Jita Park Speakers Corner

"Why don't you do your job instead of making false accriminations all the time?" - Ricky, Trailer Park Boys.

This post is not really about conspiracies at all. Hanspiracy is simply too good a portmanteau not to release into the wild. This post is about Hans' fall from grace in my eyes. It does deal with his biases, which I suppose could be a conspiracy at some level, since he tries so hard to hide them.

I voted for Hans Jagerblitzen. I used to white knight for him. He seemed the perfect candidate for faction warfare reform. He is certainly passionate about the issue. He's certainly a hard-worker. Both of those sentiments cannot be taken away from him.

I've had certain reservations about him. Which I mostly kept to myself during the summer months.

The first reservation, Hans spending too much time listening to the wrong people. Susan Black, for one.

The second reservation, Hans desire to keep everyone happy, tell them what they want to hear. It makes it hard to decipher what Hans really believes, because he'll agree with almost anyone if he figures it won't turn that person away from him. Every reply on the voting reform thread for instance.

Some people believe that, in order to fit in, I'll bash whoever it is popular to bash with the group I'm currently with. That might be the case, somewhat, with Susan Black. But then, mocking Susan Black is fun to begin with. When I was with Late Night, it was popular to bash Fweddit, but I believe I was critical and supportive of them during my time with the Minmatar, probably more supportive than critical. And even after joining Fweddit, I remained supportive of Hans.

Until I was pointed to a particular bit of Hans commentary on a Shalee blog post. (All this went down in August, most of it is probably water-under-the-bridge to the participants by now, but I was only made aware of it about a six or so weeks ago. I had no intention of dredging it up again, but people seem to be getting the wrong idea on why I'm no longer a Hans supporter.)

To anyone that actually knows Shalee Lianne, you'll know that she's one of the least spergy faction warfare bloggers out there. Susan and I, spergy as hell. Shalee. Not in the least. And it takes a hell of lot to get her riled up to the point where she makes a "**** you" post directed at anyone. She's also the least prone to writing bits of propaganda. Shalee is a dyed-in-the-wool Amarrian, but separates the fact from her roleplaying fiction.

So it was surprising, and yet not so surprising, to see Hans going off on Shalee for calling out Susan Black on some sperg and propaganda Ms. Black had written. Surprising, because Hans generally tries to keep his Minmatar bias under tight wraps. Not so surprising, because he'll white knight Susan over almost anything. Susan is gospel over on the Minmatar side of the fence.

Susan had written a thing, presuming to know what was going on with Fweddit, and the Amarr in general, at the time. Mostly just a whole lot of **** she made up. The usual sort of Susan troll. Shalee called her out on it. Who better to know what was actually going on, and to correct a bunch of ill-informed assumptions, than Shalee. Her iLaw is tight with Fweddit. Certainly not from day one (nobody could quite get a handle on Fweddit when they first arrived), but by August, they were on each others comms and fleets regularly, sharing intel, plotting cultural victory.

The whole thing should have probably died there. Just two bloggers going at each other for a brief time. But Susan was under attack, or so Hans felt. So he commented publicly to Shalee:

Why is this here?

I need to finish reading but that first highlighted comment by hans seems to be more of him from keeping faction warfare from becoming CAOD.

It makes sense, most people describe CAOD as a cess pool. Just with faction warfare getting bigger and probably more intense, seems natural that it would flirt with becoming CAOD more then a faction warfare type place.

Absolutely not. Poetic Stanziel is a master-class conspiracy theorist; a Glenn Beck of EVE, if you will.

And yet, he chose to come down on an Amarrian, not the Minmatard who started the spectacle.

A poor CSM who has delivered (fine, helped ensure CCP delivered) pretty much everything you were clamoring for a month ago? You want him to fail because you, on a personal level, do not like him; therefore, you have conjured up some new mandates that are so late in the development cycle there is absolutely no chance that he will be able to deliver. He got everything else done that you wanted, so you made up some new rules on the fly. And that is discounting all of the attacks on his person and character: "Hans is telling the Minmatar NDA-breaking stuff!", "Hans is making sure Minmatar get to cash-out!", "Hans doesn't listen to us!", "Hans agrees with everyone no matter what!" (Not sure how you can justify both of those in your head at the same time...), "Hans is a sell-out!", "Hans only listens to Susan Black!", "Hans doesn't understand!", "Hans is a bad person!", ad infinitum.

tl;dr - you want to see Hans fail so you say he has failed and hope people believe you.

Eventually, Fweddit is going to grow tired of your hyperbolic echoes.

Why didn't you use Susan's real handle (name): Gamerchick42?

Surely not out of respect to Douglas Adam's memory. Perhaps to add validity or justification for reading that blog?

Why is this here?

Aspergers