Jayngfet
2014-08-24, 06:51 AM
I'm inquiring about the policy regarding current gaming journalism integrity.
In short, I want to make a thread about the conflict of intrests between Kotaku, Rock Paper Shotgun, and other video gaming sites and their relationship with the involved industry(not just a single person, but many people. Whatever the original individual was about, it's moved beyond that). Obviously making it on those sites would be preferred, but they're deleting those threads and most threads involved are showing bias or attempted bias. Even the Escapist forums, which allow discussion, still show a conflict of interest as conflict creators admit to friendship with multiple accused parties and their behavior is erratic, if not offensive in the case of Bob Chipman.
I'm hoping that GITP, being largely uninvolved, will be able to handle this fairly and without politics coming into this, or anything else hotbutton or rule breaking. Given the serious nature of some of the things happening(25k in charity money being compromised, thousands of posts being deleted in waves, the whole issue with Polytron), they deserve to be talked about with less bias than they're currently being presented as.
GITP, for what it's worth, is usually one of the best websites about this, and I'm hoping some good can come from questions being asked without being inflammatory.
In short, I want to make a thread about the conflict of intrests between Kotaku, Rock Paper Shotgun, and other video gaming sites and their relationship with the involved industry(not just a single person, but many people. Whatever the original individual was about, it's moved beyond that). Obviously making it on those sites would be preferred, but they're deleting those threads and most threads involved are showing bias or attempted bias. Even the Escapist forums, which allow discussion, still show a conflict of interest as conflict creators admit to friendship with multiple accused parties and their behavior is erratic, if not offensive in the case of Bob Chipman.
I'm hoping that GITP, being largely uninvolved, will be able to handle this fairly and without politics coming into this, or anything else hotbutton or rule breaking. Given the serious nature of some of the things happening(25k in charity money being compromised, thousands of posts being deleted in waves, the whole issue with Polytron), they deserve to be talked about with less bias than they're currently being presented as.
GITP, for what it's worth, is usually one of the best websites about this, and I'm hoping some good can come from questions being asked without being inflammatory.