I was also picked out from my forum posts and what other people had to say about me if you are all wondering.

Go back to the war council was first announced and see who's name popped up first and most often.

The most vocal people about what the CPM should be rarely have any idea of the reality of what it can be or what would make a constructive and productive CPM. Tech, I'm afraid you're one of these people.

Having 'specialists' on the CPM would only create a situation where everyone can only provide helpful input on <10% of the game's issues. We need CPM members to represent everyone, not just their own speciality portion of of the playerbase. We need people who look at the big picture and take into account every view they can gather and balance between individual's opinions and what's good for the game.

However, all this aside, CPM0 was and continues to be most important for one sole purpose - setting up the CPM <-> CCP relationship. The fact that all of CPM0 have experience on Eve (Hans as a previous CSM) means they have a decent understanding of the issues that have dogged the CSM for many years and that they understand what is required to get a similar set up sorted for the CPM to become functional much quicker. If we'd had only pure Dust 514 players on CPM0, none of them would have had a clue what they were doing and the relationship with CCP would have taken forever to get functional. I highly suggest reading Hans' CPM reports for more information on how difficult this whole set up process is:
https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=915156#post915156

I talk to the CPM most days of the week, and read their (very) long discussions on all manner of dust related topics from weapon balance to high level meta gaming.

It really is quite valuable to have access to invested players to throw ideas off and sanity check stuff before releasing it out to a wider audience. They also do bother the community team and devs an awful lot about getting you guys more information so you should definitely thank them for that. It's a tough gig because they do a bunch of work which other players never get to see and appreciate.

What happens if you break the NDA?
Do you get banned?
Prosecuted?
Hunted down, made a fool of, then have hundreds of embarrassing photos plastered all over the interwebs?

Its a pity they are not providing valuable feedback. If you guys tell me they are then what - CCP doesn't listen?

"I know guys! Great idea - Lets remove free LAV`s and not focus on the actual problem of collision damage and or hit point levels!"
* Yeaaaaa whoohooo cheers all round! * /sarcasm