Black Myth: Wukong Devs Told Streamers to Avoid Politics in Their Playthroughs. It Backfired

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‘Black Myth: Wukong’ Devs Told Streamers to Avoid Politics in Their Playthroughs. It Backfired
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The Chinese studio granted early access on the condition that topics like “feminist propaganda” and “Covid-19” go unmentioned. What followed is the Streisand effect in full force.

“I feel that it only served to bring more attention on Game Science’s culture of sexism,” linktothepabst says. “All they had to do was let the game speak for itself, but it came off, to me, like an own goal, effectively stoking the flames between the people who were using this game as weapon against ‘wokeness in games’ and those who can level-headedly either enjoy the game and criticize GS or just ignore the game altogether.”

It’s the Streisand effect in full force: Try to hide something, and it becomes all the more visible. “Nobody was going to bring up Chinese politics unprompted,” Zhong says, “but the topic was there as soon as they released those guidelines.”

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To the mod who removed my comment.

There was absolutely 0 sexism in that comment. You deleted it, stating sexism and that it broke rule 1, which it absolutely did not. I was very civil in disproving the claims the article presents, meanwhile I still have comments responding to my comment implying that I'm gay and a slave for saying it, but those don't break rule 1?

You've used your moderation to help the spread of misinformation, which is against rule 8.

You should be ashamed of yourself.

If you have a question about a moderation decision, you can msg any member of the moderation team for review/explanation. I have reviewed the removed comment and found that it was not removed in error. If anything, it should also have been removed for misinformation as well.

In the future, any comments about individual moderation actions that are not addressed to the mod team through an appropriate channel will be removed. This is to avoid derailing legitimate, topical conversations.

If it's the mod I think it is, prepare for a 30d ban ...

Based on their comments in this thread they may have earned that much of a ban

Could you clarify what comments I made that broke any rules, or were even slightly unpleasant?

Easiest to list which ones weren't. You're escalated replies aren't helping you either

You're dodging. Just say one then.

All of them then. Amazing you haven't been banned for how uncivil you are

You didn't even read them, did you?

I did and no I'm not picking them apart to point out what all was rule breaking, especially as I'm not a mod

No, but you made a claim that me being banned would be justified based on what you saw, so it is only fair that you back that claim. I provided sources for all of mine.

"Leave me alone after I talked shit about you"

She doesn't owe him any explanation for saying she could do without sea lions. He can ask why, and if she doesn't want to talk about it, he needs to fuck off.

I haven’t been banned as of this comment, but that sounds like a lovely person.

I get people downvoting. It contradicted lot of beliefs, but removal was not justified.

Oh great mod abuse is happening here as well?

How could it not happen anywhere where mods are? It is in the nature of the thing.

Every instance has its bias. Mods squash deviation from their consensus.

What is the purpose of moderating if not enforcing your personal opinion on everyone

It happens everywhere. Just Jannies doing janny things. Sweep it up, janny!

Just keep in mind: he does it for free

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