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Sunsetting @TheBlockBot Add comments As you all know there have been many valid criticisms of @TheBlockBot, unfortunately these have caused the community to lose some faith in it as a universal tool that can help marginalized groups have the best experience on Twitter possible. Criticisms include .Addressing diversity: The current team is not as diverse as it could or should be, a fact which itself reproduces some of the oppressions of marginalised people (e.g. racism, ableism) that we wish to address. We have failed to rectify that. Tending towards cliques: Grops of blockers are friends. Some have large accounts with lots of followers and this can intimidate either the users of the bot or some of the blockers Lack of flexibility If an account is put on a block list by mistake or for a controversial reason, the appeal process is unclear and stressful. Especially with in-community blocks, trust may be lost Scalability: The original design was easy to implement within Twitter's API when only small numbers of blocks needed to be implemented; there is no way to extend the same design to tens of thousands, or potentially millions of accounts For all these reasons we feel the current block bot project, as it stands, needs to come to an end. Not to mention, blockers and admins have been exposed to harassment due to running the service Thanks for all your support. Be assured, the service will continuel We'll be following up with details soonl @TheBlockBot team. The Block Bot @TheBlockBot 15h BL鼫ル An Announcement Sunseting @TheBlockBot theblockbot.com/?page_id-278 £739 ★8 The Block Bot @TheBlockBot 12h BThe detailsi Looking forward to hearing your thoughtsi theblockbot.com/? page_id-270 314 ★5 Coder Catten @LynnMagic-6h Coder Catten @LynnMagic 5h Anyways, that very vague tweet from TBB is the announcement that @CollectQT is gonna be fixing their s--- わt3★ Coder Catten @LynnMagic Follow Basically I'm gonna upend everything EVOLVE OR DIE! Here's the link again theblockbot.com/? page id-270 FAVORITES 2 2:29 AM-21 Mar 2015 Coder Catten @LynnMagic 5h Also I've gotten a total of 0 messages from GG because of this. Clearly I am a The Block Bot Reborn Add comments The Block Bot team is excited to announce a planned retool and expansionl We are ready to make The Block Bot better for everyone that uses the service The original Block Bot grew from an irreverent quick-fix solution aiding a specific online community during a time of hostility. Because of increased popularity it has grown far beyond its original intent. Although many improvements have been made along the way, we have heard the concerns of the communities we serve and the time has come for a major change. We are delighted to welcome Lynn Cyrin to our team. She is well qualified to offer her programming and diversity services in order to help us improve. She is a staunch advocate of diversity, and has worked on a number of projects and publications. We are currently busy constructing a shared vision with Lynn detailing how The Block Bot will function long-term. Currently, The Block Bot only supports one blocking team made of individuals who may disagree and who have a variety of blocking philosophies. The different communities The Block Bot serves also have a diversity of perspectives and expectations that sometimes conflict. One proposed solution is to create a platform to address these concerns, similar to blocktogether.org. Our platform, however, would go beyond sharing personal blocks by enabling people to work together to build moderated block lists to serve specific community needs. In this developmental stage, the following features for this new platform are being discussed .Facilitating the formation of more than one blocking team Allowing users to opt-in or opt-out of individual blocker's blocks Creating clear policies for adding and removing blockers and admins Handling appeals more consistently Expanding users' block-list choices Soliciting feedback from users more effectively Providing a more robust system for users to suggest blocks. In order to make improvements, Lynn has proposed that the technical ownership of The Block Bot be passed onto CollectQT http:l/collectqt.me/. The members of