This was the last time I brought my team to the Taus to fight like this

[Jack_Henderson]

I do find it interesting that you did not respond to my point that you yourself have organized ganks and have even used the words "let's gank them" before. Not saying that's a bad thing, just seems a bit hypocritical when you damn others for doing such when you have done the same yourself.

As you seem to insist: Everybody has ganked before. And everybody has called "let's gank!" at some point. I would be surprised if you had not said that yourself before. I doubt I have ever brought a BS, 1 Razor insta Cruiser and multiple GBs to counter a snub force. Call me hypocritical if you think you must, but there are things I do not do.

With that said, I hope you see there is a difference in a quality of a gank. For example, if one side only has snubs that are slowly being killed off by superior forces, and the other side has roughly the same number of snubs and some gunboats, and then brings in an insta cruiser, so the gunboats can hug it (=> full immunity to the GB + free bots from insta kills), and then more gunboats, so the snubs can hug them (=> immunity for snubs), plus a battleship to block the quickdock point and disable station fire...

See the huge difference in quality between no-fun situations?
Experienced group pvpers will.

All I ask is you don't make a decision on behalf of others to not participate

I will not, and cannot forbid anybody to go to a fight.

But why would I encourage people to do something that will leave them frustrated with a very high probability?

Faction leaders have a responsibility for their players. Avoiding frustration for them by me having more experience at predicting likely outcomes is part of what I consider my responsibility.