EVE General Discussion

That was the one and only link I found that had that particular definition. All others seemed a bit broader.



That is Wikipedia. Which links back to the originator of the term, Bill Belsey.



Most of the focus is on younger people, simply because they are not usually mature enough to deal with these types of things. Adults are expected to know how to handle it / shrug it off. This becomes a bit more complex when dealing with someone that has a mental illness though; so I'm not sure.

I'm pretty sure no one is condoning those acts against him... If they are then they're dicks.
One bad act does not excuse another. Also given his role, and how it was caught. Makes things a tad different. But he apologized so IMO issue needs to die...as there was no actual harm done near as I can tell.

Cyber Bullying is so low and everybody should stop doing it at once.
After everybody has stopped doing it, they should immediately engage in Cyber Genocide.

I find it hard to accept anyone could be dumb enough to commit suicide over a video game.

I think everyone completely missed the boat on this one. The fault lies with CCP for not screening materials for THEIR fanfest. I go to conventions all the time IRL and no one just gets up and says what they want b/c they are not the only ones liable. If CCP had been more rigorous with the presentations this would have been flagged and no problems would have arisen.

I'm against harrassment of any kind no matter who it is. And that includes people harrasing Alex, mittens or whatever you want to call him now.

Sadly, EVE has evolved (or devolved) into this sort of hardcore game where we are expected HTFU and harden up a bit. It's a game. IT'S A GAME!

Behind the actions, words, and behavior of each toon is a human being. So there really is no true definitive separation b/w a toon and a person. People mock said miner because he couldn't make a distinction b/w reality or ingame. The poor guy was going through a divorce and immersed himself into EVE to escape the daily pains of his current reality. That's the deep end of the immersion spectrum.

But there are alot of people who struggle with making the immersion on much more smaller levels. Consider the following;

The FC who emos on a noob because he made a mistake in fleet and can't sleep at night because his fleet lost the battle
The miner who loses a retriever due to a gank and rages for a couple hours on comms
The CEO who spends large number of hours running his corp and enduring the stress while sacrificing real life priorities such as a job.

Each individual (or is it toon?) is subjected to a spectrum of emotions that transcends the game and seeps into his reality.

Immersion much.

People need to get a grip...on reality.

Cyberbullying is illegal in Iceland. Icelandic law: http://www.althingi.is/altext/121/s/0100.html and in some occasions http://www.althingi.is/altext/125/s/0399.html

We'll just have wait and see... CCP is at the case.

Hmm, couldn't the broke-ass bounty system be considered a form of cyber bulling then. Seeing as it is a supported way for a player to entice other players to stalk and murder someone else's character and that character's property?

How bad will the player feel when that causes the bounty to flip out and harm themselves? Does that mean CCP should continue to support it? Will the player placing the bounty be banned for it?

And don't say that it will never happen, because humans make the dumbest people.

Why is the public (pubbies, one might say) so intent on making half a dozen threads raging about one wrong but not another?

You're an adult. Find a way to deal with it.

**** sake, you bully children, not adults.