On January 5th 2015, Cheong attacked Boogie2988 for discussing how Boogie himself was doxxed by those against the consumer revolt. Game Developer Interviews About Gamergate: Silverstring Media Game Developer Interviews About Gamergate: David S Gallant Game Developer Interviews About Gamergate: Caelyn Sandel Gamergate Tries to Send Swat Team to Critic's HomeĬanadian Victim of Gamergate SWATing Attempt Comes Forward Sweden Considers Implementing 'Sexist' Label on Video Gamesīandai Namco Speaks Out Against GamerGate Harassment' Game Developer Brianna Wu Driven From Home After Death Threats and Doxxing Several articles have been published under Ian Miles Cheong's name, mentioning GamerGate. KSI was banned from all future EuroGamer events and the articles continue to follow him for example when Microsoft had an Xbox One launch event, and had KSI perform on stage, they were flooded with angry emails and eventually put forth a statement stating " does not represent Microsoft's endorsement of KSI's personal views" and that they “are not planning on working with KSI in the future.” GamerGate In September 2014, after the logs became widespread, Ian Miles Cheong issued an apology, though laid the majority of the blame at the "very toxic gamer community":Īnd insignificant occurrence blown wildly out of proportion through social media and tabloid journalism Oct 05 02:17:57 !readers kotakuinaction Oct 05 02:17:57 r/kotakuinaction has 9,129 readers Oct 05 02:20:05 hermithome, they did do one good thing Oct 05 02:20:29 ğorest: hmm? Oct 05 02:21:12 hermithome, SolInvictus deleted his alt because of that subreddit Oct 05 02:22:06 erm, why? Oct 05 02:22:40 hermithome, Oct 05 02:23:21 I don't use alts, but someone used theirs after I pointed out the deleted account was Sol's alt Oct 05 02:23:32 I just thought it was kina funny Oct 05 02:24:23 um, how did you know? Oct 05 02:24:30 also, what? i'm lost on this entire thing Oct 05 02:24:50 also, did someone on KIA use rape culture seriously and not ironically? huh? Oct 05 02:24:54 hermithome, Sol was Ian Miles Cheong Oct 05 02:25:04 I follow him on twitter Oct 05 02:25:27 um, but i dont see how people knew this was his alt? Oct 05 02:25:31 we had a user who were already following on twitter for posting links to his websites Oct 05 02:26:12 I then noticed 2 or 3 times of that user submitting an article at the same time Ian posted the story on twitter Oct 05 02:26:26 easy to put 2 and 2 together Anti-Semitic Logs Apology In those logs, in lines 2268-2285, you can see Forest|_ discussing the mods knowing that Ian Miles Cheong still was posting his own articles to Reddit despite the ban In March 2015, contents of the Reddit #modtalk IRC channel was leaked to the public. ModTalk Leaks Uncovers Continued Reddit Use When questioned, Cheong maintained that he did not work for the publication and only worked for the independent PR firm that manages Global Post. Ī month after the banning, Global Post confirmed that they had payed Cheong as a “social media consultant” through its marketing agency, which is highly against Reddit's rules. While Reddit doesn't officially forbid submitting your own content, Cheong's abuse of mod powers to get it past spam filters was forbidden. In the Spring of 2012, it was uncovered that Ian Miles Cheong, primarily under the pseudonym "SolInvictus" and also under the username "slaterhearst", had been relentlessly submitting content from his website Gameranx, as well as Global Post and Uproxx, and using his mod powers in subreddits including r/AskReddit, r/Politics, r/WTF, and r/TodayILearned to help influence views towards his posted articles, amassing 350,000 link karma over the course of the 4 years this was allowed. 1.1 ModTalk Leaks Uncovers Continued Reddit Use.
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