I think it's an important distinction to make that these people were legally children but it is very unusual to refer to older teenagers as "children".
Whether you have to go to bed or not, I'm trying to correct your bias to give those who actually want to know the facts a chance to make up their own mind. Oh no. This guy has to sleep! And for some reason that is the reason why he cannot add anything constructive at all. I guess this conversation cannot possibly be continued at a later time or anything Who cares about downvoting, argue your point eloquently enough and you might change some minds anyway.
Bad idea to argue about jerk'in to prepubs on Reddit. You're going to be downvoted to hell. And for some reason violentacrez is a hero to many individuals here for God-knows what reason.
You literally just expressed confusion at why a group of masturbating young boys would make a hero of a man who posted s of sexy pictures of teenage girls. That gave me a chuckle.
Sort of. The issue it raised was whether or not Reddit is truly anonymous. If Gawker can easily attain this guy's personal information then what's to stop them from doing it to anyone they dislike. They can, but if a website is guilty of breaking reddit's rules vote gaming generally , the admins can ban all posts from their sites.
In my eyes it's the complete disregard for any form of integrity. They're not even trying to hide the fact anymore that everything they post is simply for page views. Not only that but many of their articles that I've had the displeasure of reading are written by horrible, horrible writers. I'm amazed how some of these people got the jobs they have.
If you have to ask the question of "Why" Kotaku is regarded as a shithole, you haven't been around long enough to see its glorious de-evolution from "quasi-hip gaming site" to "gossip site focused on gaming sometimes".
A lot of it revolves around Gawker Media's alleged business practices, but by and large the website has made its biggest missteps since Stephen Tolito took the reins. He has an unfortunately poor hiring record Patricia Hernandez would have never gotten away with her tripe in the Crecente days and he has an admittedly low skill and knowledge set in the gaming world.
He was a joke in his MTV days and it's even worse now. That's because Crecente ran a boys club of a handful of guys that powertripped left, right, and centre and thought that they were the best in the business. They banned everyone who disagreed and ran stories that nobody cared about just because they felt like it. How much did you enjoy Bashcraft's personal letters to Brian about the weird shit he saw in his Japanese apartment between all the creepy pseudo-hentai pictures he took?
Totilo, like him or not, has at least made the site more objective. Patricia Hernandez is unquestionably terrible at her job but that's not an end-all argument against Totilo. Under him, the site has actually started breaking news and putting out some genuinely good articles from time to time.
He's the one that opened the site out to good articles from freelancers and other, smaller sites as well. And everyone has a "low skill and knowledge set in the gaming world" depending on who you talk to. I don't think I know of a single industry figure in the media side, not development side that everyone can agree is a knowledgeable and reasonable voice for gaming.
What's wrong with Patricia Hernandez? Not arguing, I just don't read much of her stuff and I'm genuinely curious. I make it a silly little hobby to call them out on Twitter every time they steal an "article" from Reddit. Everything on the Gawker network is crappy linkbait garbage. Unfortunately that sort of thing draws clicks from social media and is a profitable monster.
Basically the short answer is because it's lowest common denominator. Click bait. Click bait everywhere. I don't hate them though. I can't stand the readers. The comments mostly on Facebook for me are awful.
A bunch of immature assholes. Pcmasterrace this, whocares that. Also idiotic fanboyism. The fanboyism on that site is a full on epidemic, I wish I had something to liken it to metaphorically but I'm at a loss. They do very little fact checking, the articles are poorly written and sensationalized, they are driven purely by page views and don't even pretend to convince you otherwise, and to top it off the site layout is friggin terrible. Sensationalism, rage-bait, nerd-bait. You know those celebrity magazines they have near the registers at many stores?
It's about the same thing, except for gamers. It appeals to the absolute worst parts of gaming 'culture. I found myself interested in less and less of their content. I had given up deadspin, then gizmodo, then finally kotaku.
I really gave up on their website redesign that made it annoying to navigate. Correct me if im wrong, but wasent gizmodo in a lot of trouble a few years back, due to the early iphone 4 they "bought"? And i seem to recall something about them running around at a con, using a universal remote and turning off the tvs for people holding panels or doing presentations..
