EVE General Discussion

331 iterations pages into this thread and I too, am still waiting for an explanation better than "I think it was mean".

Well, I wasn't here before so I'm not sure if this behavior was widely accepted. Now that I am here, a part of this community saying "this is not OK" and "something needs to be done," is there a problem with that?

Playing a video game for (x) amount of time doesn't give you the right to bully others.

And to top it off, you start every response with 'So'. That's just ******* annoying.

Mr Epeen

Because RIptard Teg wrote an inflammatory rhetorical article appealing to people's emotions.(in much the same way that Obama won the office of POTUS)

Even if you do get stung by a scammer, there are numerous ways to actually get back at them. War dec, bounties, ganks, awoxing, anything you can think of.

If they're the kind who never leave station, then undermine their scams by raising awareness. If you ever see anyone conversing with them, PM them and inform them of the scammer. Let people know on the forums. Anchor secure cans with warnings, whatever you can do to get the word out.

There are plenty of ways to get "payback".

To be honest, "I think it was mean" is a perfectly acceptable reason.

You know why? Well obviously not and if you haven't figured it out by now, you never will know.

Mr Epeen

So I heard an idea a while back, that if people use abusive or threatening language, you can report them, and if they get reported enough times they are perma flagged for it?

So we're pretty much banning mining. I like it.

If your premise were remotely true, then no one would ever win. And people have.

The massive number of people actually don't give two *****. Which is why they are not posting.

I am defending Erotica 1's right to do this, and I haven't made a dime off of the bonus room. I defend his right because at any time Sohkar could have left, he could have walked away. There was no coercion there was no torture. There was childish humor, reading walls of text signing songs. Sohkar was angry because he lost all his stuff, because he spent 2 hours giving away all of his assets willingly.

If you can not understand this, you need to go back to school and be reeducated on social interaction.

Not a single time in this recording or any of the numerous others Erotica 1 has shared have people been forced to do anything. They play the little games in hopes of attaining more fake wealth. Their greed forces them to become sideshows for the community.

If Ripard Teg didn't have a personal vendetta against Erotica 1, would this have ever become an issue? I don't see Sohkar posting about a month old scam, I don't see him writing a blog, and submitting all over the video game media empire. I don't see him running off to the FBI, or CNN.

I see a bunch of parrots who have swallowed some guys personal opinion on another player, and are now spewing it all over the forums here demanding arbitrary lines be drawn in the sand.

It is pathetic.

And if you think that you are in the Majority, you are kidding yourself. You are in the vast minority, along with the people who actually condone the way Erotica 1 plays his game (don't confuse this with supporting his right to choose that playstyle). The massive majority don't care about Erotica 1, Sohkar or Ripard Teg, much less your opinion on what counts as moral.

What makes this hwole ordeal more disturbing is that there is an entire network of predators working together in finding their targets. There is much focus on E1 in this, but that is only one piece of the network set up for this.

And there is no failsafes protecting groups as minors in this predatorical enviroment other than the ethics and morale of the group it self, which i hardly can say is worth a damn.

Furthermore the setup they use could get used as a failsafe way of isk launderying/ rmt operation, as the so called winners of this "bonus room" is soley in the discretion of the group wielding it, that is of course if they didnt get caught pants down in abusing it for their "sport"

This is a network operation and not a 1 man show, so i belive the entire network needs to be looked into..