[AcerbicZero]

My understanding of the GG drama was that it started fairly unsavory, but rapidly became about something entirely unrelated to Zoe and her relationships.

The reaction from the gaming media organizations being accused of serious (if video games can be serious) lapses of journalistic integrity, complete with multiple examples of it just poured fuel onto the fire. After that, I stopped following it, but it does seem that more gaming media organizations put effort into disclosing conflicts, so perhaps some good came out of it in the end.

[BryantD]

Agree in part, disagree in part -- but nonetheless it's a pretty significant episode of public shaming, and I have a hard time imagining a really high quality article about the subject that doesn't cite it.

[mcguire]

I'm afraid I only saw the GG thing after it had stopped being about journalistic integrity and video games (whatever the hell that is). Unsavory is a pretty mild description.

[zozbot123]

Spoiler: there's no "before" and "after". It was always about /v/ trolling Zoe Quinn. And to some people, I suppose, it was about journalistic integrity and video games (to channel '45'). Does one negate the other? That's a hard question, and a matter of interpretation - no matter where you stand, you'll never get everyone on the same page.

[matt4077]

Funny, how the misogynistic mob finds a defender here, seeing the good within the hate. Meanwhile, the dozens of incidents cited of sexists and racists rarely get more than a "I, too, believe this is the end of free speech".

[zozbot123]

Defend the misogynistic mob? That's exactly what parent did not do. Indeed, the unsavory, /v/ element was always a huge liability for GG as a social phenomenon, and I don't know of anyone who would even attempt to deny this.

[matt4077]

"It started really bad, but [...] some good came out of it in the end."

That's a defence, without question. It does include an acknowledgement of the harms of what happened, but by pointedly ending with a hand-wavey invocation of some supposed benefits, it is characterising those harms as a sort of necessary evil.