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Jade Constantine
Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction
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Posted - 2012.03.27 01:13:00 -
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Issler Dainze wrote:Issler Dainze wrote:Sad to see I was the only CSM 7 member to go on the record with my outrage at the incident.
We got what I believe is a sincere apology now the question I believe is before CSM 7, CCP and most importantly the players. "is that enough"?
One thing despite the apology this was an action that was started before the panel, the whole presentation was created prior to the fanfest and I assume in a more sober frame of mind. So humiliation of the player in question was definitely intended. I think the drunkenness let Mittens cross a line but how much further was that from the actual intent?
Issler
No it isn't enough.
He cannot continue as the chairman after this behaviour and if he tries to (and the other members of the CSM let him) then you are going to be tarred with the same brush. Even on the assumption the apology was genuine he is going to need to step back and allow another CSM member untainted by the televised cyberbullying and abuse episide speak for the player council for the next cycle.
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Jade Constantine
Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction
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Posted - 2012.03.27 21:34:00 -
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Lets keep a sense of perspective here. Issler Dainze is not the person who has currently dragged the reputation of both the CSM chair and the wider Eve community through the mud in the eyes of the gaming press and ruined what should have been a clean sweep of good coverage following an exceptional fanfest.
And if this CSM starts looking like a playground gang seeking to give Issler a kicking because its become upset that the golden boy Mittani has become unsupportable as chair, then its going to have next to zero credibility going forwards.
I'm happy that CSM takes some time to formulate a collective positive on who should be the next chair and how to announce Alexander Gianturco's resignation - I'm less happy to see the rather pathetic and florid displays of sychopantic bleating issued on several threads today from pretty gutless CSM's bleating out pledges of eternal loyality to the "great leader" despite the grevious errors of judgement and behaviour he has recently displayed.
And some clue for those without a clue.
The approach that CSM 6 in terms of "collective presentation" was not universally appreciated. A lot of players wanted to see who believed what and who had argued for which policy and idea. Having Mittens as the frontman to a shadowy council of collective decision-making without us getting to see the votes and breakdown of the arguments looked quite dodgy on some levels. This discontent was apparent with the reveal of the winter minutes you might remember.
Don't make the mistake of believing the Mittani approach was very popular with eve at large. Plenty of people want to see more transparency and to see for ourselves that work is actually being done and decisions made by genuine discussion and honest process.
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Jade Constantine
Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction
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Posted - 2012.03.27 21:48:00 -
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Retar Aveymone wrote:Jade you are generally regarded as the worst CSM chairman and it is generally accepted every idea you had on how to run the CSM was wrong, why do you feel your input is useful here.
Because pretty much everything I advocated on the CSM is already in the game or about to arrive, because under my chairmanship Eve online had excellent press coverage in the gaming press and mainstream media from New York to London and Paris, because I managed to keep my dignity and temper and didn't get righteously drunk on stage at fanfest and embarrass myself and every decent player of this game by coughing out cod-sadistic nonsense and calling on my fellow players to be trolled into suicide.
Plus I had the good grace to give the next guy a go when my term was up rather than trying to cling on to power like some kind of monomaniac limpet-brained bloodsucker with an desperate need to be loved and feared in equal measure.
That about covers it 
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Jade Constantine
Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction
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Posted - 2012.03.27 21:55:00 -
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Karl Hobb wrote:Jade Constantine wrote:Lets keep a sense of perspective here. Issler Dainze is not the person who has currently dragged the reputation of both the CSM chair and the wider Eve community through the mud in the eyes of the gaming press and ruined what should have been a clean sweep of good coverage following an exceptional fanfest. She has, however, fanned the flames of a volatile issue for her own perceived political gain. Rather than work with a team and possibly post a dissenting opinion after the fact, or even stress to her team the need for individual opinions, she goes off half-cocked without even discussing the matter with The Mittani himself. The lack of respect she has shown to her fellow CSM members in this thread convinces me she is not at all suitable for the post.
In any rational assessment the Mittani (Alexander Gianturco) is finished as CSM chair. I imagine at this point he's literally holding his head in his hands and talking to his wife about whether he can even afford to continue being associated with the game of eve online after his performance at fanfest. The quite literal professional "suicide" he committed there IS that bad.
As for Issler she looks like being scapegoated at the moment. Understand, I didn't vote for her, I didn't much like her policies. But she is trying to push an agenda of personal responsibility from the current CSM team where we get to see what each of them actually *think* about this crisis rather than disappearing behind a magic curtain and letting the "wizard" tell us how its going to be.
Sure she could probably be handling it better, could have waited to say something, could have done skype from a laptop or something, could be in coms somehow whatever. But I do get the impression she is at least in tune with the understanding a lot of us have about how far off message into the hinterlands of lunacy the current CSM chair has gone.
Other CSM's seem to closing ranks and trying to laugh it off and tell us how it doesn't matter because the mining barge guy didn't actually die - but that is so not the point.
