Out of Pod Experience

EDIT: I'm closing this thread for any new submissions at this time since CCP has weighed in. I will no longer be receiving notifications on this topic. If you still want to have your blog post listed there, please leave it in the comments section of the my blog post and I'll get it up on there.

Thank you! 7o

FYI - I apologize if the ISD's would rather it be in the threadnaught, but I figured it was more fitting here 7o

I've done a post listing every blog and article I've read the last few days on this issue. I'm asking people to submit more to me up until CCP weighs in.

You can find it here:Brave Voices

The list is divided by the following categories (for now)

1. Neutral News Sources
2. Stance: This is bad / Ban! / Changes needed
3. Stance: Indifferent / Staying out of it! / It was bad, but don't change nothin'
4. Stance: This is great! / Erotica1 is my hero!
5. Stance: ???

(I had to make number 5 for Gevlon. )

PLEASE, submit anything you find relevant to the whole thing! I'd love to get this made as quickly as we can. If your blog is here and you want it "shifted" to another category, let me know too!

Thank you and happy reading o/

Shocking how much one can miss simply by failing to read GD for a few days. I log in to find 700+ pages of now-lukewarm scandal, and numerous New Eden pundits preaching to the masses.

Much like the Summer of Discontent, meaningful change is unlikely to occur unless you hit CCP in their wallet. The scale of that hit appears to be very small in relation to this particular cyberbullying hullabaloo.

CCP have resident physicists, but do they have a resident psychologist? If so, what is their opinion on the overflow of these antagonistic activities from gamespace to meatspace?

EVE is and will remain 'that game for scumbags'. Permabanning one guy or one group of guys won't alter that perception, and I'm not sure the game would be any safer, but it might make a noteworthy conciliatory gesture to the more morally engaged segment of the playerbase. How big that segment is, I can't say.

Anyway, solid blogposting, OP.

Whilst it makes me somewhat happy that the bottom feeders of life can escape into the sandbox that is eve and do/say things that out in the real big bad world would equate to having there asses handed to them, the phrase "this is why we can't have nice things" comes to mind.

There is a line, let's draw it in the sand(box) clearly for all to see and put this crap to rest, because it is crap and getting far to much attention all ready.

I'm pretty disappointed in CCP's response. Throw a sop to the humane people, and oh yeah, let's keep the "core" mean people happy as well. The fact that the EVE community could be fertile ground for spawning this whole thing is a little nauseating. (Actually the main reason I'm still subscribed to the game is to hang out with people in OOPE. I've kind of run out of PVE things to do, and the more involved in PVP I get, the more the people are into this culture of lulzing and ridiculing and humiliating. And the sad part is, you know most of these internet tough guys wouldn't stand up for a bud in a real fight, like in a bar).

Think I'll check out for awhile and STFU (Soften the **** Up). Dealing with mentally and socially maladjusted people is challenge enough in the daily real-world life, don't need it in my hobby.

i kind of think that anyone stupid enough to play that game deserves to be screwed over.

i guess that makes me part of the indifferent crowd.

Nah, I'm used to you Random. You're kind of like that mentally and socially maladjusted relative everybody has. You know, kind of like Cousin Eddie. (Just joking man).

i get that. and that's understandable. but the point remains that a smart player wouldn't have been in that position at all to begin with. that doesn't justify the treatment but it is what it is, i guess.

Very interesting. I'm going to check out OP's link to read the well written Neutral viewpoints along with the various passionate and opinionated sperg pieces.

I do have one request. Can we please not restart another threadnaught? I'm still recovering from the other one and my all my F5 key gave out.

The whole thing is an example, that the internet provides zero security for easy-fooled people. And that isn't really EVE - related, but has to do with human behaviour in general. Every bit of revealed privacy or good faith makes you vulnerable for harrasments like these. And we all show good faith in the fact that the victim is not a payed actor with the aim of drawing pleasure out of all of us while we discuss about the topic like mad.

...just saying...case closed for me!