Can I be honest? I'm just glad we're making any kind of progress on this at all.
When I made my thread earlier, I had people (not everyone, but more than one) bring up the following things:
Accusing me of gaslighting EGS critics
On some level, deserving the harassment I got
Death threats are unacceptable, but.
But.
Those posts were, to be honest, disgusting, and stuck with me personally.
When the Gamebiz thread earlier discussed the Ooblets devs receiving the gargantuan amount of abuse they got, we saw more of the same:
That blog post was bad, they should've just been nice like all the other devs
Epic's CEO shouldn'tve trolled, this is his fault
We should be able to criticize devs without being accused of death threats
We don't condone harassment here, but.
But.
It was pretty demoralizing, to be honest. We had almost regressed worse than we had gone before.
Fast forward to now.
We have a line in the sand now. Those kind of things are getting hit, and hit hard. It feels like we at least turned a corner, even if it's a small one.
We know who to blame, it's the people doing the harassment. Nobody else.
If you think you're being accused of something, then this is pretty simple.
Are you harassing or threatening people over this?
No: Then it's not about you
Yes: Then it's about you.