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Jade Constantine
Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction
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Posted - 2012.03.27 22:15:00 -
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D Derp wrote:Quote:In any rational assessment the Mittani (Alexander Gianturco) is finished as CSM chair. I imagine at this point he's literally holding his head in his hands and talking to his wife about whether he can even afford to continue being associated with the game of eve online after his performance at fanfest. The quite literal professional "suicide" he committed there IS that bad. That, that right there. Explain to me how exactly this means mittens has to quit eve? Or the chair? Am I falling for a giant troll?
He might choose to quit eve himself. He might choose to resign from csm chair himself (it is the right thing to do) he might quit csm himself (also perhaps the right thing). But if he doesn't then CCP is going to need to act and they would be immeasurably helped by the remaining CSM actually manning up and realizing that one of them is going to need to be chair in order to return a bit of self-respect to the office after the disaster that was the fanfest alliance panel.
Now perhaps you are a bit insulated from the almost universal disgust at what happened on that panel by virtue of your peers (who admittedly don't seem to realize what was wrong about what happened) but I assure you the wider gaming media is in now such state of confusion and eyes are looking to Iceland to resolve this matter appropriately (or to feast on the scandal if it is not).
Short version the Chair of the CSM broke codes of conduct binding the behaviour of ordinary players. He did something that other player have been permabanned for. For him to remain in place after this would make a mockery of the CSM and CCP's own reputation for even-handed enforcement of rules.
The decent thing for Alexander Gianturco to do at this point is resign, quickly and efficiently and disappear for a time so that the CSM can announce a new chair and CCP can get back to harvesting the remaining benefits of a successful fanfest and exciting program of upcoming game developments.
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Jade Constantine
Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction
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Posted - 2012.03.27 22:22:00 -
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Retar Aveymone wrote:michaelthered wrote:Retar Aveymone wrote:no you really don't and nobody is going to believe you yes i really do. I know Wis...have spoken to him on coms. A very nice man. **** we ran some missions together one night cause we were bored. The dude is a straight up nice guy. Here's my point cause i give a **** about all this eve politics bullshit and whether this dude has to step down or not....it's so inconsequential to me. But if it's ok to step into somebody's real life in such a disgusting, vile manner....than the consequences should also be "real life", and not this eve video game bullshit. Maybe we all should have a real life meat up and get this **** settled then......you guys think it's ok, and others don't.....let's get out from the safety of our parents firewalls for a moment and see whats what. If you want to step outside the parameters of this game cause "eve is real" you know....then lets see what y'all are capable of when you have to look a man eye to eye. quoting so you cant edit
This is the part where some sweaty handed goon in their parent's basement excitedly knuckle types out a harrassment petition against "michaelthered" on the grounds he's been "rl threatened on the internet" because somebody suggested that being an irritating numpty can get you thumped at the local tavern.
Seen it all before and the irony is priceless.
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Jade Constantine
Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction
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Posted - 2012.03.27 23:32:00 -
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Hans Jagerblitzen wrote:[quote=Jade Constantine] Especially for those of us that are new to the council, I don't see any value in refusing to listen to every party involved first and foremost. Not just to the players, but to Alex, and to the CCP staff as well. It's a bit unfair to say that because most of us would prefer to get a full 360-degree view of the situation before speaking about it that it means we are somehow "closing ranks", or "laughing it off", or letting "the wizard" tell us what to say.
Well I'm referring specifically to CSM's who posted in the apology thread with things like "I completely support Mittani as chair and he has my sword for life!" in advance of any kind of discussion or resolution. If we the players are supposed to have patience and wait for these matters to be discussed (genuinely and openly) within the CSM council then is it too much to ask that the CSM's on the council wait a bit before declaring their eternal loyalty and devotion to the "king of space"?
It does give the wrong impression of when the notion of a serious discussion is prefaced with certain CSM's spoiling the outcome with florid pledges of loyalty and vassal service to their space lord.
Bottom line Hans, if this discussion of the Mittani scandal is swift and has a clear outcome and we get to see who said what to whom and why in the making of any decisions you are empowered to make then thats fair enough.
If on the other hand it ends up like the candy-coated whitewash nonsense of the previous CSM where the intention was to deny us players a view of who was for and against particular proposals then it will be decidedly unsatisfactory and end up wreaking of corruption and responsibility-evasion.
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Jade Constantine
Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction
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Posted - 2012.03.27 23:46:00 -
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Alekseyev Karrde wrote:Jade, you've pretty much explicitly stated you're not concerned about condeming what Mitanni said, for you this is about condeming Mitanni's approach to the chairmanship.
I've said I don't believe his actions are appropriate for the chair of the CSM in Eve Online and he's brought the game into disrepute on a significant out of character level. I think its also quite arguable that he has breached eula/tos and there is a real danger of him being treated differently to another player who did these things.
Alekseyev Karrde wrote:Attacking the CSM for being silent and then attacking the many of us who posted stuff.. you dont have to do that. We get it.
