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As the title suggests, over the last couple of days there's been an influx of doomer comments over the SKG petition. While it's fine to disagree, I'm finding it suspicious that there weren't comments like this posted a week or 2 ago

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[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 20 points 14 hours ago (17 children)

I’ve made some comments critical of how relentlessly PirateSoftware is being harassed and how annoying it is and how distracting from the actual movement it is.

Nothing wrong with the petition itself, and I haven’t noticed any negative astroturfing about it.

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 38 points 13 hours ago (16 children)

PirateSoftware is being harassed for a whole lot more than just his SKG misinformation campaign.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 7 points 12 hours ago (15 children)

Perhaps, but the most I've seen are some tenuous "evidence" about him being a little selfish in WoW, not finishing games, or using his dad's influence to land a job at Blizzard. Neither of those are particularly bad, and certainly don't warrant the negative attention he got. It really seems like people are looking for dirt just because they don't like his position on SKG.

Then again, I didn't hear about him until he came out against it, and I saw he defended Godot, which is pretty rad. That's the extent of my knowledge about him, other than the handful of hit pieces against him people posted here once he got negative attention.

I support SKG and don't think PirateSoftware is a bad dude. I say just let him be, and don't watch his content if you don't like it.

[–] CTDummy@aussie.zone 19 points 11 hours ago

The SKG thing was just the latest L in the series he’s been collecting for a while now. Similar to his wow raid there was another MMO when his party wiped due to someone accidentally aggro’ing a mob. He did the usually “that was moronic, whoever did that is kicked from the raid, etc”. Then he reviews the footage showing it was him that aggro’d and completely 180s, saying the wipe wasn’t on him. As evidenced in his SKG video, guy is super happy saying nasty shit about people but cries toxicity when it’s reciprocated. Guy just can’t help himself. Has to be right on everything and when it’s proven he isn’t, either doubles down or just simply denies being wrong.

Even the wow roaching thing, it isn’t so much the raid but the demanding everyone listen to his side before talking over others when it’s their turn and then leaving before they can have there say and tripling down. I used to appreciate some of his content but given his pattern of behaviour, including bullying, the negative attention he’s gotten is pretty deserved.

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