I imagine it's like what happened to /r/tia, there's a lot of anxiety among certain groups of younger, more politically 'savvy' sorts to embrace radical moderation or 'centrism.' There's a meme that goes "the right has moved farther to the right in recent years while the more reasonable left has remained closer to the center," I've never been a fan of that sort of thing because the other possibility never occurs to people, that it's the middle that's changed positions.

Appeals to moderation have been used very successfully elsewhere, in subs like /r/tia to neuter criticism of Social Justice and Feminism. The 'crazies' on /r/tia aren't 'real Feminists,' and all the sociological concepts and constructions of progressivism must ultimately be upheld by any rational person as completely valid. If you disagree, if you see SJWs not as a cause, but as a symptom, if you understand them, like morbidly obese individuals gorged on fast food, not as moral agents but as moral consumers of a toxic ideology, you are not sufficiently moderate.

Social justice is a poisonous ideology that has had a negative impact on our world beyond games journalism over the last decade or so. As Schlegel said, "moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness".