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Does Adam Baldwin seriously just think this is a disagreement about opinions? Like, he can't be that stupid, right?
Did he seriously just go "you deserve it if it happens"?
I am wrestling with a severe bout of cynicism after reading tweets from gamergate people (directed at me and directed at nothing in particular) that all seem to echo the same response: you can't blame the entire movement for a few bad people.
You know what would be cool? Getting back my member status. Especially as people like SETH ROGAN are talking out about this shit.
Maybe you mean GerstmannGate? The only VideoGate worthy of being a _Gate?
There is literally nothing even tangentially related to video games worthy of a _gate.
That's the bonkersest part of this whole thing. #gamergate is so many millions of times removed from any stakes worth a shit, it's completely baffling that they escalate to terrorism like they do.
Like... even IF all of the allegations about Zoe Quinn were true: so fucking what? Hypothetically, some small number of people were "duped" into downloading and playing a game that cost them zero dollars... Sarkeesian has neither the power to nor the interest in actually affecting "censorship" of games. At the most, her videos maybe convince some developers to consider their scripts somewhat differently--which, as we've seen in the Last of Us, works out pretty damn well qua the world having more quality games.
Here is some advice of what to do if you receive a death threat via Twitter or email. I give this from the position of someone who received death threats on a monthly basis, of varying degrees and is as of yet, not actually dead. Unfortunately, any kind of online presence comes with it the possibility that someone will do something stupid. It can be for any reason, even the most innocuous. It can be for no reason at all. People act in ways online they never would in real life and way exactly that is is not yet fully understood. Here's what we haven't done however.
Do not publicize the threat. This is advice given by law enforcement agencies for a couple of reasons. There is no actual benefit to publicizing the threat. People online can't protect you if the threat is real, telling them serves no practical purpose. If the threat is real, then it is designed to terrify you, by posting the threat and acknowledging it publicly, you hand victory to the person who sent it. If it is merely a stupid troll, then once again you hand victory to them by giving them attention. The only reliable way to deal with unpleasant people online is to starve them of oxygen and the attention they crave.
You should start one. If I used twitter, I'd totally join you.I still see a lot of people that treat #gamergate as synonymous with 'gamers' so every time someone says they are against #gamergate they react like people are against gamers. I hate this. We are all gamers.
I wish the tag had been, I dunno, #GamersAgainstGamerGate or something. I'm such a huge gamer, always have been, always will be, and the single thing making me not like 'gamer culture' right now IS gamergate.
Total Biscuit's latest take.
I get what he's saying, but I feel like it's far too late to take the "ignore them and they'll go away" approach. The toxicity has grown to an unstable level, especially with people like Milo and Adam Baldwin continuing to feed the beast.
Total Biscuit's latest take.
Here is some advice of what to do if you receive a death threat via Twitter or email. I give this from the position of someone who received death threats on a monthly basis, of varying degrees and is as of yet, not actually dead. Unfortunately, any kind of online presence comes with it the possibility that someone will do something stupid. It can be for any reason, even the most innocuous. It can be for no reason at all. People act in ways online they never would in real life and way exactly that is is not yet fully understood. Here's what we haven't done however.
Do not publicize the threat. This is advice given by law enforcement agencies for a couple of reasons. There is no actual benefit to publicizing the threat. People online can't protect you if the threat is real, telling them serves no practical purpose. If the threat is real, then it is designed to terrify you, by posting the threat and acknowledging it publicly, you hand victory to the person who sent it. If it is merely a stupid troll, then once again you hand victory to them by giving them attention. The only reliable way to deal with unpleasant people online is to starve them of oxygen and the attention they crave.
Does Adam Baldwin seriously just think this is a disagreement about opinions? Like, he can't be that stupid, right?
Did he seriously just go "you deserve it if it happens"?
No one likes the bully. But no one likes the victim either.Second, the whole "suffer in silence cause nobody wants to hear about it" is getting old.
Does Adam Baldwin seriously just think this is a disagreement about opinions? Like, he can't be that stupid, right?
