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Can we stop dragging gamergate into this? (Or might I suggest you read up on KotakuInAction on reddit and tell me how it is anywhere borderline close to this?)

acdha 12y ago
KotakuInAction is one of the major GamerGate organizing sites – that's like telling someone to go to the Scientologist Temple for opinions on Dianetics. … and, yes, it's rather relevant: GamerGate started with a bunch of people on 4chan attacking a stranger on social media at the behest of her ex-boyfriend but it escalated quickly to coordinated harassment on a bunch of different forms of electronic media and attempts to bring it close to home with real-world stalking at work & conferences, SWATing, etc. That's the problem here: the people who started it might have had no intention of anything beyond enjoying making someone else unhappy but they repeated things widely and loudly enough that other people fell for the cover story and escalated it further.
- reitanqild 12y ago
  > KotakuInAction is one of the major GamerGate organizing sites – that's like telling someone to go to the Scientologist Temple for opinions on Dianetics. The ideaisn't too bad in this particular case when the question is "what do gamergaters write?" : ) > repeated things widely and loudly enough that other people fell for the cover story and escalated it further. this reminds me of someone else.
- lake99 12y ago
  Quite the opposite, Zoe Quinn herself has been discovered to have played a role in SWATing her critics [1]. Incidentally, KotakuInAction has been featured elsewhere today [2]. I agree with your last sentence. [1] http://www.crimeandfederalism.com/2015/01/gamergate-swatting-and-zoe-quinn.html http://www.crimeandfederalism.com/2015/01/gamergate-swatting... [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/subredditoftheday/comments/2yb80x/march_8th_2015_rkotakuinaction_gaming_journalism/ https://www.reddit.com/r/subredditoftheday/comments/2yb80x/m...
  - chris_wot 12y ago
    Oh, go away! These links are hardly credible.
    - lake99 12y ago
      As opposed to the credible links you have provided?
      - chris_wot 12y ago
        I need to provide credible links to prove that someone didn't do something?
        lake99 12y ago
        How about shedding light on the matter with actual information rather than trying to score with empty rhetoric? I'm sorry if I'm asking for too much.
        reitanqild 12y ago
        Yep. If KiA isn't Subreddit of the day that should be easy to prove.
        chris_wot 12y ago
        What? He's providing the link to reddit to prove that Zoe Quinn called in a Swot team. The source is reliable for matters on Reddit, but that's not what we are discussing.
        reitanqild 12y ago
        NO! Now you start reading before making assumptions! SERIOUSLY: The reddit link is about KiA being subreddit-of-the-day. The other link is about the Swot[sic] team, and it is NOT on reddit. Now you wait until you are sober and/or ready to read before you comment : )
phpnode 12y ago
I do occasionally glance at KIA, and frankly it is terrifying. There are a lot of angry, naive people there.

acdha 12y ago

KotakuInAction is one of the major GamerGate organizing sites – that's like telling someone to go to the Scientologist Temple for opinions on Dianetics. … and, yes, it's rather relevant: GamerGate started with a bunch of people on 4chan attacking a stranger on social media at the behest of her ex-boyfriend but it escalated quickly to coordinated harassment on a bunch of different forms of electronic media and attempts to bring it close to home with real-world stalking at work & conferences, SWATing, etc. That's the problem here: the people who started it might have had no intention of anything beyond enjoying making someone else unhappy but they repeated things widely and loudly enough that other people fell for the cover story and escalated it further.

reitanqild 12y ago
> KotakuInAction is one of the major GamerGate organizing sites – that's like telling someone to go to the Scientologist Temple for opinions on Dianetics. The ideaisn't too bad in this particular case when the question is "what do gamergaters write?" : ) > repeated things widely and loudly enough that other people fell for the cover story and escalated it further. this reminds me of someone else.
lake99 12y ago
Quite the opposite, Zoe Quinn herself has been discovered to have played a role in SWATing her critics [1]. Incidentally, KotakuInAction has been featured elsewhere today [2]. I agree with your last sentence. [1] http://www.crimeandfederalism.com/2015/01/gamergate-swatting-and-zoe-quinn.html http://www.crimeandfederalism.com/2015/01/gamergate-swatting... [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/subredditoftheday/comments/2yb80x/march_8th_2015_rkotakuinaction_gaming_journalism/ https://www.reddit.com/r/subredditoftheday/comments/2yb80x/m...
- chris_wot 12y ago
  Oh, go away! These links are hardly credible.
  - lake99 12y ago
    As opposed to the credible links you have provided?
    - chris_wot 12y ago
      I need to provide credible links to prove that someone didn't do something?
      - lake99 12y ago
        How about shedding light on the matter with actual information rather than trying to score with empty rhetoric? I'm sorry if I'm asking for too much.
      - reitanqild 12y ago
        Yep. If KiA isn't Subreddit of the day that should be easy to prove.
        chris_wot 12y ago
        What? He's providing the link to reddit to prove that Zoe Quinn called in a Swot team. The source is reliable for matters on Reddit, but that's not what we are discussing.
        reitanqild 12y ago
        NO! Now you start reading before making assumptions! SERIOUSLY: The reddit link is about KiA being subreddit-of-the-day. The other link is about the Swot[sic] team, and it is NOT on reddit. Now you wait until you are sober and/or ready to read before you comment : )

phpnode 12y ago

I do occasionally glance at KIA, and frankly it is terrifying. There are a lot of angry, naive people there.