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Posted - 2015.07.31 23:11:00 -
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You ought to have a bit more room to explain a position despite the NDA, I think. Even if the reason was "all the potential Chairmen had qualities which I deemed impeded them from functioning effectively in that position," without exact details, that should be an effective non-NDA'd answer.
I appreciate your answers Dennie, and you were on my ballot last year. But your answers have helped me make up my mind on a few aspects of your candidacy, and I can't justify voting for you again.
There's no doubt that you're an upstanding community member, but in selecting candidates to fill my ticket I need to feel like you bring something to the table other candidates don't, that you'll represent community interests even if those interests don't align with CCP's, and that you'll be an advocate for cutting down on dysfunction in both the CPM and the community at large. Between your responses to my questions and your behavior over the past year, I feel like I can't trust you on the above listed counts.
One of the principle points you tout as unique about your character compared to other candidates' is a focus on new players. But I just haven't seen this emphatically from you over the past year any more so than several other candidates. I think that quite a wealth of CPM potentials want the NPE to be refined and have good insights into doing so. That's why I asked you about scanning and bandwidth changes. Both of those changes implemented relatively complicated and completely undocumented mechanics. In your answer you note that UI is a sticking point, but I'd think that someone focused on the NPE would dwell much longer on this negative aspect of the changes. This trend matches with other aspects of your public discussions over the year.
You've always, of course, been an unabashed fanboy. I voted for you last year despite this, so it's not exactly news. Finding out legitimate appraisals from you has taken effort this year, and I'm skeptical that you have it in you to be a proponent of the community on issues that are at odds with CCP. It feels like it always takes some kind of investment, like this series of posts, to prompt you into a meaningful discussion that isn't mostly rainbows-and-sunshine optimism or otherwise. Much of your original post here, for instance, is historical recollection, a plea that there's NDA'd content you can't talk about which makes a case for your election, and a protestation that you absolutely love being a fanboy. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that last one, mind, but it really has no bearing on whether or not you should be on the CPM.
This aspect of your personality dovetails somewhat with your conduct in regards to dysfunction on the CPM and in general trying to promote an atmosphere where the Dust community can regain enough status not to be counted the unfortunate mistake of CCP's offerings. Electing a Chairman for the CPM, for instance, is not a purely internal matter. That election reflects on the entirety of the Dust community, and implies that we're not united enough to overcome basic interpersonal bickering to select a Chairman. Everyone on the past Council this should be held accountable for their failure to do so, and many have already made plain statements as to why or why they didn't support. Meanwhile you've responded in an essentially noncommittal way. This secretive approach to CPM affairs is unacceptable. I expect there to be as much transparency as possible within NDA constraints in a representative body like the CPM.
Overall I think you're a fine guy, but after the past year other candidates stand out to me as having the potential for a bigger positive impact as members of the CPM than you.
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