Its not about the situation its about how he handled himself in the situation

Hi there DNSBLACK.

I have read your initial post and it has left me wondering. You repeat a few times how you are essentially the non-bloc candidate. Then furthermore as far as what you do in eve you write "we strive to do everything".

This essentially tells me nothing. After reading that I have no real idea what you do in eve, where your interests lie or what aspects of the game you get passionate about.

Now about that passionate part. Not that many months ago you got rather passionate about the situation with SOMER blink. Now I'm not here to dredge that all up, the issue itself is not that important. But the actions you took, the things you said. In hindsight do you think you handled that well? Was that an example of DNSBLACK getting serious about an issue?

Let me end this post by saying that these are not intended as critiques, but simply honest questions to find out more about what you stand for, and what kind of person you are.

It's not for my own efficacy as much as I'd like to see if he can put the reasons for his behavior down into writing. I'm sure others would like to see the same as well.

Others can put snippets of their meetings or whatever with black but as far as I'm concerned it's hearsay and I'm not really interested in what people selectively remember from conversations they had months ago.

I've pored over your recent podcast interviews with particular interest - not having had the misfortune of a confrontation in New Eden nor the pleasure of a meeting in real life. Only having heard of you, your achievements and endeavors, and being one of the more controversial candidates this year I was determined to hear your side of the story. Not your side of the story second hand, third hand, passed along the chain where it's altered and misconstrued, but in your own words. Preferably multiple times on multiple podcasts so I might be able to detect any anomalies. Politicians tend to bend the truth to their own ends after all, say what the people want to hear, and boy can you ramble... rofl.

My sensors came up green. I don't personally know the details of how you are in Eve but in real life... when you're on the mic, being posed with the hard questions by other real people that have a passion and a drive for this game... you're genuine. The real deal. You love Eve Online as much as the people asking the questions. You have as much passion as those sinking a large majority of their spare time into podcasting, serving the game week after week, serving the players as you would do given the chance.

CSM9 needs people with your sense of commitment, your penchant for delving into every little detail and communicating them all back to the players clearly and elaborately. I wonder how efficiently and swiftly you can communicate also, but that's something I'm more than satisfied to give you the benefit of the doubt on - and that seems to be a key skill that CSM members acquire and nurture over time. I believe DNSBlack will be an even stronger candidate next year.

This year you get my vote. You earned it. You'll be very high on my list - not having a bloc to back you - most likely one below Psychotic Monk, I can promise you that much.

I've a few questions of my own. Whether you're elected or not, how may we keep in touch with what you have to say over the coming years? Do you write any blogs or post often on the forums? Are you going to pull an Azariah and ***** on every available podcast? =D I'd certainly like to keep tabs on you dude.

I'm in the midst of writing a series of blog posts about the changes I've seen over the last few years to EVE's culture. I feel we've become much quicker to embarrass and humiliate each other, much less likely to treat each other with respect, more inclined to see how far we can push another player... see if we can break him... see if we can drive him out of the game or make him snap.

And if successful, we crow "Go back to WoW, you *****!" and we celebrate our "victory."

1) Do you agree?
2) If so, why do you think it's happening? If you disagree, why?
3) What, if anything, do you feel CCP should do about it?

What do you think about projected effects get on killmails?
Ship A kills Ship B. Ship C is remote repairing/projecting links/Rsebo/whatever on Ship A. Should Ship C be displayed on Ship A's killmail?
Why / Why not?

Really appreciate the clips.

But just realized something - while some CSM-CCP talk is done on Skype voice, apparently the big chunk is done via Skype text chat and the internal forums, including written 'homework'.
You yourself admitted that you do not like writing / textual debate, how do you think that will affect your ability to contribute to those discussions?

Hopefully sobriety tests are given.
Good luck Brad!

i'd like to actually see this happen in this thread as opposed to you just covering

Ok... so here's a question:

One of the big problems I feel we have in EVE is that you can hop 10,000 guys anywhere in New Eden pretty much instantly.

Materiel movement, supply lines, overstretching, flanking and pretty much any strategic movement and territorial control is irrelevant when you can Titan Bridge people anywhere you can get a cyno.

What's your thoughts on this problem and how would you propose fixing it? Do you think it needs fixing?

