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Oh and for the record - I voted for Garven at about 9pm because he was last by a fair amount at that stage.
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While i make no comment on the appropriateness of what srg91 did - I understand this was in response to a article (not lulz) - published by the ERA Campaign Manager under the official title of ANP members now being instructed to vote for Cozza.

The ANP subsequently published an article saying due to this action, they would be instructing people to vote for Garven.

Interesting election........

Two wrongs do not make a right.

I cannot find this article - was it deleted?

Yeah it was deleted cottus

Quite a lot of people acted shamelessly for this election. I think a lot of us are very unhappy about that happening.

I often wonder how voting would have been without all the mud slinging and slander that was put about.

yep deleted.

And sure, when the ERA one was deleted this one should also have been..

Of course, it should never have gotten this messy and political in the first place - it seemed tens of articles were written and deleted in eaus yesterday.

Certainly that was the meanest election I have seen in eAus - whatever happened to the day where you gave two people guns and asked them to walk 10 paces, turn and fire...

Does it really matter if elections get messy? The politics module makes the game interesting to those who have no direct control over the countries direction from an economic and militaristic perspective. I, for one, enjoyed watching the back-and-forth accusations. At the end of the day, someone gets elected, life goes on, and the losers in the election just have to get over it.

Still, article voted, as I dont like Srg's reluctance to take WA back. Australia had a rightful claim to the region, we shouldnt have been afraid of Indo's threats. Harden up.

at the very least Crowdedhouse apologised, srg did not

Alrighty, aside from the retaliatory aspect of the original article, two points that haven't been mentioned..

1) srg91 has a trusted name? (no offense intended)
2) would you jump off a cliff if an article told you so?

srg91 banished from eAustralia, if thats the case crowdedhouse should be shipped out as well. An action gets a reaction, apoligised or not it is the same thing as with Paul Hamon/autjoin incident he apoligised as well. But he still got half the country over him.

Thanks for the input guys.

Well Crowdedhouse is in my bad books too - this kind of action may set a precedent where dirty tactics will decide elections.

Who knows, maybe the incumbent Prime Minister will become the victim of a ruthless smear campaign, ala myself in Sept 2008 in Canada, which actually lost me an election!

@ Mr Rosewater - yes, srg91 was a trusted name in eAustralia, as a long-serving & successful Minister. Not all 2-clickers/new players are fully up to speed with current affairs but would definitely know of srg91 and associate him with trust & reputation.

Jump of a cliff? Well shit man, if you don't have time to read stuff, you throw yourself to the mercy of trusted & reputable players who can give you a quick guide to who to vote for. We shouldn't exploit players who 2-click and have little time for anything else.

Who cares anymore? The right person won, 😃

Agree that things got way out of hand on election day. The number of smear Articles and Ads was appalling.

Ultimately I agree Cottus. I'd go as far as saying I'd like to see some genuine action taken on all sides against those who published misleading or slanderous articles and ads. It was a dirty election all round and the end result is we all get covered in it.

@Ranger

Yea our article made a point and was quickly removed, shock tactics work 😉

I agree that neither article should have been published.

I'm not particularly interested in the finger-pointing game, however. I fully intend to continue to work with CrowdedHouse, and I would like to work with srg91 if he was interested. I know it's hard to put aside the high emotions that were stirred by this election, but I just keep reiterating to myself that its only a game, and try to get on with things.

I'm so glad I chose to keep my hands clean of this political messiness... and full of my bead knitting. The Holidays are such a busy time for me when I try to finish my crafting projects. I'm sure nobody missing what commentary I might have had.

The mud slinging is the main reason I stayed out of the light on election day. No articles, no comments, nothing. I decided it was best to stay away for a few days before I said something that was not going to be nice🙂

I put out couple of articles and ads i hope i didnt do any thing that could get my banished. :/

cottus, if you read the entire article, you will find the "vote for "whoever part"", its not my fault that a member of ERA named Crowdedhouse asked all ANP voters to vote for Cozza, I literally changed the names of the title from ANP to ERA and Cozza to Garven Dreis 😉

Boring 🙂

TBH, after all the mudslinging this election has shown, how is the publishing of an article suggesting you vote for someone different truely surprising?
As a campaign method, it's underhanded, but i don't feel it's entirely different from all the other childish tatics seen over the last couple of days.

sure it was a lulz article, but who here doesn't rely on 2-clicker votes to get into senate etc?

Overall however, i have lost a lot of respect for a lot of people i looked up to over the last few days

I'd like to think that the ugly shenanigans would end with the election and that we could work for our eCountry rather than personal agendas. I'm still hoping to see that change take place and hope it will very soon.

If CH and srg could find something they agreed on - something that would make a positive impact on gameplay for us all, maybe we could get by this? (Then again, if that happened we might have some strange nuclear fission and explode 😛)

Benefiting the players is what matters, and preparing eAus for what lies ahead. Change is coming from Admin as well as world leaders. Let's work together and be ready.

This is so typical of why we can not progress as a nation. The election has been won and over and it is time to start building bridges to get the job done. What was done in the campaign should stay in the campaign we can not have a term of political mudslinging. Cottus - get over it and to your aggressive strategy I have but one word which is post election - Japan. Be very careful.

All politics turns in to childrens games.

ALL politics. Real life and eRep.

Don't take what your fellow eAus has done, and use it against him...use it FOR him and for US...(not United States, but WE/US)

It's sad to see how we've become just another generic nation... I miss the days when you all worked together for a cause.

SRG, stop being a fucking child.
Cottus, stop being arrogant.
Ranger, Stop being so balanced and fair...no wait.

Zaney, stop pretending to be eGod....

That didn't come out right 😛

zaney, its already war 😉 i dont intend to lose it at all 🙂