See, this really ticks me off, because that's not what the GID forum is supposed to be. The idea is that "GamerGate" is not some extraordinary alien infestation, but a normal topic of conversation that people can discuss among other subjects pertaining to the game industry. The Escapist was pretty much alone among their peer sites in trying to be adult this subject among the shrieking ban fever that swept over the lesser gaming sites, and GID is a part of that shockingly radical experiment.PainInTheAssInternet said:Thankfully, a subforum called Game Industry Discussion was created just for it, so it doesn't have to spread elsewhere.
There are difficulties, though, since there is an element of this community (along with obsessive ban skippers) that seems determined to reduce the subforum into nothing but an arena for a Forum Death Match between Team "Anti-GG" and "Team GG", fought by baiting people into flipping out in a ban-worthy way. Some folks just won't stand for "normalizing" perfectly reasonable reservations about our media overlords and their pet crusades, I guess. And this thing that you do, of labeling GID some kind of a "Gamergate" quarantine zone, is just helping perpetuate a needless malaise.
OT: I came here since I could no longer pretend sites I frequented (like Polygon) weren't vicious pits of jockeying for "Top Inquisitor" status, complete with stealth censorship. Coming from over a decade of diligently avoiding Internet "communities" (after some bad experiences back in the day), I just couldn't acclimate to the caustic pH of those particular ponds. At least there are many cool people here, in many senses of the word.
N00b as I am, I cannot really understand nostalgia for forums so hectic that threads get buried in 30 minutes, though. I guess that's good for the site by sheer traffic measures, but personally I would find that kind of pace hard to keep up with, and thus not really something I'd prefer.