What weakens the community more is when you start to depend on botting as part of the game...

The bandwagoning from Shadow of xXDeathXx is pretty damn ironic.

just sayn'

I don't see how you reporting a bot makes you snitch. Its a ******* game, no real life and even then there are situations where snitching is the only option.

What many people fail to realize is that alliances like the GSF, TEST and ESG all come from communities outside the game. They are not EvE online communities, but only minor subsets of much larger communities which span many games and many aspects of real life. Our strength comes from these communities, because we are held together by something more than our sov, our moons or our killboard stats. To report a bot, or someone who is in some way breaking the rules of a game played by the community, is placing that game above the greater community as a whole - your priorities are out of line. This weakens the community. I hate botting and rmt, but I would never report an alliance member as that would be putting a game ahead of the community.

In many (but not all) other alliances, the only thing people have in common with each other is they play an internet spaceship game and don't really care if they report each other. They are weak because they are only a collection of people with really nothing in common to hold them together, except maybe their sov. But if they lose this, they are prone to fly apart much as R.A.G.E. or Majesta Empire did.

That statement just confirmed all the allegations made against goons and other large nullsec alliance that ccp is turning a blind eye toward botting for RMT purposes , especially when everybody knows who you are