There are already image posts going around gg boards calling for it; something along the lines of a "fight false flags with false flags".

The sad fact is that even if they did get genuine threats, it's unlikely to get proper coverage - the media doesn't take threats against women very seriously; it's taken months of relentless threats against Anita and Zoe to get media attention.

There's also difficulty from a reporters point-of-view because gamergate is a movement that's about being decentralised, anonymous, and anti-media. That makes it really hard for media to engage with them.

GGFeminist was recently approached by a reporter about the harassment she received from someone at the same campus as her - she kept her anonymity, declined to do an interview, and instead provided the journalist with a letter describing the incident and, frankly, minimising the harm that it caused. There's not a lot that a journalist can do with a story like that. I have no doubt that what happened to GGFeminist was real, and I think it has potential to be a really good story - but I can't see what a journalist could do with what she gave. It's also not a story that suits gamergate's narrative - the story is about on-campus harassment of women; not about how SJW-based journalism is ruining games forever. GGfeminist was unwilling or felt unable to even do a print interview, which is totally her decision and no-one should fault her for that. And she kept her anonymity, which no-one can fault her for, given the situation.

But compare that with Brianna Wu, who's an amazing interview subject - passionate and smart; Anita Sarkeesian who's calm, eloquent, and clean-cut; and Zoe Quinn, who's basically the most interesting person in tech (cyborg who builds robots in her spare time). It's not even about the levels of abuse, it's about who's a better interview subject. Journalism is still a business.

Gamergate has a lot of real problems with how they deal with the media - this is even aside from their general horribleness of the movement. Fredrick Brennan getting told off for being rude in the last moments of the HuffPo panel was cringeworthy; media sources can't do interviews with people hiding behind pseudonyms like "KingofPol" and "mundanematt"; you can't interview Jordan Owen and Davis Aurini - five minutes of research will turn up that one's been linked to white nationalism and the other talked about Anita Sarkeesian's genitals in a previous interview (and has over sixty hours of ranting about her).

These are the prominent voices in gamergate, none of them are women. I suppose other voices could come out of the woodwork - like that all-women panel on Huffpo that I didn't watch yet - but the problem there is that they aren't notable voices as far as the media is concerned.

The other problem with this horrible idea of harassing women in gamergate, is that it's still harassing women - it's not changing the focus of the narrative on to "corruption" or "SJWs"; the focus is still on misogyny in the gaming world.

TL/DR: There have been signs that this is planned, it's an incredibly awful idea to harass anyone and will do no good for anyone.

God I rant about this a lot. I can't imagine the trauma of having this thrown at you every day.