Likely someone forced another player to do something against his will out-of-game using in-game assets as leverage. Basically more tools who can't separate a game from reality and who therefore go after the player, instead of the character he plays with using the accepted in-game rules.

I find it highly delusional to accept cruelty on others with the excuse that "nothing real" is involved. Suffering is *always* real, no matter the cause.

had all their stuff taken away

If that's not true (despite the countless articles stating otherwise versus your word), the rest of what I said is true. The quantity of what is taken is regardless of the fact that they took it further than to seek in game profit - to which you don't deny.

You wish to discredit the entire post by the means of critiquing one point, as if that somehow invalidates the rest - but I think anyone with a modicum of human decency will acknowledge with the basis of my response.

Conveniently you disregard the whole section where I describe Sunk Cost Investment, also known as the escalation of commitment. No dispute, just ignored to invoke victim blaming.

Taking someone's items doesn't imply by force, either. That's your interpretation of the context, perhaps a Freudian slip even. I merely meant it as in receiving the items, which is completely within definition of the word. Go grab a dictionary.

Oh and as you're referring to that image for both the "appeal to emotion", and "ad hominem", I raise you "the fallacy fallacy", "no true scotsman", and "tu quoque".

The police officer on the second visit told me not to get involved with the FPS tournament and to distance myself, i.e. to just stop. I can't, why? because that's my life. I've invested time into managing a team, no more than they've invested time into the assets that they've associated having fun with. You go ask a gambler who's selling his house to fuel his addiction, 'why?' and I'm pretty sure you'll get the same response. Very basic psychology, "in for a dime, in for a dollar".

"we can study the reason people don't walk away" completely negates your point "but that doesn't change the fact they can" in of itself.

Oh no, my word choice most certainly has ulterior motive! Word illuminati! Word illuminati! Or... I could have just used the word as it's perfectly acceptable and very common to do so... brb, going to 'receive' my aspirin.

Ok, so you're just trolling for the sake of it, and not really wanting to contribute to the discussion, got it. Seeing as you have no fault with the conclusion, then there's really no purpose to "attack" anything else I have to say. Also, attack? Really? It's a civilised discussion, at least, I think so.

What I don't get is how you believe it's an argument and not a discussion.

If this behaviour cannot be done to a total stranger on the street and it would cause someone to contact the authorities, then the alleged violations are not part of human social interaction

Ahhh, spring cleaning.
Nice to see that some trash has been taken out.
Well done, [].

I find it kinda funny how people are still trying to sell this psychopatic behavior as the regular scam.
He had no assets, no point in mocking him any further. Let him sing a song or two afterwards, fine.
However dragging on for hours is outright psychopathic and doesnt add anything to the game.

CCP should be applauded by their stance.

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CCP have already stated that nobody is going to get a clear and exact definition simply because the second they did that, one of the forum lawyers would find a way around it within five minutes.

I don't know.

I still believe that every single one of them know why it happened, or have a damn good inkling of why it happened though.

Asking someone to sing a song or you'll pod them isn't harassment.

Coaxing someone to come on your comms, then blackmailing them

and repeatedly attacking their real life persona is harassment.

This thread will probably live for quite a while yet, so I'll check in regularly to sample some sociopath/griefer tears. Those... Cumbledrorn ones are particularly delightful.

No body is arguing that singransom is not legit

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CCP need to define RMT better. [..]

You have no fault with the actual ban, you just can't tell right from wrong, from being in the spirit of eve to taking it into the realms of harassment?

If you don't want to get banned you have some very simple solutions. Stop making the focus of your gameplay hurting/angering/humiliating others. Tear collection is not a legitimate objective in Eve. Focus on accomplishing things that help you, not on accomplishing things that hurt others. Now, if in the process of helping yourself and you suicide gank or scam someone, and they get angry, that is fine. Just take your win and move on. Don't look to revel in the moment, collect tears, mock them, try to get them on coms, etc.... Just take your winning, give a GF and go. If the focus of your game is to see how mad you can make other people get, and what kind of reactions you can elicit, then yes, you are doing it wrong, and potentially could get banned. If you just focus on helping yourself, and don't engage with people you are harming, then no, you are not really at risk of a ban. To me that is a clear enough line already.

No.

Because you initiated the harm. You took an action that cost a player his ship, money, etc... and is likely to leave him in an emotionally pained state