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Macha
Mar 6, 2016

Mekchu posted:

Nobody said that?

Good. Then I mistook what was being said about “let’s not use BFM and it should be dropped”. Hopefully pressure can be out on to get that creep removed from Eve. Pandemic Legion. More like Pedophilic Legion.

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Zodium
Jun 19, 2004

Rojo_Sombrero posted:

Several issues arise with someone holding power for such a long time. When new blood would join GSF. Alex was the only leader and voice they knew. Gone were the squads and the directors became sycophants. Without detractors to keep him honest. His narcissism kept growing larger.

Right. It's not a question of us wanting to burn it down. Raytrum et al. aren't disavowing and banning him because Alex's supporters are so large a proportion of the management and membership that it would fatally compromise the organization's stability, and leave it a hollow shell, which Alex would then light on fire in revenge for disavowing and banning him.

homercles
Feb 14, 2010

The Shortest Path posted:

Nobody really cares what a few people say on SA when the alliance is filled to the brim with karmafleet reddit pedophiles who are constantly banging the drums about how toxic and woke we all are lmao
If you know something post it.

Samuel L. Hacksaw
Mar 26, 2007

Never Stop Posting

homercles posted:

If you know something post it.

What's to post? Karmafleet is a reddit corp.

Gwyneth Palpate
Jun 7, 2010

Do you want your breadcrumbs highlighted?

~SMcD

Samuel L. Hacksaw posted:

What's to post? Karmafleet is a reddit corp.

i actually wonder how much of karmafleet actually comes from reddit vs. sucking up existing eve players wanting to jump ship

not that this necessarily increases the quality of recruit

helperdog
Oct 10, 2021

DOG

Hi friends,

As many of you may know I am an aspiring barista. All of the CTAs in Big McHuge fleets made me realize that I need more coffee so I can be sharp and bring victory to our great alliance. I have been using my new Breville machine to work on my latte art and I have slowly been progressing, this is my attempt and interpretation of a war goose. I am very self conscious of my work so this is my first time showing it to anyone, I hope you enjoy

:)

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Zodium
Jun 19, 2004

helperdog posted:

Hi friends,

As many of you may know I am an aspiring barista. All of the CTAs in Big McHuge fleets made me realize that I need more coffee so I can be sharp and bring victory to our great alliance. I have been using my new Breville machine to work on my latte art and I have slowly been progressing, this is my attempt and interpretation of a war goose. I am very self conscious of my work so this is my first time showing it to anyone, I hope you enjoy

:)



homercles
Feb 14, 2010

Samuel L. Hacksaw posted:

What's to post? Karmafleet is a reddit corp.

And Aatrek was an SA mod. It's unfair to paint an entire community with the same pedo brush.

Mods knew tho.

Fajita Queen
Jun 21, 2012

Reddit openly allowed pedophile communities and borderline child porn for years until a bunch of journalists started shining light on it, so pretending that's somehow in any way equivalent to a mod here getting outed as a pedophile and being immediately shitcanned is wildly disingenuous to the point of incredibility.

Samuel L. Hacksaw
Mar 26, 2007

Never Stop Posting
To be clear, I'm insinuating that karmafleet is guilty by association to reddit.

twigplant
Jun 9, 2009

You're asking me to believe in sentient meat.

Zodium posted:

Groomswarm leadership is taking it so seriously that they have yet to so much as verbally disavow Alex, let alone ban him or cut ties with his business. He's not gone. He's just biding his time, and only a chump would believe otherwise.

Mittani hasn't logged into jabber for about five days now. How much disavowing is appropriate for someone who hasn't said a word or shown his face since he stepped down?

Zodium posted:

Right. It's not a question of us wanting to burn it down. Raytrum et al. aren't disavowing and banning him because Alex's supporters are so large a proportion of the management and membership that it would fatally compromise the organization's stability, and leave it a hollow shell, which Alex would then light on fire in revenge for disavowing and banning him.

Most of what I've heard is grown-rear end men being absolute loving babies about the implementation of a harassment policy and asking such questions as "Is that okay -- is that okay that I called someone a Karen? Am I gonna get in trouble for that now?" or "Well I'm just never going to talk ever again then," pretending that they have no idea how to clear the very low bar of "don't harass anyone." Like that seems to be the main topic of concern. Very, very few people that I've run into are in the Mittani Did Nothing Wrong camp, and they get talked around after a while.

Zodium
Jun 19, 2004

twigplant posted:

Mittani hasn't logged into jabber for about five days now. How much disavowing is appropriate for someone who hasn't said a word or shown his face since he stepped down?