CollectQT are programmer Lynn Cyrin, Culture and Community Organizer Ophelia Black, and PR Director Kiran Oliver. CollectQT has provisionally agreed to significantly rewrite The Block Bot over the summer Since CollectQT maintains a Patreon account, they are able to accept community financial support to pay for hosting, technical support services and development of new back-end code. While subscribing to The Block Bot wll remain free to all, this financial investment will allow the service to transition into a more professional service better suited to support the health and well-being of subscribers more effectively and flexibly. We highly encourage those who are willing and able to contribute to their organization to consider doing so Lastly, we would like to assure the communities we aim to support with our service that we are committed to continue to do what we do. We know that our service is important to many people for various reasons and we respect that. 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Gamergate (harassment campaign) Article Talk From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For other uses, see Gamergate (disambiguation). Gamergate or GamerGate (GG)[¹] was a loosely organized misogynistic online harassment campaign and a right-wing backlash against feminism, diversity, and progressivism in video game culture. [2][³] It was conducted using the hashtag "#Gamergate" primarily in 2014 and 2015.[1][4][5][6] Beginning in August 2014, Gamergate targeted women in the video game industry, most notably feminist media critic Anita Sarkeesian and video game developers Zoë Quinn and Brianna Wu, among others.[7][8][9][10][11] The harassment campaign included doxing, r--- threats, and death threats.[12][13][14] Gamergate proponents ("Gamergaters") stated that they were a social movement, but lacked well-defined goals, a coherent message, and leaders, making Gamergate difficult to define.[15][16][17] Gamergaters claimed to promote ethics in video games journalism, claimed to be protecting the "gamer" identity, and opposed what they asserted as "political correctness" in video games.[18][19][20][21][22] Read Date Target Gamergate, online harassment campaign in 2014-15 that targeted women in the video game industry. The attacks were attributed largely to white male right-wing gamers who railed against the rise and influence of women and feminism in the industry. Gamergate served as a recruiting tool for the growing alt-right movement and helped spur the online “Pizzagate" conspiracy theory, which soon spawned the wider QAnon conspiracy movement. …………………………....…..……….…..... Attack type Victims Motive View source Inquiry XA 28 languages ✓ Perpetrators Internet trolls, particularly from 4chan, Internet Relay Chat, and 8chan View history Tools ✓ Gamergate August 2014 - 2015 Women in the video game industry See all media Online harassment campaign Zoë Quinn, Anita Sarkeesian, Brianna Wu, and others Gamergaters created conspiracy theories falsely accusing Quinn of an unethical relationship with video game journalist Nathan Grayson.[23][24][25] More broadly, they alleged unethical collusion between the press and feminists, progressives, and social critics.[17][26] [27] These claims were widely dismissed as trivial, conspiracy theories, baseless, or unrelated to actual issues of ethics in gaming and journalism.[28] [29][30] Gamergate supporters frequently denied that the harassment took place, falsely claiming it to be manufactured by the victims.[31][32] Misogyny anti-feminism anti- progressivism FBI investigation Gamergate has been described as a culture war over cultural diversification, artistic recognition, feminism in video games, social criticism in video games, and the social identity of gamers.[28][33] [34] [35] Many supporters of Gamergate opposed the increasing influence of feminism and so-called "social justice warriors" on video game culture. [2][36] Gamergate led figures both inside and outside the gaming industry to focus on methods of addressing online harassment, ways to minimize harm, and prevent similar events. [37] [38] [39] [40] Gamergate has been viewed as a contributor to the alt-right and other right- wing movements.[21][41] Video game developer Brianna Wu