I'm not attacking you guys for being :silent: while you discuss who the new chair is and how to announce the outcomes. I'm attacking you for coming out of a gate and declaring your loyalty and support to Mittani as the csm chair before you even have any kind of discussion about this.
If you can't see how those statements pretty much make a sham out of the current "discussions" then *shrug* really. It looks damned fishy.
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Jade Constantine
Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction
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Posted - 2012.03.28 02:09:00 -
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Vorlain wrote:Two step wrote:Wow, way to make absolutely sure that you will not get anything at all done during your CSM 7 term. How is coming out to condemn something that need's condemning causing a **** storm? pretty sure Mittani created that don't you think? If you are saying you are going to make another CSM's life more difficult and block what they do in the CSM on the basis of coming out and condemning what happened then you don't deserve to be on the CSM. You are there to represent us and have our interests at heart, not to be some upset fanboi. If you can't work for the betterment of eve you don't belong there. The CSM needs to make it clear it doesn't support what happened, and that's all Issy did. Oh and if you can't work with them for saying it, I take it you won't work with Mittani for coming out and saying pretty much the same thing, pretty sure he didn't run his apology by you and got your permission before posting it. Or are you going to just ignore that and be a hypocrite?
No idea who you are guy without an avatar but thats a good post and I'm happy to give you a support for it. Completely agree.
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Jade Constantine
Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction
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Posted - 2012.03.28 02:11:00 -
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D Derp wrote:Vorlain wrote:Two step wrote:Wow, way to make absolutely sure that you will not get anything at all done during your CSM 7 term. How is coming out to condemn something that need's condemning causing a **** storm? pretty sure Mittani created that don't you think? If you are saying you are going to make another CSM's life more difficult and block what they do in the CSM on the basis of coming out and condemning what happened then you don't deserve to be on the CSM. You are there to represent us and have our interests at heart, not to be some upset fanboi. If you can't work for the betterment of eve you don't belong there. The CSM needs to make it clear it doesn't support what happened, and that's all Issy did. Oh and if you can't work with them for saying it, I take it you won't work with Mittani for coming out and saying pretty much the same thing, pretty sure he didn't run his apology by you and got your permission before posting it. Or are you going to just ignore that and be a hypocrite? Nice alt bro. Mind posting the same on your main?
He's probably worried that 10,000 goons will be ordered to troll him into suicide.
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Jade Constantine
Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction
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Posted - 2012.03.28 02:17:00 -
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D Derp wrote:Jade Constantine wrote:Vorlain wrote:Two step wrote:Wow, way to make absolutely sure that you will not get anything at all done during your CSM 7 term. How is coming out to condemn something that need's condemning causing a **** storm? pretty sure Mittani created that don't you think? If you are saying you are going to make another CSM's life more difficult and block what they do in the CSM on the basis of coming out and condemning what happened then you don't deserve to be on the CSM. You are there to represent us and have our interests at heart, not to be some upset fanboi. If you can't work for the betterment of eve you don't belong there. The CSM needs to make it clear it doesn't support what happened, and that's all Issy did. Oh and if you can't work with them for saying it, I take it you won't work with Mittani for coming out and saying pretty much the same thing, pretty sure he didn't run his apology by you and got your permission before posting it. Or are you going to just ignore that and be a hypocrite? No idea who you are guy without an avatar but thats a good post and I'm happy to give you a support for it. Completely agree. Going off this post and the regdates of both the accounts, I'm betting it's yours. Mostly because that would be funny, and you're... you. e; then again that post didnt seem to be written with a thesaurus
Hmmm hasn't the last half dozen years of relentlessly mocking you people proven I really don't have the slightest inkling of fear for tubby neckbeard spaceship cultists and no need whatsoever for anonymous sockpuppets....
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Jade Constantine
Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction
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Posted - 2012.03.28 02:33:00 -
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D Derp wrote:Jade Constantine wrote: Hmmm hasn't the last half dozen years of relentlessly mocking you people proven I really don't have the slightest inkling of fear for tubby neckbeard spaceship cultists and no need whatsoever for anonymous sockpuppets....
I will give you credit where credit is due. You post poorly on your main. That puts you above at least 95% of people here. But that was mainly meant as a swipe against whoever owns that sockpuppet. (It was you wasn't it)
I'll tell you what mmm "Doctor Derp" is it?
If I'm ever in need of a posting critique from a no-name goonswarm recruit with a penchant for third hand memes handed down from bad posters of yesteryear I'll look you up okay? But until then I'll soldier old regardless. Chin chin and all that!
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Jade Constantine
Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction
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Posted - 2012.03.28 02:55:00 -
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SmilingVagrant wrote:D Derp wrote: To receive such a sick :iceburn: from Jade Constantine himself, it is an honor! But if I ever need the opinion of an irrelevant idiot as to my lack of internet fame, I know who to ask! Chin Chin Fly safe o7o7o7 and all that!
