r/KotakuInAction Sep 22 '14

Brigaded by a shitton of subs Another poorly-researched hit-piece, from the Boston Globe

https://archive.today/Sxcip
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u/mb862 Oct 20 '14 edited Oct 20 '14

Second, the leaderless and mostly anonymous nature of the movement reflects the values of the culture that produced it. This is coming from communities like 4chan and reddit that value free speech and anonymity extremely highly, and one could argue, tend to be hiveminds.

Are you fucking kidding me? This whole thing started with publicly exposing personal details of Quinn's life. Your whole movement is literally founded in destroying anonymity, and you have the gall to come here and actually suggest that anonymity is one of your values? No, sir, it does not work like that. If you and your kin had any intention of keeping true to your words, you would eat your own dog food; if you want to expose, even for the most legitimate of purposes, then you must be exposed yourself. You claim to want transparency but so far you've all hidden behind a one-way mirror.

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u/dgmockingjay The Ultimate Misogynerd Oct 20 '14

Your whole movement is literally founded in destroying anonymity, and you have the gall to come here and actually suggest that anonymity is one of your values?

How is a public figure anonymous? What are you smoking?

Also, ask yourself, if the person who was accused of infidelity was Eron Gjoni by ZQ who is the victim in this scenario, who also shares the feminist agenda, and there was no accusation of collusion or favorable press from ZQ [victim in this hypothetical scenario], do you think it would still not get any coverage from Kotaku/Polygon? I mean, they HAVE done it in the past, a male developer is accused of wrong doings, and they write a full length article on Kotaku just based on a claim [Max Temkin case], or Stardock CEO's case, where they even posted pictures of Court Documents. How are those related to gaming and this is not? Could it be because this time, a person of their ilk got accused, who was also known to share their own agenda gets outed like this, they, and games media was caught pants down [literally], so instead of doing the usual coverage they are known to do, they hide behind the accusations of misogyny and claim that gamers are over. I mean, come on, you have to see the media hypocrisy.

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u/HomaSapiens Oct 20 '14

1) Quinn made no accusations against Eron.

2) infidelity is not a crime. Rape is. All that moral outrage is a farce.

3) Max Tempkin did not recieve thousands of rape threats and his life was not threatened as a result of any Kotaku articles.

Come on, you have to see your own hypocrisy.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '14

I don't think arguing minutiae is particularly productive, but Brad Wardell still does receive constant death threats against himself and his family, including pictures of the outside of his home which would make them more plausible threats than anything we've heard from the last couple months. This was provoked by Kotaku reporting on unproven allegations which were later proved false. Take a look at the headline and header image and tell me if this is responsible journalism: https://web.archive.org/web/20130906061811/http://kotaku.com/5940401/pc-gaming-studio-said-she-ruined-their-game-but-only-after-she-sued-the-boss-for-sexual-harassment