Secondly, I do not condone any behaviour of the above forum rules. Nor should you be attacked for any of those reasons. I do not engage in such behaviour, nor toxic trolling.
The ISD moderators made a decision, on their own, to close the thread. I had no input in the matter, and critics should direct their concerns privately to @ISD_Golem and @ISD_Dorrim_Barstorlode , instead of continuing to harass me for objecting to harassment. I don’t believe the thread was closed because of any metagame collusion between myself and the forum moderators - but because several people agreed that the comments were wholly inappropriate. For you to then link to those posts, in order to draw attention to them, is just a continuation of the original abuse.
Yes, since you brought this up again (why?)- I believe the comments in that thread were deliberately intended for the explicit purpose of sexual harassment, and others feel the same way. To repeatedly attempt to draw attention to my sex, or spread rumors about my sex, and to repeatedly post this across multiple form posts - that is a clear and unmistakable pattern of sexual harassment. That is literally what it is - this is sexual harassment. I brought this up in the women’s Discord, where everyone agreed, and they were surprised I did not make an official report or complaint to CCP.
It doesn’t actually matter whether I am male or female, it is none of your business, and to continually discuss it or denigrate me for refusing to discuss my sex, and to ask that I debate your assumptions about my sex, act in a specific sexual role chosen by you, admit or agree that I am of a specific sex as determined by you, or prove that I am of a specific sex for your personal satisfaction - for you to demand this of me, not once, not twice, not thrice, but over and over and over - that is sexual harassment, literally.
The fact that you and Dracvlad don’t agree says far more about you, than it does about me. You can say that I’m “derailing” the thread by objecting to this persistent pattern of abuse, but you are the ones doing it in yet another forum thread.
If you would like to know more about sexual harassment, I have included some guidelines from the Ontario Human Rights Commission, which you may review at your leisure:
I think it’s a bit much that you are now discussing this exact same subject, in another thread, while complaining that I derailed the last thread.
I’ve clearly stated that I’m female. I don’t need to prove it to anyone, although certainly there are people who know me. Some people are triggered by this, and feel an obsessive need to repeatedly state their thoughts. Then they complain when I “derail” the thread by responding with an objection.
You might not believe I’m female, but it’s legally none of your concern. Although I’m personally a proponent of free speech, an important component of free speech is that I can object. Anybody who repeatedly emphasizes my sex (or their opinion about my sex), or someone who repeatedly complains that I have objected, anybody doing that is actually sexually harassing me in real life.
That’s the difference between playing a game, and actually harassing someone. I don’t want to discuss this, in the forums, but some people insist on bringing it up again and again. That isn’t just harassment in a game, or on the forums, that’s actual sexual harassment in real life. Please stop. Thanks!
Citron (2009) argues that “gendered harassment” on the internet most directly affects female writers, because writers invite written conversations with strangers, and they are often overwhelmed by inappropriate comments from anonymous men.
Very true. They brought up for a reason to weaponize it.
Honestly as a dude nothing makes me cringe harder than other dudes, esp vidya game dudes who are frankly just sad when it comes to talking with the opposite gender.
I’m guessing deep down it rankles that the person blapping all these peeps and extorting half of high sec is a woman. TBH, its something that should be celebrated regardless of gender due to the content it is creating.
I mean in reality, you’re kinda Drac’s whole reason for existing. He’s trying to so hard front AGing in part due to you. Well, until he gets called away for krabbing duties
On a side note but staying in game , if you’re route takes you through uedama and you get locked up by some of our corp members or other AG pilots please don’t worry , we are trying to preempt an attack and have to lock targets fast to stand a chance of saving you with logistics.
So if we do lock you up and your in a hauler just get out fast , stop faffing about locking back and just get out system and if you could see the lock why are you slow boating to a gate .
For a lot of players that’s just going to get your pilots set to red so they can be avoided in the future.
Not to mention all the players not understanding what’s going on and just assuming gankers and anti gankers are all………well gankers. Thus causing confusion in intel channels.
Every day it feels like you guys are that little bit closer to declaring……. “Ah ■■■■ it, we are gankers now.”
It is a simple matter to explain it to people, and one can hardly gank someone in an Osprey, though there are many people who have no clue what many ships actually do.
A large amount of players are simply going to see loads of bodies on gate and wonder why someone was targeting them. Get a little freaked out and run. Maybe dock up. Maybe even think the game isn’t for them because sometimes almost being ganked is as good as a gank lol
As far as explanations go not all players will be in the necessary chat channels… are you going to be broadcasting what you are doing in local so all the gankers know where you are and what you are doing? Or inviting everyone you are targeting to a private convo to explain why?
I just think this is one of those things where you all genuinely believe you are helping (and fair play. This is not a criticism) but you may be doing as much harm as good.
This is where you believe your own propaganda, as I have pointed out many times AG is at heart a resistance movement, and even by saving people who have no clue or people that are actually enemies elsewhere in the game. It is still getting in the way of the gankers and their farming and as such is very worth doing.
Some times we tell them in local, sometimes in private chat channels, often we get those that ask why we targeted them into Gank-Intel, so it is all good.
What propaganda? I don’t have a stake in this to advocate for one side or the other. I think ganking is good for the game and I think it’s great people are creating content from anti - ganking.
I’m simply highlighting that taking such an aggressive approach may not be all positive.
Assuming for one moment that you anti gank because you don’t agree with ganking and the effects that may be having on players……. Then you have to see that to a player that doesn’t fully understand mechanics this approach could be interpreted as hostile as opposed to helpful?
Those same players with limited understanding are the same players that are less likely to be watching chat and less likely to accept a chat invite from someone that just targeted them.
I’m not saying this is bad. I’m just saying that you guys need to be aware of the potential unintended negative effects this pre-emptive approach could have.
There is frankly no need to get so defensive and throw around propaganda accusations around. But since you started it I shall make an observation in the same spirit.
Your response is very consistent with your usual level of response. Something is either good or bad and there are absolutely no shades of grey. Given you associate anti ganking with good you can’t see that how you go about achieving your goals (which I think are awesome by the way) may have unintended consequences which could have a negative effect on some players. As a result when the possibility is pointed out you are incapable of responding with anything constructive……. I mean even saying “we discussed this and felt the overall good outweighed the bad” would have me saying “fair enough. Good luck with it”. But no ……. It’s be gone with your propaganda I know best.
There is nothing aggressive about repping, it is in your mind.
Not a hostile act, people see being locked as hostile but it is easy to explain.
There is no unintended affect, it is fully expected that some people will get the wrong end of the stick.
I was not being defensive you have shown support on multiple threads to gankers and done several attack posts too. It is propaganda.
And now we go with the personal attack rubbish, I am aware, very aware of what you lot try and fail to do and of course your successes like that thread that got nuked, does it ever get old for you people? And you also played the victim of my harsh and unkind posting too…