Considering this post: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=332182&find=unread (and the Ripard blog that inspired it)

What is your stance on scamming and the harsh reality of EVE?

Is there a line that can be crossed? Is there too far? (scamming newbs? podding for SP loss? Metagaming scams (using external resources like Teamspeak or Custom Websites (eve-bazaar I'm looking at you... ) )

Is out of game harrassment/bullying/emergent gameplay/comedy (pick your term) such as The Bonus Room on teamspeak published across the internet on youtube, soundlcoud, pastebin okay?

Should CCP take a stand on this? any action?

Should the community tolerate and encourage this behaviour?


A TL/DR and IMO:

Some scamming crosses a line from in-game ingenuity and fleecing the naive to being full on cyber bullying and harrasment and possibly even a criminal act. What does DNSBlack think about this situation and what we (players and CCP) should do about it?

You took a very passionate stance on the somerblink issue but I am wondering why you sat on the fence for so long on this matter.

Why did you wait for CCP to make an official statement before you took a stance on this issue?

I still think you are obnoxious when you have a few beers under your belt, but you have my 5 votes, if you take the golden tour again this year, don't **** off the tour guide. =p I am sure that guy from brazil needed a new gall bladder by the time we made it back to the harpa center.

See you at fanfest.

I'll trade you my CSM vote if you promise to never, ever, everrrrrr do another Alliance Panel at Fan Fest again (this deal also applies to Kesper North who may or may not be running at all, ever).

I'll even toss you a bottle of Jaeger, serious offer.

You have described yourself as a champion for the community & players in all areas of EVE.

Do you think that CCP needs better engagement with it's customers ie the players? If so, what proposals or plans do you have to improve on this? . Being that so much of the SOMER thing came out of mishandling a community event (in game swag @ EVE Vegas), what are your feelings on CCP's community events and what improvements would you recommend to CCP? What role do you see for the CSM in CCP's community relations? Should the CSM be involved in community relations beyond it's current role? Last, what do you think about in game live events and should CCP bother to devote resources towards them?

Wow, right to name calling and w/ a CSM tag to boot. Interesting. I'll leave that alone and address the issue of my question.
However I believe this to be an interesting response from a candidate for CSM.

Back to the matter at hand.

The question is neither "nuanced" or "complex", as the whole "question" is now a matter of fact, and I am asking about that specific incident.
Secondly, I simply asked if the candidate supports what happened in said facts, not if the agree w/ the TOS, EULA.

So I ask again.....

Do you support banning players, for actions, like Erotica 1 ?

I apologize that I feel the need to avoid watching propaganda for a bloc player who feels the need to insult our intelligence by thinking we are all stupid enough not to check the accuracy of statements made in supplication for our support for his candidacy.

It's clearly one of the things that he has said to "set our minds at ease" but if he has to lie about it there must be a reason. I may find the videos sometime later today to confirm my opinion of someone who has already lied to me and you but I may not. I still think it is a petty man who needs to hide his inadequacies behind semantics in one game with the I'm not part of it here attitude. One Universe//One War.


I am still not clear on what I lied to you about. I want to address this more then you can imagine so please help me understand the break in communication you feel is a lie.

Edit: As much as you claim to be non-partisan sir, they are only claims. I am not sure that given your association with the group of individuals who continue to have a very self serving interest in eliminating competition by bluing up with them how am I to believe that you would fight for anything I believe in? You sound like a very "nice" guy but I really don't think there is anything you could possibly say to me that would change my opinion of you, your alliance or any of your cronies based on plenty of time spent with some of the members in your alliance. Actions in game do have ramifications out of game as you say sir. Your associates do matter.

Edit: Reviewed many of the video blogs, fell asleep during the podcast, my position is still unchanged, lie to me once and you lose my respect, lie multiple times to the community about the same thing, lose my vote.

Hello DNSBLACK, this is your biggest fan here o7o7o7o7o7!!!!!!!11!!!!!1!

If elected, how will you bring the principles of the DNS video to the CSM body?

So, DNSBLACK, if elected to the CSM, how close interaction would you expect or like to have with the CPM?

Hi, I would like to know your stance on multiboxing and use of third party applications such as isboxer.