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Is extortion by CSM candidates permitted?

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Sidus Sarmiang
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#81 - 2012-03-14 05:33:11 UTC
Is the revolution at hand? Because I hope the revolution is at hand.
Johnny Marzetti
Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
#82 - 2012-03-14 05:36:58 UTC
Sidus Sarmiang wrote:
Is the revolution at hand? Because I hope the revolution is at hand.


Goon Spring
Frying Doom
#83 - 2012-03-14 05:38:40 UTC  |  Edited by: Frying Doom
Sidus Sarmiang wrote:
Is the revolution at hand? Because I hope the revolution is at hand.

Yes revolt Goonsheep and kill your evil overlord. While you are there could you finish off the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.

Any spelling, grammatical and punctuation errors are because frankly, I don't care!!

Truce Billis
Sword of Glory
#84 - 2012-03-14 05:58:07 UTC
Frying Doom wrote:
Sidus Sarmiang wrote:
Is the revolution at hand? Because I hope the revolution is at hand.

Yes revolt Goonsheep and kill your evil overlord. While your their could you finish on the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.

"you're"
Frying Doom
#85 - 2012-03-14 06:01:28 UTC
Truce Billis wrote:
Frying Doom wrote:
Sidus Sarmiang wrote:
Is the revolution at hand? Because I hope the revolution is at hand.

Yes revolt Goonsheep and kill your evil overlord. While your their could you finish on the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.

"you're"

Oh help I did not properly proof read this post.

Any spelling, grammatical and punctuation errors are because frankly, I don't care!!

Andski
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#86 - 2012-03-14 06:02:35 UTC
Frying Doom wrote:
Truce Billis wrote:
Frying Doom wrote:
Sidus Sarmiang wrote:
Is the revolution at hand? Because I hope the revolution is at hand.

Yes revolt Goonsheep and kill your evil overlord. While your their could you finish on the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.

"you're"

Oh help I did not properly proof read this post.


"Proofread."

Twitter: @EVEAndski

"It's easy to speak for the silent majority. They rarely object to what you put into their mouths."    - Abrazzar

Triskian
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#87 - 2012-03-14 06:03:25 UTC  |  Edited by: Triskian
Frying Doom wrote:
With the introduction of this mail to the forums
SirMille wrote:
I am the CEO of a so-called "pubbie" corporation in Goonswarm. While most in this game would probably call me a goonie, I'm not one of the goonies by their own definition as I nor any of my corp members have a Something Awful account.

On the goonfleet.net forum I and my corp membership are routinely harassed by The Mittani's underling goonies who call us all "bad poster" despite our best efforts to make long an informative posts that cover all the bases. About half my corp is read-only right now as a result of attempt to defend themselfs against being harassed.

It's not likely that my corp will remain in GSF for much longer after I make this post but I've been emboldened by the posts of other "pubbie" members of the alliance to bring certain fact to light.

Most non-goonie corps in the alliance are given space/outposts/tech moons based upon the participation of their membership and their size. My corp isn't really involved much in PvP operations and instead helps with logistics and production so we only hold a small number (3) of Tech moons and no space to really call our own despite the fact we produce the majority of the alliance's subcapital ships which we are forced to sell to goonies "at cost," leaving the tech as our sole source of income most of which goes into reimbursing my line member's ship losses fighting wars we don't usually support. Invading Branch was stupid and we've lost billions of isk keeping the alliance in ships and the following is the thanks we get for all our hard work.

A few weeks ago I and the other non-goonie corps got this evemail from The Mittani, I copied it from evegate so pardon the formating.

Quote:

CSM7 Election Is Upon Us

From: The Mittani
To: SirMille, (other non-goonie corp CEO names removed)

Greetings Pubbie CEOs,

We need more than just goons voting, therefore all pubbies in the alliance (and CFC Allaiances who will be getting a different evemail) are hereby REQUIRED to vote for me when the polls open. It would behouve you and your membership to post your support on the eve-o forums in my candidacy thread as well.

We will be auditing all pubbie corps after the election is over, anyone unable to provide proof that they voted for me via screenshots is to have their assets seized for the alliance and to be purged from your corp. If we find that the majority of your corp didn't vote for me, you can fully expect to lose any tech moons, systems, outposts, or even possibly getting your corp purged from the alliance without notice. Service Guarantees Citizenship.

