God Emperor Baldur
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- Posted: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 07:21:16 +0000
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I should also point out, that regardless of the size of these idiots within whoever's definition of the community.
Don't make the mistake that GamerGate is actually about Journalistic integrity. It's not.
It's a 4chan/Reddit harassment operation. It's using "Journalistic Integrity" as a bait tag and shield to get people who would otherwise scorn them to support them and their efforts. The more legitimacy #Gamergate gets from normal people at large, the easier it is for them to slander and harass Quinn, place #Gamergate, and get everyone to believe that it was justified and ok, and then brag on places like r/redpill. And it's working.
The Gaming community, honestly doesn't care about review integrity because no one believes the reviews anyway. Reviews made their money from publishers paying them from good reviews more then they did from their readership. Everyone should have known this has been happening for at least 10 or more years.
Don't make the mistake that GamerGate is actually about Journalistic integrity. It's not.
It's a 4chan/Reddit harassment operation. It's using "Journalistic Integrity" as a bait tag and shield to get people who would otherwise scorn them to support them and their efforts. The more legitimacy #Gamergate gets from normal people at large, the easier it is for them to slander and harass Quinn, place #Gamergate, and get everyone to believe that it was justified and ok, and then brag on places like r/redpill. And it's working.
The Gaming community, honestly doesn't care about review integrity because no one believes the reviews anyway. Reviews made their money from publishers paying them from good reviews more then they did from their readership. Everyone should have known this has been happening for at least 10 or more years.
I think the best example was the sacking of Jeff Gertsmann.