EVE General Discussion

This serious internet spaceship profession is becoming a huge waste of important RL time. All this burned RL time around EVE like CSM, flying to Island for nerd talk, spending time for a game like a 500K-sallary-per-year manager should make us think about what we get from this: Nothing special at the end.

He made a bad joke while obviously very drunk.

CCP posted the video for the whole world to see.

Those silly goonies.

So how much did The Mittani pay to fix Alexander's little goof? 200 million? 500? A billion? Maybe more? As long as that guy never gets bothered again by whatever manifestation Goonswarm takes next year, I see no reason why mittens can't keep his chairman position. He won it fair and metagame-square.

Seen this argument a lot. Would like to clarify from my perspective that its not about the "one drunken comment" so much as the man it revealed to the public due to his lack of self-control and vocalisation filter.

Its not a position from which somebody in the public limelight can recover as he no longer represents their views, so he must go.

And by try harder I mean you should probably stop posting

I have one major questions

How does telling someone to kill themselves constitute threatening them?

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/threat?s=t
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/threaten?s=t

A threat implies action on the part of the threatening person. At no point was anyone told to go out and KILL the guy, just to try and convince him to kill himself.

Its not a good thing, but its not a threat, and not something anyone would(or did) actually do.

This is like an AA moment, the first step is to realize you have a problem. I was actually quite suprised to see an appology. Hopefully it isn't just a space politician appology, but lets face it, this isn't the first time something like this has happened though. I seem to remember something about making fun of a players rl death. I don't really remember the details of how that came about though since I was just starting to look at the null sec alliances at the time, that turned me off of goons from the start.


I do see this as a good first step in any case and hope that it is the beggining of a new Mittens/ Goon era.

ahahaha you think a perma-ban is even on the table

That justifies does it no

The fact you all seem to fail to recognise the life/death signifacance of this and carry on blabering your ingam meme's is sad really imo

I can see your point, but conversely he does in fact represent the base feelings of almost every person, just they don't want to reveal that to the world. Look, we all say what we say when we're drunk, I once told the group of guys I was getting drunk with that we should play in the street, and play dodgeball with the cars. I was beyond drunk, so drunk i never remembered it until my brother brought it up randomly one day, I seriously thought he smoked one too many bowls when he said it to me.

On a serious note, no one has ever been deposed of any position because they said something stupid, not even in the game. There are some hateful things said in game and on these forums, and the most those offenders get is a slap on the wrist and their post deleted. This goes for CSM members as well as alliance leaders and so forth.

Last I knew, alliance leaders, and corp leaders, are public figures yet we don't hold them to the mythical pedestal that we are now saying we hold Mittani to. If you are going to set a precedence, then hold it true to every single member of the forum, every single account holder in game no matter the position they hold, and make sure that the punishment they receive is on par with whatever MIttani gets, because otherwise would be hypocrisy on a massive scale.

Seriously, this is no worse than what happens in the crime and punishment forum, there is even way worse crap posted in there than what Mittani stated at the Panel.