EVE New Citizens Q&A

There's an option in the account management page to link our account to our Facebook account. Are there any rewards or goodies for doing that? In LOL, we got a freebie skin (just an inexpensive one, but we got the champ if we didn't have to too).

Yang answered your question.
I will add some advice.
Social media is generally used to bring attention to yourself.
Unless you know what you are doing in this game it's really best to keep a low profile.

Here is a perfect example.

I forgot about that one. What fun that was. We all really went to bat...

I wouldn't be proud of that nor would i be linking it. It's nothing more than a gangbang troll fest. In case you people don't know it, this is New Players Q&A sub-forum, not General Discussion sub-forum. Good job on showing new players just exactly how 'Anonymity of the Internet' works. There's a big difference between correcting someone verses bashing them. Everyone who posted in that thread took a small phrase from the OP's blog and blew it up out of proportion in true GD style.


DMC

If it was GD, it would have been actual trolling. People actually gave constructive criticism, some went literally line by line, addressing his assertions. Perhaps people were overly aggressive (people are emotional, who'd a thunk it?) at times, but 'bashing' or 'trolling' it was not. You have this amazing habit of seeing something you don't personally like and approve of and painting it as bully gang-bash troll-bang puppy kicking evil.

I enjoy hyperbole.

Yes it was overly aggressive and most replies were meant to be hurtful. All aspects of trolling was posted under the guise of being helpful. It was indeed a troll fest gang bang with lot's of never before seen alts posting just to overpower and swarm the OP, all with the intention to ridicule and demean the OP. Of course the ultimate goal of chasing away the OP was quickly achieved.

Yeah, when I see something I don't like I usually make a generalized remark about it but I don't make it personal nor do I direct it to a specific person, just like what you're now doing to me.



Try practicing what you preach, that thread link has nothing to do with the OP's question.

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By the way, escalating or inciting a forum flame war with others by making it personal just because they have a difference of opinion is a very bad habit to have.

Think it's time to call in ISD.


DMC

It does and I have clearly explained why it does, the only reason you can't see how it applies is because you can't objectively see through the "trolling and flaming" so that you can understand the point I am trying to make.

Also, defending a valid point is not inciting a flame war.

That's precisely the problem.


I'm not doing anything 'to you'. I made a remark about how you tend to react in a lot of these situations, and how it's even more counterproductive than the behavior you are attacking.

Perhaps I shouldn't have brought it up, but I wouldn't classify my making an observation, as doing anything 'to you'. My sincere hope is that you take it as constructive criticism and think on it. We're not infallible, you, me, anyone, and reflecting on it can be a good thing. I do it regularly and like to think I'm better for it.

A valuable lesson indeed, and tbh one that is as relevant in Eve as it is in real life. Social media has its downsides, privacy being one of them.