Some players believe they are ip scouted and actively screwed with or passed over for rewards, so they make claims that they can never be rewarded.
It's been proven that the imms tend to give most every char a fresh start though, and people have been rewarded by baer (or punished by others and just blamed baer falsely) for playing good characters, even if they are players that don't always get along with her.
But when some players that exhibit the same style/tendencies that get them passed over for rewards or punished by the imms (be it for for whatever craptastic moves they pull in the game) they pull the conspiracy card or the it' not me it's them card. Rather than address their own approach, they rail against the imms. Which is silly.
Honestly, if those players tried a different approach to CF, they might find themselves getting those things they thought they never would. CF is very much a get out what you put into it. But when all you put in is PK whoring, OOC bitching, and general things that fall in the realm of douchebaggery, what can you really expect to get in return.
You don't have to be an imm puppet to get rewards.
You just have to not be a dick for the most part.
But for some people, that's just asking too much in a PVP game where winning is everything.