Wait, wait, wait. Hold the phone. You're going after me for glorifying trolling, you say (I very clearly wasn't; I was cautioning against throwing mental health around as it complicates understanding), and you subtly included an inference that GamerGate was, quote, 'hurt' by trolls and we just needed to 'let the facts sit?' Oh, boy.
The incongruity of you defending one of the Internet's largest havens in history for trolls to demean, harass, and harm women by threatening to rape or kill them simply for being involved in video gaming, by then going after me for "glorifying" trolling and complaining that trolling harms people, is probably the most shockingly hilarious irony I've ever seen in my life. That's not hyperbole. You just seriously used GamerGate to attack trolling, which is either the work of the most master troll I have ever seen or, as seems more likely, your genuinely and outstandingly horrible opinion. I can't even comprehend the thought process that would take you there.
HN is definitely not the place to positively speak of GamerGate; I don't know about others, but I don't want anybody to ever speak of GamerGate positively again, and I'd extend this to even hiring if I could get away with asking about it.
So you believe what the media tells you about GamerGate? Because there's pretty clear evidence that regardless of your side in this debate, there was a decent chance you'd be trolled, bullied or doxed because of it.
Just see the many, many examples of people getting attacked on Twitter or Reddit or other sites for supporting it, to the point there were some people trying to frame others for crimes because they supported it.
And no, the majority of them do not attack or harass women because of it. The majority of them are sick of the media strawman constructed that anyone who disagrees with their ideas of censorship should be attacked at all costs.
And if you're trying to blacklist people because of political fights they get in, then I'm sorry, but that's pretty damn sleazy. It's exactly why there's so many issues in certain industries, because certain people want to blackball anyone who disagrees with their politics.
The incongruity of you defending one of the Internet's largest havens in history for trolls to demean, harass, and harm women by threatening to rape or kill them simply for being involved in video gaming, by then going after me for "glorifying" trolling and complaining that trolling harms people, is probably the most shockingly hilarious irony I've ever seen in my life. That's not hyperbole. You just seriously used GamerGate to attack trolling, which is either the work of the most master troll I have ever seen or, as seems more likely, your genuinely and outstandingly horrible opinion. I can't even comprehend the thought process that would take you there.
HN is definitely not the place to positively speak of GamerGate; I don't know about others, but I don't want anybody to ever speak of GamerGate positively again, and I'd extend this to even hiring if I could get away with asking about it.