Jalen Hutchinson Studied Culinary Science at Culinary Institute of America (Graduated 2014). Author has 304 answers and 740.1K answer views. 5y Not that I care that much either way, but it did expose a lot of corrupt game developers and game journalists. X Journalists would make claims of people like Anita Sarkeesian "playing video games all her life" when she openly admitted many times she is not a gamer and only starter recently (when it wasn't for an interview). Various developers trading sex or money for good reviews got exposed, journalists who accepted got exposed. People became a bit more critical about supporting a game just because the developer has a victim complex stating tat their game could have only failed because of sexism, instead of their own poor developing skills. What really sealed the deal was opposition often faking their own harassment. Anita sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn have been caught multiple times screenshotting "harassment" while showing that the harrasser's account name in the login. Or when someone called the police to help Sarkeesian against a "very real threat" she was posting about, only for police to find the harasser's messages were coming from her IP address. I just want honesty from the community, and the lies were mostly exposed by the "dreaded" gamergate. 1.3K views • View upvotes 26

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(´・ω・｀) points out how Anti-GG feels

1. They are aware they are hopelessly outnumbered. Their only hope right now is to gather reinforcements, something thathasn't happenedin 7 months 2. Their desperation has evolved to delusion: there is a thought that, ifthey keep making fun ofyou, you will eventually go away. They arenot aware at all that pokingyou with the literary equivalent ofa stick only strengthens your resolve 3. Their current plan is to keep pressing the media angle, in hopes that continued, targeted bad PR will eventually recruit some reinforcements. They think thatnormal people are eventually going to care: they just haven't figured out what to say exactly to get the word out. The hope is that the entire viewing public will become outraged and 'crush' #GamerGate. This is never going to happen. 4. They are aware that nothing has worked. They are out ofthings to try: that's why they're doubling and tripling downon stupidshit they do. They only know how to silence dissent in one way: shaming. And that doesn'tworkon you The only way you're going to lose is if you stop caring Please don't giveup ('·ω· *) @_icze4r·6h Let me give you a few observations on how Anti-#GamerGate feels right now: わ t7 131 *150 …

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<sarcasm> Youtube comments section </sarcasm>

AnonymousRDy Do you want to know the truly weird juxtaposition from the whole gamergate affair? Oddly enough, the Anti-GGers have made gamers and gaming more welcoming. We have been brought together, we reach out to others, we welcome with open arms far more than we used to. Their attempts to demonize us are only strengthening our resolve to do better 4 months ago ⑥ We have been attacked by people like this for decades. Each time we have come out of those attacks and tried to rebuild and make things better, but then they attack us again and set the whole gamer culture back a generation. Not this time. This time a lot of people have got their number. We have seen all this schtick before. This time its not sticking for the most part. Sure there is damage. There are neutrals that fall for the media lies, but when the gaming media industry lies in ruins with only those that changed left standing, we will pick up the pieces once again and make a better gaming culture. Gaming is for everyone. We dont care what you do, who you are, what your race is, nor gender, nor creed or religion. We just care if you like to play games and want to play with us. No b-------, no politics. Just games Show less Reply . 39

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Feministing, John Scalzi, and Wil Wheaton: If You Support GamerGate, You're Not College Educated

John Scalzi @scalzi 22h The idea a blocklist is defamation is further evidence that "paste eating" was the college major of many GamerGaters: feministing.com/2015/03/19/re.. 162 ☆267 ..。 Wil Wheaton @wilw 22h @scalzi AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH. Oh god. The idea that any of those people could get into college. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. £714 ★98 。.. Dal Gren @DalGren 16h @wilw @scalzi if you're calling the people on that list something like "bigots" or "terrorists" it is. #Gamergate

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The Blockbot is shutting down.

Sunsetting @TheBlockBot Add comments As you all know there have been many valid criticisms of @TheBlockBot, unfortunately these have caused the community to lose some faith in it as a universal tool that can help marginalized groups have the best experience on Twitter possible. Criticisms include Not being good about certain systems of oppression [ex: racism]: The current team is not as diverse as it could be. We have failed to rectify that. Tending towards cliques: Groups of blockers are friends. Some have large accounts with lots of followers and this can intimidate either the users of the bot or some of the blockers. Not very flexible: If an account is put on a block list by mistake or for a controversial reason, the appeal process is unclear and stressful. Especially with in-community blocks, trust may be lost. For all these reasons we feel the current block bot project, as it stands, needs to come to an end. Not to mention, blockers and admins have been exposed to harassment due to running the service. Thanks for all your support. We'll be following up with details soon! Be assured, the service will continue in the meantime. @TheBlockBot team.

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Unregistered User in San Francisco removes sourced info from #GamerGate wiki

User contributions For 199.27.13383 (talk | block log uploads | logs) Search for contributions O Show contributions of new accounts only (e) IP address or username: 199.27.133.83 Namespace: all 'J Invert selection Associated namespace only show edits that are page creations From month (and earlier): all 」Only show edits that are latest revisions From year (and earlier): 2015 Search . 01:36, 20 March 2015 (diff I hist) . . (-1,150) . . Randi Harper (Replaced content with Ystub》--References-,reflist) . 01:32, 20 March 2015 (diff I hist) . . (+114). . GGAutoBlocker (→Responses) . 01:29, 20 March 2015 (diff I hist) . . (+68) - . GGAutoBlocker (→Language) 01:38, 20 March 2015 (diff I hist). (+189) . Censorship 01:34, 20 March 2015 (diff I hist)(+53) . GGAutoBlocker 01:31, 20 March 2015 (diff I hist) . . (+28). . GGAutoBlocker (→Media Coverage) 01:27, 20 March 2015 (diff | hist). . (-46). Katherine Cross 01:26, 20 March 2015 (diff I hist)(+133)..Blacklisting 01:22, 20 March 2015 (diff I hist) . (-11). David Auerbach 01:21, 20 March 2015 (diff I hist).. (-5)Katherine Cross 01:21, 20 March 2015 (diff | hist). . (-1,12Katherine Cross 01:20, 20 March 2015 (diff | hist) . (-2,246). Katherine Cross Lo-Ping@GamingAndPandas 20h Unregistered user has been removing sourced info from the #GamerGate wiki P is from San Francisc How about that £7 319 *317

