Even though I think Alexander’s approach was wrong, I found the backlash even more troubling. She’s allowed to state her opinion and we are allowed to disagree with it, and the same is true for writers sympathetic to #GamerGate. Calling for heads to roll over offense or opinion is dangerous.

Leigh Alexander is entitled to her opinion. The problem with "Gamers Are Dead" wasn't so much the opinions espoused as the fact they were all espoused at the same time by multiple publications. It was a media blitz brought on by the Game Journo Pro groupthink.

And sure, some sites like The Escapist have made moves toward transparency which is great and that site in particular is beloved by #GamerGate—but other sites, like Polygon, have done just as much to create transparency and openness, and because they’re perceived as SJW bastions they’re despised.

Erik I'm sorry but I think you have a deep misunderstanding of the situation here. It's Too Late for Polygon. We are never going back to Polygon or Kotaku. We want them bankrupt and gone. There is nothing they can do anymore to fix the situation. We appealed to the journalists, we appealed to the editors in chief, we appealed to their parent companies. They continued to attack us and indeed continue to this very day. I'm sorry Erik but this is total war and remember it was their choice to go down this route not ours. We only wanted to play video games.

And because #GamerGate is an amorphous, leaderless movement as concerned with SJWs as it is with ethics, there has never been a proper decision as to what exactly its grievances are, what precisely its ethics complaints may be.

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No. You're wrong. We have laid out the ethics complaints and our grievances with games journalists quite thoroughly and discussed it any time journalists bothered to take interest beyond the harassment narrative.

Stephen Totilo and Jason Schreier are two of the best video game reporters in the business, and have a deep pool of contacts and sources to draw on.

Totilo and Schreier are snakes. They do not belong in this industry. They belong somewhere like TMZ.

The one question I don’t see asked often enough by #GamerGate is on the matter of quality. What is valuable? What is useful to gamers? What—if anything—should be limited? If we burn the whole thing down and find ourselves with only dry news pieces and nothing resembling the current, often messy/flashy/hyped up game journalism we have now, will anyone be happy?

I have long said I'd rather see this entire industry, and yes that includes video games themselves, burned to the ground than let these SJWs, Cultural Critics, and indie douchebags have it. I will not see a thing I love so corrupted.

But #GamerGate takes a similarly negative approach to game journalism. It’s far too often about getting people fired, about shutting down the opinions of those they disagree with, instead of simply supporting and pushing for more voices they support.

https://wiki.gamergate.me/index.php?title=Rebuild_Initiative

https://wiki.gamergate.me/index.php/Support_List

Yeah...no. You're dead wrong again. Obviously you haven't bothered to pay attention for the entire year we've been around.