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gamergate was not a thing till people decided to link two groups together. The second group is a group of assholes who like to harass women or really anyone on

by ksk 8y ago

gamergate was not a thing till people decided to link two groups together. The second group is a group of assholes who like to harass women or really anyone on the internet they don't like. Nobody is going to defend them here, and there isn't a way for the first group to NOT be linked with them since news articles keep linking the two for obvious sensational reasons. >Just for the record: GamerGate was 100% founded on harassing women. >Some well-meaning people have taken GamerGate's message at face value and been motivated to expose actual ethical issues. That's laudable, but doing it under the GamerGate banner devalues the entire message. You seem to have back pedaled from your original absurd claim. That's progress I guess. --- Its hard to find any neutral source that aggregates all the factual information. Does this website cover everything? Do you have an alternate source? http://thisisvideogames.com/gamergatewiki/index.php/Timeline/Full http://thisisvideogames.com/gamergatewiki/index.php/Timeline...

PhasmaFelis 8y ago
> You seem to have back pedaled from your original absurd claim. Not at all. The GamerGate movement began with people looking to punish Quinn for her infidelity, and people who already hated her game jumped on the bandwagon to invent conspiracy theories to explain why it was well-reviewed. These people jumped to the demonstrably false conclusion that she had traded sex for reviews, and that narrative, unfortunately, went mainstream, and caught the attention of people who legitimately cared about journalistic ethics and weren't aware of the previous facts. And that's still continuing--you see a lot of well-meaning people in this thread who are still not aware how much of the sex-for-reviews narrative and the GameJournoPros narrative are outright lies. > Its hard to find any neutral source that aggregates all the factual information. Does this website cover everything? Do you have an alternate source? That site may work as a timeline, but whatever your position, I think we can agree that GamerGate's own wiki is not an unbiased source.
- ksk 8y ago
  I don't believe that because someone holds a different point of view, they automatically lack integrity.

by ksk 8y ago

PhasmaFelis 8y ago

> You seem to have back pedaled from your original absurd claim. Not at all. The GamerGate movement began with people looking to punish Quinn for her infidelity, and people who already hated her game jumped on the bandwagon to invent conspiracy theories to explain why it was well-reviewed. These people jumped to the demonstrably false conclusion that she had traded sex for reviews, and that narrative, unfortunately, went mainstream, and caught the attention of people who legitimately cared about journalistic ethics and weren't aware of the previous facts. And that's still continuing--you see a lot of well-meaning people in this thread who are still not aware how much of the sex-for-reviews narrative and the GameJournoPros narrative are outright lies. > Its hard to find any neutral source that aggregates all the factual information. Does this website cover everything? Do you have an alternate source? That site may work as a timeline, but whatever your position, I think we can agree that GamerGate's own wiki is not an unbiased source.

ksk 8y ago
I don't believe that because someone holds a different point of view, they automatically lack integrity.