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A woman criticized Randi Harper. Then this happened with thanks to aGGro's

CandiceLikesYou @sschinke @freebsdgrl @Ginner THEY prott for bullying, they should promose non-aggro tactics someone who changes this WHOLE thing around it she wants to Glinner @CandicelkesYou rather curious as to what they would preter l sure tweet was 100% done with genuine concern @innerPartiean @freebsdgin-Wow That's wildly overblown. I'd never do that CandiceLikes You comtar for8 months we leaned sience and ignoring GG herseif an obvious target and biockist todder goes your words that way. simply cuz that is what they sound lke @freebsdgrl @Glinner I can't really blame Randi seeing Gregorthecnuel EaCandkelikesYou I sympathize with what they deal with, Metro dThiet @InnerPartisan @freebsdgrl- Who sald this was about owing when the targets point out that GG is trying to get them fred silence people who fight back Stop holding @CandiceLikesYou @InnerPartisan If @freebsdgirl being vocal makes you ils Canaice 9 9 ke that Everil I would never tel anyone that disagree vwith into slience Which yourre now c Randřs deait with. Just informing you She's had it rough binjabreel @comtar-And nobody here is saying that work is wrong o harassers only Busrates ow long she's been targeted realve that youre asking people to abandon ser respect gymnastics to watch that and think mow d e she do thar1 comtar ecandceLikesYou Yeah, making a record of horrble abuse Is just people about harassers womt he p? Yep, just sutfer in silence Sweet And Awtul EMariachMacabre 85m attempt to stop her from criticizing them They're awful CandiceLkesyou @comtar "dont teed the trols' enables abuse, which t GG didn't just prove, has been demonstrated e⑤ewhere over and over bigger than their ego. Eigger than any one movemet can tear down Sweet And AwfulQMariachiMacabro 50m andicelikesYou @innerPartisan @freebsdgirl She makes snarky jokes binpabreet @comtar-Dont recall saying ANY of that Not even in magicaly egotistical to post your own received death threars aCandiceLikesYou @treebsdgin What these trolis want isn't attention. They want silence. You hght that by being vocal SuperSpacedad @m m myers it also doesn't work when those trols, a gutanachintacaone innerPartisen @freeosdgin @srnbutts-wonderui piece @binjabreel @CandikeLikesyou There's a dterence between being sient and Thae86-on wow I never said any of that. How faschating Goily look at what she deals with because it makes 'her" look egctistica? away" Not much experience with this sutt, eh? binjabreel @comtar Nope, you're just not listening' delecting your Thae86 @InnerPartisan- You truly can't see how that looks? @CandiceLikesYou@Thae86@innerPartisan Oh, there's shame here. CandicelikesYou @innerPartisan She's been more generous to former SuperSpacedad According to this dude. apparently exposing the harassment bulshit. She knows from experience staying sient DOES NOT WORK @CandiceLikesYou realize that yourre gving the troils ammunition with this statement Your earier crticism seems hypocrmical SuperSpacedad @m_m_myers consider that Anta does not engage ight, inng back usualily starts a war There an Thae86 gMetroidThiet @innerPartsan-Never. I actualy hurts that amyone e suis Gaza adoed you to their ist Hate k you don't return a punch. You find authonities and never has, covered harassment and threats Bozms ecandiceLikesYou @kamsage @comtar @Sushilulutwitch I would AhnethaAhra Super Spacedad m m myers not while every straight white

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Totalbiscuit responds to hitpiece. Writer of hitpiece says it was just 'calling out TB'.