Stuff like that permeated their site more and more and just really turned me off. Why do trolls troll the way they troll? Small penises? Not enough hugs when they were little? Too many? Who knows. That's the same ones I do believe.
They're complete assholes and never apologized about the remote thing and instead blamed the people they were fucking with. Throw this on top of all the other reasons people list, it's easy to see why. They just post anything regardless of quality.
They post some interesting stuff, but for every interesting post there's a Patricia Hernandez post or some other sub-par bullshit. For me it was how they handled the controversy in the fighting game community following the Capcom reality show incident. A guy on the show made some inappropriate remarks and Kotaku wrote an article vilifying the fighting game community and generalizing them as a bunch of insensitive, non-inclusive, sexist asswipes who do nothing but wrong.
Kotaku wrote the article conveniently omitting the fact that not only does the community embrace people from every walk of life, but they even raised money to send a disabled Street Fighter player to the biggest tournament of the year in Las Vegas. Wow there's a whole lot of negativity here, not saying any of it isn't well deserved, but I don't think I've seen such disdain for a site in a while.
One thing about Kotaku that really should be noted is that it is and functions as a blog, not a news site. Even articles that should be strictly fact based tend to have the authors opinion in them, and it's rather informal on the whole. It's made up of a variety of authors that all have different opinions and there is evidently a push for views so link bait articles tend to be rather common.
It's also not helping that Kotaku is under the Gawker Media umbrella, which goes through a multitude of rather disastrous layout and interface updates on a seemingly random basis. There was the case where Gawker ended up unmasking the reddit user Violentacrez, which has clearly upset a number of people, especially here.
Moving away from that though, easily the best thing about it, and most of the big Gawker run sites is that it has a fantastic reader run segment. Everything in it is written by the community and it really makes for a great and friendly environment, largely in part to proper mod interaction within the community.
Before you really say that Kotaku is nothing but shit, I recommend you take a look through that. Posting a pic that was on the front page of reddit yesterday won't mention it's from reddit though. And for the Australian site, reposting articles without any consideration for the Australians reading them, I'm not sure what the Australian editor is paid for but it's not for editing articles.
I really just don't appreciate all the redesigns. I like simplicity and good use of space. Iframes, or whatever they're called these days, are tacky looking and unprofessional. They are also cutting off their content previews awfully fine which makes my viewing difficult.
Lastly, the comment section is such a huge piece of unusable shit. Clicking on random comments opens up whole leaves I never cared about and you have to scroll all the way up to "close" it and read others. Maybe I'm just spoiled by reddit. Turns out the uncited source was just some guy on slickdeal's forums saying so who was either mistaken or trolling. Just another example of their complete lack of journalistic standards.
People hate them mostly because they say some racey things. They write articles that sometimes bash certain groups of people for certain things and people don't like that. But my thing is I don't expect to agree with everything on a website I like. Their journalists get a lot of freedom and most of them seem really cool by what they write and say on twitter. People go on and on about "oh they just write that for page hits" Its a website. Everything is for page hits. Even if you want to say "well yeah My good friend started doing videos for kotaku recently previously of retroware , he does relaxing reviews of games have a look here laserfrog.
I remember when they used to be really, really bad. But I feel like, in recent memory, their website has become a much more positive and healthy place. I think a lot of the ill-will comes from their history and reputation as a video game website run like a tabloid because if you put "blog" in your description you can't be held accountable for the things you say.
Plus, all the kinda sarcastic titles are gone. That really, really helps. The hateful comparisons they used to make really made me uncomfortable and I'm most thankful that those are gone. That said, I also like their steps in direction away from the "this is how I felt when a thing I found traumatic happened: There was trauma and I was sad and a little angry about it" articles they posted a bunch of earlier this year.
This isn't really appropriate for this sub, as it falls under "ambiguous questions". If this could be more focused, it would be better. Would it be helpful if I added what people think makes a good website focused on gaming and what they expect from it?
Because that's kinda what I hoped to glean from the question. I would repost something like that with a different title. The title is also inspiring some circle jerk style posts.
Share the link. Add a Comment. My reason is personal. That's exactly what he said. Didnt help that the site is trashy writing and click bait and muh feminism. Brian Crescente is a massive asshole. I actually like some of Polygon's content. How infected are they by Crecente and McWhertor's suck? Glad to hear it. The sense I got of a higher level of management seems to be vindicated. Damn bro; that fucking sucks. GG move on sending them a fake leak.
