Congratulations slashdot, you just jumped the shark for me. A front page story about a scam artist with a victim complex and a direct link to a Patreon account so people can give her more money. Time to go find another tech news site.
So, instead of taking the opportunity to ask her anything you want, you're going to leave the site for giving you this chance? Well, enjoy that, I guess...
And I'll bet real hard cash that she ignores every single question of any merit. Wu has been asked many many many questions over the months, she has pretty much refused to answer a single one, instead resorting to calling people sealions for having the audacity to question her official line. All we will see here is a puff piece, the answered questions will all be about how she's a victim, how people should send her money and how she's completely innocent of any wrong doing. Can't wait to see the hug box in action.
Perhaps if you actually asked a reasonable question and then she ignored it you might have a point. All you did was make a load of accusations without any evidence.
I read all 300 toxic questions for my @slashdot interview, here are the ones I can answer 1. Yes, I like peanut M&Ms
She got exactly what she was going for. She never intended to answer any questions. She's just run out of venues to call her out on her bullshit. She heard Slashdot used to do 'tech', probably knew someone at Dice and got it put in. I wonder what Slashdot's traffic looked like today when she actively tried to get her followers to brigade Slashdot [archive.is]
And it's pretty easy to tell who they are. They have no Karma, d
by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Tuesday July 14, 2015 @01:54PM (#50109825)
Ms Wu, you've been accused of exaggerating the scale of the harassment against you. For example, you've stated that you were so scared that you moved out of your home, but a number of people were able to reconstruct the location of your various online broadcasts and establish rather conclusively that they were all made from your home.
How do you respond to this? Were you actually scared out of your home or not? When?
To the parent, I googled and I couldn't find any evidence to back up your claim, just some twitter posts claiming to back backtraced her somehow. Do you have any hard evidence?
To Ms. Wu, does the torrent of unfounded accusations made against you on the internet ever affect your real life? Can you escape them by logging off?
Man, you must suck with google. I'm on a work machine and I opened up a new incognito tab and did a search for "Did Brianna Wu ever leave her house". 3 of the 4 top links have the picture analysis of her doing interviews from her home with known photos of the inside of her house. Either that, or you've slanted your personal searches so bad with google that none of the sites that would carry such information would be available. With some of the other posts I've seen you do around these parts, I wouldn't
For example, you've stated that you were so scared that you moved out of your home, but a number of people were able to reconstruct the location of your various online broadcasts and establish rather conclusively that they were all made from your home.
That's not what happened though, is it? Someone made threatening phone calls to her, which caused her to leave her home on the advice of the police.
Then someone else by the name of "PressFart2Continue" started an "investigation" into her claims by creepily stalking her online. So unless "PressFart2Continue" was the one who made the calls and the police are now looking for, they were not clearing their name.
If you take information posted in public, and can figure out it was all done from one location then it's not creepy. Maybe people should be asking why the press didn't question it, and why the continued to push a victim complex for them, when it was obvious they didn't leave their home. It's not any different then Zoe Quinn which the press reported "she fled her home..." while conveniently forgetting that she had publicly posted that she had a trip to Europe planned...and just happened to leave the day th
It's hard to explain to kids these days what doxxing is and what it is not.
If I can take your/. or reddit username and go to http://facebook.com/%5Busernam... [facebook.com] then it's not Doxxing. YOU are the idiot that used the exact same username for multiple sites. The most hilarious violators are the ones that post on the porn sites with the same name as Reddit, with their full location. It takes maybe 5-10 minutes to find the average Redditor from their posts and similar usernames.
It took all of 20 seconds watching Wu's mainstream media tours to notice the same giant smudge in the background over and over. One that was trivially identified from the many pictures she had voluntarily posted of her workspace.
Forensic smudge-reading on 8chan. You guys are a trip.
Are those pictures all supposed to be the same room? Because the rather large window from the first picture is clearly missing from the last picture.
Also, clearly a picture taken 10 days after she supposed fled her house, where she might be in that same house indicates that she never left it right? I mean it's not like she could have, say, left for a week and then returned in the space of 10 days? Right?
Clearly, this evidence is overwhelming proof of guilt, we should execute the victim immediately.
Are those pictures all supposed to be the same room? Because the rather large window from the first picture is clearly missing from the last picture.
Erm. Zoom in. The window is there, closed. It has one of those curtains with little horizontal blinds. To the right side of the window there is a shelf with a display and two speakers (only the right speaker is visible in the first image, and only the right one is visible in the last, but they are the same).
I don't know if that means that she left or not (I haven't seen the timelines on those videos or the narrative about her escape from home), but the room seems to be the same in those two images.
