Yet Another Developer Leaves Their Home Following Harassment

@rangers517: I would implore you to look a little deeper than what you've just said. Think long and hard whether or not the kinds of critiques and pieces you're talking about actually pose any real threat to gaming. Whether the "main audience" of those sites is somehow negatively impacted by viewpoints that exist outside of their current comfort zone. Whether or not wondering "why you should care" is really where you should be stopping yourself in this conversation. Maybe the reason these perspectives are starting to flourish in greater volume is because some of us out there think they're worth hearing. Maybe in the end, this isn't about erasing your own perspective so much as it is about expanding beyond what's already been there. I promise you, there will always be sites that write about games the way you want to hear about them. Getting annoyed that others are coming in and taking the conversation in new directions maybe shouldn't be your default response. It doesn't have to be a threat. It can just be change.

Oh good. This thread is active. Or is that bad? Either way, with the way things have developed today things are gonna get real ugly real soon. Please don't be a jerk and if you see someone be a jerk, call them out on being a jerk. They might not realize they are being jerks.
Also a well deserved pat on the back for Rorie and the mods for actually keeping this place moderated. Just got back from some other areas of the internet where it's like if the Hindenburg and Titanic have crashed in mid air and then dropped on the Exxon Valdez.

Alex speaks truth, man!

I loved what he had to say with it on Bombin on the AM this week. And it's true.

@bradbrains: No certainly not.....there's still a chance for #Foodiegate !

Let's all get mad at the fact that non-gaming news sites claims "gaming is dead".

Hey, we have a chat starting up and I'd like to devote our moderation efforts there. I'll unlock this thread tonight or tomorrow morning.

But here is where I get confused. Site traffic data and twitter data seem to suggest that this is a populist movement against journalists. It seems to me, outside looking in, that people are annoyed by the lack of disclosure. Articles like this, where Patrick presumes that GG is responsible for the threats, and articles where the is no disclosure about pre-existing bias is the problem. I don't care for these opinion pieces, but appreciate they exist. But they should exist without resorting to duplicity.

This "news article" by Patrick is a perfect example of that duplicity in that there is no actual news here; only gossip and hearsay. The only fact in the article is that Ms. Wu was threatened. We don't really know anything else. Misrepresentations hurt consumers and poor disclosure looks suspicious. Even if all the reporting is true, without proper disclosure, is it any wonder people are upset with outlets like Kotaku? And to further the narrative, sites (this one included) make/made the topic off-limits.

To me, the whole thing seems like a conflation of what has really occurred, coupled with very poor damage control. Indeed, this could and should have been over in a week; the fact that it has been so poorly handled by the media is shocking. Look at the JournoList Scandal for an example of effective damage control; a couple writers got sacked, some policies got changed and the whole matter disappeared.