About The Downvote Brigade With The Gamergate Post

Fun Stats!

As of this posting:

• 55 gamergate related comments have been removed
• 28 brigaders banned
• 0 ethics violations

The thread was mentioned in a reactionary subreddit and the main GamerGate subreddit, GamerGaters came here to voice their disagreement with comments and downvotes.

When everything your movement does is on the internet, policing internet forums that disagree with you is serious business.

Twas a glorious thread. Anarchists were united. GGers were shadowbanned en masse. The KiA sub will probably get banned. SRD openly sympathized with us. Even r/Bitcoin trashed the brigaders who went looking for help.

Unlikely allies came together and nothing was lost except imaginary internet points.

Gamergaters brigaded the subreddit and downvoted everyone.

From what I've heard, the admins were made aware of it, and some people will be getting shadowbanned. Many also think r/KotakuInAction might get taken down.

We banned all the Gamergaters from this subreddit.

I love how KiA is calling us fascist for having moderators that moderate discussion. They're literally just man babies who are lamenting not getting to act like raving assholes everywhere they go.

I got a message saying something along the lines of "look what yor anarchist overlords did" and showed me a message of his shadow banning. I replied "good riddance"

Meh. Tide goes in, tide goes out. Can't explain it.

People have always liked to come in to the sub, ask a silly question that's been asked fifty times in the last week without searching, get mad when they get silly or sarcastic answers, say something inflammatory, get booted, then complain that r/Anarchism is run by fascists.

This time it's just a few more people than usual. They'll get bored and go do something else after a few days. They always do.

Unfortunarely until reddit implements more finely tuned subreddit management (e.g. disabling voting from non-subscribers etc), we can't do shit about it except ban the brigaders who make themselves known via shitposting.

Gamer here, today's reading on the ol' oppression-o-meter reads: Not too oppressed.

And I though Anarcho facism was a joke, you people are the worst!/s

Anyone has a link to the original thread?

TIL freedom means the ability to do misogynist things.

Hello, I'm like the inverse of those brigadiers. r/gamerghazi is like an addictive tabloid magazine all about gamergate's mess; so this thread, and the brigading were linked. The r/anarchism responses were pretty rad I think. Nice picture down the bottom of the page too!

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ELI5?

What the heck is gamergate. Pardon me I live under a rock.

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I'm not a brigader, but I posted something that the mods didn't agree with and my post was deleted. Please someone tell me what's oppressive about this:

"So I'm guessing this thread is going to be allowed as long as people have the right opinion. I've never been on Kotaku in Action, but I have noticed that not everyone who criticises the SJW's is a right wing reactionary. SJW's are not some bastion of radical politics, Some are genuinely radical, others are genuinly authoritarian. Anyway, here's one article about the mess:

"When Gjoni first came out about his experiences, many people were skeptical of his claims. In fact, misinformation quickly spread about Gjoni. This was further compounded by Zoё Quinn’s post on “terrorism,” which not just sidesteps the abuse allegations completely, but falsely implies that Gjoni was responsible for the sexual harassment that followed her public outing. This led to many writers smearing Gjoni’s name, calling him “spiteful,” “jilted,” and other various baseless insults. Not just did these claims completely ignore the allegations of emotional abuse found in Gjoni’s post, but they often recklessly painted Gjoni himself as an abuser: shaming him for publicly outing his abusive ex-girlfriend...The sheer cruelty of her behavior questions the very activist work that her professional career stood up for. And, in the eyes of an abuse survivor, Quinn’s reputation as a highly accessible public figure makes her abusive behavior extremely dangerous. In other words, those of us who are survivors must be aware of Zoё Quinn. We must know who Zoё is, and whether her actions are abusive. And if so, we must distance ourselves from Zoё. Survivors are traditionally the very same vulnerable people that an abuser preys on, and our history with abuse leaves us likely to be targeted and abused again. Therefore, we have an obligation to know if a public figure in an extremely accessible industry, the indie video gaming industry, is abusive towards others. Doubly so when abuse survivors are approaching an outed abuser for her twitter, tumblr, advice, private correspondence, recommendations, autograph, and professional funding"

This is written not by some MRA or right winger but a left wing person who is actually part of the "SJW" sphere. so take that however you will.

Edit: from reading the deleted comments, I saw someone claimed that people from gamergate raised money for a feminist organisation in gaming, so I don't think the situation is as clearcut as some might believe.

edit: So far no one has actually addressed specificaly the content of what I posted. The linked article was written by a feminist, so it's hard to handwave it away by saying it's reactionary.