↓ TotalBiscuit @Totalbiscuit. 14h TotalBiscuit's Ego and the Modern Gaming Community" Hah, this'll be a 323 TotalBiscuit retweeted A---- Ghosh @Grimpillmage 14h @ Totalbiscuit I preferred Totalbiscuit and the Prisoner of Azkaban personally. Much better paced 281 View conversation ↓ TotalBiscuit @Totalbiscuit. 14h I like how all these pseudo-intellectual hitpieces also always attack an audience of 2 million. The sheer arrogance of that, mindboggling £784 ★319 TotalBibiscuit 14h ITS NOT JUST HIM THAT'S DUMB, YOU ARE DUMB TOO FOR WATCHING HIM. Mhm yeah sure, win hearts and minds that way, thatll work t3 75 ★326 ↓ TotalBiscuit @Totalbiscuit. 14h I guess when you live in a self-righteous bubble, seeing people as less than you is totally ok. わt3 101 ★304 ↓ TotalBiscuit @Totalbiscuit. 14h people used to be bullies, realized that was I'm convinced most of these bad but had no idea how to not act that way, so became like this t3 146 ★444 ↓ TotalBiscuit @Totalbiscuit. 14h @The_Reckonist that was giggle worthy. He criticizes me content as base then recommends a channel which is mostly laughing at s----- games View conversation TotalBiscuit@Totalbiscuit 14h @The_Reckonist just goes to show the only thing that matters to these people is identity politics. "Watch people we approve of" View conversation ↓ TotalBiscuit @Totalbiscuit. 14h Sushilulutwitch @Astojap the reason its Patreon funded is because nobody else would give him money for it I imagine わt38 ★25 ..。 Total Biscuit @Total biscuit. 14h @TobyBernard @The_Reckonist "I don't like people with egos" recommends leigh alexander* View conversation £717 *50 View conversation ↓ TotalBiscuit @Totalbiscuit. 13h The radical notion that people who play games want to hear about the game in the coverage the consume. Who'd have thunk 259 畢TotalBiscuit@)Totalbiscuit. 13h @evicoso these people are arsefurious that vague social commentary involving games is somehow niche. No s--- its niche t33 ★13 View conversation ↓ TotalBiscuit@Totalbiscuit. 13h @RelieaYuell fun and passion are problematic don't you know View conversationn TotalBiscuit@Totalbiscuit.13h @hurrhle the hypocrisy is amusing. He is populist.. Yet somehow uninclusive. Wait what? Keeping politics out MAKES US INCLUSIVE View conversation ↓ TotalBiscuit @Totalbiscuit. 9h Love being told by clueless Americans how privileged I grew up. Yeah, us working class folk in ex-pit-towns in the 80s sure had it cushy わ£7170 ★574 TotalBiscuit @Totalbiscuit 9h Americans obsession with race and their assumption that its the same in every country is embarrassing. Privilege is class in England. ↓ TotalBiscuit @Totalbiscuit. 9h It's about how much money you have and your social station, simple as that. Americentric attitudes are only useful when discussing America £7102 ★265 TotalBiscuit (a)Totalbiscuit. 9h Maggie Thatcher was too busy making all of us umemployed for us to be too concerned with your white America social politics TotalBiscuit @Totalbiscuit 9h Britains racism problem and yes we do have one is perpetrated primarily by white working class, some of the least privileged. £768 ★199 ↓ TotalBiscuit @Totalbiscuit. 9h All egged on by politicians that want to use them to get elected, close the borders, get us out of the EU and all manner of other s--- £759 *178 TotalBiscuit Totalbiscuit 9h But you wouldnt know any of that because you assume the world consists of San Francisco, Seattle and "Here be Dragons". Silly geese 80 357 TotalBiscuit@Totalbiscuit.9h Rawr and so forth 46 Bonus: Update from author of the hitpiece. When we do it, it's 'calling out'. When you do it, it's 'attacking, sealioning'. Most of the comments for this article have been pur ged, and the offending accounts blacklisted. Mod-2 hours ago If you have something to say about this piece and the infor mation contained therein, I welcome you to do so. However, I am not interested in hearing the same verbatim GG attacks Ive heard for months. If you have something to add to this discussion, make sure that it is useful and constructive, not a veiled (or blatant) attack on me because I called out TotalBiscuit.