"Clearly and unequivocally" is the appropriate standard of disavowal to aim for when you find out the leader of your organization for the last decade is a sexual predator who knowingly protected a pedophile.

Then permaban him.

Gwyneth Palpate
Jun 7, 2010

Do you want your breadcrumbs highlighted?

~SMcD

Also bear in mind there's a nonzero chance the deposed leader just... walks away from Eve entirely. Don't underestimate the liberating feeling of being completely freed from any and all responsibility. The longer the absence, the more likely this is to happen.

Of course, I can't guarantee that. The identity part might be stronger than the liberation feeling.

Mekchu
Apr 10, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Macha posted:

Good. Then I mistook what was being said about “let’s not use BFM and it should be dropped”. Hopefully pressure can be out on to get that creep removed from Eve. Pandemic Legion. More like Pedophilic Legion.

That was from like 6 years ago dude and was said by the GSF leader, not anyone in PanFam.

FruitNYogurtParfait
Mar 29, 2006

Sion lied. Deadtear died for our sins. #VengeanceForDeadtear
#PunGateNeverForget
#ModLivesMatter

Gwyneth Palpate posted:

Also bear in mind there's a nonzero chance the deposed leader just... walks away from Eve entirely. Don't underestimate the liberating feeling of being completely freed from any and all responsibility. The longer the absence, the more likely this is to happen.

Of course, I can't guarantee that. The identity part might be stronger than the liberation feeling.

he did that before and came back as a hailed hero

Zodium
Jun 19, 2004

Gwyneth Palpate posted:

Also bear in mind there's a nonzero chance the deposed leader just... walks away from Eve entirely. Don't underestimate the liberating feeling of being completely freed from any and all responsibility. The longer the absence, the more likely this is to happen.

Of course, I can't guarantee that. The identity part might be stronger than the liberation feeling.

FruitNYogurtParfait posted:

he did that before and came back as a hailed hero

Yeah, I mean, in the "in my wildest dreams" scenario, Alex just walks away and spends his trust fund on the mountain of therapy he needs, and never reconnects with his cult again, and it just dies out on its own. There's a non-zero probability of that happening. But it's not significantly higher than zero.

homercles
Feb 14, 2010

The Shortest Path posted:

Reddit openly allowed pedophile communities and borderline child porn for years

Sounds about 2006-7 era. Do you have something more recent? That was a very long time ago.

The current reddit mod tier are extremely zealous about pretty much anything that would affect advertising dollars.

learnincurve
May 15, 2014

Smoosh
On the one hand if people wanted to attack delve it is unlikely Reddit could hold it, on the other now the Mitanni is gone no one is especially going to want to. Bold prediction: 2 months and redditswarm turns on innit for something to do.

LegionAreI
Nov 14, 2006
Lurk

twigplant posted:

Mittani hasn't logged into jabber for about five days now. How much disavowing is appropriate for someone who hasn't said a word or shown his face since he stepped down?

Most of what I've heard is grown-rear end men being absolute loving babies about the implementation of a harassment policy and asking such questions as "Is that okay -- is that okay that I called someone a Karen? Am I gonna get in trouble for that now?" or "Well I'm just never going to talk ever again then," pretending that they have no idea how to clear the very low bar of "don't harass anyone." Like that seems to be the main topic of concern. Very, very few people that I've run into are in the Mittani Did Nothing Wrong camp, and they get talked around after a while.

I agree with this. I mean, I completely understand the reactions people are having and I'm not going to begrudge anyone who left or is still really angry. Everyone needs to process it their own way. But I feel we are getting a little into painting everyone who stayed as nothing better than pedo enablers and Mittani ball washers when I know for a fact it's anything but. For those of us who stayed who are female, POC, LGBTQIA+, and any other combination of underrepresented people in gaming, it's disheartening to see people throwing everyone still in the organization under the same bus.

While you had perfectly valid reasons for leaving, many people have perfectly valid reasons for staying. (For now at least.) For me personally, as an older female LGBT gamer, I have seen the entire spectrum of bad behavior and nothing really surprises me anymore. It's just disappointing. However, I feel that the organization that I had so much fun with has already grown better than the dumbasses of old as a whole, and deserves a chance to grow again. If they don't, if Mittani sneaks back in after 6 months like some of you say he will, then I'll cop to you being right and likely will be out the door.

I'm a total nobody in game who occasionally says dumb poo poo in elysium, so feel free to ignore me, but that's how I personally feel about this whole situation.

