Heinrich Jagerblitzen
Onslaught Inc
RISE of LEGION
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Posted - 2014.04.03 04:27:00 -
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The NDA is a very generic boilerplate legal document that basically has a few paragraphs of legalese that roughly say "I promise not to share CCP's business information or trade secrets for a period of 5 years after obtaining such things".
There's nothing explicit mentioned, and that's by design. CCP can declare whatever they want business information, and we just don't talk about it. This is a common misconception, lots of folks think that there's all these rules binding up the CPM and keeping them from doing their job, and it couldn't be further from the truth.
It's really quite simple - CCP asks us not to talk about work in progress, we refuse to talk about work in progress. It doesn't hinder the CPM one bit - because its not the CPM's job to report information about what's going on inside CCP anyways. It's ultimately CCP's responsibility to share with the community what they're working on, and if they fail it is NOT the CPM's job to share that information in their place. If you're hitting a CPM up for this information you're doing it wrong. The CPM exists to bring feedback from the community to CCP, not the other way around, and this is precisely why the NDA is mostly a non-issue during our term.
In times of silence (like right now) the reason you don't know what's going on is because CCP's not telling you, not because the CPM should be and we just can't because of the NDA. I hope that makes sense.
As for the potato analogy, if CCP says "we aren't ready to share that we're figuring out a new way to cook potatoes", than we just don't talk about it. We don't say "CCP's working on a new way to cook potatoes, but we can't share details" because they asked us not to bring potatoes up at all. The NDA really isn't waved around constantly, almost all of this is just practiced out of professional courtesy. |
Heinrich Jagerblitzen
Onslaught Inc
RISE of LEGION
1649
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Posted - 2014.04.03 04:38:00 -
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Joseph Ridgeson wrote:I am sure it is aggravating being representatives of the community, seeing everyone being upset over "potatoes", and not being able to comfort the masses by mentioning "potatoes."
And yes, its EXTREMELY aggravating, but its also one of the job responsibilities we willingly accepted when we took the job. It's not a flaw in the system, just one of the many unpleasant aspects of the work that candidates should consider before they run.
CPM's rarely get to be heroes. No one should be interested in the position so they can be part of "comforting the masses". CCP pays community team members to perform that job. The CPM's role is not to take messaging from CCP to the community, its to take a message from the community to CCP.
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