And "ban everything that could possibly offend me" is the logic of a five year old. Or a facist. Which are you?

That kind of glosses over some of the other reasons, though. Like how the person who reviewed it for Polygon is actually friends with at least one of the people involved in the creation of the game (and this is undisclosed, naturally).

Well, I kinda disagree. They can exist and the good people of the world will naturally keep out of it. Anyone already invested into that subreddit are beyond hating. They WILL NOT stop just because they cut off a portion of their opinions from the internet. It all depends on how much you trust people to do the right thing. The KKK still exists and has a right to exist but good people naturally keep out of it. So I'm for allowing anything to exist and let the people decide where their opinions lie rather than enforcing a subjective moral code that ties hate-filled exclusionary maniacs with normal decent people.

Can not
Agreee
More.

Paraphrasing my favorite writer:
"Why it takes so many wise ones to silence just a few fools?"
"Because silencing others isn't in the arsenal of wise people. There is nothing wise in silencing others and by doing it wise person ceased to be wise. Fool should be heard rather than silenced. Silent fool is hard to recognize."

I know that anonymity of the internet somehow invalidates this statement, but this is the downside of the relative freedom of it. Most people can handle the occasional encounter with the idiotic hatred and i still believe they are numerous and kind enough to help those who can't.

On the other hand though, there's the argument that maybe Reddit should be free to choose what it does and doesn't host on it's servers, I don't know if the offending sub-Reddit broken any sign-up Ts & Cs but it certainly sounds like the kind of thing that would break them...

I mean, this isn't a government going in and forcing Reddit to shut stuff down, this is Reddit exercising it's own right to control what it hosts, a bit like forum moderation on a bigger scale...

Kudos Zabohad! Which author is that from?

Also, this ain't bashing, but Kotaku's Steam curations are dumb and utterly useless, not to mention excellently funny. Choice quotes:

Skyrim- '' Obscure, but that's part of the charm. An underrated gem.''
Dishonored- ''Killer atmosphere. Blink spell. Probably the best stealth/action game since Deus Ex."
FC4-"F**king eagles."
It is, but if it claims to be a free speech forum, that is in clear violation of the meaning of the term.

I'm sure the backlash against reddit's CEO Ellen Pao is just misogyinist shitlords trying to keep strong, independent womyn out of tech!

Haha, yeah right! This is like the Five Guys reddit censorship drama thing that ignited Gamergate all over again.

haven't you heard? reddittors have started mass emailing reddits advertisers and KiA is getting mass numbers (yesterday they had more active users than ghazi subs and KiA's subs passed 40000 yesterday.) OOOH Boy. It's august 28 all over.

Someone post the obligatory ''its happening''' gif !

(twitter has been filled with those yesterday)

Well thank you! :-)
Miroslav Horníček (1918-2003) was stage actor, comedian and occasional (play)writer and essayist with great sense of humor, and I don't believe any of his books was ever translated from Czech.
But his works was on similar note with Jerome Klapka Jerome in his non-sentimental moments or with Robert Fulghum: focused on the human beings as individuals with praise for their virtues and understanding with no contempt for the flaws.

And thanks for the quotes. I don't follow Kotaku.

And I agree with this argument completely, but I don't see it as the other hand, those are two different questions. Above I wrote why I see this approach to the problem as unwise (an I can write much more about it), but I never question their right to do it. Actually, terms of most digital services I know are in short "we can alter anything, anytime" so being too much morally outraged when they do is itsy-bitsy naive.
I don't use Reddit, so I don't know: was their identity build on the "free speech" as much as GOG's on "No DRM"? If so, this is grave violation of the mutual trust between parties and Reddit can hardly avoid the "just punishment" that follows: loss of any prestige or relevance and fall into obscurity, if not oblivion.

But the users have also legitimate pragmatic reason to be enraged (mentioned by Shadowstalker16): they probably lost all data from the board - names, dates, everything. And this flak on Reddit is deserved in any case because it could be prevented.

Corruption in games journalism since 2004 : http://deepfreeze.it/article.php?a=numbers

>:(

Skyrim, obscure and under rated? Bro, do they even internet?

Well that's better!
I STILL think it goes back at least as far as Nov '87 though!
http://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_gamergate_news_thread/post3113
I think it's supposed to be ironic comedy...

Indeed. DARK SOULS IS THE ONE TRUE LORD AND SAVIOR. PRAISE THE SUN!
'87 is like the 40s. So historically shrouded nothing was normal lol.
Ironic comedy shouldn't be that consistent with uninformative curation quotes, IMO.