Just leave it as is, the QQ and crying over it are silly. It changes at most .05% of all player interactions, and anyone claiming its the end of the sandbox or that EVE is now WOW, or coddling of players doesn't understand the wording or is terribly afraid of change.

"Oh no, I can't pretend to be CCP D01an anymore", boo hoo, get over it. The wording is as such to catch all potential exploits, it has to be else people are going to weasel out of it by saying "but the character wasn't on MY account, it was my alt's account", and so on.

I'm for whatever wording causes the most griefer tears. I can't help it, they are the best tears.

iii) I chat with a guy who says he is Mynnnas alt . . . I contact Mynnna to see if it is on the up and up (it isn't) BUT Mynnna thinks it would be hilarious to see me fall for a scam and tells me yes, that is an alt of his. Who gets banned, the false alt, Mynnna or both?

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You may have missed the part where |Mynnna IS a member of a CCP organization, the CSM

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If we're going along the 'official capacity' thing, I think it's OK to say "sure we can use The Mittani as a third party, he's leadership of the biggest coalition in the game"

But if you don't want people misrepresenting CSM in an official capacity, then saying "sure we can use The Mittani, he's part of the CSM so he's trustworthy" is not OK

You're suggesting that
a) the CSM can't lie in game (misrepresenting the CCP volunteer organisation) and
b) Mittani had specifically agreed as a CSM to the trade beforehand (misrepresenting a CSM, a CCP volunteer)

If the scammer had said that The Mittani had agreed to third-party a trade without mentioning Mittani was CSM, the scammer is misrepresenting 'The Mittani, EVE Player' not 'The Mittani, Chairman' which I think is perfectly fine in EVE

If the scammer was running the scam without asking Mittani first, and did not say the CSM lie, it's a legit scam despite misrepresentation of Mittani.
If the scammer was running the scam without asking Mittani first, and did say the CSM lie, it's misrepresentation of CSM and an exploit. The Mittani is obviously innocent (even if he had accepted the money) unless he also says the CSM lie. The scammer is at fault and the money returned.

(e: or rather, the examples are legit scam/exploit in my opinion)

I think the only cases where The Mittani would have been at fault would be if The Mittani told the scammer the CSM lie, The Mittani instructed the scammer to use the CSM lie or if The Mittani repeated the CSM lie. As I said, though, that would turn into a case of The Mittani misrepresenting (?) the CSM which would be a different set of rules or punishments (I don't even know if it's against the rules) that aren't really related to the discussion

Goon's leadership starts a renter program. People don't believe them because of recruitment scams. Goon's leadership want people to trust them so they want their members to stop recruitment scams. So CCP dose what they want overnight changing the EULA so it stops... yeah I'm done with this game...

I don't want to take away from gameplay either. I think it's fine for a character on the CSM to scam or for players to misrepresent a character on the CSM as long as their position on the CSM isn't part of the scam or misrepresentation.

The only reason for someone to lie about being on the CSM (whatever the CSM does) is to lie about being sanctioned by CCP. That should not be tolerated, ever.