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Archon 38353 POSTED: 1 November 2014 2:45 pm | POST | QUOTE General Manager& Publisher Hello,forum contributors Over the past week, there has been an increasing amount of hostility towards the moderators and code of conduct in this thread. Leaving aside the unpleasantness of this, publicly airing grievances about the moderation or the rules goes against Escapist forum policy. More than a few of you have been warned about this before. Posts have been getting progressively worse over the last few days, until it reached the point where these sorts of comments began to disrupt the discussion. This culminated in the posting of the following image Posts: 1010 Joined: 12 Nov 2002 i.imgur.com/Duz This thread was locked while the moderators and staff discussed how to handle the situation. We have decided to re-open the thread after this cool-down period. Please be advised that if the conversation steers back into hostility towards the moderators or the site it will be re-locked. As consumers, you have access to a wide variety of forums on the internet where you are allowed to say terrible things about The Escapist. However, The Escapist forums are not one of them. I do not think this is an unreasonable rule. In any event, it IS the rule. Finally, with regard to the image circulating above, I personally reviewed hundreds of posts on Brovengers. I saw no evidence of conspiracy and no evidence of raids. What I did see were grumbling by some moderators who have had to deal with the most-stressful crisis to strike gaming in recent memory, and some complaints about the way we moved the threads to R&P without notifying them - most of the mods agreed with the posters here that the threads should have stayed put or been given their own sub-forum. This hardly constitutes grounds for a villainous conspiracy against you. And I say this as an expert in villainy. Archon

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Gamergate (harassment campaign) Article Talk From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For other uses, see Gamergate (disambiguation). Gamergate or GamerGate (GG)[¹] was a loosely organized misogynistic online harassment campaign and a right-wing backlash against feminism, diversity, and progressivism in video game culture. [2][³] It was conducted using the hashtag "#Gamergate" primarily in 2014 and 2015.[1][4][5][6] Beginning in August 2014, Gamergate targeted women in the video game industry, most notably feminist media critic Anita Sarkeesian and video game developers Zoë Quinn and Brianna Wu, among others.[7][8][9][10][11] The harassment campaign included doxing, r--- threats, and death threats.[12][13][14] Gamergate proponents ("Gamergaters") stated that they were a social movement, but lacked well-defined goals, a coherent message, and leaders, making Gamergate difficult to define.[15][16][17] Gamergaters claimed to promote ethics in video games journalism, claimed to be protecting the "gamer" identity, and opposed what they asserted as "political correctness" in video games.[18][19][20][21][22] Read Date Target Gamergate, online harassment campaign in 2014-15 that targeted women in the video game industry. The attacks were attributed largely to white male right-wing gamers who railed against the rise and influence of women and feminism in the industry. Gamergate served as a recruiting tool for the growing alt-right movement and helped spur the online “Pizzagate" conspiracy theory, which soon spawned the wider QAnon conspiracy movement. …………………………....…..……….…..... Attack type Victims Motive View source Inquiry XA 28 languages ✓ Perpetrators Internet trolls, particularly from 4chan, Internet Relay Chat, and 8chan View history Tools ✓ Gamergate August 2014 - 2015 Women in the video game industry See all media Online harassment campaign Zoë Quinn, Anita Sarkeesian, Brianna Wu, and others Gamergaters created conspiracy theories falsely accusing Quinn of an unethical relationship with video game journalist Nathan Grayson.[23][24][25] More broadly, they alleged unethical collusion between the press and feminists, progressives, and social critics.[17][26] [27] These claims were widely dismissed as trivial, conspiracy theories, baseless, or unrelated to actual issues of ethics in gaming and journalism.[28] [29][30] Gamergate supporters frequently denied that the harassment took place, falsely claiming it to be manufactured by the victims.[31][32] Misogyny anti-feminism anti- progressivism FBI investigation Gamergate has been described as a culture war over cultural diversification, artistic recognition, feminism in video games, social criticism in video games, and the social identity of gamers.[28][33] [34] [35] Many supporters of Gamergate opposed the increasing influence of feminism and so-called "social justice warriors" on video game culture. [2][36] Gamergate led figures both inside and outside the gaming industry to focus on methods of addressing online harassment, ways to minimize harm, and prevent similar events. [37] [38] [39] [40] Gamergate has been viewed as a contributor to the alt-right and other right- wing movements.[21][41] Video game developer Brianna Wu
Jalen Hutchinson Studied Culinary Science at Culinary Institute of America (Graduated 2014). Author has 304 answers and 740.1K answer views. 5y Not that I care that much either way, but it did expose a lot of corrupt game developers and game journalists. X Journalists would make claims of people like Anita Sarkeesian "playing video games all her life" when she openly admitted many times she is not a gamer and only starter recently (when it wasn't for an interview). Various developers trading sex or money for good reviews got exposed, journalists who accepted got exposed. People became a bit more critical about supporting a game just because the developer has a victim complex stating tat their game could have only failed because of sexism, instead of their own poor developing skills. What really sealed the deal was opposition often faking their own harassment. Anita sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn have been caught multiple times screenshotting "harassment" while showing that the harrasser's account name in the login. Or when someone called the police to help Sarkeesian against a "very real threat" she was posting about, only for police to find the harasser's messages were coming from her IP address. I just want honesty from the community, and the lies were mostly exposed by the "dreaded" gamergate. 1.3K views • View upvotes 26
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Well, pretty much all forums have groups like that whether they're on the forum in question or a skype group. I mean they're a moderator team on a forum. That isn't surprising. I'm not saying such a team can't collude against a user or users, I'm just saying the fact that there's such a group doesn't mean a banned user is being teamed up on.

Had a bit of experience with someone I know on another forum repeatedly and intentionally skirting the line of rules on the forum, and doing things that while not against the rules clearly was an inconvenient annoyance to the mods. Every time they got an infraction or ban they'd whine to everyone else that they didn't do anything and the mods/admins were just teaming up on them when I had watched them pretty much poking the mods with their behavior and spouting crap about why the mods banned them…in a skype chat the mods of that forum were also in.

My end point being, take this with a grain of salt. I'm sure that group exists, but that doesn't mean its for anything sinister.

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