If that was even remotely likely to be what happens, there'd be about 6 people subbed right now since the other 299,994 would have been banned.

Could you and your lickspittle Kaarous at least try to come up with something close to plausible to cry over. It's not that I don't like your tears. It's just that they're not as tasty when they're so easy to harvest.

Mr Epeen

Do you think it's a problem that The Mittani got away with a one month ban for inciting widespread RL harassment, or that botters get multiple warnings, while these people are getting zero warning permabans for crossing an invisible line?

Why, in the face of such subjective and ill-defined offences, are zero-warning permabans justified?

Sorry I tried to keep your analogy going, but it doesn't really apply because the whole world is a minefield, but the mines only exist when people get upset.

so what you are saying is you-¦re not going to tell ppl how to behave, you-¦re just gonna ban them when they dont behave and not even let us know where the line is drawn?
That is a LARGE grey area my friends, one im not sure i want to be a part of.

Because. (This appears to work for CCP so please deposit into my account ASAP)

Actions you take, and things said in game can and DO sometimes have consequences in the real world, don't ever doubt it.

I look on games like this as a form of social media.

Over the last 12/18 months here in the UK there have been some really high profile cases of CHILDREN committing suicide after being bullied and harassed via social media.

I just hope to god it never happens here...


But this morning I banned a certain players posts after he/she posted twice practically gloating over one of his favorite pastimes in the game. Driving players from the game. Multiple times, with the excuse that they would have left anyway..bollocks.

I doubt anyone is going to leave over losing a nub ship so in my mind it would only be achieved by persistent harassment and bullying.

How his posts haven't been taken down and him handed a warning by now over it I have no idea, his whole gloating posts want to make me throw up.

Anyone on here got kids, grandkids? Ever seen them come home in tears after being constantly bullied at school?

Bullying is a ******* disease as bad as cancer and it has to be stopped, and not just out there in the real world.

Before anyone even thinks about pulling me up over the cancer comparison, I have lost 5 family members to that vile disease, watching them wither away is close to being as bad as watching someone crumble from the inside due to bullying.

Adults succomb to it as well, hell bullying in the workplace is gross misconduct in any company with a possible outcome of instant dismissal, why should what happens in here be any different?

Game mechanics should never, ever excuse this type of behaviour in any form.

But... but... If there is a line that isn't able to be seen... then then... BECAUSE! I Say, because!

CCP,

Explain how people who showed up to Teamspeak to receive contracts of assets (and didn't participate in all the "pageantry" that got E1 banned) is harassment? Those people did nothing more than receive assets like any other isk doubler/scammer. Furthermore, what constitutes Teamspeak to be real life? Especially since the victim showed up to someone else's teamspeak and could've left it at any time?

I had nothing to do with the whole ordeal but it smells awful fishy.

I was told by a miner that was popped that he would find me, enter my house with a rifle and then shoot me in the head. FYI, it was a Ret under 30M. So yeah, knives cut both ways. (Oh he also threatened any and all immediate family) So my point of this is, people say a lot of things, but trying to group everyone together as on aspect is just wrong. I like to eat pie, cake is tolerable. But you don't see me trying to remove ice cream. Once I rode a pony.

Cut and dried, that's all we have to say on the matter.

You are no humans and I am deeply ashamed that you people are allowed to be here.

can't we just suicide gank and scream on each other's teamspeak without victimizing anyone in real life?

No.

There are only two rules of any importance and they are not hard to understand.

1) Don't **** with newbs.
2) Keep it in the game.

Like I said before. If you don't know when you are breaking one of these rules, you are too stupid to be a part of the community.

Mr Epeen

I once filed a petition asking if people pulling GM mails from my API constitutes sharing of GM correspondence.

Since I had to ask a GM for a rule clarification was my brain not working?