Regards,
The Mittani
I cannot keep quiet any longer. I told my corp membership to wait before voting and because of our likely imminent purging I will be having them evac their assets immediately and telling them to vote for anyone they want except The Mittani. Personally I am going to vote for Issler as he seems to be the best bet for those of us who do industry.

I must admit, I said Holy Cap a lot. How anyone would believe that The Mittani's spelling, grammar and literacy skills were so poor, I will never know. The only part I thought might be genuine is "Service Guarantees Citizenship." This was a rather badly executed fake.

On looking up the character however I discovered that SirMille was born just over a year ago. Just before the election for CSM6, I came to conclude SirMille is definately an alt. On further investigation it appeared that the corp "Sigma Kid Protection Services" seems to be full of alts with 12 characters few of which seem to have a Security status above 1.0.


You are crazy if you think my nullsec production vanity altcorp is actually for vote whoring and that all of those characters in it are on separate accounts, SirMille is on the same account as my main.

Your crazy has reminded me to sub the one character in my altcorp that is actually ubsubbed. I'd forgotten about Trykkian, my maelstrom pilot that has been sitting unsubbed in B-D since the Cloud Ring campaign. I think I'll go on more alphafleet ops and 24 hours from now Mittens gets another vote from me thanks to you. :D
Benny Ohu
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#88 - 2012-03-14 06:03:52 UTC  |  Edited by: Benny Ohu
Frying Doom wrote:
Sidus Sarmiang wrote:
Is the revolution at hand? Because I hope the revolution is at hand.

Yes revolt Goonsheep and kill your evil overlord. While you are there could you finish off the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.


"There"

EDIT: Whoops, you caught that one just before I quoted.
Frying Doom
#89 - 2012-03-14 06:05:25 UTC
Andski wrote:

"Proofread."

Or also proof-read

If you are going to correct me please do it right. Big smile

Any spelling, grammatical and punctuation errors are because frankly, I don't care!!

Andski
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#90 - 2012-03-14 06:06:21 UTC
Frying Doom wrote:
Andski wrote:

"Proofread."

Or also proof-read

If you are going to correct me please do it right. Big smile


Why don't you quote Wikipedia about it?

Twitter: @EVEAndski

"It's easy to speak for the silent majority. They rarely object to what you put into their mouths."    - Abrazzar

Frying Doom
#91 - 2012-03-14 06:06:41 UTC
Benny Ohu wrote:
Frying Doom wrote:
Sidus Sarmiang wrote:
Is the revolution at hand? Because I hope the revolution is at hand.

Yes revolt Goonsheep and kill your evil overlord. While you are there could you finish off the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.


"There"

EDIT: Whoops, you caught that one just before I quoted.


Yeah actually the "their" I wrote, I thought was worse than the Your.

Any spelling, grammatical and punctuation errors are because frankly, I don't care!!

Truce Billis
Sword of Glory
#92 - 2012-03-14 06:06:51 UTC
Benny Ohu wrote:
Frying Doom wrote:
Sidus Sarmiang wrote:
Is the revolution at hand? Because I hope the revolution is at hand.

Yes revolt Goonsheep and kill your evil overlord. While you are there could you finish off the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.


"There"

EDIT: Whoops, you caught that one just before I quoted.

That's alright, I missed it and it's still quoted in my post.
Truce Billis
Sword of Glory
#93 - 2012-03-14 06:08:56 UTC  |  Edited by: Truce Billis
Frying Doom wrote:
Benny Ohu wrote:
Frying Doom wrote:
Sidus Sarmiang wrote:
Is the revolution at hand? Because I hope the revolution is at hand.

Yes revolt Goonsheep and kill your evil overlord. While you are there could you finish off the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.


"There"

EDIT: Whoops, you caught that one just before I quoted.


Yeah actually the "their" I wrote, I thought was worse than the Your.


Quote:

...than the "your."


You could also add a comma after "Yeah" and drop the one after "wrote."
Frying Doom
#94 - 2012-03-14 06:13:25 UTC  |  Edited by: Frying Doom
Andski wrote:
Frying Doom wrote:
Andski wrote:

"Proofread."

