CSM Inaugural Council Announced

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. I hope the next CSM election has a bigger voting turnout than the inaugural one.

This has serious ramifications given that some power blocs had candidates representing them and were able to motivate members to use their vote for them far more easily than the independent candidates.

Many candidates rode on the inertia of previous forum whoring and frankly it seems to have worked.

The argument could be given that if candidates were any worth, then votes would still be drawn from the populace however it is my opinion that the turnout was incredibly low, leading to "unknowns" having a considerably harder time gaining votes as they also have to make voters interested in the elections in the first place.

Many power bloc candidates arrived late or campaigned fairly poorly, some displaying a darker side by bigging themselves up on the forums (and being caught), cliques forming and bumping each others posts giving supporting arguments and so on. All to be expected and it seems to be a winning formula after all. A cold, harsh universe indeed.

In my mind, the second CSM term is not worth even bothering with given the current state of voter apathy. Existing members will probably get re-elected through inertia.

The third CSM term seems more interesting to me given that candidates cannot stand more than two sessions.

Yes, this entire blog could be construed as sour grapes however it is also evidenced by the forum posts.

11.08% of the Eve Community has spoken, and it has chosen Jade Constantine as chairman of the inaugural Council of Stellar Management.

I sincerely hope that the Eve Community is happy with what it has done and that the 88.92% that couldn't even be bothered to take part have the balls to accept whatever happens.

To the 297 who voted for me, I thank you. I would have done you proud.

To the successful candidates, again I congratulate you. Please do a good job for all of the players of Eve. Not just your mates.

edit: adding link to where I requested the CSM forum link added to login screen... other candidates could only whine and not actually do anything yet they got voted in...

http://eve-search.com/thread/764548/page/1#15