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'''Polygon''' is an American Games Media website that publishes articles detailing news, culture, reviews, and opinion pieces, as well as frequently creating videos, about video games. It launched as Vox Media's third property on October 24, 2012. The site was built over the course of ten months, and its 16-person founding staff included former editors-in-chief of gaming sites [[Joystiq]], [[Kotaku]] and [[The Escapist]]. Vox also produced a documentary series about the founding of the site, which Microsoft funded to the tune of over $750k,<ref>[https://archive.today/Lrfhm Archived Tweet confirming]</ref> while the estimated cost was only 10% of that.<ref>[https://archive.today/zST2S IMDB Estimated cost]</ref>
 
  
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Many Polygon writers took part in the [[GameJournoPros]] mailing list, as well as participated in the [[Gamers are Dead]] effort.
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= Polygon =
  
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Polygon is one of the targets of Gamergate's [[Operation Disrespectful Nod]], which asks advertisers to avoid the website.
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== Pre GamerGate Controversies==
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===Conflict of Interest in the Gone Home Review===
 
  
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On 15 August 2013, Danielle Riendeau<ref name="About">[https://archive.today/Pfb4G About - Polygon]</ref> reviewed Fullbright Company’s<ref>[http://fullbright.company/ Fullbright Company’s Official Site]</ref>  Gone Home, giving the game a 10/10 score stating that it was “a quiet triumph in storytelling” <ref>[https://archive.today/H227E Gone Home review: Living Room]</ref>
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Danielle, Chris Remo<ref>[https://archive.today/i2Gc4 Twitter- Danielle and Chris Remo]</ref> and Steve Gaynor<ref>[https://twitter.com/Danielleri/status/221479069525618689 Twitter- Danielle and Fullbright]</ref> had a friendship that dated back to at least 2011 publically. This was confirmed via a podcast hosted by members of the Fullbright team, Idle Thumbs,<ref>[https://www.idlethumbs.net/idlethumbs/episodes/a-simple-litter Idle Thumbs Episode 118]</ref> in which she admitted to being friends with Chris Remo since he had been working at Irrational Games.
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Parent Company Vox Media<br />
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Owner Christopher Grant<br />
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Ethics Policy [https://archive.today/zEJJI View on site]<br />
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Boycotted? Yes<br />
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'''Polygon''' is an American Games Media website that publishes articles detailing news, culture, reviews, and opinion pieces, as well as frequently creating videos, about video games. It launched as Vox Media's third property on October 24, 2012. The site was built over the course of ten months, and its 16-person founding staff included former editors-in-chief of gaming sites [[index.php?title=Joystiq&action=edit&redlink=1|Joystiq]], [[index.php?title=Kotaku|Kotaku]] and [[index.php?title=The_Escapist|The Escapist]]. Vox also produced a documentary series about the founding of the site, which Microsoft funded to the tune of over $750k,<sup>[[#cite_note-1|[1]]]</sup> while the estimated cost was only 10% of that.<sup>[[#cite_note-2|[2]]]</sup>
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Many Polygon writers took part in the [[index.php?title=GameJournoPros|GameJournoPros]] mailing list, as well as participated in the [[index.php?title=Gamers_are_Dead|Gamers are Dead]] effort.
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== Contents ==
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* [[#Pre_GamerGate_Controversies|1 Pre GamerGate Controversies]]
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** [[#Conflict_of_Interest_in_the_Gone_Home_Review|1.1 Conflict of Interest in the Gone Home Review]]
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** [[#Conflict_of_Interest_between_Ben_Kuchera_and_Zoe_Quinn|1.2 Conflict of Interest between Ben Kuchera and Zoe Quinn]]
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* [[#Role_In_GamerGate|2 Role In GamerGate]]
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** [[#Public_Ethics_Policy_Modification|2.1 Public Ethics Policy Modification]]
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** [[#Gamers_are_Dead|2.2 Gamers are Dead]]
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** [[#Ben_Kuchera.27s_attempt_to_suppress_discussion_of_the_Zoe_Quinn_Scandal|2.3 Ben Kuchera's attempt to suppress discussion of the Zoe Quinn Scandal]]
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** [[#Brian_Crecente|2.4 Brian Crecente]]
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* [[#GameJournoPros_Members|3 GameJournoPros Members]]
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* [[#Additional|4 Additional]]
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* [[#References|5 References]]
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== Pre GamerGate Controversies[[[index.php?title=Polygon&action=edit&section=1|edit]]] ==
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=== Conflict of Interest in the Gone Home Review[[[index.php?title=Polygon&action=edit&section=2|edit]]] ===
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On August 15, 2013, Danielle Riendeau<sup>[[#cite_note-About-3|[3]]]</sup> reviewed Fullbright Company’s<sup>[[#cite_note-4|[4]]]</sup> Gone Home, giving the game a 10/10 score stating that it was “a quiet triumph in storytelling” <sup>[[#cite_note-5|[5]]]</sup>
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Danielle, Chris Remo<sup>[[#cite_note-6|[6]]]</sup> and Steve Gaynor<sup>[[#cite_note-7|[7]]]</sup> had a friendship that dated back to at least 2011 publically. This was confirmed via a podcast hosted by members of the Fullbright team, Idle Thumbs,<sup>[[#cite_note-8|[8]]]</sup> in which she admitted to being friends with Chris Remo since he had been working at Irrational Games.
  
