If I were to apply, I would make my pitch on the fact that to balance all the other media control the null sec zealots have in game, I would auto-delete every post made by a member of the cfc, or anyone who sounded like them.

That would be as "fair and balanced" as the these jerks play.
If you want to beat the pigs, you have to get in the mud with them.

But of course, we have a single person making decisions who precisely makes up this new censor board.
We all know where this is heading.

Sounds like this is working out so far, good to hear it (from someone who helped moderate the SL forum - as oneself, not from an alt).

Some related questions:

1) Are you getting support from the GM and/or Dev teams? If so, which ones (if that can be revealed)?
2) Any chance you can release turnover stats? aka the dropout rate from the program.
3) Slightly off topic, but is Mercury still open as well?

Again, good luck. Its not something I'm interested in doing anymore, but if its working my hat's off to you.

and hold an active subscribed account in EVE Online for over 6 months.

Step backwards? shoot i thought it was one giant leap backwards

It is not allowed to share your ISD identity with your friends, fellow EVE players etc, if that is your question.

"subscribed" What in the world does that mean? My account is active through TC's and PLEX. Does that mean those without credit cards on the account need not apply?

Guess they gave up on communicating

As one of the other posters pointed out, regarding the "6 month active subscription" thing. I was forced to take a 9 month break from EVE due to health issue, but have been playing since 2005 with a few breaks here and there. Will my recent 9 month break be held against me?

(If I'm honest, my troll posts will probably be more likely to count against me, but you never know).

I been pondering this statement for sometime now. You do realize that there are some couples within the game where the possibility of 1 getting the position the other will find out about it. You know how couples are they like to talk about all sorts of things and if the both play eve it will be gossip hour. Is there some type of consideration for such cases>?

Nope we have not!

As long as your account is active, please feel free to apply. It makes no difference for us if you pay with credit card or via Plex.

Indeed there are couples out there and we have also a solution for them.

No, you break will not be held against you, Sir!

I have some questions


Since we are all players (or should be) how do i know you're not using the forums to you're own "group" own advantage?

Does CCP listen to you or are just making use of you and listening CSM?

Once i pond a time i was thinking in joining the ISD STAR but since i didn't find a place to ask questions and didn't want to look for them since I'm to laisy to do other peoples job i said "skew it" but now i will ask anyway, does A ISD STAR guy has to have 2 clients open or can it all be done in one? It's really bad giving newbs help and playing on 2 different clients?




Note this is no troll/badmouthing or what ever you want to call i just want to know where's ISD is placed in EVE and for the moment i'm bored in EVE and I'm looking for something to do in EVE help newbs is one of the ideas

Sorry i know that you just write but i need to make sure you didn't make a mistake because it doesn't make any sense to me

So if i want to help i have to stop play?

Quick suggestion here.


Would it be possible to have Internal Affairs do a quick stock-take of the volunteer moderators every so often (say 3 months or so) and produce report for the community listing numbers and proportions of volunteers coming from the various large alliances in the game?


That way we could keep tracking potential bias problems if any one alliance ended up controlling a disparately large proportion of the volunteerr positions.

Is kind of thing possible?

Quick suggestion here.


Would it be possible to have Internal Affairs do a quick stock-take of the volunteer moderators every so often (say 3 months or so) and produce report for the community listing numbers and proportions of volunteers coming from the various large alliances in the game?


That way we could keep tracking potential bias problems if any one alliance ended up controlling a disparately large proportion of the volunteerr positions.

Is kind of thing possible?

Hi Jade,

You should probably know me as one of the old CRC moderators. Let me tell you that we are watched by IA constantly, also we have the Community Team overseeing all our edits, deletions and locks.

I am in charge of the CCL volunteers and i can tell you that i do not allow bias. My moderators are not allowed to moderate anything that involve their player, corporation or alliance.

I will and i can not support your idea of proportion reports, this only leads to accusations and a lot of rumors.
However if you feel someone is abusing his/her status as volunteer, go ahead and mail internalaffairs@ccpgames.com.

