So the lovely people on Kotaku in Action on Reddit have discovered my post yesterday about the reactions of various Gamergaters on Twitter to Hulk Hogan’s recent legal win over Gawker.

Naturally, gators being gators, they manage to get themselves pretty worked up over a number of points I didn’t actually make. Gators remaining gators, there’s really no point in trying to correct them, as this will only give them more opportunities to misrepresent me.

Instead, let’s take a moment to look at some of the most highly upvoted comments in this edifying discussion that are, well, a bit more personal.

Here, with 98 net upvotes, is the most-upvoted comment in the thread, the comment that KiA collectively feels is the most valuable of them all:

This next comment, which garnered dozens of net upvotes, spurred a somewhat surreal discussion:

I may have to put this one in the We Hunted the Mammoth press kit:

This one only got a couple of upvotes, but it’s defintely going in the press kit. Hell, I’m tempted to make it the official WHTM slogan:

This one is a bit puzzling, but I do like the suggestion that telling someone to drink bleach is basically the same as saying they need to have their mouth washed out with soap. (Note: while neither of these procedures is recommended, only one will result in painful death.)

Given that to Gators will happily upvote insults and nonsense, you may wonder how exactly one might go about getting downvoted.

Here’s how:

It may be a little hard to see, because the text is small and light grey, but this comment has negative 26 points.

Gators will forever be gators, I guess.

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