 
This relationship wasn't disclosed during the review. When this was pointed out on the comment section of said review, Phillip Kollar, Polygon's Deputy Reviews Editor, responded with this:
 
This relationship wasn't disclosed during the review. When this was pointed out on the comment section of said review, Phillip Kollar, Polygon's Deputy Reviews Editor, responded with this:
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I don’t think Danielle guesting on one episode of a podcast that one of the game’s developers is also sometimes on is the same thing as “having ties to the developer.” Danielle can respond to herself here, but I think the podcast was even recorded after she had finished the game. I feel confident that didn’t have any sort of bearing.<br />
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— Phillip Kollar<sup>[[#cite_note-9|[9]]]</sup>
  
 
From this statement we can gather that Kollar didn't know that she had confirmed in the podcast that she had a longstanding friendship with Fullbright Company's staff just 2 and a half minutes into the podcast, nor the exact date the podcast was recorded.
 
From this statement we can gather that Kollar didn't know that she had confirmed in the podcast that she had a longstanding friendship with Fullbright Company's staff just 2 and a half minutes into the podcast, nor the exact date the podcast was recorded.
  
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=== Conflict of Interest between Ben Kuchera and Zoe Quinn[[[index.php?title=Polygon&action=edit&section=3|edit]]] ===
  
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On 19 March 2014, [[Ben Kuchera]], senior editor at Polygon, published an interview with [[Zoe Quinn]] that focused on the harassment she claims to have received from [http://wiki.gamergate.me/index.php/Zoe_Quinn_Scandal#Wizardchan_Counterclaim Wizardchan] and overall portrayed her in a positive light.<ref>[https://archive.today/iuDHi Developer Zoe Quinn offers real-world advice, support for dealing with online harassment]</ref> It was brought to the gaming community’s attention that Ben had been giving Zoe Quinn money via [[Patreon]] since 6 January 2014,<ref>[https://archive.today/kLRaf Ben Kuchera's Patreon]</ref> which proves that he had covered Quinn while providing her regular monetary support, something that was not disclosed in the interview. It has also been revealed that Philip Kollar, a deputy review editor at Polygon,<ref name="About"/> had been giving money to Zoe's Patreon account since 9 January 2014,<ref>[https://archive.today/EsMUY Philip Kollar's Patreon]</ref> before Kuchera's interview with Quinn was published.
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On March 19, 2014, [[index.php?title=Ben_Kuchera|Ben Kuchera]], senior editor at Polygon, published an interview with [[index.php?title=Zoe_Quinn|Zoe Quinn]] that focused on the harassment she claims to have received from [http://wiki.gamergate.me/index.php/Zoe_Quinn_Scandal#Wizardchan_Counterclaim Wizardchan] and overall portrayed her in a positive light.<sup>[[#cite_note-10|[10]]]</sup> It was brought to the gaming community’s attention that Ben had been giving Zoe Quinn money via [[index.php?title=Patreon|Patreon]] since January 6, 2014,<sup>[[#cite_note-11|[11]]]</sup> which proves that he had covered Quinn while providing her regular monetary support, something that was not disclosed in the interview. It has also been revealed that Philip Kollar, a deputy review editor at Polygon,<sup>[[#cite_note-About-3|[3]]]</sup> had been giving money to Zoe's Patreon account since January 9, 2014,<sup>[[#cite_note-12|[12]]]</sup> before Kuchera's interview with Quinn was published.
  