Quick suggestion here.


Would it be possible to have Internal Affairs do a quick stock-take of the volunteer moderators every so often (say 3 months or so) and produce report for the community listing numbers and proportions of volunteers coming from the various large alliances in the game?


That way we could keep tracking potential bias problems if any one alliance ended up controlling a disparately large proportion of the volunteerr positions.

Is kind of thing possible?

I do not feel there is a need to do this at present but it is certainly something we can look at if it is warranted.

Let me explain a little why we would take this approach.

People who volunteer generally do so because of their passion for the community and for a desire to help. While this team is in its infancy we are conducting regular reviews of the moderation logs to ensure that volunteers are performing their role in a fair and balanced way. We would not feel comfortable putting them under a microscope when there is currently no allegation of wrong-doing.

What I can tell you is that our volunteer team are made up of alliance members, NPC corp members, mission runners, miners, PvP'ers and every aspect of game play.

In addition, the contributions from volunteers can often result in employment with CCP such is their contribution. As a matter of fact, many on the current community team have originated from this very program.

I hope this answers your query and I will assure you that we will continue to help our volunteers grow, develop and learn from any mistakes.

I do not feel there is a need to do this at present but it is certainly something we can look at if it is warranted.

Let me explain a little why we would take this approach.

People who volunteer generally do so because of their passion for the community and for a desire to help. While this team is in its infancy we are conducting regular reviews of the moderation logs to ensure that volunteers are performing their role in a fair and balanced way. We would not feel comfortable putting them under a microscope when there is currently no allegation of wrong-doing.

What I can tell you is that our volunteer team are made up of alliance members, NPC corp members, mission runners, miners, PvP'ers and every aspect of game play.

In addition, the contributions from volunteers can often result in employment with CCP such is their contribution. As a matter of fact, many on the current community team have originated from this very program.

I hope this answers your query and I will assure you that we will continue to help our volunteers grow, develop and learn from any mistakes.

Do you seriously think people believe what you posted?????

Let's pretend that I run a mega-alliance.
I have a long track record of using any meta-game tool or in-game mechanic to further my end goals.

One point I don't have complete control over is the Eve forums. I do have a vast army of propagandists ready to attack or overwhelm with sheer numbers any posts or posters that I deem dangerous to my end goals. But still, posts and posters can get through that impeded my ability to win the mindshare war.

But suddenly, CCP has afforded me an opportunity to actually censor out these posts, even get the posters banned!
Perfect! I instruct my propaganda team to apply en masse, but with alts in NPC corps, on clean accounts that can't be tied to my alliance. That way, complaints of bias cannot be proven.
Through sheer volumes of applications, I will get a large number of "volunteers" on this new censorship team. If I am lucky, may even gain control of the majority of the censorship team "volunteers". I can then begin to eliminate any dissenting voices on the forums, and I am one step closer to my my end goals, whatever they are.

But Navigator, you guys at CCP are going see right through this, and stonewall my plans by close tabs on the editing patterns of my infiltrators, and you are going to catch all of them......sure you will.

Oh, and btw, I fully expect to be banned July 12th, as I am sure that some eager "volunteer", with absolutely NO ties whatsoever to ANY null sec alliance, will have dredged up a list of my past posts. Even through the new rules kick in July 12th, I am sure that the evidence brought to the attention of CCP will be so overwhelming that I post rumours and say bad things about null sec alliances and sometimes about lead devs who did the goon presentation at Fanfest 2007, that some GM will examine the "evidence", and ban me retroactively.

That's a grim scenario you're painting, but there are a couple of problems with it, such as the fact that we're not going to be hiring people on brand new accounts with no experience in EVE, so applying like that really isn't an option. Also, why call this a censorship team, is there any need for that?

We're sorry if this upsets you, but it's still going to happen, change is inevitable. We will be keeping an eye on it and if anything strange happens, it will be investigated. If anything is found that needs our involvement, we'll step in, that's the procedure.

Finally, I don't think anyone will be looking for old posts to action on, so there should be little need to worry about that. Forward is the way.