We’re seeing posts that don’t just complain about bad experiences, they actively try to frame anyone who engages in PvP as a “griefer” or a “victim hunter,” as if playing the outlaw role is illegitimate. They're not making an attempt at a discussion, they're waging a campaign to shame an entire playstyle out of the community. That kind of agenda has no place in a game that was built around emergent conflict and risk. When that kind of language is allowed to stand unchallenged, it normalizes hostility toward an entire segment of the backer community. This is dangerous, because it doesn’t just attack PvP players, it sets the precedent that any playstyle could be fair game for public vilification. Star Citizen was built to be a living universe with risk and opportunity, not a gated theme park where danger only happens on agreed upon terms. CIG has been clear about this in their Excessive Griefing & Stream Sniping post - https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/forum/1/thread/excessive-griefing-stream-sniping “For a majority of these matters, a PVP solution is preferable… We're not here to protect players from aggressors, pirates, and PVPers. A big part of Star Citizen is about that dichotomy.” Demonizing backers who engage in PvP by playing as pirates, bounty hunters or aggressors doesn’t improve the game. It just polarizes the community and diminishes opportunities for emergent conflicts that make Star Citizen feel alive. We should be uniting around a push for better mechanics and clearer expectations, not allowing Spectrum to devolve into a place where attacking a playstyle is normalized. If we don’t push back now, Spectrum risks becoming an echo chamber where entire playstyles are shamed out of existence.