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===Conflict of Interest between Chris Grant and Ouya===
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== Role In GamerGate[[[index.php?title=Polygon&action=edit&section=4|edit]]] ==
  
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In March 2013, Chris Grant wrote a series of articles about the game console Ouya. Two articles were published on 28 March, and another was published on 29 March.<ref>https://archive.is/8RLad</ref><ref>https://archive.is/pXEmb</ref><ref>https://archive.is/CaRp9</ref> Despite being a financial backer of the game console's Kickstarter campaign<ref>https://archive.is/aTpRo</ref>, no disclosure was made of this financial conflict of interest in any of the three articles, which ran between 10 July 2012 and 9 August 2012.<ref>https://archive.is/xPX6E</ref>
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=== Public Ethics Policy Modification[[[index.php?title=Polygon&action=edit&section=5|edit]]] ===
  
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On August 28, 2014, Chris Grant, Polygon's Editor in Chief, released a blog post on Polygon detailing various issues that were brought to his attention in the lead-up to GamerGate in regards to disclosure.<sup>[[#cite_note-13|[13]]]</sup> In the blog post, he states that he does not believe donating to a Patreon constitutes a possible conflict of interest. However, he decided to require the disclosure of these relationships anyway, having it disclosed under the staff member’s byline as well as on their respective staff pages. This was retroactive, as the disclosure was added to older articles. This coincided with an update to their ethics policies, now covering Patreon, which stated the new disclosure policy:
  
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As documented in a collage, numerous tweets show a close personal relationship between Danielle Riendeau and GaymerX' President Toni Rocca and the convention's CEO, Matt Conn.<ref>https://i.imgur.com/obDnt0T.png</ref> On 17 July 2014, Riendeau published a favourable article about the 2014 GaymerX convention, in which she failed to disclose the personal relationships.<ref>https://archive.is/5lG47</ref>
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* Staff must publish on their staff pages to which Patreons they contribute.
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* Staff will have to disclose their relationships with developers they're covering.
  
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On 28 August 2014, Chris Grant, Polygon's Editor in Chief, released a blog post on Polygon detailing various issues that were brought to his attention in the lead-up to GamerGate in regards to disclosure.<ref>[https://archive.today/zM90P On Patreon support- Polygon]</ref> In the blog post, he states that he does not believe donating to a Patreon constitutes a possible conflict of interest. However, he decided to require the disclosure of these relationships anyway, having it disclosed under the staff member’s byline as well as on their respective staff pages. This was retroactive, as the disclosure was added to older articles. This coincided with an update to their ethics policies, now covering Patreon, which stated the new disclosure policy:
 
