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You forgot ethics in game journalism.

by rodgerd 11y ago

vonklaus 11y ago
People caring to much about bullshit like ethics in game journalism are missing the forest for the trees. Pleasing special interest groups in a massively diverse community isn't possible, that's why democracy is typically favored over this bullypulpit nonsense.
- tehwebguy 11y ago
  I think they were being sarcastic
  - rodgerd 11y ago
    Quite. It's like a sea lion colony in here.
- scrollaway 11y ago
  So what you're saying is "Caring about any single little/domain-specific problem is bad because there's war, cancer and starvation"? Fallacy of relative privation, much?
  - vonklaus 11y ago
    > begging the question but seriously, it was my snarky way of saying that: 1)Creating a system level heuristic to deal with types of problems is a more transparent, consistent and efficient way forward than simply tackling problems as they come up arbitrarily. 2)I am sick of this boys vs. girls/pc/whatever tropic bullshit, and the failure to enact a codified set of principals within reddit has allowed for groups with opposing views to discretely exert influence against one another. This murky climate lead to all sides entrenching and leveraging the influence they had acquired. >content has been sliding >doxxing has gone up >several of the largest sections of the site are literally closed down >community is faltering >no side wants to compromise tl;dr Flame wars are why this happened. Gaming is one of the stupid tropes that lead to this. I got #triggered.
    - scrollaway 11y ago
      Hey I think GG is pathetic, for a lot of reasons. But my previous job was at a games media company (and I'm still involved with them), and the stuff that goes on in games media is horribly incestuous. I mean yeah, bigger fish to fry and all that, but it's still a problem for a lot of people - other problems existing doesn't change that. I'm sure "we" could fix the bigger issue at large but who's "we"? Who's working on that, and why does it invalidate incestuous and unpublished conflicts of interest?
pron 11y ago
LOL (I think this is the first time I've ever written that word, but I really laughed this time). Well done! :) But hey, kids need to feel important too, and nothing gives you a sense of belonging as a manufactured conspiracy and a sense of persecution.
- Gigablah 11y ago
  > But hey, kids need to feel important too This is a basic emotional need, why are you mocking it?

You forgot ethics in game journalism.

by rodgerd 11y ago

You forgot ethics in game journalism.

People caring to much about bullshit like ethics in game journalism are missing the forest for the trees. Pleasing special interest groups in a massively diverse community isn't possible, that's why democracy is typically favored over this bullypulpit nonsense.

tehwebguy 11y ago
I think they were being sarcastic
- rodgerd 11y ago
  Quite. It's like a sea lion colony in here.
scrollaway 11y ago
So what you're saying is "Caring about any single little/domain-specific problem is bad because there's war, cancer and starvation"? Fallacy of relative privation, much?
- vonklaus 11y ago
  > begging the question but seriously, it was my snarky way of saying that: 1)Creating a system level heuristic to deal with types of problems is a more transparent, consistent and efficient way forward than simply tackling problems as they come up arbitrarily. 2)I am sick of this boys vs. girls/pc/whatever tropic bullshit, and the failure to enact a codified set of principals within reddit has allowed for groups with opposing views to discretely exert influence against one another. This murky climate lead to all sides entrenching and leveraging the influence they had acquired. >content has been sliding >doxxing has gone up >several of the largest sections of the site are literally closed down >community is faltering >no side wants to compromise tl;dr Flame wars are why this happened. Gaming is one of the stupid tropes that lead to this. I got #triggered.
  - scrollaway 11y ago
    Hey I think GG is pathetic, for a lot of reasons. But my previous job was at a games media company (and I'm still involved with them), and the stuff that goes on in games media is horribly incestuous. I mean yeah, bigger fish to fry and all that, but it's still a problem for a lot of people - other problems existing doesn't change that. I'm sure "we" could fix the bigger issue at large but who's "we"? Who's working on that, and why does it invalidate incestuous and unpublished conflicts of interest?

pron 11y ago

LOL (I think this is the first time I've ever written that word, but I really laughed this time). Well done! :) But hey, kids need to feel important too, and nothing gives you a sense of belonging as a manufactured conspiracy and a sense of persecution.

Gigablah 11y ago
> But hey, kids need to feel important too This is a basic emotional need, why are you mocking it?