Gaming Journalism and Gamergate

[Heavy C4]

Someone has to make a thread. Might as well be me.

What do you think of the last 2 months of this never ending feces storm?

 

[Twewy]

I honestly hope the corruption in the gaming journalism industry is dealt with harshly. And the censorship on websites is disgusting. When websites such as TVTropes, Reddit, 4chan and Wikipedia are censoring discussion on the topic and adding almost complete bias, you know things are getting out of hand.

 

[Heavy C4]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlnY17pgYwg

The ever escalating shetstorm

 

[Lord of Boxes]

wait, aren't threads about controversial topics not allowed? I'm not trying to be a goody-2-shoes or anything, and I am very Pro-gg, But I don't want smashboards, this forum I just joined, to be brought into this mess. If we do get into this mess, Anti-GGers will try and make smash look sexist. we don't want that, right?


although it will be hilarious with thier logic of "WOMEN ARE IN THE GAME AND YOU GET TO BEAT THEM UP SO ITS SEXIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11!!!!!!"

 

[Lord Horatio]

Gamergate is festering on 4chan, and whatever it was meant to be has now become a torrent of death threats and more online harassment. Of course I'm for journalistic integrity, and I think that a lot of the things many social justice warriors believe are incorrect. but Gamergate has turned into a torrential mob and is doing some pretty heinous things now. I say we keep that crap off this site.

 

[LivewiresXe]

I'm not really going to get super into things, I'm just going to say I think it's probably safe to say we're a little more civilized than a bunch of crazy people sending out constant death threats, and might just be able to have a normal discussion about it like adults.

 

[Minato]

I'm usually ok with topics that can lead to discussion and debate but this topic's a bit iffy. It's especially because there's a lot of facts people are unaware of and that can spiral into worse things. I'm not sure the average SWF member actually knows the ins and out of Gamergate, and I don't want random posts of people not checking all the facts. Even though the topic isn't exactly active (which is also why I don't think the average SWF member knows about Gamergate), I feel like it's best to lock the topic to prevent anything gets bad or out of hand.

tl;dr Gamergate is dumb, and the world is focusing on an accusation that was already proven false yet ignore the facts. Thread is closed only because I'd rather not have the uninformed get things wrong from just a quick look up, and I don't trust people (not just SWF) can have a worthwhile discussion on it.