  
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On August 28, 2014, Polygon contributed to the [[index.php?title=Gamers_are_Dead|Gamers are Dead]] effort, adding an opinion piece by Chris Plante, Senior Editor at [[index.php?title=The_Verge|The Verge]] as well as a member of [[index.php?title=GameJournoPros|GameJournoPros]].<sup>[[#cite_note-14|[14]]]</sup> In the article, Plante talks about the [[index.php?title=Polytron|Polytron]] hacking incident, a LizardSquad bomb threat, the harassment of Anita Sarkeesian, and a SWATing incident that occurred live on Twitch.tv, implying these incidents were provoked by a &quot;side of the movement&quot; when in reality they were isolated incidents unrelated to GamerGate.
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=== Ben Kuchera's attempt to suppress discussion of the Zoe Quinn Scandal[[[index.php?title=Polygon&action=edit&section=7|edit]]] ===
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On August 28, 2014, Polygon contributed to the [[Gamers are Dead]] effort, adding an opinion piece by Chris Plante, Senior Editor at [[The Verge]] as well as a member of [[GameJournoPros]].<ref>[https://archive.today/rkvO8 An awful week to care about video games]</ref> In the article, Plante talks about the [[Polytron]] hacking incident, a LizardSquad bomb threat, the harassment of Anita Sarkeesian, and a SWATing incident that occurred live on Twitch.tv, implying these incidents were provoked by a "side of the movement" when in reality they were isolated incidents unrelated to GamerGate.
 
  
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===Ben Kuchera's attempt to suppress discussion of the Zoe Quinn Scandal===
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On September 17, 2014, Breitbart with the help of an informant, leaked the [[index.php?title=GameJournoPros|GameJournoPros]] private e-mails. Among the leaked e-mail threads was one that [[index.php?title=Ben_Kuchera|Ben Kuchera]] sent to Greg Tito on August 19, 2014.<sup>[[#cite_note-15|[15]]]</sup>
  
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On 17 September 2014, Breitbart with the help of an informant, leaked the [[GameJournoPros]] private e-mails. Among the leaked e-mail threads was one that [[Ben Kuchera]] sent to Greg Tito on 19 August 2014.<ref>[http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/09/17/Exposed-the-secret-mailing-list-of-the-gaming-journalism-elite Exposed secret mailing list of the gaming journalism elite]</ref>
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In these emails, [[index.php?title=Ben_Kuchera|Ben Kuchera]] and Jason Schreier of [[index.php?title=Kotaku|Kotaku]] pressured Greg Tito at [[index.php?title=The_Escapist|The Escapist]] to shut down any discussion regarding the [[index.php?title=Zoe_Quinn_Scandal|Zoe Quinn Scandal]] on The Escapist forums. After Tito refuses to shut down the forum thread, citing his belief in healthy discussion, Kuchera and Schreier turn more aggressive towards Tito, with Kuchera accusing Tito of enabling harassment.<sup>[[#cite_note-bret01-16|[16]]]</sup>
  
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In these emails, [[Ben Kuchera]] and Jason Schreier of [[Kotaku]] pressured Greg Tito at [[The Escapist]] to shut down any discussion regarding the [[Zoe Quinn Scandal]] on The Escapist forums. After Tito refuses to shut down the forum thread, citing his belief in healthy discussion, Kuchera and Schreier turn more aggressive towards Tito, with Kuchera accusing Tito of enabling harassment.<ref name='bret01'>[http://yiannopoulos.net/2014/09/19/gamejournopros-zoe-quinn-email-dump/ GameJournoPros: Zoe Quinn email dump - Breitbart]</ref>
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[[index.php?title=Ben_Kuchera|Ben Kuchera]] and other journalists also pressured and dogpiled Ryan Smith when he asked about the double standard regarding the coverage of other similar &quot;personal cases&quot; and questioned them for releasing articles about Quinn's claims on being harassed that lacked the investigations confirming their veracity.<sup>[[#cite_note-bret01-16|[16]]][[#cite_note-17|[17]]][[#cite_note-18|[18]]]</sup>
  
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[[Ben Kuchera]] and other journalists also pressured and dogpiled Ryan Smith when he asked about the double standard regarding the coverage of other similar "personal cases" and questioned them for releasing articles about Quinn's claims on being harassed that lacked the investigations confirming their veracity.<ref name='bret01'/><ref>[https://archive.today/j7OVb Reporter Apologizes For Crude Sexual Comments To Female Game Developer]</ref><ref>[https://archive.today/1bFrY Snapchat CEO 'mortified' by leaked e-mails]</ref>
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=== Brian Crecente[[[index.php?title=Polygon&action=edit&section=8|edit]]] ===
  
