Crazy_Tinker

Sad we will never see the completion of Kingdom Heartbreak (EDIT Heartache? my bad). I guess Ranking of Fighters will need a new intern now (just make sure they don't get paid, as wouldn't be fair to Ben otherwise...). Bens Lens won't be the same without Ben either... ;)

Best of luck Ben where ever life takes you next!

Well said

Exactly

The number of people saying good riddance and insulting to poster who respectfully said his peace and agrees with and supported Blackout Tuesday and Brads post is alarming and disappointing. I imagine I will get some similar sentiment for this post.

Those glad GB has "rooted people out" are missing the point that these people and their opinions still exist and now so many are piling on to say good riddance you are losing a chance to find any discourse with people, many may have common ground with your concerns. Is Giant Bomb a gaming site only for those with your views and only people who agree 100% with you? I am NOT saying keep politics out of GB, just that if you want to talk politics you have to be prepared to have people with somewhat different views discuss theirs too. Not many are engaging thoughtfully with the post which is sad. He isn't shouting white lives matter or blue lives matter.

He SAID: "I want major reform with the police forces in the US too. I support demilitarization of police, better and mandatory training (including on identifying bias), reform of corrupt unions, harsher accountability for officers that use force, and always-on body cameras, just to name a few things. I think all four officers involved in Mr Floyd's death belong in prison. Hell, I don't think police officers should even carry firearms.Systemic racism and subconscious biases are problems that need to be fixed now with real, actionable reform, but the comments I saw in the tweets are not the way. Generalizing people, whether it be based on race, religion, gender, or politics, will accomplish nothing" and most of the posters say good riddance bootlicker...?

Update: Seems some of the worst comments have been removed by mods (thank you for that mods) although some "good riddance" and "only my view is right and humane" and some implying he attacked Abbys right to free speech (when he explicitly did not, just stated his disagreement) still remains...

100% again

This 100%

This 100%

I am a GB subscriber and I was recently blocked by a GB staff member and am looking to the community to see if anything similar has happened to any others and constructive ways to handle the issue. I am not trying to attack GB staff, I just feel this is the most likely place I may find people with similar experiences.

To explain I went to click on one of the featured tweets listed on the home page of the site and found I was unable to view this as I was blocked by the staff member. I was very confused and frustrated by this as I am fairly confident I have never even sent any tweets to the staff member or even commented on any replies/comments to their tweets. I am not a regular or active user of twitter and I do not send or retweet anything particularly offensive or curse on my twitter account so it puzzles me what this happened for...

I am still feeling some frustration as a paid user and fan of the site I am unable to see tweets that the site is promoting. I am also disappointed that whatever "reasons" said staff had for blocking me must have been flimsy and I would think staff members who agree to perform a job in the public eye would not be so quick to pull the trigger on blocking followers who likely are a consumer and supporter of their employer.

I want to emphasize that I am not opposed to staff blocking users who are abusive or threatening from twitter, just disappointed in the lack of coherence in this case. I understand as twitter is a 3rd party app so it is not a simple issue (however the site DOES promote staff tweets on its main page so I feel my concern has some merit).

I understand many twitter users prefer an echo chamber but I guess I am just disappointed as I hoped for more from GB staff given their general tolerance and decision to conduct and promote and profit from twitter (I have seen from some paid promo type tweets from staff in the past and the staff would not have much following if not for their GB roles - not meant as denigration just my best guess).

Has anything similar happened to any other community members (be it with GB site or somewhere else)? I ask as it still bothers me to see said tweets on the site and at times has me ponder if I should reconsider my membership but I do not want to do anything out of the emotional frustration. Any constructive idea or sharing would be greatly appreciated (but please avoid saying "just get over it" as I am aware that is one possible destination but I have not been able to reach that place at this point in time).

@superkmx: Totally agree - lots of ways to be positive for much less cost (and much less social media attention, which is what this was clearly designed to do - social media attention does not make something better or more genuine than any other form of thanks). Also at the risk of being labelled negative by others for tarnishing their feel good moment with another perspective: Hello Games made some significant $ from this game and much of the work they did after was to overcome the initial public backlash (while some was inappropriate the game was a huge disappointment to most) so they could sell future games without complete ridicule (and not out of selfless love of their game's community).