EVE General Discussion

Oh good christ. This trollopsism again.

Listen, this is how it works:

There are legitimate differences in how standard U.S. English and standard British English work.

It has nothing to do with your stupid idea about what you think seems to be correct. It has everything to do with custom.

Let's not forget that many of our better customs came from the British, and the Germans before that, and the blah and the blah before all that.


There are legitimate reasons to think of a corporation as either a singular or a plural noun.

Most of the time, we, in the U.S., think of a corporation as a single entity. But we don't always. The fact that others think of it grammatically as a collection of people isn't something to call out as stupid.

Hey, maybe there's even a lesson there to be learned. Perhaps we should spend a bit less time thinking of corps as individual people.

Regardless, you can read any usage manual you can shake a stick at, and it will tell you . . . what? That in the U.S., we do things a certain way some times.


No usage dictionary talks about or prescribes a usage coming from other modes of speech and makes a claim of rightness about them.

So pardon me if I tell you to go have your way with yourself. You don't know jack diddle about how dictionaries are made. Nor about how they ought to be read.

Simple "I did it, he did it", isnt enough. They must find evidence.

If they do not find it, they can do nothing.

The problem is that this sleuthing NPC alt non-entity broke CCP's rules himself in pursuit of supposedly defending those rules (and then publicly announced that he'd done just that).

They do indeed ban ISK sellers, but (rightly) they don't always publicise it - usually in order to cast a wide a net as possible and remove as much of the RMT network as they can at one time (as you say). They appear to be much more concerned with catching and removing the sellers than punishing the buyers, though of course they do indeed punish the buyers. Buyer punishment appears to be far more lenient than seller punishment.

The fact that they don't run around screaming "Hey guys, we've just banned 20k ISK peddlers!" (though this did occasionally manifest itself in QEN/CCP announcements) doesn't necessarily mean that they're not doing anything.


Were you around pre-2010? Jita local was still unreadable, but instead of contract scams it was full of people hawking ISK in OOG sites. Now, there's absolutely nothing like that at all. Seems to me that CCP are indeed operating, albeit opaquely.

Black swans, epistemology, and all that.

Plot twist:

OP asks for "full disclosure."

GM comes back with "thanks for the heads-up, OP. We have now banned your competition. And you."

If his heart was truly in the right place, he would've done what he did and then just quietly petitioned CCP to inform them as to what had happened...not whining about it on the forum, attention seeking.

OP was "dating" a "girl" he met on EvE.

It was cute and sweet.

After 2 days of an incredibly heavy text-filled relationship about what both parties would do to each other, Girlfriend makes her financial plight known, hoping not to scare away this love interest.

OP, being valiant and noble, states he could not let this damsel remain in distress. Girlfriend acknowledges the sentiment of OP's charity but cannot accept it all without reciprocation due to her moral upbringing. Instead offers to exchange a "fair" amount of ISK for OP's dollars.

OP buys 6 billion isk for $100 to help his Girlfriend pay her rent so she wont end up homeless and unable to chat with him on steam messenger and tell him all the really interesting things she wants to do to him. OP is happy, girlfriend is happy. The happiness is culminated in a steamy chat session where imaginations are fulfilled.

The next day, Girlfriend lets it slip that he's actually a dude. OP is a bigot and hates gays(understandably of course) and angry that he let himself be conned by a guy pretending to be a girl who was obviously just preying on his vulnerabilities in an effort to secure an ISK buyer.

OP is mad.

OP is getting revenge on his "ex-gf" by constantly reporting to CCP that he bought ISK from his ex to get him banned.

And here we all are.