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

Now, wonder what the cause was from the following choices:

a. CCP completely bungled the entire "get out the vote" concept to new players (love the huge chunk of new accounts created for the vote, wonder how many will be active next month?)
b. As Malcanis, mynnna, and the rest of the cartel propaganda team suggests, I, the lone high sec champion, managed to suppress the vote, with my posting of dead accurate analysis of what CCP and the cartels are doing with Eve.
c. The majority of the player base, high sec, recognized the direction the game is heading, realized the futility of voting and didn't.
d. All of the above.

But I still have two boxes of money right? Thanks.

My lost votes are fine with me as I didn't care massively about them. Also - nobody else told me how to use them. My 8 votes were used how I saw fit.

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 voted for 8 people, even ones I disliked, but felt would counter the cartel control of the CSM.

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.

GǪso you're saying that the CSM matters and that Gǣthe majority of the player base, high secGǥ did a very stupid thing by incorrectly assuming that it's futile to vote? And you're suggesting that this is your fault?

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

I don't go down logical sink holes with you.

You have implied many times that the cartels don't even exist.

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

Good work.

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

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

Good work.

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

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

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

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

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

Not entirely sure how we ended up in an internet crapfest.

I voted for the folks that I cared about. Mynnna was one of them - I didn't vote for your top candidate as bragging isn't my thing.

I didn't feel strongly enough about the other candidates to vote negatively. Sorry. (Am not sorry.)

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.

You are cute when you are angry.

I seem to be missing something from Weasel - he refuses to tell me what it is yet.

I DID vote how I wanted - as stated many posts ago. The not using my last 6 votes was a comment in itself. FFS - why is it so hard to realise that voting in an STV system (when not in a bloc) can work out both ways?