Recent content by MathHamy

I'm sorry about the insult, but the topic of this thread clearly states "the escapist was just attacked". Wouldn't you agree that this implies that it's about the DDoS attacks? Or are you suggesting that it is completely taboo to mention GG outside of the megathread at all?

There's been talking about it on The Young Turks, actually.

So in other words you think it's unreasonable to demand that gaming websites have a publicly displayed ethics policy? To be honest, I find that most people are completely reasonable and agreeable if approached the right way.

I highly doubt anybody is saying that. The issue is more that people are naturally suspicious about people who they know have lied before (As shown in the so called "Zoe blog post", or as shown in the video where Anita says that she "isn't a fan of video games", which completely contradicts...

People have strong opinions. Are you willing to read a couple of articles? In that case, first read http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2014/09/04/gamergate-a-closer-look-at-the-controversy-sweeping-video-games/ then...

Very well, I can accept that position. My argument was simply that the overwhelmingly most likely scenario is that anti-GG crazies did it. Of course, crazies are still crazies, whatever they believe.

No offense taken. I will attempt to address your concerns. I guess I should have included my reasoning for why I believe it has something to do with GamerGate. It's all to do with two things. If it was only a random attack on an online gaming site, that means that the choice of target and the...

I would argue that the "common sense position" in this matter is precisely that the anti-GG opposition did this for the reasons I described in my post above. Mostly they want to scare people away from supporting GG, and especially they want to scare gaming websites from agreeing to GG's demands...

It's not only speculation and assumptions. Check my argument at the top, I believe it is entirely logical. If it's not, then tell me why it isn't and I will change my position. Please point out which of my assumptions you think is disputable. As for what it will accomplish, I have a personal...

The attack is on the Escapist, the only major gaming website which to my knowledge has fully agreed to GamerGate's demands. How can the first assumption be that the attack is anything but perpetrated by the "anti-GG side"? If you remain unconvinced, refer to my more fleshed out argument at...

This thread is not about GG, it's about the DDoS attack on Escapist, which warrants its own thread as a separate affair. A good policy is "ignore stuff you don't like", so feel free to go to any other thread that you like instead of complaining in threads like this. Believe it or not, people may...

I wouldn't put it past the anti-GG side to do something like this. Remember how they DDoS'd TFYC? Basically, the anti-GG attack scenario is the scenario that requires the least assumptions. They have the most obvious motive and we know they have the capability.