What is Gamrgate???

[Danman27]

mornelithe said:

Danman27 said:

Gamergate was a scandal where people argued that the dev of depressionquest (I think that's what it was called) had sex with reviewers in order to get good review score on her games. This was sparked when her ex-boyfriend, who she had just broken up with, took to reddit and claimed that she did this while they were dating. There was no evidence that this happened at all. The campaign was hijacked by mysoginists who hate women, and called for this dev to kill herself repeatedly. It made gamers look terrible, despite the fact that it was just a very loud, and very small minority of gamers. By the end of it, a lot of the people yelling weren't even gamers, just random terrible people that piggybacked off a perverted cause in order to yell at women. 

Correction: Quinn/Gjoni were part of the #Quinnspiracy, #Gamergate was adopted to separate that out, and focus solely on Grayson's (and other journalists) transgressions in this regard.  And no, it wasn't about review scores, because Grayson never gave it a review.  He referred to it positively on two separate occassions, while never disclosing his relationship (per Lynn Walsh of the SPJ, actual editors would never assign a person in a relationship or even a remote connection to a story, on said story, and she actually helped write the SPJ code of ethics which is recognized worldwide), he also failed to disclose financial contributions, and, last but not least, that his name appears in the credits of Depression Quest.

There were a lot of mysgonisistic and harrasing tweets in gamergate. That wasn't it's oringal purpose, arguably, but it was a movement that got hijacked by mysognists.