Ceo of The xXxSePhIrOtHSSJ420xXx W33D4LYFE Fanclub D Derp
No no, when you want to belittle Jade Constantine you point out that he ran a brothel in a video game about spaceships. Meanwhile Second Life is right around the corner.
Isn't second life that game with the boutiques and giant dongs where the goonswarm last proved slightly relevant?
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Jade Constantine
Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction
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Posted - 2012.03.28 09:59:00 -
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knobber Jobbler wrote: No, you're naive. Calling for someones death and harrasing someone is totally different. He didn't say "Go round his house and kill him".
Come on this is sounding like some pretty pathetic wriggling legalize now. He called on his followers to troll the guy into suicide! It'd be like some church minister in the real world calling on the congregation to camp outside somebodies house with signs about how they and their family were going to hell! Its harrassment and you can't really claim it isn't. Is it legally actionable in the real world? Probably not. And neither should it be. But its certainly actionable within the terms of the game company's rules of conduct and certainly can be used as a brutal example of the leader of the csm not being able to be a good ambassador of the game to fellow players and the news media.
knobber Jobbler wrote:I agree, it wasn't right but you're taking on not just the entire of null sec but the larger gaming community. This sort of stuff happens all the time. You don't think just because this was the first time someone said to do this publicly its not been said 1000 times before? Some people just play EVE to make sure you have a bad day.
See thats exactly the argument that Aris Bakhtanians made about casual and persuasive sexism being core to the "fighting game community" in the recent cross assault event. http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2012/02/is-pervasive-sexism-holding-the-professional-fighting-game-community-back.ars
By arguing this stuff happens all the time and cannot be held to account you are making precisely the same claim Bakhtanias does and it really won't wash for a game universe like Eve that is trying to go forward and expand and attract new players. There isn't a place in this game for people that call on their followers to troll people into suicide on stage at fanfest.
knobber Jobbler wrote:So what is you're reaction to people user the 'N' word in both comms and local all over nullsec? Putting **** links (and actual stuff that might offend) in chat?
I'll tell you right now. You come to Hek tonight where I'm going to be and start messing up local chat with racist/homophobic/hate language and I will petition you. If you keep doing it you will be banned under the terms of eula and tos. I have done this before and I will do it again because I don't believe this kind of behaviour is conducive to a healthy game environment for any of the players. Just because you have convinced yourself that this kind of vile stuff is the norm for whatever society you operate inside doesn't suddenly make it an acceptable part of the game. And this is really where Alexander Gianturco messed up big time - he was acting as if his organization had already "culturally assimilated" eve online and this stuff would be accepted by the populous. He was wrong.
knobber Jobbler wrote:Your little witch hunt and 5000 post threads may have unintended consequences for EVE.
If those "unintended consequences" are that we demonstrate to the gaming world at large that though Eve is an absolutely ruthless pvp game where you can lose all your possessions in an instant if you mess up it can still be a place where you will not be subjected to continuous out of character harrassment and urging to suicide then frankly ... good. If the consequence is that Alexander Gianturco is forced to resign and urges goons to quit the game then its on hilm really. But the best consequence would be he grows up a bit and realizes that he's welcome to remain in this game and game world by learning to differentiate between players and characters / people and spaceships and understands in the future that calling on people to be trolled into suicide is completely beyond the pale.
Quote:It doesn't mean he isn't a massive troll does it? This witch hunt is not only ridiculous but utterly naive.
I listened to the mining barge guy on Eve Radio last night. He doesn't sound like a troll to me, just a guy who got targetted by goons and had a letter taken out of context for the purpose of a fanfest mocking by a drunken powertripper using his CSM chair fame and alliance panel seat as a bully pulpit to enhance harrassment.
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Jade Constantine
Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction
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Posted - 2012.03.28 10:37:00 -
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Hans Jagerblitzen wrote:Frying Doom wrote: I can see your point if The Mittani had run this past the CSM in the first place we wouldn't be here and here stinks. It would be nice to know the remaining CSM members had morals though.
Currently it just looks like that they can't deal with a crisis with out The Mittani.
Everyone needs to step back here for a moment and understand that while group discussion is important, and teamwork necessary to work on behalf of the players to get things accomplished with CCP, the CSM at the end of the day is 14 individual human beings. Those that want instant gratification regarding a big CSM statement are going to have to wait. Everyone needs to talk about it, and frankly not all of us have heard all sides of the story. This is EVE. Nothing it ever as it seems. Personally, without having been at Fan Fest, without having ever spoken to The Wis, without knowing what the CSM / CCP involvement is in the Alliance presentation preparation, I'm just not comfortable coming out and waving a sword with righteous anger without having listened to the full story so I can assess what the problem here is, and think about how we can prevent it from happening again. CSM7 haven't even taken office yet, we're still getting set up. I really appreciate those of you in this thread that have shown respect for the fact that this is all happening literally while many of the CSM7 members are in planes travelling. Please give everyone a day or so to get home, get paperwork in, get into the conversation, and than we can get to work. Its extremely premature to go doomsdaying about how we "can't deal with a crisis", and its certainly not fair to accuse those of us who want to handle this the right way as somehow lacking in morals.
