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Dear capsuleers,

Recently, it came to our attention that there were conflicting rules about whether or not it was permissible to discuss other games in this section of the EVE forum.

I would like to explain the reason why the rule existed in the first place. As the original EVE community manager, it fell to me to create the forum rules back in the day. Though we did have volunteer forum moderators then, I carried the bulk of responsibility for moderating and it was simply easier to have people to post about other games on the official forums for those games.

The special rules for OOPE were written in 2004 by the then-new community manager. It was an oversight that the contradictory rule went unnoticed for so long. We really don’t have an excuse and I take responsibility and personally apologize for our failure to correct it sooner.

The Community team has read your feedback and we agree that it’s time for a change. We will allow discussions about other games in OOPE though we will set some ground rules in order to keep those discussions constructive. (Shadow will be posting the amended rules shortly.) We know rules and guidelines are never popular but hope you’ll understand the reason for them and work together with us to find a compromise that everyone can live with happily. We’re always interested in hearing your feedback and ask that you use the petition system to register complaints about specific rules and moderation decisions.

Further discussion within the Community team also found everyone in agreement that warnings that were given in relation to this situation prior to this post should be rescinded and we’re in the process of finding and removing those now.

Fly safe,
~P~

Valerie "Pann" Massey

CCP PR & Communications Director