isdisco3
Veto.
Veto Corp
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Posted - 2008.04.15 15:50:00 -
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Edited by: isdisco3 on 15/04/2008 15:50:44
I believe the worry from Verone, and players like him, comes down to fearing that the CSM could become a place for silly political bickering (not unlike many IRL bodies) due to the candidates running on narrow platforms. IE if there's a "miner representative", he'll want to do nothing but talk about introducing new roids and making ganks in lowsec harder. If there's a 0.0 mega-alliance rep, he'll want to talk about fixing server lag and dealing with afk cloakers, for example. Obviously they'd both have more topics, but I'm simplifying for sake of argument.
While all these concerns are valid, and you can argue that the summation of all the individual concerns will address the perceived zeitgeist of the EVE community, there runs the risk that these representatives are stubborn, dogmatic, and unable and unwilling to discuss matters that do not pertain to their chunk of the electorate. At this point, the CSM becomes pointless and perhaps even counter-productive, especially if the margin for an issue to be discussed is as low as 5%, because all it takes is for one group to get together, whine on forums, and use up invaluable CSM time for something that really won't affect anyone but them.
I think the 5% thing is a bad one. While the issues should be determined somewhat democratically, requiring a fixed percentage for an issue to come forth seems arbitrary. We should run the first couple of issues via vote on forums, get a ballpark figure of the number of responders, and go from there.
Also, I think the CSM should be given more autonomy than is allowed in a system requiring them to deal with issues that a small part of the playerbase wants during any given week. If they're popular enough to get elected, we really should trust them to know what they're doing, and let them do what they think is best. If they mess it up, then they won't get re-elected next time. Requiring them to have a knee-jerk automatic response to each week's organized forum ops (and you know that is going to happen) seems to trivialize what could otherwise be a more respectable and productive institution.
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