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Gamergate is not going away, not any time soon, so even if media reports were accurate, that would not mean to me that we should compromise on our principles of quality and neutrality in response to a forced narrative My point here is not to say that there is nothing wrong with the consumer revolt I actually think it needs a fair amount of work. But I want you and others to understand that misrepresenting people is not helpful I've recently seen Wikipedia talk pages in which people who are - and I don't know how else to put it - vicious assholes - are misusing Wikipedia's mechanisms to attack the good intentions of volunteers. It is very difficult for me to buy into the notion that Wikipedia is "really about creating a tree encyclopedia" when every single experience I have personally had with it involved admins and editors reverting, locking, banning, etc No, not all editors. But there's a huge contingent to the extent that for good people - and I respect your letter and assume good faith that you are a good person - the name "Wikipedia" is toxic Even if 90% of the supporters are good and 10% are bad, the bad are poisoning the message for everyone. That's not an evaluation of right and wrong, just an observation of a clear fact. You see, a big part of the problem is that Wikipedia is not an encyclopedia, but a wiki. And so there is literaly no way to have any quality control of any kind. There is no way to see what is or is not a biased position in a Wikipedia article I have had several people over the past weeks say to me lt is not about wiki bureaucracy. I was prepared to believe that. But discussions usually very quickly move to edit wars in which double standards are used and the rules are applied in a one-sided way. That's sick The contingent of people who are interested in writing objective articles and to eliminate bias need an actual organization- with a mission statement, with a board of directors, with elected people who represent the encyclopedia. Barring that, you should very much expect the media to continue to accurately report that the Wikipedia community is associated with edit wars, hidden agendas and conflict of interests. But actually, in fact, it is I know that may pain you to hear. You thought you were taking part in a movement that would be about creating a free encyclopedia. A movement that would stand for the right to objective truth of all users That would welcome everybody into the world of knowledge and would shame those who would engage in selling lies as the truth. I admire all of those things But Wikipedia has been permanently tarnished and hijacked by a handful of people who are not what you would hope You might not be the person to enable it. I don't know who is. But I strongly recommend that someone organize an "editor's union" of sorts, with a real mission statement, with real rules, with real organization and leadership Wikipedia's failed autocracy is getting you nowhere, particularly for the reasons I have outlined in this note -A Gamergate Leader

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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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