I updated the terms of service about copyright licensing to clear up confusion from that point onward after Kotaku reproduced a gaf post with permission.
Your permission though, not the permission of the guy whose post was being replicated. Right?
Outlets have done that countless times without permission.
For sure, but that's not a defence of that kind of behaviour.
I didn’t make any money from that and I’ve never been in bed with Kotaku, which should be clear enough considering they had a direct hand in the 2017 drama and propping up ResetEra.
I will take your word on the money thing, but the 2017 drama stemmed from this site going from being a SJW-infested shit-pile, to you being an the receiving end of a #metoo. I don't know for sure, but I doubt someone like Jason Schreier has posted on this site since then, but he was a regular contributor before that. You got hung out to dry by a bunch of people who uncritically believed accusations about you, but before that tipping point, they were fine with you. In fact, Schreier wrote off criticisms of you previous to that as "GamerGate nonsense".
And to be clear, I think you were a victim of being someone who was a target for both sides at varying times. Nothing you actual did warranted the way people treated you. That said, I think you're being disingenuous with your "journalists never liked GAF cos of how critical we were!" stuff.