That being said, Calanthe for Waffe CEO. Just don't make me do mandatory paps and you'll do just fine.

Dalmuti
Apr 8, 2007

LegionAreI posted:

Calanthe for Waffe CEO.

Qtiyd

Cease to Hope
Dec 12, 2011

homercles posted:

Sounds about 2006-7 era. Do you have something more recent? That was a very long time ago.

The current reddit mod tier are extremely zealous about pretty much anything that would affect advertising dollars.

The violentacrez expose wasn't until 2012. Lots of big reddit subs still have Gawker and its sister sites blacklisted for "doxing" him.

Feliday Melody
May 8, 2021

twigplant posted:

Most of what I've heard is grown-rear end men being absolute loving babies about the implementation of a harassment policy and asking such questions as "Is that okay -- is that okay that I called someone a Karen? Am I gonna get in trouble for that now?" or "Well I'm just never going to talk ever again then," pretending that they have no idea how to clear the very low bar of "don't harass anyone." Like that seems to be the main topic of concern. Very, very few people that I've run into are in the Mittani Did Nothing Wrong camp, and they get talked around after a while.

I was in a mumble meeting where someone explained the policy and this one guy could not stop asking people to define harassment.


It might have been completely in good faith. But eventually the rest of the room was trying to explain it to him, that if he was uncertain about something then it was probably not good. And he should rather play it safe than try to walk exactly on the borderline of actual harassment.

learnincurve
May 15, 2014

Smoosh
I think we should focus on mocking on the absolute weapons naming stations as if the Mittani is the victim. Let’s not lose sight of the simple fact that he openly posted the kind of dreadful poo poo in public multiple times that would have got anyone fired in eve or real life.

These people clearly still think he was right, and until they get yeeted out if GS it’s very publicly mocking this new HR group and baiting them as meaningless

learnincurve
May 15, 2014

Smoosh
*twitches in where the chuffing heck were you when I was left to fight for the Goonswarm Trans community on my own

Zodium
Jun 19, 2004

People like Raytrum and xttz casting aspersions can eat poo poo, but if someone wants to hang around until the next time Groomswarm comes under pressure and Alex makes his triumphant return, go akimbo style spoons on that trash can with my blessing.

learnincurve posted:

I think we should focus on mocking on the absolute weapons naming stations as if the Mittani is the victim. Let’s not lose sight of the simple fact that he openly posted the kind of dreadful poo poo in public multiple times that would have got anyone fired in eve or real life.

These people clearly still think he was right, and until they get yeeted out if GS it’s very publicly mocking this new HR group and baiting them as meaningless

lmfao

What are they naming them?

LegionAreI
Nov 14, 2006
Lurk

learnincurve posted:

*twitches in where the chuffing heck were you when I was left to fight for the Goonswarm Trans community on my own

This sucks, and I'm sorry. It's not an excuse but I drift in and out a lot, take months-long breaks, and play at work so if something happened in elysium or on the forums it probably went right over my head, then the rest of this poo poo happened and now we are here.

I have a lot of problems dealing with personal conflict, but this entire situation has prompted me to try to do better when I see dumb poo poo happening.

As for the station renaming, did you post screenshots earlier? If so or if you can tell me where they are I'll post something on the forums or PM someone and see what happens. Maybe they got changed already, but if not that's worth calling out.

learnincurve
May 15, 2014

Smoosh
Can’t access discord atm there is a screenshot of some tit losing his vargur to a navy issue osprey outside the station he had named “best CEO ever we will miss you the Mitanni xoxo” or something nearly identical.

almighty
Mar 9, 2011

homercles posted:

And Aatrek was an SA mod. It's unfair to paint an entire community with the same pedo brush.

Mods knew tho.

Seconding this.

Kaysette
Jan 5, 2009

~*Boston makes me*~
~*feel good*~

:wrongcity:
Calling all remaining players and leaders in Goonswarm pedophiles is not OK.

Anyone doing the “mods are pedos” goof here will have a bad time.

Mr. Grinch
Jul 2, 2007

They say that the Grinch's small heart grew three sizes that day.
I dont know how many of you remember this but after Mittani had his first public self immolation with the threadnaught and the legal threat from CCP, he was incredibly unpopular and even the goonwiki categorized him as a villain/insane former CEO with a good riddance.
"Hes been logged off for almost a week! Hell never come back into power!" is, historically speaking, false. He should be banned both in game and from services, anything else is leaving the door propped open

raminasi
Jan 25, 2005

a last drink with no ice

twigplant posted:

Mittani hasn't logged into jabber for about five days now. How much disavowing is appropriate for someone who hasn't said a word or shown his face since he stepped down?

