Re: Depends...on when people noticed the debate...
This is drivel, as you well know.
a. ZQ did not stoke any fires. She was harassed and is still being harassed by people like you who have ZERO compunction about making nonsense up to attack one of your targets;
b. Gamergate was named after it started. It was started by some people at 4chan, who were too dumb to understand that their conversations on the issue could be mined;
c. The stuff about Kotaku investigating itself is drivel of course. This is how grown ups work. Here is the editor's account: http://kotaku.com/in-recent-days-ive-been-asked-several-times-about-a-pos-1624707346 . It is worth noting how some people in the comments, having read the article, immediately state something that is untrue;
d. This is Grayson's only article about ZQ on Kotaku: http://tmi.kotaku.com/the-indie-game-reality-tv-show-that-went-to-hell-1555599284 . In Jan 2014, he wrote this on Rock Paper Shotgun: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/01/08/admission-quest-valve-greenlights-50-more-games/
e. There is no "anti-GG side". There are gamergate people and other similar vile subgroups and then there is everybody else;
f. Nathan Grayson was NOT hounded in the way that ZQ has been hounded. You know this, why tell lies about it?
g. It's not "two sides playing games against each other". It's about second-rate people attempting to intimidate women in the games industry.
h. It is pointless trying to argue, because you will just make up stuff if the facts don't fit your interpretation.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
