accomplish a goal but fail to do so: incompetent or lazy (or both).

MDD

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

Really?
And I suppose all the stuff I posted on your blog, Jester's blog, and the forums in general made it to CCP's eager ear?

Like waiting on delivering half-baked this industrial debacle to TQ, in less than 4 weeks, with so many unanswered questions, instead of taking the summer to properly test it?

The only idea that came before CCP via the CSM was my idea in F&I about the large clouds.
And we have seen how much CCP has done with that idea, though it has met with uniform praise from PVE and PVP players alike.

You know, if you have any real backbone, you, being the supposed high sec casual player champion, would start RIGHT NOW recruiting other high sec players to join the ballot, and form a coalition, just like all the null sec cartel propagandists so sarcastically suggest. That way, when it fails, you can point to it and say to all, it is truly impossible to do with high sec what the cartels and CCP say can be done.

And before anyone says I should put my money where my mouth is, I have explained before that I will not put my name out there for real life harassment nor when my name is googled by future employers, I don't want it associated with a video game.
And further, I am far too polarizing a figure, and would be VERY "unprofessional" with any dealings with the CSM cartel reps and their lackeys.

Both.

This follows in the precedent set by Dolan. CSM is not to be a conduit of 'other information'. The minutes are not a sneak peek at what is coming next and a source for insider information. The election results are not a look at the CCP's current business success.

We represent you but we do not spy for you.

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But they do not really communicate, we have not gotten to the point that for all intents and purposes they are now communicating with the representatives of less than 10% of their players. And why, because the CSM has proven its self to be a poor communicator of the actual players wishes and desires, as well as more often acting as a mouth piece for CCP and not the players it supposedly represents.

Hell look at Malcanis, he went into the CSM to get 0.0s problems fixed but nothing can be done because of the road map and this is what the 4th different road map so far and they only ever seem to do up a new one when it has been shown they are failing at introducing the last one.