Fucking Kotaku

[FredEffinChopin]

Someone on N4G wrote about this gem, I figured it was my duty to share it here:

http://kotaku.com/5817529/the-daily-show-attacks-video-games-in-light-of-supreme-court-decision

 

The dangers of a profession that permits one to work in one's underwear.

[RockyRan]

Someone on N4G wrote about this gem, I figured it was my duty to share it here:

http://kotaku.com/5817529/the-daily-show-attacks-video-games-in-light-of-supreme-court-decision

 

The dangers of a profession that permits one to work in one's underwear.

 

And once again, Crecente proudly displays his idiocy, this time completely missing the point of the Daily Show segment. I like how he "updated" the article with an "I'M NOT GOING TO ADMIT I'M WRONG" bit.

[deanb]

It's cos "person says Games aren't the saviour of mankind" posts get decent amount of hits on kotaku. Not surprised he'd run it if he thought he could get away with it. Even less surprised on the update.

I do like the "you can't watch this clip in your country" notice though. Very classy compared to most.

[deanb]

http://kotaku.com/5577227/this-is-kotaku

 

It's been a year and a day. So how many people here were banned that day?

[RockyRan]

I remember that day. I was out literally wine tasting in Napa. So while soft classical music played in the background of some classy winery you peoples were killing each other over there.

 

I found it amusing when I came back and saw the place in shambles. I was like "I leave for one afternoon and everyone kills themselves".

[deanb]

http://kotaku.com/5818545/take-pity-on-a-newbie-today?comment=40715729#comments

 

 

Who Admins? Have him email me?

 

 

Joel is kinda new there, I'd wager given the older writers refusal to acknowledge that groups existence he won't have ever been told of it or it's admin

[P4: Gritty Reboot]

Man that post really does sum up Kotaku. I especially like the "Sex" section. At least they're honest.

[P4: Gritty Reboot]

http://kotaku.com/5818545/take-pity-on-a-newbie-today?comment=40715729#comments

 

 

Who Admins? Have him email me?

 

 

Joel is kinda new there, I'd wager given the older writers refusal to acknowledge that groups existence he won't have ever been told of it or it's admin

That's awesome. Can't wait til we get a big front page headline telling people to join the Kotakuites Steam group! There's an easy way to troll Joel here I just know it...

[deanb]

http://kotaku.com/5818545/take-pity-on-a-newbie-today?comment=40715729#comments

21:44 - Deanb: wow

21:44 - Deanb: Joel is bieng...non-kotaku editorish

21:44 - gay anime baby thug: Daaamn

Vintage ([k]) disconnected.

21:44 - S.Tiger (NICEBOAT): Wow.

Vintage ([k]) entered chat.

21:45 - gay anime baby thug: No rage, no ban no nothing...

 

When not being a dick gets this kinda reaction it really says something

[VicariousShaner]

So, have you e-mailed him at all?

[deanb]

not yet. Waiting on Tiller for now. and tbh we have a contact email address on the steam group.

 

Also if I'm to contact him, do I use my personal mail or my PXOD mail...

[VicariousShaner]

I would use PXOD, seems more relevant.

[Thursday Next]

Oh man! That is utterly priceless! I love it. Hahahahahahahaha.

[Geck0_k]

The best gift you could give on the way out would be to help legitimize the group by -maybe- getting Joel on board. All things considered, this is delicious irony.

 

Completely Obligatory

[Mr. GOH!]

I'll bite: what *is* your take on what happened?

[deanb]

that directed at me?

[Mr. GOH!]

that directed at me?

 

Yeah. I was on vacation when the Apocalypse happened and your comments have been scrubbed. So just curious. Also wondering what Crescente's version is insofar as that's what Joel will get from him.

[deanb]

Well it was day after independence day so most of the writers were off. The site just running automated posts and ran by interns.

"This is Kotaku" popped up. I posted a few comments n replies. Nothing out of the ordinary and imo nothing ban worthy. Anyway I popped on and I was banned by Crecente.

People started questioning why I was banned, there was nothing that was notably out of the ordinary or ban worthy. That's when the Interns were let off their leash for damage control. Pretty much any post mentioning me being banned or the bans now flooding in was either deleted (no cornfield then) or led to a ban. People started to openly go in with the aim of getting banned just to make a point. It was enough that a few other sites even started reporting on it.

 

In speakup several hours alter a few threads were made, Crecente responded to one and it got quite long. He stupidly referenced something that I'd posted on my Facebook wall which is never a smart thing to do cos snooping around on your users walls isn't a good idea (I have acces to most of your emails and could invite you all to Google+, or search for you on FB. I make a point of finding people the usual way or getting people to add me. Of note is that I had never subscribed to or "liked" the kotaku page on facebook, so it's not like it was through that)

 

Later that day/the next day Owen popped into kotakuties chat. Along with 80 or so users. We locked thee chat down and just passed questions to him from various users. I have the log of it somewhere (If not I know someone else who has a log if you want a read). iirc there was a comment from Owen on how I was dictating editorial direction, which I pointed out I was just passing along suggestions, it was crecente that dictated stuff. And it didn't make sense for the ban since my unstarring a few months before after posting the semi-essay of suggestions had meant I'd stopped on that front since it was clear Crecente was sticking to his stance of "our way or the highway")

 

I was still hanging around on the other Gawker sites: io9, Gizmodo, Lifehacker. Later that week I popped on Gizmodo to see a double whammy of a system wide ban from both Crecente and Owen. So two kotaku writers had banned me from all the other sites. I still read, but over the months it dwindled a fair amount.

 

I did hop back early this year mind, mainly to point out about TAY having the revamp in December. Didn't last long

 

Oh yeah they did do that "Kotaku Editorial Board" as a kind of reaction to "kotakucalypse", which was initially promised to be a once monthly thing. They only ever made one then turned it into a hashtag to be ignored:

http://kotaku.com/kotakueditorialboard/forum?comment=39613796 - this is the only editor reply on there for the past 2 months and it's to inject a bit of snark. And a fair few posts are just labelled as "writer x moved this form article Y" so they can just ignore it.

 

 

 

As for the kotakuties group that was started over 2 years ago, ran several servers. Had to pretty much push it in their TAY posts, and TF2 or steam post that cropped up. The odd mention in Speakup. Then most of it's active users were banned. Which means for the past year there's pretty much been no way to tell anyone about the group. Then on the anniversary of most of us getting banned one of the writers finally takes an interest in it as we're planning to just move on to PXOD totally? Too little too late. People put time and money into it, Kotaku shot it down. Fuck em.

[Mr. GOH!]

What did you post that riled them up, though? I'm familiar with the aftermath, just not the genesis.

[deanb]

No idea. You can see all most posts on my account from before I was banned, to when I was banned, to when I was banned a couple days later on Gizmodo:

http://kotaku.com/people/deanbmmv/

 

Crecente nor any of the other staff have given any sign to what comment got me banned. Just that I was "trolling" or something like that.

[TheRevanchist]

 

Got this from a mod on Kotaku. I didn't see one comment that fell below the line of the triangle.

[deanb]

I think the fact I never dipped below that line is what pissed them off.

[Hot Heart]

Constructive criticism is ban-worthy on Kotaku. That is all.

[McBeeferton]

This is all so silly. Am I dreaming?

[Masonvrocks]

Wow, that's fantastic. If it catches though it'll be the old one, not PXOD of course...Even though it still has all those members I wonder how many of them are even willing to go back into that community at this point.