Posted - 2008.05.21 18:30:00 - [3]

 

So many dutch and english people!

Gratz to Jade on chairman. Gratz to the rest of you too.

Posted - 2008.05.21 18:33:00 - [5]

 

Congratulations everyone who ran in the race.

Especial congrats to Jade who I know for a fact put a huge amount of effort into this.

Posted - 2008.05.21 18:37:00 - [7]

 

Edited by: Vitrael on 21/05/2008 18:41:22
Congratulations Jade!

Once again, you are the voice of the free!

Congrats to the whole CSM, let's make this game better!

Posted - 2008.05.21 18:40:00 - [9]

 

In before the wall of text...

Posted - 2008.05.21 18:49:00 - [11]

 

Thank you one and all who supported this idea.

The work starts Now.

IZ

Posted - 2008.05.21 18:57:00 - [13]

 

A huge bellowing "Gratz" to the lucky 9 and the 5 stand bys. Alas, I did not make it in on this occasion. Thank you all who voted for me. Although I didn't win, for an unknown candidate I had a respectable turnout, thank you.

To the successful candidates, once again I congratulate you all. Please do a good job for all of the players of Eve.

Posted - 2008.05.21 18:59:00 - [15]

 

Good, I see the two candidates between whom Is split my voting accounts.

Now, CSM, get to bloody work!

Posted - 2008.05.21 19:06:00 - [17]

 

Congratulations to you all, Jade in particular, Chair eh? :D
Well done mate!

Posted - 2008.05.21 19:18:00 - [19]

 

Originally by: Chribba

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I wish the best to everyone and am looking forward to your work, and maybe I will get the chance to join you all at some point.

/c

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I am still shocked that they haven't given you a permanent seat on the council

c'mon CCP Chribba is an institution!

Posted - 2008.05.21 19:22:00 - [21]

 

I would just like to thank the EVE Community for its support throughout this campaign and for electing me on to the CSM. While I am aware that many of my own alliance and our allies voted for me, I am also aware that I garnered substantial support across the EVE universe, from all kinds of unexpected quarters, and I immensely grateful to everyone who saw fit to vote for me.

It will be both a privilege and an honour to represent the EVE Community in Iceland and I will certainly reflect this in the way I contribute going forward.

I just want to reiterate that I am not going to CSM to represent any particular viewpoint or playstyle or to champion the rights of 0.0 spaceholder. I am going to CSM to represent the playerbase as a whole and to ensure that this game which we all play continues to improve. That may mean that I end up defending the rights of sov-holders on some issues and opposing them on others. It simply depends on the issue and what I feel is in the best interest of this game and its playerbase going forward.

I would also like to thank the other candidates for what was in general a clean campaign. I look forward to working with the other successful representatives and intend to respect the expertise they bring to the CSM. As I have said before I am not a 'marketeer' or an 'industrialist' and will therefore respect the views and opinions of those who have more experience in those aspects of the game! The CSM Council does represent a cross section of EVE playstyles and I sincerely believe that every viewpoint is valid and of merit even if I do not necessarily agree with all of them.

Finally, I would like to thank CCP. I think this is a very exciting opportunity and am looking forward to meeting you all in Iceland. I sincerely hope that this is not a huge publicity stunt (as many suspect) and that the CSM does get the opportunity to contribute to the development in a real (and realistic) way. I certainly intend to do my part!

Anyway (apart from the Tom Cruise love) this kinda sums up my current feelings:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=cnCMqr1QRQw

Oh, and Amarr Victor o7

Posted - 2008.05.21 19:33:00 - [23]

 

Congratulations Jade

Posted - 2008.05.21 19:36:00 - [25]

 

I'm a bit surprised that there were less then 25,000 votes. I'm even more surprised that I had a relative big impact on the councilor I backed, I voted with my active accounts and that was almost 1% of the votes for that councilor. One percentage might not seem much, but living in a country where your vote is one in sixteen million, it's bloody huge! If everything goes well, I might double my active accounts for the next election ;-) I find that a bit scary (and very exhilarating), because certain Alliances could dig up enough folks to actually get a seat (if not multiple), it just seems that this time they didn't really try. Not to mention that 375B isk would buy you the Council Chairman seat, 110B isk buys you a seat on the council (buying 30 day GTCs)...

I'm also surprised that there's so much orange on the council, there's three dutch folks! Guess how they are going to vote on combat drugs legalization ;-)

Posted - 2008.05.21 19:49:00 - [27]

 

Congratulations to the winners!

Some more stats :

53% of all votes (not counting abstains) where cast on the first 9
67% of all votes (not counting abstains) where cast on the first 14

Those numbers tell me that the CSM represents a majority of voters.
Which is a good thing


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I'd dearly like to do some more stats as well - So here's a call for CCP to release the full voting details (as a download).

Should contain the following (for each vote cast)
Voted on
Country of voter
Account age of voter

Posted - 2008.05.21 19:58:00 - [29]

 

Originally by: Venkul Mul

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Only 11% voters .

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That's not the best of it:

1% of us voted for the chairman.
5.7% of us voted for someone who made the council.

94.3% of us are being represented by people they have not voted for.

Another astounding success for representative democracy.