Or also proof-read

If you are going to correct me please do it right. Big smile


Why don't you quote Wikipedia about it?


I did. Please see https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=936546#post936546

Any spelling, grammatical and punctuation errors are because frankly, I don't care!!

Triskian
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#95 - 2012-03-14 06:17:20 UTC
Goonsheep more like Goonshep.

(I'm sorry.)
IntegralHellsing
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#96 - 2012-03-14 07:34:02 UTC
Quoting from Wikipedia = best quote Big smile
Red Templar
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#97 - 2012-03-14 07:40:30 UTC
Frying Doom wrote:

Given their ability to properly field fleets we know there are several hundred people in Goonswarm but I think you would be pushing it to find 1000-2000 actual goons.

You are actually very very wrong in this estimate.

Check Darius Jonson presentation from eve fanfest 2009 alliance panel. In it he reveals the actual number of players in the alliance.

[b]For Love. For Peace. For Honor.

For None of the Above.

For Pony![/b]

Frying Doom
#98 - 2012-03-14 07:54:03 UTC
Red Templar wrote:

You are actually very very wrong in this estimate.

Check Darius Jonson presentation from eve fanfest 2009 alliance panel. In it he reveals the actual number of players in the alliance.
I think 20 people might be a bit of an underestimation, but thanks for the idea. It was interesting to watch and compare to Sins of a Solar Spymaster.

Any spelling, grammatical and punctuation errors are because frankly, I don't care!!

Highauger's animated corpse
Jove Observation And Neutrality Negotiations Act
#99 - 2012-03-14 08:15:47 UTC
I voted theMittani freely, of my own 'ow' volition.

As members of the CFC we are all of course
allowed to vote 'ow ow ok ok I'm reading it!' a
we please. I considered all the candidates on
their merits, and there were some very good
ones. I considered as I was free to vote as I
pleased going with Riverini as he argued so
coherently his well thought out manifesto on
Eve-radio. In my mind the matter was all but
settled, Riverini said I like makey a pants down,
and that was enough for me.

Then something truly tremendous happened.

The night before voting began, theMittani
came to me in a dream: the winged vision of
Mittens decended out of a pair of etheric gates,
his golden mane iridescent with a polychromatic
light which swirled and glittered all about him
In his left hand he held a crucible from which
poured nebulae with engine trails, in his right
sat an oracle within a swirling tornado. At his
feet cowered the other candidates wailing
they looked small, diminutive and without an
element of colour. As his white wings spread out
he glided toward me, as if carried by some might
force, and he reached out towards me.

Over the roaring trumpets, pipes and lutes of the angelic
chorus; the thunder and the distant call of songbird
I could just make out a voice. A voice; neither hard
nor soft, a voice infinitely kind and wise. It said 'High
only you know what is right, in your heart.'

Sadly moments later he was gone and I was left alone
just one small insignificant man in what will forever
after be a small world. I woke, and ran immediately to
the local vicarage. I told my pastor the story and he smile
at me, bringing forth a battered tome from within his robes
'These are the gospels of the Apocryphon' he told me
proceeding to show me account after account of visions
revelations of the divines through the ages precisely as
mine had been. He held my shoulder and told me he had
just voted for theMitttani for CSM 2012 himself and bade me
go and do what is right.

Against all that, what can democracy ever really mean?
As I clicked vote, submitted my dna sample, and signed the
contract delivering my unborn children to Mittens care, I
remembered the vision and smiled.

People often ask me why I have a monocle. Well I hit my head
on a doorknob and it stuck in. Others ask about the scar, and
why I'm a corpse. I slipped you see, I guess I'm just clumsy.

To say CFC members weren't free to vote as they pleased is
a fa, a fal 'ow ok but I can't read what it says, no please I did
as you said, I just want to go home, no no! not the pony, anything
but the aaargh...............................................





Highauger's animated corpse
Jove Observation And Neutrality Negotiations Act
#100 - 2012-03-14 08:21:01 UTC  |  Edited by: Highauger's animated corpse
I don't suppose you write aaargh do you, and why th
hell does it cut off the last letter of every sentenc
on this forum. What 14.99 per month and the last lette
of every sentence you type on our forums? Come on CC