Blog Banter 45: Propaganda

Welcome to the 45th Blog Banter, the EVE Online community discussion which stumbles from topic to topic like a drunk looking for an empty cubicle.

If you’re new to the Blog Banters, don’t be afraid to get stuck in with your opinion. If you’re unsure how it all works, check out previously completed discussions in the Blog Banter archive or read this post for a brief explanation.

Bad UIs Cost Lives

This edition of the Blog Banter is forged from suggestions by #tweetfleet members @KaedaMaxwell, @RocWieler and @TigerlilyFenix.

In a socially-driven game environment such as EVE Online’s, everyone has an agenda. CCP promotes its products and has an army of volunteers to do the same; corporations and alliances deliver entertaining recruitment drives, CSM election candidates solicit for voter favour, bloggers and podcasters opine to their audiences.

In this intricate web of communication, influence and control, what part does propaganda play in your game?

Banter on.

The Ministry of Opinion Prestidigitation

• EVE O GANDA by Rixx Javix @ EVEOGANDA
• Propaganda by Bagehi @ Internet Spaceships is Serious Business
• 45th BB to date! by TetraEtc @ Tetras Eve Blog
• My 3 Cents! by Ardent Defender
• Hello, My name is “Puppet” by Orakkus @ 2nd Anomaly From the Left
• People of RISE by DaiTengu @ Spaceholder
• My “Art” With a Silent “F” by Drackarn @ Sand, Cider and Spaceships
• Propaganda by Kuan Yida @ Random Posts from Auga
• Dropping the info bomb by Azalean Ladder @ The Ladder
• Psychological Warfare by Da Dom @ Mystic Monologue
• Peripheral Pressure by Sugar Kyle @ Low Sec Lifestyle
• Brainwashing the masses by Emergent Patroller
• Propaganda? What propaganda? by Samwise Potato @ And Other Bright Ideas
• We need Enemies by splatus @ A journey through the mind
• Loose Lips Sink Coalitions by Harkconnan @ Extra Vehicular
• The Art of Influence by Azual Skoll @ The Altruist
• The New Eden Propaganda Vulnerability Test by TurAmarth ElRandir @ A Carbon Based Life
• Propaganda by Poetic Stanziel @ Poetic Discourse
• The Machine by Miura Bull @ Brutor Bullfighter
• Mafia Scum by Ripard Teg @ Jester’s Trek
• The Propaganda You Don’t See by Kirith Kodachi @ Inner Sanctum of the Ninveah
• Cult of Personality by John Purcell @ Prosper: An EVE Online Tool Development Blog
• On Propaganda by Alikchi @ TheMittani.com
• Propaganda (n.) a marketing tool by Lukas Rox @ Torchwood Archives
• Yeah Me’s and Boo Them’s by Mike Azariah @ A Missioneer in Eve
• I Didn’t Mean to Say It. Or Did I? by Harrigan Vonstudly @ Gun Turret Diplomacy
• The Fourth Estate by Rhavas @ Interstellar Privateer
• Counter-Intelligence Center by Mark726 @ EVE Travel