I have yet to see Erotica1 tell us he'd have a good laugh and someone being assaulted.

That's an assumption based on an presumed but not demonstrable premise.

You forgot that it's pretty much guaranteed CCP saw the Bonus Room article on Miner Bumping ages ago.

"we even need the phosphorescent green mold that accumulates under many space urinals (The New Order).

Still, as my dad always used to say: if you're making stupid people angry, you're probably doing something right.

We all know the complain is about his rhetoric and not "exposing" something.

I guess I just dont get it

You must think I'm an idiot don't you.

Every aspiring dictator and psychopath knows that you can't run an empire with hard and fast rules. You speak of generalities guidelines, and you maintain your position of power by being the only one with the authority to correctly interpret the guidelines in any particular scenario. Once you start laying down rules and drawing lines which people must not cross, you open yourself up to the boundary-pushers: the people who will intentionally cross lines in meaningless ways in order to challenge your authority.

So to maintain your authority and the absoluteness of your rule, you must necessarily be violent and arbitrary in the interpretation of the guidelines and the enforcement of your decisions. Otherwise you simply lose the respect of the people who have volunteered to be ruled by you.

Thus the statement from CCP is deliberately vague: the people who are clearly "over the line" know they're over the line and expect punishment, the people who are clearly "inside the line" know they're inside and are safe from punishment, while the people in the grey area will either retreat to safety or double down. Once that happens, the enforcers can prune off the people who doubled-down because they're clearly evil, rotten apples and the community is obviously better off without them around.

They can try soon. Seems some white knighting scumbags from high sec need a lesson and not only are we at peace but there is also the first holicay season coming up...

Actually I have done that and I reached the conclusions that have driven my posts. I still do not agree with how this situation was handled.

What I find most vile in all of this is Ripard Tegs underhanded approach to it all.

If you don't like Erotica1 and what she did, fair enough. But to abuse his privileged position to push for an individual user to be banned, and then to write a highly inflammatory piece - one which resorts to hysterics and evocations of literal torture - and spreading it around news media when CCP didn't agree with him... that's just revolting on so many levels.

ban ripard teg

My post is not inflammatory and hysterical, the language Ripard used and his goal are a statement of fact - they're there on his own blog post. The "ban him" comment is hypocritical, but a comment by me in a forum isn't comparable to someone in a privileged position taking that request directly to CCP, and then taking it to the wider news media to pressure an action.

I also wouldn't call ripard teg "evil", or call him a "torturer" or anything else, because that's insane and sensationalist. I find what he did incredibly distasteful, and he has a history of doing it - last year he called up mental imagery of **** to try and push an agenda regarding ganking industrial ships. It's rather gross if you ask me.

I also think it is counterproductive to his own goals, as it's hard to have a reasonable discussion about an issue when people start throwing around that kind of language. We can discuss if an issue should be allowable or not without screaming that the other side are literally evil monsters destroying human lives. Or at least I thought we could... our esteemed CSM member seems to disagree

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