I'm grateful that Jeff and the staff addressed the issue but I wish they'd gone further to actually deflate gamergate rather than (essentially) denouncing harassment.

My ideal reply from Giant Bomb, and I've thought about this for a long time, would be that letter followed up with a video. A video of the GB editors listening to audio questions from GamerGaters and discussing them. These questions would be either (a) answering what they see a good end goal for GG to be. (b) what particular thing about games media concerns them. This could be restricted to just people that have been members (free or premium) longer than four months, keeping it to just GB community members.

One issue I have with the letter is it doesn't address the fact that not all GG folk are harassers; but nor does it explain how moderate GG folk help create an atmosphere that enables harassers to do the thing they love. I think a video addressing the concerns of people that genuinely seem to believe there are ethical issues to discuss, would either convince them that they're wrong, dispel anger around being silenced or at worst convince them GB isn't somewhere they trust and they can leave. I'm ok with all of these results. There's also a fourth option where GG convinces GB that there is something to clean up, in which case they end up with a respectable face with which to talk to other outlets.

I had intended to tag the staff in on this post, but I recognise it's a stupid idea that only I think would work so instead I'm going to leave it here as a release for my frustration with the way things are.