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Liam Richardson on Twitter

Liam Richardson@Meevil-23m It's worrying how many pro #GamerGate videos out there have next to no dislikes

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Randi Harper and Glenn Fleishman on Twitter

Glenn Fleishman @GlennF. 4h @freebsdgirl What the hell. They sponsor every podcast I listen to. What did they do? Randi Harper @freebsdgirl 4h GlennF twitter.com/CandiceLikesYo Glenn Fleishman @GlennF. 4h @freebsdgirl Well, that's unacceptable. And her response is that she's not silencing anyone by telling you to shut up. OK! Glenn Fleishman @GlennF Macworld columnist (Mac 911, Private I) & co-host of Macworld podcast. Regular contributor to the Economist, Fast Company, Boing Boing, more. Jeopardy! champion 5 Randi Harper @freebsdgirl 4h @GlennF oh, she's one of sushi's idiots 5 Glenn Fleishman @GlennF. 4h @freebsdgirl I'm going to have things to say about Lootcrate Seattle, WA θ glog.glennt.com Joined August 2007

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FYI: this is the woman who doxed @PlayDangerously.

Margaret Pless retweeted Sargon of Akkad @Sargon_of_Akkad 3 hrs Sorry everyone, myself @idlediletante is the sockpuppet account I use to harass 713 ★39 Margaret Pless@idlediletante 3 Wow been awhile since l've seen an angry how many trolls didn't get through #ggautoblocker わ£71 ★

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Rebuild Initiative - letter to GravTech Games

GravTech Games @GravTechGames Following "I want to rebuild the bridges between developers and gamers...we have your six." 0 5 Made our night! #RebuildInitiative わt , bear RETWEETS FAVORITES 21 18 8:22 PM - 19 Mar 2015

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New Charity Ideas

Leader 03/19/15 (Thu) 17:43:55 ID: 2aacc6 No.492899 File (hide): 142680143508 (108.47 KB, 237x295, 237:295, 492307 Ok, I'm back and I'm going to sell you on why this is a great plan GAMERGATE FUNDING THE HEROES INITIATIVE OR THE COMIC BOOK LEGAL DEFENSE FUND WILL SEND aGGros UP THE F------ WALL. The Heroes Initiative is a charity that provides a financial safety net for comic creators in need. Due to the low-paying, no-benefits nature of the comic book industry, a lot of creators don't have the means to pay for emergency medical care. It's a great cause that helps the people who've made DC and Marvel millions The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is an organization that protects the First Amendment rights of comics creators, publishers, and retailers covering legal expenses. They actively fight the censorship of comic books Both of these are beloved by those in the comic book industry, sjw and non-sjw alike, so Gamergate donating a sum to either charity will MAKE GAMERGATE UNASSAILABLE IN COMICS AND GENERATE SO MUCH SALT THAT THE SEA WILL SEEM BLAND."" Comics Alliance, Dan Slot, Cameron Stuart, and even f------ JOSS WEDON will literally be gnawing at themselves over this. How can they talk s--- about a group that has given money TO HELP OLD CREATORS IN NEEDI THE DEFENSE OF COMICS AS A MEDIUM without looking like a total ass? I'm sure Gamergate can generate more funds than any industry a------ has even spit in either of those organizations directions. Think of people like the creator of Rocket Raccoon and the family of Jack Kirby who'd be thrilled that we're giving back to very people whom Joss Wedon owes his f------ paycheck. So if you're p----- about Whor or the whole cover scam, think this idea over. In my opinion, it's possibly the worst thing you can do to them

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GamerGate - @TheBlockBot Changes Technical Ownership Following "Many Valid Criticisms"

