EVE General Discussion

Pretty much this.
Local smack has nothing but benefits for the user; you buy time to probe them, you get them angry (especially if they are thin-skinned 'elite' pilots), and/or you may or may not receive tears in return.

I can see only one solution; nerf local smack!

As for advice? GF in local and just drag the name bar as far to the left as it can go

I do enjoy partaking in the occasional commando fleet.

Id say it's working as intended, you chose to associate yourself with the dumbed down, slowed down ******** cousin of electronica meant to be consumed by the rhythm-less masses. It is for all intensive purposes electronic elevator music.

Go WUB WUB WUB somewhere else you damn dirty commercial music tool!

you know, passively aggressively doing exactly what you're describing doesn't make you any different.

Shouldn't have been WUB WUB WUBbing in a warzone.

Are there actually so gullible people who get distracted by some local chat ?
and who have an local opened in an fleet ? Except scout probably.

In American, it's spelt "G-O-O-N."

In English, it's spelt "C-U-N-T."

Little Lyrra's Tips for Local-Smack:

Language/grammar-snobbery (my personal favourite):

Use this, you'd be amazed at how it pisses off the 1337 SRS BZNS!!!!111oneone1!! crowd. Be sure to explicitly say that they're illiterate, childish fuckwads who embody a generic Internet-cliche, as nuance is often hard to articulate with just text.

After some of ^^that^^ again, say explicitly that you're playing them like a cheap pawn-shop guitar. Feast on the tears of their functionally-illiterate, hathos-inducing attempts at denial.

Be sure to condescendingly criticise the aforesaid language/grammar constantly as you do this. Use big words. (Note: "Pulchritudinous:" Works wonders!)

Don't just be the bigger person, make off like you're better than they in every possible way, and come off like a total pretentious, up-your-own-arse prat about it. Calling them prats as well, I've found, is quite useful! Trouble is, most Americans don't even know what that word means--this is more fuel for your tear-engine when dealing with this demographic, by the way. (Subtle-but-not-too-subtle, condescending anti-American smack to Americans/wannabe-Americans = best psychological-warfare tool ever!)

Also, as someone above said, here's another tip:

Say nothing. At all. Just hunt and kill, if possible, and even then, say nothing. These are the types that any-halfway intelligent PvP'er knows well to be careful of.

Getting screamed at in Russian, and can't read/speak Russian?

No problem--just say "Speak English, mate." They usually scream some more in Russian, to which you respond with total gibberish, with a few random obscenities sprinkled throughout. I have no Russian, but I think I infer correctly that they reeeeeeaaaaally don't like this, in my experience.

Proper smacking is an art-form, not a shite-fest of UMADBRO/UJELLY/URMUM/IPWNZORU...Learn it well, and let the tears of the pitifully eager herd-animals fuel your ship, too.

I think it needs saying: In even just the three years I've been playing, I've noticed a marked decline in the overall quality of the community--too many console-kiddies/neglected kid-ults finding EVE, along with too many over-entitled crybears who don't understand what we're really about, imho. I think/hope/pray that this will change soon. EVE used to be smarter than it is now...

He should name every single ship "WUB WUB WUB", and fly through null spamming local with his sick beats.

negative. If you join them you will find out they are just normal people like anyone else.
If you are outsider well, there you go.