Disavowal would be about sending a message to the current membership about what behavior is considered acceptable or unacceptable. To my knowledge, there has been no official statement about what, exactly, leadership thinks he even did wrong, and I'm kicking myself for not asking during the fireside if the directorate would welcome him back into leadership if he wanted it, because I genuinely don't know the answer.

spazzhole
Aug 2, 2003

Dear Sandy,

Ever since that day I hit you, I've felt like we haven't been as close.

LegionAreI posted:

That being said, Calanthe for Waffe CEO. Just don't make me do mandatory paps and you'll do just fine.

I've seen that name thrown around a couple times, and I think she'd be really good for it too.

xtothez
Jan 4, 2004


College Slice

raminasi posted:

I'm kicking myself for not asking during the fireside if the directorate would welcome him back into leadership if he wanted it, because I genuinely don't know the answer.

No.

FelixNC
Jul 14, 2022

NtotheTC posted:

Good for you for making a stand, but I've been in and out of the jabber and forums since I left and the massive majority of opinions have been "mittani did nothing wrong he's a king this was a psyop" to the more restrained "the SA thread was a toxic woke cesspool, both sides have done wrong but harassing mittens was mean"

If there's a contingent of people in the alliance saying "gently caress mittens I always hated him" then they're keeping it very quiet

As someone who is leaving because of this (per my post history), can confirm that this is absolutely true IRT KF membership at least. Voice chat gradually pushed me out due to general discomfort even after Shingly came down to correct matters. It may have gotten quieter but that doesn't mean it's gotten better.

I like Merk, or at least I used to, but we've also got real winners like Roman Eight running their mouths effectively unchecked. Until the culture is fixed - from the top - and people like that are shown the door, there's no room for people like me.

learnincurve posted:

Can’t access discord atm there is a screenshot of some tit losing his vargur to a navy issue osprey outside the station he had named “best CEO ever we will miss you the Mitanni xoxo” or something nearly identical.


https://zkillboard.com/kill/102218176/

This guy isn't in my corp so I can't say much but judging by his forum posts (and deployables) he'd get along well with Roman.

NtotheTC
Dec 31, 2007


Gwyneth Palpate posted:

Also bear in mind there's a nonzero chance the deposed leader just... walks away from Eve entirely. Don't underestimate the liberating feeling of being completely freed from any and all responsibility. The longer the absence, the more likely this is to happen.

Of course, I can't guarantee that. The identity part might be stronger than the liberation feeling.

This would be good for literally everyone involved, but it isn't mutually exclusive with the current leadership saying "What Mittani did was not ok, he is blacklisted". I'd argue strongly against anyone suggesting it isn't necessary if he's gone- because the non-zero amount of people championing him still would be concerning to me as a leader

CainFortea
Oct 15, 2004


twigplant posted:

Mittani hasn't logged into jabber for about five days now. How much disavowing is appropriate for someone who hasn't said a word or shown his face since he stepped down?

I don't think you know what disavowing means. Because someone not logging into jabber is not any amount of disavowing.

Dalmuti
Apr 8, 2007

Hell yeah

Rojo_Sombrero
May 8, 2006
I ebayed my EQ account and all I got was an SA account

twigplant posted:


Most of what I've heard is grown-rear end men being absolute loving babies about the implementation of a harassment policy and asking such questions as "Is that okay -- is that okay that I called someone a Karen? Am I gonna get in trouble for that now?" or "Well I'm just never going to talk ever again then," pretending that they have no idea how to clear the very low bar of "don't harass anyone." Like that seems to be the main topic of concern. Very, very few people that I've run into are in the Mittani Did Nothing Wrong camp, and they get talked around after a while.

Since I'm ancient I have a little bit of perspective in this matter. Back when sexual harassment was being recognized. Many people during and after the implementation of anti-harassment policies. Acted and did the exact same things.

Rojo_Sombrero
May 8, 2006
I ebayed my EQ account and all I got was an SA account

FruitNYogurtParfait posted:

he did that before and came back as a hailed hero

If DJ hadn't screwed the pooch with Elitist Ops after Delve fell. Then maybe Mittens would have never been promoted. But I could be wrong.

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Bigbillthaboss
Feb 25, 2013

TRASH ASS EDGELORD,
PUT ME ON IGNORE

Samuel L. Hacksaw posted:

What's to post? Karmafleet is a reddit corp.

I was wondering why their overall posting quality was better than that of what I have observed in here.

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