Did he seriously just go "you deserve it if it happens"?
Dude, let it go. It was a dumb move to make a thread complaining about the mods locking your other #GG thread and I don't think posts like these help your case.You know what would be cool? Getting back my member status. Especially as people like SETH ROGAN are talking out about this shit.
I'm not saying all of you are harassing women or consciously supporting harassment and death threats, but you're feeding in to a movement and culture that does. You're giving it your sign off and allowing them to use your name and existence to bolster the evil that they choose to do. The #NotYourShield campaign was amusing, because I don't think you guys realize it, but you are their shield.
When people say you can't blame the entire movement for the few bad people, it's like saying you can't blame the sword for what the tip of it did.
Adam's a piece of shit. More as it develops...
Law Enforcement. I figure it's the same old noise of "Cops would tell you to not publicize threats", so people who do talk about them are making them up/aren't really afraid/whatever the latest smear is.Seems like it. And what the hell did Baldwin mean by "LE" in that tweet?
"I get death threats every month"
"they go away if you don't give them attention"
I see, I see.
Total Biscuit's latest take.
I get what he's saying, but I feel like it's far too late to take the "ignore them and they'll go away" approach. The toxicity has grown to an unstable level, especially with people like Milo and Adam Baldwin continuing to feed the beast.
Law Enforcement. I figure it's the same old noise of "Cops would tell you to not publicize threats", so people who do talk about them are making them up/aren't really afraid/whatever the latest smear is.
First, the reason "People act in ways online they never would in real life" is that people have somehow convinced themselves it's not "real life." It is real life, the people you are talking to are real living people. The whole internet is not real life needs to go away. It's completely real. All this does is dehumanize other people, which is the exact opposite such a huge means of communication should do.
Second, the whole "suffer in silence cause nobody wants to hear about it" bit is getting old.
Total Biscuit's latest take.
I get what he's saying, but I feel like it's far too late to take the "ignore them and they'll go away" approach. The toxicity has grown to an unstable level, especially with people like Milo and Adam Baldwin continuing to feed the beast.
The gamergate hashtag is almost entirely, almost without exception, about the media coverage of gamergate over the last couple hours. This seems to be more and more true every day. /kotakuinaction, almost every story is about coverage of gamergate not game journalism.
It isn't even that it's too late. It's easy to say, "just ignore them!" when you're coming from the perspective of someone who deals with this "on a monthly basis".
Oh woe is you, TB. Gimme a break.
My own feeling is that #GG would disappear if there was a fudged compromise to the 'journalistic integrity' thing (ask a few of the 'more sane' members of GG for some simple/practical ideas that they'd support).
That "gamergate" is a thing is beyond my comprehension. What is happening here?
Who could take all of this so seriously to send death threats over it? I honestly cannot picture the type of person. I'm baffled.
If I had even monthly people telling me to die that would be enough to hurt me. Let's not trivialize other people's suffering. :
Total Biscuit's latest take.
I get what he's saying, but I feel like it's far too late to take the "ignore them and they'll go away" approach. The toxicity has grown to an unstable level, especially with people like Milo and Adam Baldwin continuing to feed the beast.
I'm not trivializing it, I'm just giving it the credence it deserves and only.
It's bad. Fine.
It doesn't happen on a daily basis.
He's not being threatened with rape.
He's not getting terror/bomb threats.
He hasn't had to leave his home.
He hasn't been doxxed.
He doesn't have a mob of cretins after him, complete with D-list celebrity backing.
It's just another spin of GGs favorite record - "False Equivalency".
Whurs the prooofe this has anything to do with gamuregaite?Welp.
Some dude on 8chan is talking about killing Zoe Quinn. Like, not as an individual, though. As a group. So he's basically saying they should get a bunch of people together and lynch her.
Goodnight, my little SJWs. See you tomorrow unless that's when my new job wants me to work.
I'm not trivializing it, I'm just giving it the credence it deserves and only.