And just to clarify, what I've primarily criticised the CSM members for on this thread is for what I perceived to be double standards in the treatment of the Alexander Gianturco issue.
On the one hand Issler Dainz is strongly criticised for coming out with an individual position against the Mittani remaining as chair by CSM members here in advance of the meeting.
Which might well have flown with me.
If certain CSM members hadn't already come straight out of the gate with pledges of support and loyalty to Alexander Gianturco continuing as chair in general discussion!
That Hans is a pretty horrible double standard I think you'll agree.
If nobody is to make a statement in advance of discussion then nobody should make a bloody statement. Its simply not reasonable to censure only those making one kind of statement while allowing the other kind to go without question.
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Jade Constantine
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Posted - 2012.03.28 11:21:00 -
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Prince Kobol wrote:Just to show that the Mittani really loves us all
92:46:27 AM) directorbot: Gentlegoons, While I have the spaceship council work on their pleas for my resignation pledge retraction I need my "lolapology thread" locked or otherwise removed from front page. Till further notice spam Roadhouse references until publord scum rage out and burn the thread.
*** This was a broadcast from the_mittani to all-all, replies are not monitored ***
Hate to break it to you but that was me taking the mickey for the fact that the general discussion threads were being trolled off topic by goons talking incessantly about roadhouse movie. I made that up as a satire. For all I know Mittani MAY have given such an order or one of his lieutenents might have, but that jabber quote is me just changing the text of his "let jita burn" jabber from a couple of days ago. I didn't work that hard on disguising it tbh.
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Jade Constantine
Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction
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Posted - 2012.03.28 11:35:00 -
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This was one of the posts from a CSM member that led me to feel Issler was being unfairly picked on for speaking out btw:
Quote:I think everyone who voted for Mitanni had and has a pretty good idea of who he is in this game and what his alliance does. Did he get drunk and carry it over the line? Sure. And now he has sincerly apologized for it.
Nothing about this situation changes anything about who The Mitanni was before FanFest or will be now. He remains an excellent chairman, elected with a record breaking +10,000 votes, with the experience and savvy the players need to get the best possible results out of the CSM process.
Like a proper adult he took responsibility for his mistake, personally apologized to the player, and has made one of the most heartfelt apologies a person can make to the players as a whole. I suggest we in turn, as a community, also show the maturity to realize everyone makes mistakes; it's how they deal with them that reveals their character. I am willing to accept his apology and move on.
Alexander Gianturco has my full confidence and support to continue as chairman of CSM7.
Thats a resolution post not a "we're going into conclave to discuss a resolution post" - and I question its fair play to post a full endorsement of support for Alexander Gianturco's chairmanship as a single CSM voice while decrying another CSM's right to speak against it in a single voice.
(I've left off the ID for the specific CSM btw because I really don't want to pick on people or single anyone out, I'd just like to hear that the CSM collectively realizes it should not be doing singular pledges of loyalty and support to Gianturco while hammering on other CSM's who dare speak against him.)
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Jade Constantine
Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction
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Posted - 2012.03.28 12:44:00 -
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War Kitten wrote:Prince Kobol wrote:Just to show that the Mittani really loves us all
92:46:27 AM) directorbot: Gentlegoons, While I have the spaceship council work on their pleas for my resignation pledge retraction I need my "lolapology thread" locked or otherwise removed from front page. Till further notice spam Roadhouse references until publord scum rage out and burn the thread.
*** This was a broadcast from the_mittani to all-all, replies are not monitored *** LOL You got trolled by a serious internet spaceships brothel pimp that thinks she's relevant. Learn to internet and stop believing the first thing you read.
Well it was satire for a reason you know. Who knows WHY the goons all started trying to derail those threads. My post might have reflected reality, might not, but it did have the desired effect and managed to get things back on topic so :shrugs: did the job.
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Jade Constantine
Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction
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Posted - 2012.03.28 13:52:00 -
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Lapine Davion wrote:Jade Constantine wrote:War Kitten wrote:Prince Kobol wrote:Just to show that the Mittani really loves us all
92:46:27 AM) directorbot: Gentlegoons, While I have the spaceship council work on their pleas for my resignation pledge retraction I need my "lolapology thread" locked or otherwise removed from front page. Till further notice spam Roadhouse references until publord scum rage out and burn the thread.
