Are you entitled to win?

[Sebastian Nobles-Stirling]

And seeing as the topic has added ‘Ganking’ in to itself.
What is ‘Ganking’?
Is it when one side has more ships than the other?
Or is it when one side has bigger ships than the other?
Or the one than most people don’t seem to complain much about, both sides have an equal amount of ships and of equal composition – but one side has a few very good PvPers whereas the other side has average to below average PvPers?

Not everybody knows the other Players on the other side so it is very hard to decide which side is actually being ‘Ganked’. Looks can be deceiving.

In my experience, ganking has little or nothing to do with whether the two parties know each other. It has a lot, nay, almost everything, to do with intent. I would define a gank as the willful intent to make an encounter so foregone that the other side has no chance regardless of RP, skill or any other variable. You planned to kill them from the get-go, and they WILL die. Ganking doesn't allow for any other option.

A single merchie encountering 3 or 4 destroyers that logged in specifically to encounter it is a gank. That same merchie encountering a lone bomber, even with the same situation, is not.

Ganking, as opposed to qq, is not about RP or blues. it is about abusing another player (not character, player) for your own enjoyment. Whether you know them or not does not change the gank. The sad thing is, it is usually done within the scope of the rules, if not the intent. This is what the victim finds most frustrating, especially if they are new-ish.