CCP usually doesn't reveal if a player has been banned, why don't you ask Sokhar himself?

Then you file a petition and he's done for. What is the problem?

Sohkar can't be banned as per CCP policy



Seems pretty clear cut to me, anything you do on the Eve sever is banable, anything outside is not.

Not really sure what all the fuss is about, unless CCP are being inconsistent with their policies and I can't imagine they would ever do that now would they?

I don' thave time for sociopaths that attempt to hide behind the veil of a game when getting kicks out of publicly humiliating people for their own masturbatory pleasure. It would appear that CCP thinks the same which is why that deranged fool has been ejected from the game.

Read and comprehend Keyword reprehensible as unacceptable . Racism is never ok. I said he should recieve some punishment , but the CIRCUMSTANCES shuld be taken into account. To the best of my knowledge he has never spouted racist crap all over the internet , and made it public . His racist rant, deathreats etc was not intentional . It was a emotional spur of the moment reaction to which he apoligised . When your emotions run high you have never said anything you later regret. Unlike Erotica1 this was not premeditated , and planned out. That fact should be taken into account .

Last night I was ransomed and was asked to go on Teamspeak to sing a song, I felt publicly humiliated and have cried for hours and hours. I would like a response from CCP to see what I could do in these circumstances, they have the recordings and are threatening me to release them to the EVE public, is this bannable?

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

False.

When someone, anyone, loses their temper, they behave in a manner that is not the "real" them.

Or are you trying to claim that everyone who is not in a state of losing their temper, is not the real them?

DERP!

Are you not real until you are angry?

Yup... I was on page 85, went to another site for an hour, and then clicked "back" ... only to find out that nearly 3 pages worth of posts had gone poof.

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People with nothing to add eh.

When I lose it I might smash your head into the ground until you need to be hospitalized, but I would never use a racial or sexist slur while I was doing it.

Strange but true.

We are a really ****** up species.

Mr Epeen

Then everything you are saying now does not represent your real view, or you, because you are not saying it in a state of having lost your temper.

Or, are you mad right now?

That would depend on whether you are currently mad or not, according to your own posited logic and reasoning.

Are you saying that in anger?

By comparison, I live in a constant state of rage, held in check only by my abnormally large and completely depraved sex-drive.
I play EvE to punish the universe for spawning me.

It's a wonderful life with no twee bunnies or love songs or weddings to get in the way of the debauched pain-mongering.

But I dont support a theocratic git who wants to take his miserable third world country back to the middle ages

my point is the "victim" chose to do this when he should have known it was a scam. its his fault.

Personal responsibility is for poor and weak people, anyone with any real wisdom knows that the rich and powerful avoid personal responsibility easily.
There are more differences between Ero1 and Sokhar than that one was punished and one was not. Way more.

It's because we idiotically gave the ignorant and socially malformed a broadcasting tool that lets them shout out to the entire world practically with almost complete anonymity. It used to be only by submitted and approved Op Ed letters and such, which mostly never saw the light of day (thankfully).

If all Tweets, Facebook Updates, and Forum postings were required to include a valid name and address, we would not even hear one thousandth of it at all.

Take away the guardians at the gate and anarchy takes over immediately.

This has been a sad week for Eve.

Recent events have brought to the foreground some of the most distasteful corners of Eve. The activities of the people in these corners are not related to Eve-defined PvP such as ship, market or sovereignty combat. They are in a different league to the harmless, impersonal invitations to send all your ISK to someone in the idiotic hope that they will return more than you sent.

A number of people, myself included, have expressed their concern at these distasteful activities and requested that CCP distance themselves from these sick few. Unfortunately this number didn't seem to be big enough to swing CCP and all we got was a carefully worded statement of no change of the status quo.

They consciously chose to support the sick few by their lack of positive action. I had hoped that this would have been an excellent opportunity to take some positive action and attempt to clean up the media's representation of the game's reputation. Instead they chose to reinforce the existing image of a place of freedom for the worst elements of gaming society.

Woah... I did miss a bit. This gem in particular.

From what I understand here:

Ero made a jackass out of some jackass. Ha ha. This = life ban.

Sohkar made a DEATH THREAT and that only gets a 30 day ban?? WTF? Youll have to explain that one.

Heard he is banned for 30days.

Are we there (100 pages) yet?

Edit: Boooo! I suffered from premature post insertion.

I think the 99.9% of the playerbase who don't care about this have probably carried on playing the game just fine.

Fact is, you're representing a fringe playstyle that the mass of Eve doesn't particularly care about.

Keep posting!

Yeah i get what you're saying but trust me it's always a mistake to refer to people as sheep. That feeling of being the only person who's awake and validating yourself by declaring that people are stupid is an adolescent phase. In it's extremest expression, such a sentiment is usually expressed by schizoid murderers, the type who may read Nietszche daily but always seem to end up hurting mainly women and children.
No i'm not calling you a crazy killer, get down off the mantlepiece, put that gun away and take off that ballgown, this just isn't as important to the game as some of Ero1s alts would like to think it is.

Drama queen much??? What are those dangers to which station scam-er alts are exposed now? Bounties? Clearly you are joking. War decs? You can't be serious.
It is "Hello Kitty" for people that prefer this type of game-play. And because it is, one virtual jerk pushed the envelope well beyond any shred of decency. And now, faced with the consequences of his actions, he sheds sweat tears on the internet.
Sweetest tears ever, nomnomnom. Rip what you saw.

This thread is so full of straw men that it rivals the Chinese Terracotta ARMY.

That's nice, but you want to see funny and sad all wrapped up in one mentally ill package?

https://forums.robertsspaceindustries.com/discussion/117605/new-to-the-forums-a-word-of-warning-to-the-mgmt-team-and-dev-s

No. Ero is getting karma biting back after all this time. Deal with it.

Of course it exists. Sometimes it just takes people to give it a little push for it to come back and bite.

Wonder how long it'll be before it comes for you?

Welcome to free speech. I know it's a foreign concept for people who live in many European countries where they ban any kind of speech that is mildly offensive to the easily offended.

No, I don;t want hard and fast rules, I just want more clarity than "if another player gets upset, stop". Since some players get upset about almost anything, while others you could murder their families without worry, that's incredibly subjective and impossible to gauge. Then add onto that the fact that prior to this CCP state EXPLICITLY that they DO NOT deal with third party tools. Now they at least deal with some, so WHICH do they now deal with.

It's not a hard set of questions and it's not unreasonable to ask. Look at what has happened here. Something that last year was perfectly acceptable, and hasn't changed at all is not unacceptable because a CSM member started a hate campaign. Asking for an explanation of the extent to which their rules have changed, or just clarification that this was a once off due to abuse of a CSM power would be nice to know. I don't want to be responding to someone on twitter then suddenly find my account banned because some random CSM thought my words were too harsh for their liking.

Theres WAAAAAAY too much butthurt caused by pixel destruction to gauge your in game behavior on that level of butthurt

Btw, how much longer are these replies gonna get lol