Very smart! That sucks. But why organize the contest then Kotaku? Why bother? Damn those guys are tools. What was your submission? I love warioware. Are you link lonk? I saw that name thrown around a bit. What is Gawker exactly? I find it funny that they used to have a porn site called Fleshbot xD. Edit: Looks like Fleshbot is still online! Wank on, Garth. Lifehacker used to be so good before they sunk their teeth into it. They were banned sitewide from Reddit for doxxing users.
Whats the story with this? I mean aside from the obvious. It's an interesting question children I feel like you're deliberately misusing the word "children" to distort the truth. I refuse to believe this word is now diluted to an extent that linking to pictures from a public facebook profiles counts as "abusive" I'm not sure why you think all of those pictures came from public accounts, or that the fact they may have been public means anyone and everyone can repost them to websites for middle aged creeps to masturbate to.
He didn't personally swipe the photos in any case. He posted quite a few. Too much feminism or too much anime? Or because one of their editors started the whole gamersgate nonsense? No trolls or I will profess my love for that TV show. Nah just kidding. For that, you'll have to look at a much bigger picture. Less game companies buying ads, less traffic on websites, etc etc. Which didn't happen. Swirl that all together, and it smells of financial crisis.
Which often means firing of anyone good expensive and replacing them with cheap college graduates, thus saving money in the short term, but leading to a steady decline of quality and eventually viewership.
So, what's a games media outfit to do? Some in that situation begin using what's called in common lingo click-bait articles. Articles with sensationalist material, usually one-sided, pot-stirring, poorly researched or even outright fabricated. Which goes completely against journalistic integrity. But then, that's because the whole intent of such stories isn't to inform people about a news story, like a news article would - it's purpose is to draw as many clicks as possible.
In the media world, it's called being a tabloid. Kotaku is kind of the ringleader of the tabloid gaming press. So, thin on real gaming news, thick on whatever non-news sensationalist controversy is going on. And if nothing new and juicy is going on, make something up. TL:DR - Kotaku is a tabloid, and lots of people don't like tabloids.
But they usually fun to read, which is why they often have higher readership than regular news. It's like asking someone why this or this is ridiculed and denounced; it's just lowest common denominator smut. They're owned by Gawker, who also owns among other things Jezebel, Wonkette, and the Consumerist, among others, all relatively left-leaning sites of one flavor or another. People feel that that bleeds into Kotaku, so attack it. But because openly saying that their opposition to Kotaku is a dumb culture-war thing could spark a backlash, they try to come up with other arguments.
Don't get me wrong, Kotaku is totally a bit tabloid-y, but so is most of the rest of the internet; the reason Kotaku in particular gets targeted is because of people with a political chip on their shoulder. I stick to Rock, Paper, Shotgun myself. About years ago I once saw an article on Kotaku claiming they had proof, MGS4 was going to be on the The proof the writer had came from his cousin's bestfriend's sister who worked in the mailroom at Microsoft. Apparently one day she saw the words "Metal Gear" on someone's computer as she walked by and that was enough for Kotaku to claim MGS4 was confirmed on the I'd like to say the way they report on stories has improved since then.
However a couple months ago one of their female writers wrote an article saying the game developer that was accused of rape was guilty because statistically speaking, false rape accusations falls within an acceptable margin of error to automatically assume every man that is accused of rape, is guilty of committing said rape.
Yesterday an article was posted "Movie types we never want to see again". To sum it up, it came down to every blockbuster both good or bad falls into a movie type we never want to see again. First off all, if you don't get your comment in within the first couple minutes of an article being posted, noone will ever see it. The comments are displayed in the order in which they were posted. So there's no point in clicking the "show more replies" button at the bottom. However, even if you do manage to get in a position to get your comment seen, chances are it still won't be.
You see, they have this "pending approval" nonsense, meaning if you don't have enough people following you or at least 1 employee of the website, all of your comments are automatically hidden from view.
Although there is none of wrist-slitting in Kill La Kill. They just use an image that looks like it to spread their social justice "work" and to gain clicks of course.
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