I'm sure the irony of someone calling for a CSM member to be removed as a result of remarks made on an out of game platform, about a person that engages in behavior many distasteful at best via an out of game platform, is lost on not only the OP but most of the posters in this thread.

I'm sure the irony of someone calling for a CSM member to be removed as a result of remarks made on an out of game platform, about a person that engages in behavior many distasteful at best via an out of game platform, is lost on not only the OP but most of the posters in this thread.

And if he's going to open Pandora's Box on whether you can have someone who did not break the rules banned because you don't like them...

then I feel fully justified in asking that he be removed for his disrespectful statements regarding real world torture.

Losing your pixels and getting laughed at is not torture. To say so cheapens real victims and real suffering. It's reprehensible.

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I'm sure the irony of someone calling for a CSM member to be removed as a result of remarks made on an out of game platform, about a person that engages in behavior many distasteful at best via an out of game platform, is lost on not only the OP but most of the posters in this thread.

The only question I have is the timing. Is this to get me to drop out of CSM running? Sohkar is old news.

*edit* I have heard rumours that Riptard presented something to the CSM and/or CCP and did not like the answer so he decided to manufacturer a media shitstorm to try and make CCP look bad or something. Is there any truth to this?

This is a situation that we've been monitoring for some time now, and recent events have sparked renewed discussion with regards to what, if anything will be done in regards to what's happened.

Thanks.
CCP Falcon

Its not so much that he 'has a problem' with Erotica 1.

A) It is the irresponsible way in which he expressed it using highly personal nature of the attacks on Erotica 1's very humanity.
Essentially reducing another EVE player - not the toon, but the actual person to a 'vile, evil, dispicable torturer' is, ahem, quite vile.

And, ultimately, I personally wouldn't have a problem with that. People can blog about anything they want, and I can choose not to read it.

Except that leads us to B.

B) Ripard Teg isn't just any old EVE player with a blog that nobody reads. He's a CSM member, representing CCP - which drives quite a bit of traffic to his blog and gives him an outsized 'megaphone'. When he (ab)uses it to attack other players in such terms, by name - I have a problem with it.

Sanctions on Ripard are in order - no matter which side of the 'bonus room' you are on.

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