If you were to shut down any thread that gets heated then you'd have to close every single game review thread after the first 2 pages.I guess at some point I'm wondering if there's a point to this thread continuing to exist. Like clearly this is becoming news, I get why there's a thread, but it doesn't feel like this is really serving a good purpose. I've mostly just been lurking, but it just feels like the discussion is endlessly circling in a way that gets people heated over both actual posts and their feelings on posts in aggregate.
Whole's thing's fucked up and at the very very least his silence is completely morally abhorrent regardless of the specifics on what actually happened. But because of that silence, until more details come out... what can really happen here except wild speculation that keeps bordering on internet detective work/conspiracy theories, lots of arguing over that speculation in a way that just seems stressful rather than a worthwhile conversation, and now thanks to that video we're bringing in armchair analysis of their mental illnesses and potential abuse as well?
That's not to say that there's been 0 reasonable or thought out discussion but when some of the more reasonable discussion is still effectively framing this as "true crime in progress", I'm not sure that's great either.
I have disagreements with folks and I've had disagreements with people in this very thread. But we should be allowed to speculate and post updates.