People who are all Goon-hate will be allowed to revote as well. The point is EVERYONE'S VOICE MATTERS. Not just Goons, and not just Anti-Goons.

When we get the revote that is needed to keep the CSM a relevant entity, you can vote for whomever you want.

no im not... i just know he's a f**kin waste of space

If there's a re-vote. Then I call for bullshit. He was never a good man to begin with. Manipulative, crude, and arrogant type of son of the ***** he was. And yet you people voted for him!? Not to mention all this yelling about how CCP sack him from CSM when in reality he resigned from it.

Peeps need to take a chill pill and accept the fact before jumping to conclusion.

If CCP chooses to remove the winner of this process, who received more votes than the next 3 candidates combined, it calls into question the whole election's validity at representing those who voted.

Rerun the election, or the results are worthless.

Didn't vote Mittani, yet still disagree with the fact that 1/6th of the biggest turnout in CSM election history just got made null and void before the Council even starts term.


Recall election please. Same candidates as already out there (minus Mittani) and rerun the vote.

CCP will do what they do. The members that won, won. I've got nothing against the candidates you voted for (I'm presuming Elise and Darius III given the alliance tickers). I'm simply pointing out that removing the candidate that won more votes than any 3 other candidates combined (or even the 7 lowest standing members) calls into question the CSM representing players.

Obviously, as players, we have no power to dictate their policy. How they handle this will just say how they consider the CSM as an organization representing their voting players.

a year of trolling a csm lacking any democratic mandate

oh boy

...LET THE TEN THOUSAND HAVE THEIR SAY.

ncDOT

I don't hide behind alts.

If CCP chooses to remove the winner of this process, who received more votes than the next 3 candidates combined, it calls into question the whole election's validity at representing those who voted.

Rerun the election, or the results are worthless.

Nixon was the peoples choice here in the US.

He resigned. No one was disenfranchised. There was no "re-vote."

True story.

They don't actually care about the truth.

They just want to push their tyranny.

I don't think we need a rerun

Just mittens is kicked and the every slides up a place, 1st reserve gets a full seat.

Pretty much this. LET THE TEN THOUSAND HAVE THEIR SAY.

They had their say.

Their say was expelled.

Why do they deserve to speak twice?

Goon tears are slightly more sweet and sugary (i.e. more delicious) than "pubbie" tears.

why?

because a lot of dudes voted for a guy who decided to decline the CSM chairman position?

should've voted better

If CCP chooses to remove the winner of this process, who received more votes than the next 3 candidates combined, it calls into question the whole election's validity at representing those who voted.

Rerun the election, or the results are worthless.

Mittani resigning from the chair is his own business. CCP chose to remove him from the seat that 10,058 players elected him to, for events which occurred during his CSM 6 tenure, before the CSM 7 results were announced, without offering anything to the constituency, Goonfleet and otherwise, which voted for him. Banning him for 30 days for this also goes above the actions taken against other EULA violations at fanjets, and it speaks of undemocratic reactions to media and marketing pressure. Obviously, if CCP doesn't want to do anything about this, they don't have to. But, by not doing anything, it casts the whole of CSM 7 under an air of questionable legitimacy, as anyone elected to it has far less votes than the leader removed from it.

This isn't to say that the remaining CSM 7 candidates haven't won their seats fair and square. To the posters in this thread suggesting that I think ill of Hans Jaegerblitzen or Elise Randolph (maybe Seleene?), I actually quite like these candidates, and commend them on their results in the polls. Furthermore, with the notable exception of Issler, those members of CSM 7 that have spoken about this decision have called out CCP's actions. Given their interest in serving the player base as representatives, I see no reason for them not to rally behind this stance - they would all easily win again in roughly the same order.

This has little to nothing to do with my personal views, which are irrelevant here. I actually found Mittani's presentation to be in poor taste, and I'm glad he gave his apology. More importantly, I'm glad logs have shown that The Wis is doing quite well these days. I actually like pretty much all of the members of CSM 7, and even those I don't necessarily like, I congratulate on winning their position, fair and square.

At any rate, obviously I can do nothing more than present CCP with this basic idea of how to keep a mandate with CSM 7. If they want to ignore this, that's their business. Posting here either way does little.