EVE is in no danger to change its course, frankly. CCP is already doing the right thing (in their view) and it's a matter of life or death to them, so there is no way they will change it.

Of course, I think that they're wrong and should do otherwise, but that just puts me in a large club of armchair game designers...

Whatever the future brings, I will be missing Jester's Trek and Ripard Teg's voice on it.

Four years ago, EVE players were very much "Us against the world! Woo!" Now we've learned the rest of the world doesn't care and it's become "Us against each other."

Or perhaps the perfect **** storm happened BECAUSE it was out of line even within EVE's settings, not because someone made a blog out of it?

Not logical? No?

EVE has never actively encouraged harassment.

No, the GAME is harsh, that's the difference.

You would arrest for specific forms that you can easily identify and document. Don't make the mistake of thinking that this makes you qualified to determine that something definitively isn't harassment, merely that it makes you qualified to determine that something warrants an arrest.

Because being a cop makes you an authority on everything.

the "systematic and/or continued" part invalidates any of the bolded areas.

there was nothing systematic or continued about what E1 did, it was a single bonus room.

That's really tempting and emotionally it's what I want to do in arguments like this but I try to be more open than that.
So you get the above message.

In fairness, I am definitely being mean. I think the man is a dishonest, despicable piece of dirt, and his constituents, such as they are, have more in common with a sock with buttons sown on it than actual thinking, reasoning beings.

Seriously.

As if all other bloggers are filled with The Truth. Honestly, they almost all have their own selfish, personal "agendas". But where are the complaints about them ???

No. Wait. Just because he said he said he said doesn't mean he said what we think he said he said. I for one think everyone should say what they say they say, instead of parading themselves about pretending they said something entirely different. Lord knows there's enough intrusion on our internet rights to say whatever bovine scatology comes into our heads, and gee, me without my mother to make me go out and mow the yard or something productive like that, I might find myself sitting at a keyboard with an overwhelming sense of self-importance that rivals that of Alexander the Great and Napoleon combined, ranting on about things I have no clue about oblivious to the fact that the mere activity of this is equivalent to digital nail-biting on a scale that would make the entire neurosis ward of a state hospital enviable just from the sheer magnitude of the content.

Aside from that set of very simple and easy to understand facts, it must be further stated that stating things further in an endless cycle of textual blizzardry that makes the internet groan under the weight of the bandwidth which must be marshaled to accommodate it has to bring me, somehow, into the light of the great collective of internet history and lore - so much so that I may find myself with a compilation of my posts in a permanent "legends of generating content" exhibit in the first credible internet museum that doesn't require an ID check, credit card number and anti-viral package just to access.

My hope for the future lies in, considering all the electronic angles afforded by unbridled computer engineers plying their trade from within masses of basements of huge, glass and steel buildings dotting the globe like some sort of inefficient bird dung spill, the mere fact that with a keyboard, an appliance even an illiterate chimpanzee can purchase from a local store, and an electrical connection that is probably way too much a month for me to pay for since I refuse to work and blame it on the government, (thanks mom) with her cable hookup guaranteed to exist due to a cultural addiction to inane streams of pixels with laugh tracks attached, I can sit here and type the most idiotic things that leap to mind and because they appear in this very neat format on some website someone created using methods of which I have only a mythological understanding bordering on a pagan religion and it makes me seem SO very important.