It is kind of obvious when in each interview Wu has the same background. People had a suspicion that she was lying since the backgrounds were so similar, so the collected the evidence that proves it.
There's different levels of being scared out of your home. You might feel reasonably safe there in the daytime, when you're alert and there may be other people around. You might be afraid to stay there at night and/or to sleep there.
Way to miss the point. This post is bait. Slashdot does fine as a respite from the gamergate and all associated bullshit. Would like to keep it that way.
You have got to be kidding me (Score:-1, Flamebait)
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Perhaps if you actually asked a reasonable question and then she ignored it you might have a point. All you did was make a load of accusations without any evidence.
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The article had exactly the intended effect. She got to claim she was a victim on twitter. [twitter.com] [Archive [archive.is]]
I read all 300 toxic questions for my @slashdot interview, here are the ones I can answer
1. Yes, I like peanut M&Ms
She got exactly what she was going for. She never intended to answer any questions. She's just run out of venues to call her out on her bullshit. She heard Slashdot used to do 'tech', probably knew someone at Dice and got it put in. I wonder what Slashdot's traffic looked like today when she actively tried to get her followers to brigade Slashdot [archive.is]
And it's pretty easy to tell who they are. They have no Karma, d
It does bring up a good question, though... (Score:4, Interesting)
Ms Wu, you've been accused of exaggerating the scale of the harassment against you. For example, you've stated that you were so scared that you moved out of your home, but a number of people were able to reconstruct the location of your various online broadcasts and establish rather conclusively that they were all made from your home.
How do you respond to this? Were you actually scared out of your home or not? When?
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To the parent, I googled and I couldn't find any evidence to back up your claim, just some twitter posts claiming to back backtraced her somehow. Do you have any hard evidence?
To Ms. Wu, does the torrent of unfounded accusations made against you on the internet ever affect your real life? Can you escape them by logging off?
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That's not creepy at all.
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That's not creepy at all.
That's not creepy! It's all about ethics in gaming journalism, you see...
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That's not what happened though, is it? Someone made threatening phone calls to her, which caused her to leave her home on the advice of the police.
Then someone else by the name of "PressFart2Continue" started an "investigation" into her claims by creepily stalking her online. So unless "PressFart2Continue" was the one who made the calls and the police are now looking for, they were not clearing their name.
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That's not creepy at all.
If you take information posted in public, and can figure out it was all done from one location then it's not creepy. Maybe people should be asking why the press didn't question it, and why the continued to push a victim complex for them, when it was obvious they didn't leave their home. It's not any different then Zoe Quinn which the press reported "she fled her home..." while conveniently forgetting that she had publicly posted that she had a trip to Europe planned...and just happened to leave the day th
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It's hard to explain to kids these days what doxxing is and what it is not.
If I can take your /. or reddit username and go to http://facebook.com/%5Busernam... [facebook.com] then it's not Doxxing. YOU are the idiot that used the exact same username for multiple sites. The most hilarious violators are the ones that post on the porn sites with the same name as Reddit, with their full location. It takes maybe 5-10 minutes to find the average Redditor from their posts and similar usernames.
Some will even post enough photos f
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Forensic smudge-reading on 8chan. You guys are a trip.
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That's a smudge? [imgur.com] Looks pretty detailed to me.
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Are those pictures all supposed to be the same room? Because the rather large window from the first picture is clearly missing from the last picture.
Also, clearly a picture taken 10 days after she supposed fled her house, where she might be in that same house indicates that she never left it right? I mean it's not like she could have, say, left for a week and then returned in the space of 10 days? Right?
Clearly, this evidence is overwhelming proof of guilt, we should execute the victim immediately.
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"Clearly, this evidence is overwhelming proof of guilt, we should execute the victim immediately"
Why not? People have called for gamergate's execution based on her word alone.
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Are those pictures all supposed to be the same room? Because the rather large window from the first picture is clearly missing from the last picture.
Erm. Zoom in. The window is there, closed. It has one of those curtains with little horizontal blinds. To the right side of the window there is a shelf with a display and two speakers (only the right speaker is visible in the first image, and only the right one is visible in the last, but they are the same).
I don't know if that means that she left or not (I haven't seen the timelines on those videos or the narrative about her escape from home), but the room seems to be the same in those two images.
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It is kind of obvious when in each interview Wu has the same background. People had a suspicion that she was lying since the backgrounds were so similar, so the collected the evidence that proves it.
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There's different levels of being scared out of your home. You might feel reasonably safe there in the daytime, when you're alert and there may be other people around. You might be afraid to stay there at night and/or to sleep there.
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Way to miss the point. This post is bait. Slashdot does fine as a respite from the gamergate and all associated bullshit. Would like to keep it that way.
User since 1998.
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