EVE General Discussion

As I recall the last person whom threatened suicide over Eve was a botter scared he'd be perma banned. CCP called the police & tracked it down to an Italian man... Icelandic police refferred it to the Italian police whom knocked on his door & made sure he's ok. ( True story from an Italian newpapper )

You're still not thinking it through.

If the story is false, then CCP *must* deny it immediately or risk other news sites from picking up the story and then either re-running it as is or doing investigations of their own. The longer the "scandal" is out in the wild, the greater the chance of it flaring out of control and the more difficult it will be for CCP to spin/handle the negative publicity. And the greater the negative publicity, the greater the punishment that will be handed down on Mittani.

Again, this is becoming less about something said in bad taste or even a character assassination attempt and is instead turning into an out of control situation for other people to generate ad revenue with a sensationalist story.

Anyone?

Some of the anti cyber bullying sites in the States have picked up on this now.

Absolutely. Jihadding is a tired gimmick.

Hmm... Isn't encouraging suicide technically helping someone kill themself? I'm pretty sure that's illegal...

Ok...let me preface this by saying that I'm not a "NPC corp alt", but in fact a new player. Therefore, my opinion doesn't matter. However, I'm going to give it anyway:

1. Whether or not a player is "suicidal" is irrelevant.

2. The rules explicitly state that harassment is not permitted.

3. The Mittani publicly requested people to harass this player in an out-of-game forum (albeit one sanctioned by the game company).

This seems to me to be more like a Charles Manson-esque situation. He's suggesting that people should break the game rules. He's not actually breaking any rules himself, and whether or not people choose to harass this guy is their decision. From a purely logical standpoint, The Mittani has broken no rules.

The real argument here is whether or not having a CSM member suggest that players break game rules "for the lulz" is acceptable conduct. Well, that's subjective. There's no ruleset there. That's something for CCP to decide, not us (or since I'm a noob, I guess it's more for "you" to decide since none of you probably consider me to be part of your little e-Spaceship group).

Personally, I think he should at least apologize for requesting people break the rules by harassing this guy. However, I think removing him from the CSM panel would be a bit illogical as once again, he hasn't actually broken any rules.

What I would suggest is that CCP further codify CSM conduct, and CSM term limits may not be a bad idea. Again, my useless opinion but I'm tossing it out there.

Thank you for ignoring my noob pubbie wall-o-text. Did I use that "pubbie" expression right?

-Ami

This is a completely ridiculous statement. If someone is pushed over the edge and commits suicide because I wore brown shoes, that in no way inculpates me.

Reductio ad absurdum, certainly. But the principle holds. People are ultimately responsible for their own actions. Trying to insinuate some moral culpability because someone may have committed suicide because people on the Internet were mean to them is ridiculous.

so is fanfest game servers or web site?

Ok, watch what you want to get done not get done then.