Had anybody that has been collating the twitter pics thought of using storify? Makes it a lot easier to read than the bottom up shite.
Ya. I would look into that, but I'm hoping I wont need it, at least for this topic much longer. Look, nothing wrong with questioning Walkers source, that is fine it was anonymous, unless it has a second, you should question it. The problem is, Arthur took a stance(Pro EA PR), and then dismissed the source, because he took a stance that was pro EA PR. If he would have remained objective and didn't clearly paint the picture of what "side" of the argument he was on this would have never been an issue and I would have never cared.
The worst part is though, it got dragged on, not by people hating on him(because plenty of people that are always in the media have to deal with this every day) but because he kept making it worse and worse. It's like he doesn't get it; there are tons of sports players who are always making dumb tweets, and at 1st ya, they get a lot of heat/hate, but if the guy who made the comment lets it go and/or apologizes, it's gone in a matter of a day(whether he means it or not).
The difference is, he took a side, and the moment he did that he should have recused himself of questioning anyone's reporting, critic, or reviewer pants that went contrary to his stance, because at that point he turned himself into an advocate for EA instead of a reporter; Maybe not intentionally, but he did it, because what he was saying and what the PR was saying, was essentially the same.
And honestly, most of the stuff I posted, was quite toothless about him(at 1st). He turned it into something more by blowing up and not admitting he took a side, while at the same time questioning a source(which if he would have recused himself of an opinion on PR vs consumers at the time, would have been fine).
Now it has turned into quite a mess, with now a new topic aimed at his website, and now this new guy Brian being involved. It is like he doesn't realize where the problem originated from.
Luckily his antagonistic behavior on twitter has prevented me from feeling bad about the crap he has been getting. Also it doesnt hurt that it seems while the loudest of the bunch he is slowly making me realize he isn't the most arrogant of the bunch, so whatever polygon.
But hey, before this I never cared to ever visit polygon, not out of malice, but jsut out of apathy for another website. Now though, I dont plan on really ever giving them a page hit(like they care) without some obvious perspective switches. And I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels that way now, which is probably the worst thing Arthur did.