*** This was a broadcast from the_mittani to all-all, replies are not monitored *** LOL You got trolled by a serious internet spaceships brothel pimp that thinks she's relevant. Learn to internet and stop believing the first thing you read. Well it was satire for a reason you know. Who knows WHY the goons all started trying to derail those threads. My post might have reflected reality, might not, but it did have the desired effect and managed to get things back on topic so :shrugs: did the job. Jade, the Roadhouse spam came out of the MichaeltheRed's internet tough guy posts, wherein he explained to the Goonies that he would take them all on in a fist fight. And also that he is old enough to get into bars and gets into brawls. If anything the Roadhouse spam was started by me. Because Roadhouse is just that awesome of a movie.
lol fair enough then :)
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My Neutral Toon wrote:Revolution Rising wrote:Totally agree. CCP should be taking him out of CSM altogether and he should be left with a feeling that he's lucky he still has his accounts.
People have been banned for less.
People have not been banned for less, as Mittens didn't break the EULA. CCP has no grounds to ban him from game. This isnt WoW
Many people have been banned for much less.
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Retar Aveymone wrote:name them
Well me for one. I was banned from posting on the Eve forums for 4 years for 10 minor infractions including such things as laughing at somebodies use of emotes, suggesting that an enemy alliance leader rode the "short bus" to battle and for telling halseth durn to "end himself".
What Alexander Gianturco did on the stage at fanfest was immeasurely worse than this stuff and hugely damaging to the reputation of eve online.
But of course if you want a more recent example the HB banning for what that person said to zinfandel by pm last year. Telling a dev to "die in a fire" gets a permaban. Calling on 10,000 goons to harrass a guy into suicide ? What does that get?
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I notice the goon posting crew have nimbly side-stepped the HB issue as always.
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War Kitten wrote:Jade Constantine wrote: I notice the goon posting crew have nimbly side-stepped the HB issue as always.
Tellling a CCP dev to die in a fire in anger is a lesser offense than inviting people to shoot at another character and laughing at his alluding to suicide?
Telling a dev to die in a fire vs asking people to harrass a guy into suicide?
tricky one really.
Should one be banned and other not?
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Retar Aveymone wrote:Frying Doom wrote:Retar Aveymone wrote:once we have done that I will explain in excruiciating detail the HB issue but i find it is best to nail one issue to the wall at a time That's part of the problem isn't it the whole HB thing. And the fact Mittens latest out burst In real life was a lot worse. i will happily address this issue once jade has recognised the depths of his shameful wrongitude regarding the relevance of his eveo forum ban
lols, it doesn't really matter if you are prepared to discuss the HB thing or not, if you stop posting there are 9999 other goons to ask the question to 
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Glarealot wrote:lol I'm confused why folks are still ragging on Mittani. He's stepping down. He's gone. Whats the point in continuing to trash him after he's already taken the initiative and removed himself from his post?
I think as soon as it becomes evident that is what he's done things will begin to settle down.
The problem is at the moment the delay is giving the impression he's trying to snake out of it somehow and convince the csm to beg him to stay or some such nonsense.
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Karl Hobb wrote:RougeOperator wrote:Actually weather or not the person was or was not genuinely suicidal does not enter into it at all.
All that enters into it is that someone was calling for another persons death vie suicide through harassment to push him too it.
You might as well be taking the stance that women get raped cause of the clothing they have on. Do you think that if they dress sexy that they were asking for it too? Just curious? I find your alliance ticker offensive. It's an obvious attempt to disguise the word "gay", a slur against homosexual people, by using a seemingly innocuous misspelling. It's pretty obvious to me that you are all deeply homophobic and, by using such a misspelling in a public arena, are calling for others to be homophobic as well. Now, whether or not you are all genuinely homophobic really doesn't enter into this at all, right? Your intentions are perfectly clear: to make people homophobic.
Lets just hope he doesn't win the CSM and get up on stage drunk at fanfest and then ask for some gay guys to get harrassed into suicide eh?"
Because then we'd have to use the same punishment the Mittani got.
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Karl Hobb wrote:Jade Constantine wrote:Lets just hope he doesn't win the CSM and get up on stage drunk at fanfest and then ask for some gay guys to get harrassed into suicide eh?"
Because then we'd have to use the same punishment the Mittani got. Why does the venue matter? It's still offensive and people see it every day within the game.
Because the leader of a RL corporation staggering around drunk and falling into the dustbins has the same impact on share price and market tracking as the janitor doing it right?
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Karl Hobb wrote:Jade Constantine wrote:Because the leader of a RL corporation staggering around drunk and falling into the dustbins has the same impact on share price and market tracking as the janitor doing it right? So whether the janitor does it or not makes no difference because he's not a public figure tied into profit.
You seem to have lost the plot. maybe you need to unplug your keyboard.
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Karl Hobb wrote:RougeOperator wrote:Wis didnt try to get someone killed on a live stream outside of game.
Keep trying to spin this, its not working. More like a car spinning its wheels in the mud. I see no difference between what The Mittani did and what happens in C&P on any given day in order to humiliate victims who try to bargain sympathy. In the end, it's all in the public record on the internet; medium makes no difference. The only reason this is such a huge issue is because it's The Mittani.
It doesn't matter who the heck the guy is - its the CSM CHAIR using his position as a bully-pulpit to channel harrassment through CCP's telecoms support direct through the INTERNET.
try and keep up.
