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Brad Glasgow over at GamePolitics.com did something unique when setting out to cover the gamergate movement, he asked people taking part in it questions rather than only their detractors.
I decided to run an experiment and see first-hand the difficulties one might encounter when covering an online movement. Rather than wait for GamerGate to come to us, I went to them. I joined their very popular Kotaku in Action (KiA) subreddit and interviewed several hundred GamerGate supporters from Tuesday, July 28 through Tuesday, August 4. It is my hope that what I learned will assist journalists with covering GamerGate and any similar movements in the future.
The Experiment
I asked one question on the KiA subreddit every 12 hours. The question was stickied (placed at the top in the most recognizable area) until I posted a new question. The new question was then stickied and they were given an additional 12 hours to submit replies to the old question and vote on their favorite answer. After I asked 7 questions I then asked 7 follow up questions on the final day.
The article was interesting enough but what I found hilarious was when he then tried to do a similar interview with the anti-gamergate types over at Gamer Ghazi, he was quickly banned.
I did experience some hostility from the anti-GamerGate side for covering GamerGate. While I was treated well by the people of GamerGhazi when I tried to speak with them, I was quickly banned by moderators, who said I have spent too much time posting on the GamerGate subreddit.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by lyserge on Thursday August 13 2015, @11:33AM
Because the mere act of being a prominent woman in the games industry shouldn't be akin to a mosh pit.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Arik on Thursday August 13 2015, @11:46AM
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by pe1rxq on Thursday August 13 2015, @01:52PM
Both sides are claiming the other side are bigotted assholes.
Both sides claim that acting like an asshole themselves is ok as long as you are targeting a bigot.
You appear to claim that acting like an asshole is ok as long as you are an equal opportunity asshole....
All I see is a lot of assholes and it looks like that particular industry is just sick.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 13 2015, @02:07PM
All I see is a lot of assholes and it looks like that particular industry is just sick.
I see assholes everywhere, too. Rancid assholes. My fetid little friend wants to have a word with them...
(Score: 4, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday August 13 2015, @12:00PM
You think someone who didn't invite themselves into this extremely volatile conversation either by their corruption or by actually taking part in said conversation was given a hard time? Who, pray?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 13 2015, @08:26PM
I'll tell you who: Zoe Quinn. Even if she was an admitted doxer and harraser herself, overcomming her "helldump* addiction" (*a Something Awful doxing and harssing forum), and even if she used her media ties to shut down a feminist charity that sought to get girls involved in gamedev (which gamergate "supporters" later funded), and even if she reveled in her media palls raiding and harassing WizardChan (a site for men suffering from extreme socially anxiety) on her behalf (to get ZQ more damsel-in-distress attention after a failed attempt to get her Interactive Fiction on steam [instead of existing I.F. sites, which no one mentions exist]), and even if all the news outlets were running questionably ethical "Depression Quest Released in the Wake of Robin Williams Suicide" using the actor's death to boost visibility -- SHE DID NOT DESERVE ANY CRITICISM. (note I didn't even mention "sex for favors" here).
You know who else? Brianna Wu. Even if she forgot to log out before posting a harassing message to herself, as herself. SHE DID NOT DESERVE THIS HARASSMENT. Shame on whomever harasses themselves, the perpetrators should be punished severely!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by kurenai.tsubasa on Thursday August 13 2015, @08:56PM
Zoe Quinn, Brianna Wu, and Anita Sarkeesian are the only women in the games industry? And they're all perfect little angels who would never ever do anything to provoke anyone else, so if somebody has an issue with one of them, that person must be a misogynerd, right?
Look, I don't give that much of a shit about gamergate. I was worried at the beginning because I wasn't certain whether it'd be used to strong-arm video game publishers into doing some things I recall hearing about years and years ago like preventing anybody who is legally male from selecting a female avatar. Gamergate has become such of a confused shitstom I don't think I have anything to worry about.
I really only give a shit about Brianna Wu because she is such an awful hypocrite and some of the things she does make me feel ashamed to be in the same demographic as her! Over on the other site, at least two other regulars who are trans women expressed the same sentiment as well, so I am not alone in feeling that way.
Ok, pet peeve. If Wu wants to complain about hypersexualization of women in games, she would make a good start to apologize for basing her own character design off of Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball! Her attitudes about other trans women and who is even allowed to speak about trans issues are deplorable. The pinnacle of her hypocrisy is any time she utters the word privilege. She is a spoiled brat who will never know what the average trans woman's struggles are or the struggles of somebody raised by a single parent in the ghetto for example, and she is so privileged she has the privilege of being unaware of her privilege.
Yes, I am being “toxic.” I hope my pseudo-resignation comment on the other site made her break down and sob uncontrollably for hours (yes, I know she won't because she's a sociopath), not because she's a woman, not because she's transgendered, but because she is simply a shining example of self-delusional hypocrisy. That woman has no right to be a poster child for online or sexual harassment.
Yet the mainstream media has Spoken, and I'm supposed to believe their rubbish Narrative? Whatever. I guess I'll just be proud to be a misogynerd and a traitor to my own demographic if that's what the Narrative has Decreed.
Ah, Star Citizen is finally done updating! Off to have some misogynerd fun!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 13 2015, @09:02PM
> I hope my pseudo-resignation comment on the other site made her break down and sob uncontrollably for hours (yes, I know she won't because she's a sociopath)
You have issues.