Reasons Against OperationVoxPopuli

Hey, talking to some people upset with Rogue's OP and here's some reasons I'm hearing from them:



RogueStar is a dev, and as a dev he really shouldn't be involved in leading boycotts against rivals, people he's previously worked with (gamasutra), etc.



Like some other indies, we're happy for support, but that's different from leading campaigns. For a group about ethics, we should care about that.



In addition: specifically promoting good sites to the advertisers looks like the people sending the emails possibly benefit financially from those sites.



Helping Gamesnosh and similar sites is great, but it's easy to write off an email telling them to take their ads somewhere.



It's Gamesnosh and other websites' job to secure their advertisers, not ours.



Also, Rogue's OP specifically says to get around their filters and break their bots trying to stop spam, which fence-sitters see as facilitating harassment. This is not part of Disrespectful Nod.



Rogue's OP is also very militaristic and tone, which yes, really makes a lot of people uncomfortable. It's shitty to make fun of them for that. We -aren't- soldiers.



Further on the language: PR people -are- seeing OperationVoxPopuli already, and they will be telling their companies that this is just organized flooding to shame people into agreeing with us.



Basically, the same complaints against OperationDN, except in DN's case, it wasn't tailored specifically to break filter bots and load them up on certain days. DN is better for that reason.



As me, someone who does not know RogueStar, the first time I saw his name was as the ONLY person ACTUALLY calling for black hatting and shit in those #burgersandfries IRC. LW used that. That's not someone I trust to follow, just personally.



I heard the conversation KingOfPol had with people against this, and they were mostly just trying to shout stuff quickly to get all these across before he got on stream because he said he was busy.



This isn't about people wanting to tear someone down, it's GamerGate people worried about this screwing shit up. I don't think that's evil.





So, just take all of these points and consider them. Frankly, I'm sick of the overuse of the word SHILL any time we're trying to discuss tactics. Operation Disrespectful Nod is still solid, and don't forget to support sites who don't shit on their customers.

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