This whole thing is going to be a huge test for wikipedia's arbitration and ruling system.
Not because there are far more controversial issues, there certainly are, and not because it's actually an important issue, sadly gamergate rarely addresses the real issues of how problematic game journalism or sexism is in tecnology related fields (and besides the awful threats it won't amount to much in real life), but because the players at this pathetic thing have been raised in the internet culture of forums and threads and online discussions, they are, for better or worse, the core of wikipedia's method, so they can and know how to play this game, or more than knowing, they are obsessed about it, they won't let go.
Not because there are far more controversial issues, there certainly are, and not because it's actually an important issue, sadly gamergate rarely addresses the real issues of how problematic game journalism or sexism is in tecnology related fields (and besides the awful threats it won't amount to much in real life), but because the players at this pathetic thing have been raised in the internet culture of forums and threads and online discussions, they are, for better or worse, the core of wikipedia's method, so they can and know how to play this game, or more than knowing, they are obsessed about it, they won't let go.