The harassment HAS only gone in one direction, from misogynist nutjobs towards any woman that expresses an opinion about games
Lemming
Lemming
The harassment has been prominent in the last two months surrounded the GamerGate issue yes, I'm refuting the assertion that it's born of GamerGate. Your entire comment could apply to those against the tag, you know that right? Or are you saying harassment is OK as long as its in a single direction? Because I doubt…
That was the Dorito Pope. Not Blizzard. Watch the video dipshit. He went bug-eyed when GG was mentioned.
No #GamerGate tag, dipshit.
He didn't identify it as the Gamergate saga and everything that has happened around it, but come on: we all know what he was talking about, right?
It's not super clear, but the ethics policies of both Kotaku and Polygon were in this paragraph:
As an aside, of the Escapist interviews, 'Oakheart' is the one that I would closely align myself with.
I'm going to assume you genuinely don't know and aren't just being wilfully ignorant for point scoring.
Everything you've written is answered fully right here without me having to retype it out. I suggest you study up:
By trying to use ad revenue to influence journalistic outlets, GG is doing the exact opposite of what it claims.
The point: Complaining to advertisers is a legitimate consumer activist method. Gawker were ok with it until it was them.
She was talking about the cesspool of self-obsessed child rapists that have come to dominate "gamer culture" -
the idea that they were a joke is undermined by the fact there were two tweets and encouraging responses from a senior. For the same reason, the 'gamers are dead' articles being 'not what you think guys, honest!' is undermined by being defended a month post-publish and a phonebook-thick collection of vitriolic tweets…
There have been Gamergate campaigns to contact our advertisers for weeks, mostly due to Luke's "we could be witnessing the death of an identity" piece linked to above.
Its all sort of undermined by those above you, Stephen. If your bosses are saying one thing, and you the other, it doesn't really help much.
Let me paint you a picture:
Agreed, and I've been guilty of using the term myself. A consumer-revolt using a hashtag to convey their concern is not a movement, political alignment or ideology. Most of the people who've used the hashtag consider themselves progressives.
the 'organised harassment' as you put it began when she started getting YT videos pulled, before that the story was still very much focused on why the journalists weren't covering the story., and every roadblock was deemed as evidence that the developer was immune to criticism, fuelling the suspicion of nepotism.
And if it was actually about ethics in video game journalism, it would have started a long time before Zoe Quinn made an indie game for a novel concept.