OK first things first.

It's pretty obvious that Issler doesn't give a damn about The Wis, this whole thread is just some weird soap boxing power play. Maybe she thinks the CSM works like The Highlander and if she can take out all the CSMs above her she gets to be chairman v0v


Second. If this was just eve players beefing with one another in our own little enclosure then I'd say go for it. Run around the monkey house hooting as loud as you want flinging poo at one another. But I don't know if you've looked at The Escapist or Massively this morning. It's not just us, we are in the spot light now, try to act like adults.

Maybe if your politically motivated rant is loud enough you'll attract the attention of that one lady on Fox news. Who I am sure will treat Eve with the same level of respect and nuance as she did Mass Effect.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKzF173GqTU

This is probably the best reason to present a unified message. Something like, "Eve is a good game full of good people. It is also a harsh game and we have some harsh people. We have one bad guy. He has done some bad things. He's very sorry for doing bad things. And steps have been taken to make sure bad things never happen again."

Also an "I'm not dead" statement from The Wis would help too.


Third, Fanfest will probably never be the same. You'll probably see two things out of this. People's power point slides will be more heavily screened before they are let on stage to cut out anything that could be offensive to anyone. And the hard alcohol will probably be downgraded to beer. Also the broadcast might be delayed by a few minutes from the event so that CCP can censor out anything embarrassing.


Fourth, depending on what we sacrifice on the altar of the PR Gods to appease their wrath, the entire eve social landscape will be very different. You could ban all of The Mittanni's accounts, take him off the CSM, and take away all the GSF tech moons or whatever. Then you create an environment where butthurt becomes an effective tactical weapon.

Watch the rest of the alliance panel. It was 90% smack-talk. People were being ransomed and forced to sing over comms under the threat of losing something expensive. Then they were publicly shamed on a public broadcast for their awful singing voices. I thought this bit was pretty funny and kind of cute, but hypothetically if one jilted player was enraged about his forced karaoke, and the forum butthurt got OVER NINE THOUSAAAAAND!!! Then Mr. Wormhole could find himself in the same hot water.