Any other company would reevaluate their hiring process after allowing a serial whatever into the equivalent of an executive position. If they're not assessing where they failed in the hiring process and what, if anything, could be done to stop that in the future then that's a willful disregard of duty for the folks running that business.What? This is absurd.
Over decades of service and hundreds of staff without qualm, but one psychopath slips through the cracks and their hiring process is suddenly "not good enough"? This happens all the time in industries, publications and services of all kinds. Sometimes an employee simply turns out to be a corrupt piece of shit that can slip through the normal checks in place, because it isn't the norm.
This is a one-off. The only reason this is news is because it has almost never happens. And they handled it dutifully, swiftly and respectfully. They've done everything within reason to amend this. And no, the solution shouldn't be to turn their hiring process into the equivalent of the TSA and scanning their entire work history with the entirety of all written/flimed reviews on the internet. It's unfair to them, and unfair to the potential hard-working editorialists and other staff that apply and genuinely love games and put their true honest passion into their work. They shouldn't be disrespected just because Filip didn't respect his position.
How do you know this is a one off? I agree it's likely a one off, but IGN's hiring practices clearly wouldn't catch anyone who was doing this so we don't actually know.
Nice strawman too. There's a vast gulf of options between improving a hiring process and becoming like TSA. Any writer or creative type that's insulted by their work history being reviewed should find a new field. Your credentials are your work and that is the only way to assess whether you should get a position or not. It's not disrespectful to verify people aren't lying on their job resumes.