It's bad. Fine.
It doesn't happen on a daily basis.
He's not being threatened with rape.
He's not getting terror/bomb threats.
He hasn't had to leave his home.
He hasn't been doxxed.
He doesn't have a mob of cretins after him, complete with D-list celebrity backing.
It's just another spin of GGs favorite record - "False Equivalency".
Yeeeeeeeah... That was my point. the anonymity convinces people it's not real life. Like the really fucking messed up stuff people say they'd do if they were invisible. People not knowing you're a terrible person, doesn't mean you're not one.yea it's real life but one party is completely 100% anonymous, for all intents and purposes.
This is assuming people just want reaction. These people want silence. For example, they didn't just send these threats to Sarkeesian, they sent them to the school too. To the venue she was attending. That shit needs to be known. I personally think when someone gets a metric fuck-ton of threats, they should totally publicize it. The people making the threats think they're righteous. They think they're doing something good. People condemning them will not fit that righteousness.if you get death threats, take it to the police and be done with it. publicizing it all over the internet is only gonna make the next anonymous asshole do the exact same thing, so they can watch the drama unfold. much like swatting of streamers, they're getting off on actually watching the shit go down. if they had nothing to see, they'd have nothing to enjoy.
i don't think TB is saying suffer in silence and don't go to the police. i think he's saying go to the police and don't give the abuser free publicity on your own twitter, because that's basically all they get out of it in the first place.
Stop calling them trolls. "Troll" has become so vague and broad that it has lost all meaning. Just "people saying bad shit on the internet." People say bad shit for all different reasons. Not just to get a reaction. Not just to "get fed". And really... As I mentioned, the threats are more about silence, so being quiet is feeding them.it's don't feed the trolls, on the craziest level i've ever seen.
I'm not trivializing it, I'm just giving it the credence it deserves and only.
It's bad. Fine.
It doesn't happen on a daily basis.
He's not being threatened with rape.
He's not getting terror/bomb threats.
He hasn't had to leave his home.
He hasn't been doxxed.
He doesn't have a mob of cretins after him, complete with D-list celebrity backing.
It's just another spin of GGs favorite record - "False Equivalency".
How do you know those threats haven't happend to him? Becasue he isn't screaming/bringing attention to it?
As someone who deals with these kind of crimes professionally, I believe that TB is spot-on in his advice not to publicize specific threats on social media. I know tempers are hot right now but please consider this argument:
When the police actually investigate these things--
If he could relate any better to what Wu or Quinn or really any woman who's ever had the audacity to open her mouth on the internet is going through right now, he would've said so.
But he can't. It's written right there. "It happens monthly." Boo-fucking-hoo.
Galactic Fork said:This is assuming people just want reaction. These people want silence. For example, they didn't just send these threats to Sarkeesian, they sent them to the school too. To the venue she was attending. That shit needs to be known. I personally think when someone gets a metric fuck-ton of threats, they should totally publicize it. The people making the threats think they're righteous. They think they're doing something good. People condemning them will not fit that righteousness.
i guess we just have a disagreement on what the abusers endgame is then. with the exception of the public threat that was made to USU, most of the threats have been made privately and directly to people. i personally doubt that they'd be expecting someone to quiver in fear from those messages but are probably hoping that the victim is disturbed enough by the message to repost it.
i think if it was more about silencing people than a sick voyeuristic thing we'd see a lot more of the USU type public threats.
It's so strange. Total Biscuit feels he needs to defend gaming from outside attack. I feel I need to defend gaming from gamergate. That my gaming sites like neogaf and rps are under attack.
that's a pretty pathetic stance to take, imo. you sound almost exactly like a gamergater here. "ok abuse is bad, but others out there have it worse"
what about someone like boogie who was being threatened on a daily basis, was doxxed, did get bombthreats and death threats, etc? would you have more sympathy for him?
seems like TB is simply trying to offer up some advice from his POV with regards to the abuse he's received. who are you to invalidate that just because you don't like the advice he gave?