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Kotaku receives death threats for reporting No Man's Sky delay
- Thread starter Dalek
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The most insane thing about all of this is how this Beach Clashers guy didn't get banned from twitter until last night, after Jason posted his email of Twitter support saying the user didn't break Twitter's TOS (he obviously did).
You can write an article seen by tens of thousands of people showing clear proof of harassment/death threats and Twitter still won't do anything about it unless people bitch at Twitter for not doing anything about it.
It feels like every other month I see an article about how Twitter is implementing some new thing to curb harassment but it never feels like anything changes.
You can write an article seen by tens of thousands of people showing clear proof of harassment/death threats and Twitter still won't do anything about it unless people bitch at Twitter for not doing anything about it.
It feels like every other month I see an article about how Twitter is implementing some new thing to curb harassment but it never feels like anything changes.
Interfectum
Member
Marketing and hype.
KoopaTheCasual
Junior Member
Honestly, this is my biggest take away from these issues. Twitter's complete and utter apathy for breaches of privacy, death threats, and actually harmful content that isn't a photo of tits, is appalling.
But it makes me wonder. Let's say Twitter actually pulled the anchor out of its ass and began actively policing their platform? Would it be better if these sea urchin of the human population went back to being unseen? Has their visibility actually been encouraging others to join their ranks, or was it their invisibility that was the main factor of their growth?
TheJollyCorner
Member
NMS seems like it's going to be a pretty chill game, too.
The violence from some of this 'fanbase'... ridiculous.
Stay strong, Press Sneak Fuck!
The violence from some of this 'fanbase'... ridiculous.
Stay strong, Press Sneak Fuck!
PositronicMan
Member
To be fair, it's your right as a consumer to refuse to purchase/ buy into a product. I.E. A movie ticket.
To be fair, the job of a movie's trailer is to entice you into wanting to see the movie. Don't like the trailer? Don't go see the movie.
NegativeCero
Banned
People are fucking idiots. Just once I want one of these pieces of crap to be found and punished by the law for their bullshit.
That is true for consumers, but I'm pretty suspicious of the motives of any reviewer who is choosing to "make a stand" by not reviewing Ghostbusters. Reviewing films is, at least nominally, yur job, if not a service your providing to your audience. Refusing to see this movie for "reasons" when you have reviewed plenty of other crap doesn't smell right.
Alex_Mexico
Member
So what happened in that subreddit when the delay was made official? Did they all stopped what they were doing and apologized to Kotaku?
a few made posts apologizing on behalf of the more 'agitated' posters. I didn't see any crow eating posts though. Could've missed them.
edit:
just recalled that Jason said 'hi' in the official delay post and while I thought it was hilarious it really pissed some redditors off. they got down voted to hell but the reaction was expected. jason's post was top comment as well.
If you give idiots a megaphone, you make them stronger.
It's an interesting argument, but I think that the more attention and publicity harassment gets, the more harassers are going to do it. They's basically bullies, and bullies only keep bullying people when they know they're getting attention because that's literally the whole reason they're doing it. So I think heavy policing of harassment would help curb it a little.
At the very least, I think doing something is way better than nothing, which is basically where twitter is right now.
No lies detected.
Yeah, I think this is what gets me the most. The "offense" as it where was so fucking minor. Oh God, a 1 and a half month delay! The horror!
What makes No Man's Sky fans so special that they feel the need to issue death threats over such a tiny delay? What the Zelda fans that thought Zelda Wii U was gonna come out in 2015? What about the Persona 5 fans? What about people still hyped for Mighty Number 9?
The amount of entitlement in these lunatics is outstanding.
Teletraan1
Banned
The added "Be afraid human, we are coming for you." kind of outs this as non serious or more serious I can't decide. I guess you have to take threats these days seriously but that kind of language is unfortunately pretty common on the unmoderated internet. Everything is said for maximum shock value and extreme hyperbole.
ScaryShark
Banned
Garbage like this makes me really happy my sense of self-worth isn't tied up in the success or even existence of a video game.
I'm sorry people have to go through stuff like this for something so innocuous.
I'm sorry people have to go through stuff like this for something so innocuous.
PositronicMan
Member
He's not a professional film critic. He sometimes reviews old horror movies and some contemporary movies. He's spending his own money, as a consumer, to see the movie. If he opts out on the consumer level, that's his perogative.
And his reasons are pretty well articulated and stated in both of his videos.
keltickennedy
Member
Dem gamers.....
Laevateinn
Member
I think there's a lot of anxiety because there's been nothing shown about this game that makes it seem like more than a glorified tech demo. I'm sure obsessing over this game for so long could easily make someone a bit unhinged.
Zelda, Persona and Mega Man fans are also all used to being dicked around at this point.
I didn't see anyone admitting their mistakes.
But it is hardly a problem with that sub in general. If you take a look at the thread about the Kotaku article, you have to go pretty far down the top comments to get to one where somebody complains about Kotaku. It has 14 upvotes. There are 53.5K subscribers in the sub.
No, other people have said that it sounds like a troll too
That does does not make it okay to send a death threat
mr teaspoon
Member
God, I love Devin Faraci.
Oh, I'm not condoning any such behavior. I hope no one else was either.
I guess I have read too many sarcastic posts here on GAF that this bit immediately jumped out as a troll to me.
Stiflers Mom
Banned
In the good old days, you would just call the police if you received a death threat.
What happened to that?
What happened to that?
superNESjoe
Member
They don't take it seriously.
how do you do that if you don't know the person and/or they aren't in the same country?
it's on twitter to control their own house. The fact they think death threats are acceptable tells you everything you need to know. People will continue to use that megaphone to threaten people because there's literally no consequences. Twitter as a business needs people to use the site and they don't care what you use it for.
dlcnotincluded
Member
I just don't understand why people send these kinds of things out.
"Oh, let's send threats to *person here* and that will get them to definitely release *thing here*."
Like are people this desperate...Is waiting for something so hard to do?
Sure being delayed sucks, but it's not like it's the end of the world.
"Oh, let's send threats to *person here* and that will get them to definitely release *thing here*."
Like are people this desperate...Is waiting for something so hard to do?
Sure being delayed sucks, but it's not like it's the end of the world.
Depends where you live. This kind of shit gets prosecuted in the UK.
Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku!
Member
Yep, bullying people over the internet is totally ok!
Won't respond. I refuse.
Snkfanatic
Banned
What the hell is this?
It's referring to the big baby who stamped his foot and said that he "refused" to review a Ghostbusters movie and put a video out to boast about it to get attention.
stufte
Member
stufte
Member
Why? You're agreeing with that bullying tweet. Over a video of someone's rather placid opinion of a movie.
It's not like he was condoning violence against women or sympathizing with gamergate or something. Jesus get some perspective.
You're intimately familiar with the blood flow to his genitals?
You can be a loser, and NOT pscyopathic...Im going with psychopathic-loser.
But this game has affected some people far too much, I honestly don't see how the 'vocal minority' isn't incredibly let down by it...some people's expectations are just not gonna be met...the people who ask about "will there be evolving space viruses" or those who expect real orbital physics / atmospheres / alien races to cook dinner for you...its really gotten a bit crazy in some corners of the internet.
Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku!
Member
He's mocking the title of AVGN's video.
I think it's supposed to be a really poor attempt at humor but I'm not sure.
PositronicMan
Member
You mean the dude invoking his right as a consumer, not to spend money on a product he didn't believe in? Yeah okay...