CrossGuard said:
Wow, you have really jumped the gun here, especially when I've asked politely.
I have jumped no guns. Politeness is irrelevant. Look up the numerous references to sealioning around here. Not to mention, several of the referenced concern trolls were very polite when it was convenient. But politeness is not relevant, and I already explained why.
And you preemptively accuse me of dismissing you as a SJW, when it was you who resorted to such tactics in the first place.
Except, you know, for the part where I didn't accuse you. I said "you can do X" for all I care. This is not an accusation.
Your lack of self-awareness amazes me.
That you made up claims against me the minute I was not willing to help you and then accused me of lacking self-awareness based on those charges does
not amaze me. This is exactly why I am discinlined to trust or be of help to people who randomly pop up and start down this path.
And you know you could just out their usernames, right? So I could look into those people myself? It's not like I've asked for any of your personal information, I wouldn't be able to do anything to you even if I wanted to, you're just being disingenuous
You went from "screenshot the evidence," to "out their usernames." these are not only two different things, but the former requires me to either include evidence that sets me up to be further jeopardised or leave out the actual threats themselves. If I were to give you names, there would be nothing to go on, so I can't imagine that would be particularly helpful to your investigation. Pardon me if I don't find some irony in you saying I'm the one being disingenuous. You entirely shifted your standard of evidence and blamed me for not being forthcoming.
Also, you can claim that you are in no position to do anything, but that's not entirely true. People have used information from this board to threaten me. I won't tell you what information, because the last thing I want to do is give yet another person ammunition, but the door swings both ways and I have zero reason to believe you, either.
Did I leave anything out there?
So yeah, you're right. I have no reason to believe anything you say, nor does anyone else for that matter.
And here's a dirty little secret: I don't care. No offense, but you weren't one of the people addressed by that post, nor were you part of the audience I think will benefit from it. I didn't write this as a scalding expose of GamerGate in an attempt to tear them down. I wrote a lengthy post (at least, for me, some people can write almost literal novels) to illustrate some of the issues with reviews from the perspective of someone who has been both a reporter and a reviewer. You're free to also not believe that, though it's still true. Hell, you're free not to believe that I write on a blog, or any of the other things I've said. None of that matters.
What I wrote was specific to people who were trying to actually address the idea of criticism in the games industry, and why I think what they had to say wouldn't necessarily work. More so one than the other. You, random user I am in no position to recognise, let alone trust decided to ask for evidence so you could investigate, though why I would think that was meaningful is beyond me. I'm gessing the thoughts that specifics might generate legitiamate security concerns for me never even occurred to you.
I mean, if you can't trust a random user with ten whole posts and no profile with such information, who can you trust?
Yeah, I'm not watching that video. In the future, if you actually wish to communicate with me, I suggest doing so directly. But I don't particularly expect that to be an issue. It looks like you're just here to provide cover fire in a fight that's not happening. I won't indulge that further.
