It's shameful that after more than a year, this site still can't commit to a hardline stance against Gamergate, which is unequivocally a hate group formed directly as a result of the Zoepost, in all its forms, especially in its own community, your own backyard. Good people have been bullied out of the community because their posts get flagged by shit-stirring GG'ers and they automatically get suspended, and it just stands because it's easier not to rock the boat too much. It's shameful that Neogaf, an enthusiast-run forum where people still argue about review scores every damn day, has better and stricter moderation against bigotry in all its forms.
You're sticking your head in the sand on this and it's cowardly. I know you're better than this. Make an effort. Posting the news story isn't enough if you're gonna let your community just go to shit like this.
Disagreeing with your political stances is not "bigotry." Censoring opinions that do not agree with yours is not "moderation." You don't have the right to walk through life unoffended and unchallenged and you cheapen words like bigotry and racism and sexism when you throw them around like punctuation to your opinions.
Gamergate is no more a hate group than anti-gamergate is. Both sides have bad apples in equal distribution that are doing harm to all of us, just because you agree with one side or the other doesn't white wash what those people do in the name of the opinion you agree with. Just blasting an angry opinion onto this comment section like this does nothing to further a dialogue or even a debate where common ground can be found to resolve this rift in the gaming community. I know you're coming from a place where you honestly think you're doing good and I would hope that you could acknowledge that people like me are also coming from a place of doing good because that's the first step to ever fixing this mess.
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