What is Gamrgate???

[mornelithe]

Danman27 said:

mornelithe said:

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. 

Unfortunately, Women, Action Media's Report completely refutes and debunks this claim.  Try again.  In every area of the internet, you will find people willing to sling mud, this is well documented.  Youtube, News Sites, etc..  Twitter is no different.  People being assholes isn't a gaming problem, it's a people problem.  To claim an entire hashtag, or movement, is 'taken over' by X, when a few random tweets here and there (which can be posted by anyone), coming from sock puppet, or throw away accounts, or accounts from known internet trolls (aka, not aligned with anyone really, just out there to shit on people, aka Ayy Group, Baphomet etc...), is absurd.  Again, according to the WAM report, these instances of stupidity only account for an incredibly small percentage (less than 1%) of individuals/tweets, using the GG hashtag.

 Then again, critical analysis and discussion are considered 'mysogny' at this point, which is why many folks against GG, refuse to discuss it like adults.  Retreating instead, behind blockbots to be comfortable in their echo chambers.  Their complete absence from the SPJ Airplay event was quite embarrassing, especially since Lynn Walsh, who helped write the code of ethics, agreed that of the examples produced by the GG Panel, all 3 were clear ethics violations.

If you want my opinion, the thing that's being lost here is you have the general public reacting to what most of us who've been online for years have already known.  There are trolls everywhere, and the best recourse is to ignore the trolls, do not feed their desire to create strife.  It's what they do, it's what they want, their intent is to piss people off and sit back and watch the chaos.  On almost any forum, we're told to ignore the trolls and the mods will take care of it.  The problem here is it's difficult to moderate a social media system that allows anonymity, and any number of accounts.  Unless we somehow come to a worldwide agreement to end anonymity online, there's absolutely nothing that we can do to stop it.  The only solution is to identify, ignore and educate.  Identify the trolls, educate the masses, ignore the trolls, then hopefully a reasoned and thoughtful discussion on the issues can happen.  But slandoring an entire group of people (whether it's a particular gender, gamers, casuals, etc...) will never result in the outcome you're hoping for.