Distributed Denial of Service attack. Basically, you use a program to make millions of queries to the website which paralyses it.

I don't think you've spent enough time at pop forums. They can be just as toxic with person defending actors and pop stars more than they would their own child by attacking other users or movies/pop stars. Death threats, wishing someone will get cancer, wisher their children will get cancer, etc.

Internet will be internet.

For movies, the recent petition to take down RottenTomatoes because of the bad Suicide Squad score seems to fall in the same category as this attack on Jim's site (i.e. incredibly stupid things insecure people do when someone "attacks" the thing they love ).

Even assuming all communities are equally toxic, there's no reason not to aspire for a more educated and inclusive video game community. We shouldn't tolerate this immature bullying, no matter the medium.

What does that mean, exactly? What do you suggest we do? And will that have any effect on the way the video game community behaves?

This sounds like "thoughts and prayers" on facebook. They achieve nothing.

I say the less attention we pay to them, the better.

Actually i was surprised the score was that high. I read Jims rewiews once in a while and he is one of the critics that use the full 1-10 scale, so a 5 is quite literally mediocre. After reading it I expected him to give it more of 3-4 as he really seemed to dislike it.

Nothing to throw a tantrum over imo, but it being the first rewiew on metacritic puts this in a new light....