We honestly make this too easy for them
No. This is not even that bad of an article. It does okay at presenting the positive side, but where it goes wrong is how much emphasis it places on the negative. I mean, just to name two big things he relied on--Miranda's message had an overall positive tone, but he cherry picked the worst part. The people sending her dick pics are not prominent, or even visible members of the community. Absolutely nobody would agree with that shameful shit. He also mentions the OBS--you guys and most everyone else watch this for the schadenfreude. Their guests even blow them up. The stream monsters who enjoy it un-ironically are the same ones sending dick pics to Miranda--the worst kind of trash and also the kind of cockroaches that nobody can keep out from any fanbase for anything--be it sports, music, etc.
People speak up, commentators get banned, players get shunned...that's about all anyone can do. Not everyone is under contract to act nice like FPS/MOBA/RTS players, so the idiots get to speak out. Nobody has the power to do anything definitive about idiots except those in their immediate vicinity. All that can be done is to promote the idea that this stuff isn't cool--and we've got people speaking up all the time. There is no "yellow card" or blanket bans from tournaments, no way to sanction anyone. You can't make a citizen's arrest or force someone to go to a seminar. All we can say is "you're a fucking idiot" and people say that all the damn time...any time there's controversy.
I always get the feeling that people act like the FGC has its own policing system that is letting people "get away" with stuff, as if it's a conspiracy--like the last sentence of the article-- "waiting for another bigot to hijack the message." What in the flying fuck?! What they, the writers, the critics, and the twitchcops/esports guys are actually requiring/asking for is a solution to the problem of bigotry. It's absolutely fucking ridiculous. If we knew how to solve that, we'd be winning nobel peace prizes. People bring this shit in, it goes back way farther and deeper than when they first played SF2.
It's a slam dunk article to wait around, watching gamers until they say something stupid. And then when someone makes an argument like I've just made, they call it "circling the wagons" or deflecting.
At some point, they have to acknowledge the FGC is made of mostly unassociated individuals. You don't say SC2 has a "child molestation problem" that the community needs to solve just because a coach got busted for that. Or a "cheating problem" that the community needs to solve because some guys get caught in those scandals. You don't require the FPS community to solve its "bigotry problem" by keeping tabs on every guy on youtube who decides to make his own FPS show. Or, more analogous to stream monsters--by cracking down on FPS Xbox Live bigots.
I like this guy's articles generally, but he's just not all the way there, in terms of observing his subjects.
yeah, i mad. There's plenty of stuff to criticize but there's a fair way to do it and an unfair way. This isn't exactly Kotaku-levels of sensational unfairness meant to rile up readers, but I'm still not quite happy with the representation of the problem.
