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I think calling it "corrupted by misogyny" is a bit misleading. As far as I can tell, it is as pure and uncompromising in its misogyny as ever, the journalism t

I think calling it "corrupted by misogyny" is a bit misleading. As far as I can tell, it is as pure and uncompromising in its misogyny as ever, the journalism thing has been a smokescreen from the beginning.

JayOtter 12y ago
I was trying to be a little bit neutral but...yeah, I think you're probably correct.
sp332 12y ago
It's a bunch of things thrown together. http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4395 http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4395 "If you witness a group of issues, some relevant and some irrelevant, you will feel a need to respond to the relevant issues. If you witness someone responding to the relevant issues of the group, you will think they are responding to the group of issues. The exploit, taken from this, is then clear: Group up a bunch of issues (Apples, Oranges, Watermelons, Rat Poison) and then people who show concern about the Rat Poison will seem to be showing concern on Apples and Oranges. And people who are supporting Apples and Oranges could easily be mistaken for supporters of Rat Poison."
- ben0x539 12y ago
  It's a bunch of things thrown together in a carefully calculated scheme to cover up an organized harassment campaign targeting women in the videogames industry. I appreciate that there's some decent people getting mixed up in a 4chan project with no ill intentions of their own, but that's not where the whole thing started.
  - Dylan16807 12y ago
    From what I've seen it's a giant mess and not intentionally organized that way at all. And yeah it started off in the worst way possible, so 'giant mess' is an improvement but not very good.
    - ben0x539 12y ago
      From the beginning it has been an astroturfing op "orchestrated" by some geniuses at 4chan. An irc channel central to the movement is named after a sexist catchphrase from the rant of the bitter ex-boyfriend of their first target. Logs from that channel have been publicly posted. There's no doubts about this.
    - Erwin 12y ago
      Look at this post in the subreddit, that seems organized to me: https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/2jb6q5/boycott_up_wednesday_10152014_kotaku_week_target/ https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/2jb6q5/boyc... Contains: a promotional poster of "boycott of the day", a pastebin full of "sample letters to use", a list of email addresses and twitter names to contact and talkint points when attempting to make Blizzard stop advertising at Kotaku, a site which is apparently "anti-gamer-gate".

JayOtter 12y ago

I was trying to be a little bit neutral but...yeah, I think you're probably correct.

sp332 12y ago

It's a bunch of things thrown together. http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4395 http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4395 "If you witness a group of issues, some relevant and some irrelevant, you will feel a need to respond to the relevant issues. If you witness someone responding to the relevant issues of the group, you will think they are responding to the group of issues. The exploit, taken from this, is then clear: Group up a bunch of issues (Apples, Oranges, Watermelons, Rat Poison) and then people who show concern about the Rat Poison will seem to be showing concern on Apples and Oranges. And people who are supporting Apples and Oranges could easily be mistaken for supporters of Rat Poison."

ben0x539 12y ago
It's a bunch of things thrown together in a carefully calculated scheme to cover up an organized harassment campaign targeting women in the videogames industry. I appreciate that there's some decent people getting mixed up in a 4chan project with no ill intentions of their own, but that's not where the whole thing started.
- Dylan16807 12y ago
  From what I've seen it's a giant mess and not intentionally organized that way at all. And yeah it started off in the worst way possible, so 'giant mess' is an improvement but not very good.
  - ben0x539 12y ago
    From the beginning it has been an astroturfing op "orchestrated" by some geniuses at 4chan. An irc channel central to the movement is named after a sexist catchphrase from the rant of the bitter ex-boyfriend of their first target. Logs from that channel have been publicly posted. There's no doubts about this.
  - Erwin 12y ago
    Look at this post in the subreddit, that seems organized to me: https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/2jb6q5/boycott_up_wednesday_10152014_kotaku_week_target/ https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/2jb6q5/boyc... Contains: a promotional poster of "boycott of the day", a pastebin full of "sample letters to use", a list of email addresses and twitter names to contact and talkint points when attempting to make Blizzard stop advertising at Kotaku, a site which is apparently "anti-gamer-gate".