Topic: New Start For A New Year

For all gamers going out this season, please understand some simple interesting encouraging statements.

I'd like us all to start the new year on a fresh foot, wipe the old slates clean and begin rebuilding old relationships that I feel have become tarnished or frayed like a well worn rug with one too many licks.

I've been playing for a short while and I'm saddened that already my corp, M2S, seems to have been the victims of a campaign by many to smear our name and this behaviour is also in direct violation of the forum rules we all abide by.

For example:

1. Do not create duplicate topics. Always use forum search before you create a new topic.

I have thus far counted over 20 topics posted on these forums by players all criticising M2S, reporting M2S for various grievances (clearly over cloying knee subtelties). Surely the constant creation of these hate topics in in direct violation of this rule? So why does it continue? I am not finger pointing here but asking we all start afresh and remember the rules.

Secondly

1. Posts containing obscene or vulgar phrases, pornography, extreme violence, references to illegal drugs or activities, real-life threats, insults aimed towards race/ethnicity/religion/ancestry/nationality/sexual preference of others, or otherwise objectionable content are forbidden. This also applies to links pointing to pages containing aforementioned content.

This links in to my previous statement but what has genuinly upset me is that if the target victim is M2S then screen shots of naughty words and vulgarity is allowed. There is no warning that screen shots contain such horrible language yet the original poster is not punished for the violation of this rule. There is a recent example where a corp member I look up to as a role model was the victim of this campaign and had his tongue severed from his own head.

But again I bear no ill will towards those who post these screen shots, I say imploringly are they thinking willingly about this situation?

To reiterate I am not pointing fingers, laying accusations or trying to get people into trouble but hoping to make people think that maybe M2S is not to blame and we should be left alone? Simply helping in this society, is that a bad thing on New Years Day?

Finally please bear in mind you're all clearly under new times supposedly, some might say due to the time of year, please please please give everyone another chance and let us all get along?

Thank you all and remember peace in symphony solidifies smile

Roger

Re: New Start For A New Year

I have trouble telling tongue-in-cheek sarcasm from sincerity. You might be trying to be funny; in which case please ignore this post. In case you're trying to be sincere:

Roger, Menace To Society claims explicitly to be an organization of griefers who would like to play the game as treacherous pirates. That's a reasonable style to play but claims affect the applicants that you get. As far as I can tell from my limited personal experience, Menace to Society includes at least some players who (due possibly to preferences for the pleasure of having gotten away with something forbidden) cannot be trusted to cooperate with others for mutual benefit.

Directly because of its policies, M2S will suffer ill-will from individuals who wish to play in an honorable or businesslike style. Until and unless those policies change, there cannot be a "wiping the slates clean".

Re: New Start For A New Year

I have trouble telling tongue-in-cheek sarcasm from sincerity. You might be trying to be funny; in which case please ignore this post. In case you're trying to be sincere:

Aspergers?

Re: New Start For A New Year

Glorion wrote:

Aspergers?

2007? Who's this Obama fellow?

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Re: New Start For A New Year

Glorion wrote:

I have trouble telling tongue-in-cheek sarcasm from sincerity. You might be trying to be funny; in which case please ignore this post. In case you're trying to be sincere:

Aspergers?

Maybe, or just an atrophied sense of humor. tongue