Gasp! My account might be compromised? Good god, some madman might earn me badges!
*Sigh*, this shit has been going on far too long...
RANT TIME
Gamergate (god, I hate that word) has, in my mind, become the Palestine of gaming "debate" two sets of really shitty people trying to get the whole world involved in their overblown struggle over... what, exactly? Who can stoop the lowest to "win the argument"? And what then? What happens if you "win the argument"? What's the endgame, here, exactly? There is none. It's just two groups yelling at the other to shut up as loudly as they can. No one benefits from this bullshit.
If even the tiniest modicum of fervour that people seem to feel over this, and I can't stress this enough, completely inane non-issue, were directed towards a useful purpose...
You want to be a big man, or fight for freedom? There's a bunch of shit going down in Ukraine right now, and we could do with a new international brigade. Otherwise, you're not some crusader of justice, or a liberator of the downtrodden, you're just a screaming child with a keyboard and too much damn time on your hands.
RANT OVER
I realize there are a lot of people on either side of this thing who really aren't colossal arseholes, and, I would like to appeal to your sense of reason, and say that's no good is ever going to come out of this. For the sake of everyone, let's just let this thing die, shall we? Whenever we see a thread that's about this shit, let's just ignore it until it goes away, and talk about video games instead.