On the other hand I get a lot of hate from the miners whos ships I incinerate for fun.

Okay we can close this thread now,
as the uberhaters are taking over now.

Actually most of our funding comes from people who like stories on minerbumping or watching exploits in local chat.

Null Sec mining done right is safer than High Sec mining.

Some people just want to pad their killboards with easy kills. Most just lack any true pvp skill and go after miners to compensate. Its almost like someone baiting noobs in a starter system and thinking thats good pvp.

As a miner, you just have to adapt. Dont go afk. Pay attention to overview. Watch dscan. And always stay aligned. Warp the second anything potentially hostile shows up. And keep plenty of replacement ships in hangar.

I mine a lot when im not out hunting. I haven't lost a ship while mining since I was a noob back in 2010. Its not hard to avoid losing a ship. Just use common sense.

Miners don't contribute to the community at all.

As you say Eve is a sandbox full of choices, not a "good fight" simulation game.

You are welcome to judge this as somehow "craven" and apply consequences to those that engage in this criminal behaviour - that too is part of the sandbox. But your sense of "space honour" doesn't change the fact that the game is explicitly designed so other players can take your stuff, even in highsec, if you do not protect yourself. Gankers are not using some "loophole" or cheap exploit - they are enforcing the risk part of the game as intended by CCP.

No one is helpless in this game - except for perhaps the true 2-day old new player who doesn't understand game mechanics.

The problem is with the small minority who either do not understand what kind of game this is, can't accept a loss to another player, or somehow take my exploding them as a personal insult and start spewing hateful insults up to, and including, death threats. This group is a small minority, but still common enough that I run across them on several times a month even with my moderate Code enforcement level recently. You are welcome to judge my criminal behaviour as "craven" and apply any in-game consequence you wish, but you are not welcome to hurl such abuse at me for just playing the game as CCP intends.

I didnt realise that...

Real life and video games are different things.

With La Rynx, it's always about the CODE.
It's funny, almost propaganda for the bad guys.

The New Halaima Code of Conduct is a role-playing construction completely done in-game which helps define us as the villains that we are. We wouldn't be very credible bad guys (or good guys depending on your point of view) if we ganked miners and haulers and then offered them back rubs and kind words encouraging them to do better.

No, we have claimed highsec

we offer ourselves up on the altar of emergent content as villains for you to hate.

But you do not have the right to threaten my family with death or hurl homophobic and racial abuse at me because you didn't like me blowing up your imaginary space ship.

or you can resist, by fighting us and trash-talking as much as you like, but just remember to keep it in-game.

a person who trolls the forums, never logs in and spends their time telling people how great they are and rubbishing others that disagree with them.

Have I ever told you how much I dig the redhead, military looking type?

Wrong, it's simple gaming etiquette. The "gf" is a simple polite congratulatory gesture from the loser to the victor in any PvP scenario. You see it all the time at the end of any fight, "gg"'s and "gf"'s get thrown around a lot to indicate the end of the game and that there's no hard feelings.

"Gf" is a simple gesture that means "no hard feelings". If you lose a fight, you congratulate the victor while simultaneously confirming you're not a sore loser.

Simple etiquette, really. I'm curious why you can't seem to understand that.

If you lose a fight, you congratulate the victor while simultaneously confirming you're not a sore loser.

blowing a miner out the sky and saying GF is bollocks as there is no fight

I don't hunt miners never have never saw the point i rather lose a good fight than win a **** one so get your facts right

It's always good manners to give a 'gf' to your opponent

Some view as us villains for the terror we cause in the asteroid belts and shipping lanes,

As for the -10,

But to the point, I am not exactly sure how you think ganking should be done to be "honourably"

the short answer is that this is simply the ugly side of human nature for the long answer I refer you to "the Stanford prison experiment"