Sorry, but "just because you don't see it doesn't mean it doesn't happen" isn't a great argument when you're talking about a faction in a game.
Furthermore, none of this was bashing, and I'm not saying =LSF= is "doing it wrong." Not sure where that came from.
In the end, I guess the take-home message from =LSF= shouldn't be "lol, we're already doing it, n00b" and something more along the lines of "maybe we're going about it wrong, even if 'doing' it right."
I'm not giving up on this idea since I don't really see how =LSF= "doing it right" should equate "doing it without anyone else knowing we do it."
That said, the =LSF= has some of the best message dumps in the game. They're always through and knowledgeable.
I dunno. I suppose removing the =LSF= tags on ships will help avoid metagaming, and thus the lolfleet ganking in Berlin (for example), but it does seem to be less planned out and more on-your-own basis. I'd love to be in the =LSF=, since that's the kind of stuff I like to do most in FL, but haven't really thought to apply to it.
If you guys swear to doing all this and more in-game, and that "doing it right" means I won't know about it, I guess I've got nothing to argue about and just have to trust you. It shouldn't be like that, but that's another debate not for here.