1/ So, let's recap: Anonymous person @chihirodev (account disabled) pops up, says she's got major games industry experience, quickly
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2/ gains thousands of followers by ranting about the corruption she's encountered therein. Some of it is standard PR silliness, but she
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3/ also levels a bombshell claim against Kotaku: that the site *intentionally* broke a Playstation 4 back when the console first came
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4/ out to gin up pageviews over a possible hardware issue. This is a different echelon of claim: this would be, in all likelihood,
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5/ legally actionable fraud. And because Gawker, it would be a national story. People, myself included, approach her and say, "Whoa,
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6/ that's crazy! Let me help you verify that that really happened!" I was skeptical but of course willing to hear her "proof." Nothing
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7/ from her but a promise that in the weeks to come, there will be proof -- she's sticking around. Then, today, she announces on Reddit
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8/ (h/t
@RealDackFayden) that she's reconsidered and is gonna withdraw completely from teh whole thing https://archive.is/fthmA This1 reply 10 retweets 13 likes -
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9/ episode highlights everything wrong with anonymous, tightly knit ideological communities. The lack of accountability is astounding.
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10/ Here in the real world, where there are adults, you can't just launch serious charges against other people and then recede into the
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11/ mist. You just can't. But in these communities, it happens over and over again, and because of how rumors work, the charges ALWAYS
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12/ stick around and continue to circulate, long after the accuser no longer exists. It's a bullshit way to debate video game culture or
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13/ anything else for that matter. Completely detached from normal human standards of communication/reputation/accountability. God this
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