DUST Search - Announcement:An Announcement Regarding Real Life Harassment

Dalmont Legrand wrote:

CCP Saberwing wrote:

Hello everyone,

For the last few weeks the community has been debating the topic of real life harassment, and its connection to the EVE Universe. The EVE Universe Community Team has been working on this issue for some time now, and has had extensive discussions about it with your elected representatives, the Council of Stellar Management.

EVE is a virtual world whose inhabitants have more freedom to play the villain and experiment with various backhanded tactics than in any other MMO. The freedom to scam and commit piracy, espionage, and extortion are all fundamental to the EVE Online experience, and CCP will never change that. However, it is important to remember that the EVE universe is a virtual world, and behavior of this nature should remain firmly within that virtual world.

While the content of online interactions between players cannot realistically be gated within our game worlds, CCP strongly disapproves of clear and extraordinary levels of real life harassment against our players in the outside world.

CCP, in collaboration with the CSM, have agreed and would like to state in the strongest possible terms and in accordance with our existing Terms of Service and End User License Agreement, that real life harassment is morally reprehensible, and verifiable examples of such behavior will be met with disciplinary action against game accounts in accordance with our Terms of Service.

Harassment poses a potential problem in any virtual world, and CCP has dealt with cases of this nature for more than a decade. We will continue to monitor and evaluate claims of harassment based on our policies and acceptable standards of behavior.

As always, CCP will not discuss specific cases of policy enforcement. However, if you have any questions regarding this statement, please feel free to pose them in this thread, and we will respond to the best of our ability.

- The EVE Universe Community Team

Then you should starts a massive clean-up in Russian forum section, because levels of threatening and disrespectful behavior without real background are happening through months already, Russian part becomes "favellas", the ghetto which it wasn't and it shouldn't be. Now I realize that Russian Devs are aimed for EVE but gosh, make it possible to clean all those harassments that come from players that really do not know how to behave, they basically spook new players, when there is society, there is order and gaming society has an order so make sure it is on top of whole society and not on the prioritized once. Just do a brutal clean-up... because standards of behavior simply do not exist in minds of those players and I hate reporting, but even doing so the result is almost null and players that continue behaving cannot communicate and interact with those who doesn't know simple fact as ethics. Attention

EDIT: You should find a way of tracking new accounts on PSN from players that were banned, sometimes banning is not enough and they come back to forums just to continue, yes we have those that have nothing to do but to create disorder on forum no matter how many times they were banned.

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Aellar Dae LUX AETERNA INT RUST415 273	Posted - 2014.06.06 11:40:00 - [1] - Quote Dalmont Legrand wrote: CCP Saberwing wrote: Hello everyone, For the last few weeks the community has been debating the topic of real life harassment, and its connection to the EVE Universe. The EVE Universe Community Team has been working on this issue for some time now, and has had extensive discussions about it with your elected representatives, the Council of Stellar Management. EVE is a virtual world whose inhabitants have more freedom to play the villain and experiment with various backhanded tactics than in any other MMO. The freedom to scam and commit piracy, espionage, and extortion are all fundamental to the EVE Online experience, and CCP will never change that. However, it is important to remember that the EVE universe is a virtual world, and behavior of this nature should remain firmly within that virtual world. While the content of online interactions between players cannot realistically be gated within our game worlds, CCP strongly disapproves of clear and extraordinary levels of real life harassment against our players in the outside world. CCP, in collaboration with the CSM, have agreed and would like to state in the strongest possible terms and in accordance with our existing Terms of Service and End User License Agreement, that real life harassment is morally reprehensible, and verifiable examples of such behavior will be met with disciplinary action against game accounts in accordance with our Terms of Service. Harassment poses a potential problem in any virtual world, and CCP has dealt with cases of this nature for more than a decade. We will continue to monitor and evaluate claims of harassment based on our policies and acceptable standards of behavior. As always, CCP will not discuss specific cases of policy enforcement. However, if you have any questions regarding this statement, please feel free to pose them in this thread, and we will respond to the best of our ability. - The EVE Universe Community Team Then you should starts a massive clean-up in Russian forum section, because levels of threatening and disrespectful behavior without real background are happening through months already, Russian part becomes "favellas", the ghetto which it wasn't and it shouldn't be. Now I realize that Russian Devs are aimed for EVE but gosh, make it possible to clean all those harassments that come from players that really do not know how to behave, they basically spook new players, when there is society, there is order and gaming society has an order so make sure it is on top of whole society and not on the prioritized once. Just do a brutal clean-up... because standards of behavior simply do not exist in minds of those players and I hate reporting, but even doing so the result is almost null and players that continue behaving cannot communicate and interact with those who doesn't know simple fact as ethics. EDIT: You should find a way of tracking new accounts on PSN from players that were banned, sometimes banning is not enough and they come back to forums just to continue, yes we have those that have nothing to do but to create disorder on forum no matter how many times they were banned. I support this statement. As a victim of regular harassment and provocative acts of humiliation and insults I confirm that Russian thread lacks for proper moderation and preventive measures. Multiple times I appealed to CCP through help tickets regarding rulebreakers and trouble-makers on Russian forum thread and the only effective result was my "amnesty". I am grateful for that, but that does not solves a problem of chaos in the community. I would suggest CCP to assign some special group of volunteers and make them in charge of order and repsectful communication on forums. This practice is wideley used through community forums where active and respectable forum users become moderators. It is much easier for GMs and CMs to monitor activity of limited amount of volunteer moderators, then to monitor whole population of forum. Please consider this. One of the reason why some valuable players abandoned this game is constant, vulgar and unpunished harassment and agression on forums. This game is intended for serious people and it should get rid of some part of players, incapable of civilized dialog. This will bring more mature people ingame. And more mature people means more income for CCP and more useful feedback from community. This is obvious. -¡-é-+ -+-¦ -+-¦-Ç-¦, -ì-é-+ -é-¦-+-¦-+-Ç-+-¦-¦-é -ö-+-+514, -+-+-ü-é-Ç-+-¦ -ü-¦-+-¦ -É-+-î-Å-+-ü! (-ü) shandybin