What makes you think that this has anything to do with griefing or ganking?

Quite true, but think about it .. when/where do you encounter the SD, I bet it is not in what we like to call the 'Good Fight' .. which just happens to leave griefs and ganks. There is just no reason to press that button except when all possibilities of/options for survival has been exhausted.
If you can blow up my ship then more power to you, but if you can't even be bothered to bring a tool big enough to do it before I fall asleep then I want the option of spitting in your face .. that is what they are taking away. Scuttling to avoid capture of materials and valuables has been used since mankind first discovered buoyancy and took to the sea to wage war (ie. quite a while).

As I said, I am more than on board with it generating a mail or loot .. but it should not do both or the entire feature just makes no sense and should be removed outright (or given a 0-5s timer), doubly so if blobs are not working as intended .. because Goddess forbid that blob monkey's should have a grain of sand in their sandals, much better to stick rest of Eve's lower legs in cement!!!!!!!!!

Answer the question of why the mechanic should even be in game without the Spit-in-face function .. it adds absolutely nothing and offers nothing for the player other than the ability to save a bit of time before undocking in a new ship .. something that can be just easily accomplished by ejecting.
Sure, ejecting leaves the whole ship in the hands of the anaemic dps aggressor, but a loss is a loss and it doesn't really matter to a mugging victim if a mugger only takes half the cash in his wallet before burning it or empties it proper like.

Suggested change just makes no sense.

Veshta you obviously don't like blobbing and yet you want people to be able to "scuttle" their ship if their opponent doesn't blob enough ? (i can only assume you mean blobbing when you say griefs and ganks)
You'll get more good fights if people don't have to bring overwhelming force to be able to get loot/killmail.

The change Masterplan is making is perfect because the old mechanic was idiotic and only kept in place because of whiney carebears who wanted to be able to grief the people who defeated them. (you can call it spit-in-the-face if you want)

But hey write off my opinion as just another insanely loudmouthed griefer/ganker, and not that of someone who has been active in this game since beta.

PS; as a roleplayer do you honestly think it's reasonable for every single ship in eve to have explosives rigged up everywhere that'll do more damage than any external attack could ?
That's a colossal waste of resources, and a huge stupid risk to the safety of ship and crew.

True, just gunslinger troll dont understand anything from this changes.
After this changes the SD function will be an useless feature which is nonsense and loot drops from a ship a fail when a player destruct his ship and his modules because he dont want to give them to enemy hands.

Your logic is bullsh*t and you gave a crap example.
Man if the pilot use explosives to self destruct his ship and modules you just get wrecks and exploded!!! items.
Do you understand this with your childish logic ? That's why using self destruct someone, because he dont want to give his ship and technologies to enemy.
Without this feature the SD is useless and nonsense.

If would help if you trying to use your brain.
Yes you are a troll without logical thinking. Maybe you never could to bring to fight enough firepower to sink enemy ships and crying to CCP when you cant get killmails. YOU SHOULD TRY TO USE NOT CIVILIAN GUNS YOU NOOB!!! And another thing self destruct a pod not equal with self destruct a ship after when someone agressed your ship. Maybe equal for you without brain but not for other else.

The SD is nonsense after this patch when someone aggressed you. Why use anyone when the ship will drop loots and wont give to no one any advance. Other one, why will drop loots, when a player exploding his modules/ships, designedly annihilate his stuffs.
When someone exploding his combat tools that will be undamaged ??? LOL

Maybe you used failfit, your unlogical thinking show to us your answer, but the real pilots, (not you noob) dont want to give to enemy his very expensive modules, that's why they exploding their ships, because they know they will lost their ship.

Thats why the military why destroying their high technologies,when no chance to survive because they dont want to give their stuffs to enemy.

So, the loot drop after selfdestructing it's a fail.
The killmail it's fine if the killmail info includes the self destructing at
involved parties and the exploded ship HP what the ship owner destroyed.

The butthurt by Bite Me inc because they didnt bring enough firepower to shot a noobship and didnt got a simple killmail.