The Next Chapter – moot retires from 4chan

Re:The Next Chapter – moot retires from 4chan by Uhhrrr on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @05:17PM (#8926175)

The initial scandal was that Nathan Grayson had been friends with the relatively unknown developer of Depression Quest for a long time, to the point of getting thanked in the credits of the game. He then plugged it, here:

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/01/08/admission-quest-v...

And also covered her here:

http://tmi.kotaku.com/the-indie-game-reality-tv-show-that-we...

...without disclosing the relationship. Which could have been resolved with a simple apology and adding disclosure to the articles, but several major game sites instead responded with such a storm of ridiculous charges that game journalism was instantly sullied even more than it already was.

Because of this, GamerGate has been poorly covered in most game sites and rags like TechCrunch, so it's not surprising that you hadn't heard of this.

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Re:The Next Chapter – moot retires from 4chan by smasuch on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @06:19PM (#8926468)

The initial scandal was Zoe Quinn's ex posting a long rambling screed about his breakup, designed to get people to attack her. http://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/the-man-who-sparked-...

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Re:The Next Chapter – moot retires from 4chan by Uhhrrr on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @06:55PM (#8926628)

Direct link: https://thezoepost.wordpress.com/ Yes, this is what first implicated Grayson. I'd say its primary purpose was to get people to avoid her, but any interested parties can read the whole thing.

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Re:The Next Chapter – moot retires from 4chan by devindotcom on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @06:55PM (#8926625)

Exactly: no scandal.

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Re:The Next Chapter – moot retires from 4chan by pervycreeper on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @07:58PM (#8926855)

Dr. Greg Lisby on this topic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_lzjvu24a8

Very clearly what occurred was a major violation of ethics.

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Re:The Next Chapter – moot retires from 4chan by Uhhrrr on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @08:01PM (#8926868)

I would say not disclosing something that's clearly a potential conflict of interest is scandalous. That Devin, a writer for TechCrunch disagrees is... interesting. Illustrative.

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Re:The Next Chapter – moot retires from 4chan by ANTSANTS on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @08:48PM (#8927042)

It's pretty sad how all it took was time and a thin coat of feminist paint for HN to forget how corrupt and morally bankrupt these clickbait "journalists" are.

http://www.realdanlyons.com/blog/2012/02/13/hit-men-click-wh...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3587730

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Re:The Next Chapter – moot retires from 4chan by devindotcom on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @08:31PM (#8926978)

I'm glad my position has been instructive!

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Re:The Next Chapter – moot retires from 4chan by brymaster on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @08:36PM (#8926992)

The amount of cognitive dissonance you practice is astounding.

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