I decided I like this the best. Who is with me?
Gamergate Safe Space is good too, but seeimg what happened with CHAZ, I feel GAYZ is right.
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I agree. There's a fair amount of genuinely constructive conversation taking place here. However, our humor is probably part of what's kept us all going for so long, as well as a critical target of people looking to censor others. It's not unexpected to see people having fun with acronyms. At least no one has suggested something like: Worldwide Internet Gamergaters Gathering Escaping Reddit
I am all for humor, and that can actually be combined with dead seriousness. Lincoln was very well-known for craftily using humor in order to back up what he wanted to advance.
But if we make such a thing our official motto, then we are branding ourselves as a joke. And that is never a good thing. There is a difference between a comedian, who uses comedy to make points, and a clown who is just ridiculous for its own sake.
For sure. These places might seem to have very few people because of how little people post, but they actually have a tremendous amount of lurkers as well. I wouldn't be surprised if some of them were actually quite influential on whichever particular side they represent. A lot of the conversations and comments made here are repeated on social media platforms -- and vice versa.
I understand what you're saying in regards to humor; we can still have jokes and make fun of things without being the joke. Of course humor is a go to mechanism people use when coping with difficult times, but it's important that the messages within aren't lost at its expense.
I think overall the community has demonstrated that humor is concomitant to who we are, but we're also very much more, too.