Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account

Re:Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account by acdha on Monday March 15, 2021 @11:47AM (#26467380)

I realize that you might want to view your friends in a positive light but what I wrote is an accurate description of GamerGate (A lot of us saw this unfold, too). “ethics in journalism” was their favored excuse but the real cause was always the seething hatred for feminists and women not knowing their place. They ignored contemporaneous real ethical issues and focused on known-inaccurate excuses for the continued hate mob - for example, you’re still repeating their claim that Zoe Quinn slept with Nathan Grayson for good reviews, despite him not reviewing her games – something easily verified for anyone who cared to check.

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Re:Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account by ReflectedImage on Monday March 15, 2021 @08:50PM (#26471535)

"despite him not reviewing her games" The people he directly managed wrote 2 reviews. Stop pushing a lie.

The issue here acdha is that you failed to check.

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Re:Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account by acdha on Monday March 15, 2021 @10:10PM (#26472067)

Dude, it’s been almost 7 years, full of widely-recognized dishonesty and bad faith arguments by GamerGaters and fellow travelers. What do you think you’re going to accomplish by trying a new variation of an old claim conspicuously made without any evidence? Do you really think anyone is going to believe it, much less say it excuses what happened?

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Re:Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account by ReflectedImage on Monday March 15, 2021 @10:27PM (#26472173)

No one at the time ever claimed that the articles didn't exist, as you could just read the articles in question.

It was a revisionist lie added 6 to 8 months after the events.

Since you didn't bother to read the articles, there were 2 seperate articles both about Indie games in general. They both had sections on Depression Quest and both used Depression Quest for all the article's images. One of them at the bottom had a single hashtag #DepressionQuest on it. Both written by Nathan Grayson's subordinates.

Obviously, this isn't any different than large publishers giving the gaming journalists huge sacks of money, which they do.

The problem was it escalated out of control into the gaming journalists writing hit pieces on the gaming community as part of their damage control.

I'm sorry acdha but 7 years ago you were duped by hit piece articles.

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