Is the EVE Online Forum targeted by government spies? And are they responsible for all the threads with these terrible ideas in them?

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Are CIA agents planting bad ideas in this forum? Do they even play EVE Online?
  • Yes
  • Yes, and I’ve known all along
  • Maybe…
  • No
  • No, and I couldn’t imagine it…
  • [Funny option, incidentally discrediting the other available choices. Obviously only a CIA agent would pick this…]
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Hello capsuleers,

you may or may not know me, I post here from time to time. I’ve had my run-ins with great and terrible forum posters in equal measure, and I’ve been keeping an eye on the development of this corner of the internet for a while.

Lately, I have noticed a strong uptrend with alts (that means alternate character, basically not your main character you are playing with), that have no history or meaningful interaction whatsoever, creating threads that are objectively just awful. And they also never participate afterwards in their own mess that they created.

Every single time it is either a point that has been rehearsed a billion times like ganking or “eve is dying!!!”. Sometimes they are uniquely terrible like that “allow alpha players to pay!!! :cowboy_hat_face:” thread, truly nauseating.

The question is, who is behind all of this? And why?

And you know what? I’m pointing my finger at “intelligence operatives”, namely CIA of course, because I heard a rumor once that EVE Online is indeed infiltrated and used as a testing ground for these agencies, due to its unique blend of sandbox environment and group dynamics.

Of course there will be those that will decry this idea. “Nooo, my government spies would never post god-awful takes like that! And they also have better things to do!!” - Please, these are government employees we are talking about here…

And if I am looking at these threads, that have these very obvious terrible ideas that are blatantly planted in these forums to make it appear like these are genuine opinions, you know, the boxes are starting to check.

This forum might be a freaky sociological experiment, where bad actors are shoveling garbage ideas in your face with the goal being to find out if and when you are going to accept them.

Of course this is just my initial theory, I have no proof, other than my unwillingness to accept that real human beings with no agenda would have created these threads, and continue to do so.

Is there merit to these claims? Do you personally know a CIA agent that has created an awful thread on this forum? Or do you have a wholly different lead altogether? Let me know.

With intelligent regards
-James Fuchs

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Don’t attribute to malice that is adequately explained by stupidity.

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James, when you return to Langley, can you drop by my office?

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My husband’s favorite phrase is “always bet on stupid”.

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It logic for intelligence agencies monitor online communications they do programs like PRISM XKeyscore aand other revealed for last decade show agencies like NSA GCHQ plus partners collect analyse data all of digital platform public and private In EU varius national service track online space early warming of merging threat trends or networks. there’s important distinction for monitoring annd active manipulation. Monitoring of public forums is routine because data already open-source it’s part what’s known in OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) Intelligence services security contractors academic groups read and sometimes archive public posts to study social dynamics economic pattern security-related chatter running covert influence operations inside niche gaming forum be a very different matter while it’s possible there is no evidence that EVE Online official forum being seeded with posts by CIA, FSB, MSS or other agencie to test the player base what you’re far more see players use alts for anonymity trolls post recycled topics people experimanting with social engineering for their amusement. Right right yes governments read more than people realise yes almost evrything poste publicly be archived somewherebutthat’s till a long way from “CIA agents creating awful threads.” Without proof the simple explanation remain EVE’s meta culture plus anonymity produces same odd content you’re describing.

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Yes.

The government see everything you do.

And all your porn.

And they have videos from cameras that capture your cum face.

It’s all quite Kafkaesque

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I’m not returning to the agency, I’ve put this life behind me…

With seasoned regards
-James Fuchs

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You’re asking two questions, “do CIA agents manipulate the forum?” and “do CIA agents play the game?” but only provide a single yes–no answer scale. That’s bad questionaire design.

On one of the questions my answer would be yes, on the other no. I could of course choose the middle option (maybe?), but that feels wrong so I chose the “funny” option instead.

And no, I’m not a CIA agent, I teach statistics.

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…about CIA agents? :thinking:

:smirking_face:

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I also know a bit about statistics and from the current spread of answers it’s clear that CIA agents are highly likely targeting the EVE Online forums.

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another day, another guy not playing eve yet writting a chatgpt essay about eve

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I am playing the game, thank you. Also my opening post is 100% organically human.
If you’re going to keep snarking like that, you’ll never get enough people for your Ahbazon heist.

I was even willing to extend my help to you, but after that post? Naaah. Maybe I’ll even join team Ahbazon for a fleet or two, just to spite you.

With disappointed regards
-James Fuchs

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Yeah, it’s pretty obvious (the alts part, not the CIA part). And I also think it’s obvious it’s only 1-2 people doing this. Whoever is behind Swing Vote I’ve seen again and again resurface on some new days old name posting the same nonsense with the same vitriol characteristic to them.

There are also those who post something, get negative feedback, and then go on to post on their thread on a few-days old alt or something like that – rehashing the exact viewpoints in their original post as if anybody’s gonna fall for that.

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man, i forgot about him, he love writting giant post about eve, despite not playing it at all

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Mulder wants you to know that they are out there

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You know you gone off the rails when you think that government spies want to shut down the forum :rofl: