That really depends on what you see the AG chat channel as, for me it is the first port of call for a community of people who resist gankers, beyond that are groups, HSM being the most well known. Because it is the first port of call for people wanting to resist as a community and you end up with a lot of players who have no idea giving out their opinions and boasting about getting minimal damage on a ganker who had already ganked. This can be annoying if you want AG to be something more than that.
The HSM is the more focussed group which I never joined by the way, I was quite content to turn out for repping work and stuff based on the intel for stuff in and around Niarja. What people need to do is channel those people into being more effective AG within the limitation of the stale gameplay however that is not easy.
My feeling and the reason I had some conflict with him is that being too brutal with people having fun while being ineffective was driving away new blood. I certainly see his point, but I was looking at AG as a starting point from which you can develop people. Perhaps my view of what it is is wrong, perhaps it should be an elite only chat channel. But I thought that the HSM was the core group.
This conflict within the chat channel has always been there, and he is a more recent example of that. A number of people have tried to push a change to it and failed. It is like herding cats. From my perspective there is no point in getting aggressive or upset in a chat channel which is made up of cats doing their own thing. Does that make sense?
PS Sorry about the wall of text, but it is difficult to really put down without me coming over as an antagonistic smug git.
PPS Just seeing Autralian Excellence smart bombing a load of PH catalysts, are PH moving in on his fun? This will be epic to watch… Are we about to see the beginning of the gank wars?
PPPS I had noticed the CODE Leshak fleets killing structures, I am wondering why a certain baiting stalker is not doing that?