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EvilweaselSA wrote:Retar Aveymone has asked me to convey "ahahahaha jade was so furious at being proven wrong he mashed the report button on every post until he got me temp-banned"
dear oh dear what a terrible tragedy.
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Kai Jyokoroi wrote:Well I'm bored of this whole charade but I AM looking forward to your entire alliance being solidly wardecced for an entire year or more
Me too because it means every hisec random pvp trade hub ganking corp in eve will be able to wardec goonswarm for free when INFERNO hits :)
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doombreed52 wrote:Jade Constantine wrote:Kai Jyokoroi wrote:Well I'm bored of this whole charade but I AM looking forward to your entire alliance being solidly wardecced for an entire year or more Me too because it means every hisec random pvp trade hub ganking corp in eve will be able to wardec goonswarm for free when INFERNO hits :) sigh you do know that the cost to wardec an alliance is like 50m plus 500k isk per alliance member look at test that's going to cost about 3.2b a week. good luck, you're going to need it.
Learn to play eve (and read the wardec devblog properly.)
In inferno it will be possible for the defender in a wardec to invite "allies" into the war for free.
Say Goonswarm dec Isslers alliance that will cost goonswarm (whatever) 500k per member per week.
But she can invite (pay) mercs to join the war and they will pay NOTHING.
Hence having a permawar against Issler's alliance will potentially give any hisec hub ganker corp in eve the chance to get involved in that as long as Issler (or whoever leads her alliance) fancies making the invite.
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Mugged Yougot wrote:]Obviously, if you are a cynical person you have an easier time being a **** in games, but that doesn't necessary mean you want people to kill themselves just because they got different goals and ambitions than you.. You are trying to tug this in all different directions in order to prove that Mittani is at least a borderline sociopath, but you are dealing in absolutes. There is a grayzone between good and evil, you know?
Look, Mittani's player probably isn't actually a borderline sociopath. He had a job as a legal clerk or something so he must be able to work in an office in some manner. But what Mittani's player is responsible for to some degree is the actions of his alliance of thousands which almost certainly includes any number of borderline sociopaths who have in the past proved quite capable of significant rl abuse, harrassment, bullying, criminality and general nutcase behaviour on the internet. The "great leader" of goonswarm says "harrass this guy to suicide" and a whole bunch of under-socialized basement kids drunk on malicious bullying and edgy troll fever are going to start looking for ways to make the target commit "suicide" for real.
We've seen the extents that goonswarm will go. We've had the reports of them spamming rl female players with obscene material to personal and workplace addresses. We've seen them make signatures to mock the bereaved father of a road-accident victim. We've seen utterly horrendous examples of harrassment and stalking from these guys. So the leader cannot just wipe his hands and claim he has no responsibility.
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Mugged Yougot wrote:Jade Constantine wrote:Look, Mittani's player probably isn't actually a borderline sociopath. He had a job as a legal clerk or something so he must be able to work in an office in some manner. But what Mittani's player is responsible for to some degree is the actions of his alliance of thousands which almost certainly includes any number of borderline sociopaths who have in the past proved quite capable of significant rl abuse, harrassment, bullying, criminality and general nutcase behaviour on the internet. The "great leader" of goonswarm says "harrass this guy to suicide" and a whole bunch of under-socialized basement kids drunk on malicious bullying and edgy troll fever are going to start looking for ways to make the target commit "suicide" for real. Care to provide proof of you claims? And even it's true, you can not blame and individual's real life actions on his digital corporation-founder. Constantine wrote:We've seen the extents that goonswarm will go. We've had the reports of them spamming rl female players with obscene material to personal and workplace addresses. We've seen them make signatures to mock the bereaved father of a road-accident victim. We've seen utterly horrendous examples of harrassment and stalking from these guys. So the leader cannot just wipe his hands and claim he has no responsibility.
If this is true, then I will rest my case. Please provide proof.
Research smoske, lady scarlet, lead back over these threads in jita park and go take a look at the assembly hall topic calling for future anonimity of csm candidates to protect them from rl harrassment.
Currently the goon wiki has my rl picture alongside the accusation I'm a child sex abuser.
Not sure how much more "evidence" you need of these things really.
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VCBee 180 wrote:why are all the RvB posters gigantic babies? i thought you guys were based on the concept of constant fighting or something
Fighting in-game. With spaceships. IN A GAME.
You goonswarm people seem to think that harrassing people in real life is an appropriate way of playing a spaceship game and it really isn't.
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Lapine Davion wrote: Hey Jade, how does one get work as a virtual wh*re? (didn't know that word was censored) I know that you have lots of experience in this industry.
Still carrying on the goonswarm party line eh? Keep smearing and it might cover up the embarrassing truths about your own behaviour.
Quote:FWIW, your pic is really creepy.
I'm pretty sure I'm better looking then you are.
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Lapine Davion wrote:[And Jade, I've seen you post before that you ran a "space brothel".
