just gender politics

The racist, vitriolic, and bigoted comments are in violation of the rules and get reported and removed. Why even begin to fight for them to stay? You argue that you want to look at new games or people talking about games, and yet you seem to be arguing that the posts in question shouldn’t be removed. How is policing a subreddit with very clear rules considered “gender politics?”

This argument is so far off the rails it’s ridiculous. The act of shutting the subreddit down for a single day was clearly to raise awareness to a growing and persistent concern that mods normally deal with so quickly that no one sees the worst of it typically. But they want to bring it to light to show the community at large that there is a part of the community that needs to look at itself, and perhaps they need help to see it.

All the people who feel they are being “talked down to by mods”, well that’s telling... I didn’t feel offended by a single games forum being shut down for a day to raise some awareness for what is arguably a good cause, but apparently there are many people who think that a significant portion of the community they subscribe to acting that way is acceptable behavior. You can see them all over this thread defending the kind of garbage that was shown.

The mods didn’t put individuals on blast, they are out to expose a toxic mindset for what it is. I’m not entirely defending the way they did it or how they did it, but I’m also not against it. I agree with their sentiment that the sort of trash they are dealing with is systemic and perpetual, it isn’t something that stops when you remove a few hundred users and comments, it’s a problem that needs to be addressed in miriad ways, and this is one of them that gets attention.