SO there's a great debate on EVE Radio...advertised (sanctioned therefore) by CCP. Who's debating? The whole slate of candidates? OF COURSE NOT. It's Mittani and Riverini. I couldn't think of a more boring way to spend time, but the greater point is - what about the other candidates? If some sort of fairness doctrine isn't being followed by EVE Radio, why would CCP endorse the event by advertising it as Headline News?

And, now the election is certified as a joke. If I were one of the other candidates, I'd have more than just a little to say about this. Leave it to CCP to make their farce farcical.

Riverini is a CCP stooge?

SO there's a great debate on EVE Radio...advertised (sanctioned therefore) by CCP. Who's debating? The whole slate of candidates? OF COURSE NOT. It's Mittani and Riverini. I couldn't think of a more boring way to spend time, but the greater point is - what about the other candidates? If some sort of fairness doctrine isn't being followed by EVE Radio, why would CCP endorse the event by advertising it as Headline News?

And, now the election is certified as a joke. If I were one of the other candidates, I'd have more than just a little to say about this. Leave it to CCP to make their farce farcical.

OP does realize EVE radio is not owned or operated by CCP, correct?

Vyl Vit...still jealous of Mittens.

Which is why CCP shouldn't be using EVE Gate to advertise the "debate"

Why not? They advertise plenty of player-run ventures GÇö it could even be argued that the whole point of EVE Gate is to do just that: connect the players and their activities with each other.

Because it favors features only TWO candidates...

EVE Radio should handle it's own advertising.

Is being fair that difficult to understand?

GǪthis time. Do you have the schedule for who else they're going to square off? Do you have the list of who else they've asked, who has accepted, who has declined? Do you have the communication going on between the community team and EVE Radio where ER detail what they're going to do?

Your conspiracy doesn't really work if all you have to support your theory is a single data point.

Seems like they are, by sending it off to the best advertiser of them all: CCP. Much like how others have done in the past. It's what the community pages are for.

Not really. The problem is your reasoning for why it's unfair (or rather, the lack thereof).

CCP could save us all from a lot of drama if they would just cancel this sham of an election and let Chairman For Life Mittani select the other members of the CSM.

You make a good automaton. I bet you carry a Mitt lunchbox to school.

Oh please. It's run as a news story. It's not run as an ad. "Headline News".

If it's covered as news it's written about after the fact, and journalistic objectivity would SAY the other candidates weren't invited, AND would be interviewed to get their reactions.

I wish this were a difficult problem about integrity, but it just isn't.

It is undersight, or oversight, or just plain insensitivity to what's going on, or how things function.

One day you'll have to explain to me what a "single data point" means with regard to journalism, publishing, advertising and a politcial campaign during an election.

yadda yadda yadda yadda

Yeah. Right.

So you agree with me, then, and will stop whinging.
Good.

It's so not like you to accuse someone of whining when they clearly aren't.

I find it hard to believe anyone would disagree with this OP.

He's whinging about how CCP favours two candidates over all others, when there is quite literally nothing to suggest that they do.

They are publishing a snippet about a player event connected to the very current process of the CSM election. Is this favouritism? No, because other, similar items have been published in the past, and it is kind of the whole point with that particular news feed. This event features two candidates GÇö are they favoured? We don't know, because we don't know if any other such debates are coming; we do not know if others were approached for this broadcast; if they were, we don't know what they answered; we have no context for this one broadcast.

I accuse him of whinging because the problem he sees is one that is entirely created in his own mind.

I disagree with him for the same reason I almost always disagree with people: because his complaint has pretty much zero foundation, but rather rests on a chain on assumptions that, each and one on their own, are rather tin-foil:y and improbable.


CCP is raising awareness of the CSM election as an attempt to stave of the inevitable complaint that no-one knows about/cares about/engages in the CSM. Why on earth is the OP so upset about this?

Pointing something out isn't whining, however 733T you are in your speak.

Oh, I get it. Paint someone with the "whining brush" and they don't have to be taken seriously.

No. Just a stooge. Curly, I think.

The problem is, you're not pointing anything out GÇö you're making far-reaching assertions derived from near-paranoid assumptions about the meaning of a completely ordinary event.

Pointing something out would be to say that the event CCP highlights has a risk of being one-sided. You're not doing that GÇö you're essentially accusing CCP and EVE Radio of being partisan without anything to really back it up.
Wrong way around: the reason I paint you with the whinging brush is because your chain of reasoning cannot be taken seriously.

If you say so? Whatever. Tell you what, Tippia. Don't take it seriously.