You really haven't.
La maison was a nightclub, all the best pilots in new eden attended in the early years of eve. You know, the time before the goons turned up 
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Revolution Rising wrote:Jade Constantine wrote:Lapine Davion wrote:[And Jade, I've seen you post before that you ran a "space brothel". You really haven't. La maison was a nightclub, all the best pilots in new eden attended in the early years of eve. You know, the time before the goons turned up  It was a nasty, but still nicer game back then.
Well it was a brutal red in tooth and claw PVP game with lots of ingame intrigues and betrayals and backstabbing right enough - but it was a purer environment in many ways, with people not so inclined to take their greviences into the realm of ooc harrassment and rl bullying.
I think it is part of the goon agenda to "unwrite" the early history of the game and make believe eve didn't really start until they arrived - a common tactic for an extremist imperialist entity seeking dominance over a cultural medium.
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Lapine Davion wrote:ITT, extremist imperialist entity = people playing a video game wanting to have fun
That is a dishonest summary. Its not people wanting to play a video game wanting to have fun that's the issue. The problem is people prepared to use RL harrassment, e-stalking and bullying to attempt to "win" said game. Goons play by different rules to traditional eve players; believing that attacks against the out of game identity of players is a proper means of playing the game. Hence "extremist". The imperialism comes from wanting to make their culture the dominant one (listen to Mittani's own rhetoric) - I'm really not saying anything here the goonswarm doesn't already rejoice in.
Lapine Davion wrote:Ah, I read a bit more into La Maison. I think the reason that Goonswarm hates you so much is because of your connection to BoB.
I didn't really have that much of a connection to BoB truth be told. I knew players there, had good corp standings with Reikoku for early game reasons. And I helped encourage proto BoB (the corps and alliances that would later form it) to get involved with the Great Northern War to help me get revenge on Pheonix Alliance in Venal of course. What goonswarm hates me for in this respect is that I publicly spoke up against the method of their final victory (the alliance name theft and squatting as a means of combat). I did (and still do) consider it poor gameplay that a player group's identity can be so easily removed from the game without the neccessity to actually complete a war in space.
By concluding the conflict with BoB by simply disbanding their alliance I think the goons robbed themselves (and Eve as a whole) from a proper conclusion to the story and made a mockery of Eve the space opera in favour of eve the metagaming drama pit.
Now of course, I've also stood up against those mocking people in their RL grief, or for those who have been bullied out of the game, or indeed for those who have had their RL professions dragged to these forums as metagame ammunition in the form of RL personal attacks.
Does anyone really need to know that SirMolle repairs central heating systems (or whatever) for a living? Why should that be relevant to anyone playing a spaceship game? Why did we get the white collar vs blue collar supremacy nonsense in goons vs bob flamefests on coad? Does the fact that 5000 goons follow a legal clerk really make them individually superior to a couple of thousand players following a self-employed mechanic? What the hell really. Its surreal and sad.
Lapine Davion wrote: And you're still upset about that guy that died.
I flew with the guy about once in the GNW, he seemed a decent guy on comms. But whether I knew him well or not the fact remains that the mocking of a dead player is not appropriate behaviour for players of this game in my eyes. It would be more accurate to say I'm deeply disapproving of goons over this.
Lapine Davion wrote:You know, Goons had a guy who killed himself. He was well loved in the community, too. They still make fun of him.
Who is "they"? Not me or anyone in my alliance or anyone I consider in a good light in this game I assure you.
Lapine Davion wrote: Face it, the only way Goons would go away is if CCP killed the sandbox. So you would have to kill off the game you enjoy to get them to leave.
Well either that or if CCP introduced sterner rules against OOC harrassment, e-stalking, and general out of game bullying. If a couple of senior goons got caught up in that then its fairly likely the rest of the swarm would rage-quit in sympathy. Imagine if Mittani had been permanently banned fo the fanfest incident.
But again you need to understand.
I have zero issue with in-game actions the goons take in Eve Online. Ganking, scamming, 0.0 nonsense. Blobbing and napping anyone in sight. Whatever really. As long is it happens within the game rules its all fair.
What I dislike is those goons who take eve beyond the spaceship game into the realm of personal out of game harrassment and rl stalking of identities, workplaces, with the goal of driving people out of eve so they can "win" the metagame.
This is the stuff that needs to end. And this is the stuff CCP will need to intervene to prevent before somebody ends up dead over it.
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Lapine Davion wrote:Quote:Who is "they"? Not me or anyone in my alliance or anyone I consider in a good light in this game I assure you. By "they" I meant Goons. And by the guy who killed himself, I meant RoyofCA. Who as I understand it was well liked. What I mean by all this is that Goons will make fun of whatever they want, especially if it will get a rise.
So you are defending the conduct of goons in mocking the RL death of an Eve player in an enemy alliance by pointing out that they also mock the RL suicide's of their friends?
Colour me unimpressed.
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