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Sunsetting @TheBlockBot Add comments As you all know there have been many valid criticisms of @TheBlockBot, unfortunately these have caused the community to lose some faith in it as a universal tool that can help marginalized groups have the best experience on Twitter possible. Criticisms include .Addressing diversity: The current team is not as diverse as it could or should be, a fact which itself reproduces some of the oppressions of marginalised people (e.g. racism, ableism) that we wish to address. We have failed to rectify that. Tending towards cliques: Grops of blockers are friends. Some have large accounts with lots of followers and this can intimidate either the users of the bot or some of the blockers Lack of flexibility If an account is put on a block list by mistake or for a controversial reason, the appeal process is unclear and stressful. Especially with in-community blocks, trust may be lost Scalability: The original design was easy to implement within Twitter's API when only small numbers of blocks needed to be implemented; there is no way to extend the same design to tens of thousands, or potentially millions of accounts For all these reasons we feel the current block bot project, as it stands, needs to come to an end. Not to mention, blockers and admins have been exposed to harassment due to running the service Thanks for all your support. Be assured, the service will continuel We'll be following up with details soonl @TheBlockBot team. The Block Bot @TheBlockBot 15h BL鼫ル An Announcement Sunseting @TheBlockBot theblockbot.com/?page_id-278 £739 ★8 The Block Bot @TheBlockBot 12h BThe detailsi Looking forward to hearing your thoughtsi theblockbot.com/? page_id-270 314 ★5 Coder Catten @LynnMagic-6h Coder Catten @LynnMagic 5h Anyways, that very vague tweet from TBB is the announcement that @CollectQT is gonna be fixing their s--- わt3★ Coder Catten @LynnMagic Follow Basically I'm gonna upend everything EVOLVE OR DIE! Here's the link again theblockbot.com/? page id-270 FAVORITES 2 2:29 AM-21 Mar 2015 Coder Catten @LynnMagic 5h Also I've gotten a total of 0 messages from GG because of this. Clearly I am a The Block Bot Reborn Add comments The Block Bot team is excited to announce a planned retool and expansionl We are ready to make The Block Bot better for everyone that uses the service The original Block Bot grew from an irreverent quick-fix solution aiding a specific online community during a time of hostility. Because of increased popularity it has grown far beyond its original intent. Although many improvements have been made along the way, we have heard the concerns of the communities we serve and the time has come for a major change. We are delighted to welcome Lynn Cyrin to our team. She is well qualified to offer her programming and diversity services in order to help us improve. She is a staunch advocate of diversity, and has worked on a number of projects and publications. We are currently busy constructing a shared vision with Lynn detailing how The Block Bot will function long-term. Currently, The Block Bot only supports one blocking team made of individuals who may disagree and who have a variety of blocking philosophies. The different communities The Block Bot serves also have a diversity of perspectives and expectations that sometimes conflict. One proposed solution is to create a platform to address these concerns, similar to blocktogether.org. Our platform, however, would go beyond sharing personal blocks by enabling people to work together to build moderated block lists to serve specific community needs. In this developmental stage, the following features for this new platform are being discussed .Facilitating the formation of more than one blocking team Allowing users to opt-in or opt-out of individual blocker's blocks Creating clear policies for adding and removing blockers and admins Handling appeals more consistently Expanding users' block-list choices Soliciting feedback from users more effectively Providing a more robust system for users to suggest blocks. In order to make improvements, Lynn has proposed that the technical ownership of The Block Bot be passed onto CollectQT http:l/collectqt.me/. The members of CollectQT are programmer Lynn Cyrin, Culture and Community Organizer Ophelia Black, and PR Director Kiran Oliver. CollectQT has provisionally agreed to significantly rewrite The Block Bot over the summer Since CollectQT maintains a Patreon account, they are able to accept community financial support to pay for hosting, technical support services and development of new back-end code. While subscribing to The Block Bot wll remain free to all, this financial investment will allow the service to transition into a more professional service better suited to support the health and well-being of subscribers more effectively and flexibly. We highly encourage those who are willing and able to contribute to their organization to consider doing so Lastly, we would like to assure the communities we aim to support with our service that we are committed to continue to do what we do. We know that our service is important to many people for various reasons and we respect that. Even in the stress of increasingly inventive tactics to stop us and other sometimes intense challenges, we're committed to serve and we hope that the efforts put into improving our service will prove useful to you Any questions or suggestions? Comment below, or contact the admin team: @MAMelby, @Xanthe Cat and @VanguardVivian. For questions of a technical nature, contact @LynnMagic. Thank you so much. Sincerely CollectQT and the BlockBot team

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