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On September 5, Brian Crecente, who was absent during the Quinnspiracy events as well as the launching of GamerGate proper; wrote a blog post on his [http://subcathoin.com/on-gaming-ethics-and-journalism/ Subcathoin blog] about his thoughts on the subject, including a Storify that detailed a conversation he had with Owen Good in which they give their opinion on patronage, as well as the need for standards in journalism.<sup>[[#cite_note-19|[19]]]</sup>
  
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On 5 September 2014, Brian Crecente, who was absent during the Quinnspiracy events as well as the launching of GamerGate proper; wrote a blog post on his [http://subcathoin.com/on-gaming-ethics-and-journalism/ Subcathoin blog] about his thoughts on the subject, including a Storify that detailed a conversation he had with Owen Good in which they give their opinion on patronage, as well as the need for standards in journalism.<ref>[https://storify.com/crecenteb/ethics Ethics (with tweets) - crecenteb]</ref>
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'''Polygon has yet to address the collusion discovered from GameJournoPros'''
  
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== [[index.php?title=GameJournoPros|GameJournoPros]] Members[[[index.php?title=Polygon&action=edit&section=9|edit]]] ==
  
 
These are the gaming journalists that work (and have previously worked) for Polygon and were part of the GameJournoPros Google mailing list.
 
These are the gaming journalists that work (and have previously worked) for Polygon and were part of the GameJournoPros Google mailing list.
  
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*[https://twitter.com/chrisgrant Christopher Grant]- Editor-in-Chief at Polygon
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* [https://twitter.com/chrisgrant Christopher Grant]- Editor-in-Chief at Polygon
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*[https://twitter.com/BenKuchera Ben Kuchera ]- Editor at Polygon
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* [https://twitter.com/BenKuchera Ben Kuchera]- Editor at Polygon
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*[https://twitter.com/JustinMcElroy Justin McElroy]- Managing Editor at Polygon.
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* [https://twitter.com/JustinMcElroy Justin McElroy]- Managing Editor at Polygon.
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*[https://twitter.com/MikeMcWhertor Michael McWhertor]- Deputy News Editor at Polygon.
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* [https://twitter.com/MikeMcWhertor Michael McWhertor]- Deputy News Editor at Polygon.
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*[https://twitter.com/pkollar Phillip Kollar ]- Reviews Editor at Polygon. Also works for PCGamesN, The Escapist, IGN
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* [https://twitter.com/pkollar Phillip Kollar]- Editor at Polygon. Also works for PCGamesN, The Escapist, IGN
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*[https://twitter.com/Danielleri Danielle Riendeau]- Senior Reviewer at Polygon.
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* [https://twitter.com/Danielleri Danielle Riendeau]- Senior Reviewer at Polygon.
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*[https://twitter.com/SamitSarkar Samit Sarkar]- Reporter at Polygon. Former Employee at Destructoid.
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* [https://twitter.com/SamitSarkar Samit Sarkar]- Reporter at Polygon. Former Employee at Destructoid.
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*[https://twitter.com/alexrubens Alex Rubens]- IGN, G4TV, PCWorld, Official Xbox Magazine, Polygon, @Gamer Magazine, Games Radar, Joystiq, Kotaku, Destructoid, Tech Hive, Game Informer
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* [https://twitter.com/alexrubens Alex Rubens]- IGN, G4TV, PCWorld, Official Xbox Magazine, Polygon, @Gamer Magazine, Games Radar, Joystiq, Kotaku, Destructoid, Tech Hive, Game Informer
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*[https://twitter.com/RobZacny Rob Zacny]- Polygon, PCGamesN, The Escapist, IGN
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* [https://twitter.com/RobZacny Rob Zacny]- Polygon, PCGamesN, The Escapist, IGN
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*[https://twitter.com/dptach Dave Tach]- Reporter at Polygon.
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* [https://twitter.com/dptach Dave Tach]- Reporter at Polygon.
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*[https://twitter.com/russpitts Russ Pitts]- Editor at Polygon, formerly TechTV.
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* [https://twitter.com/russpitts Russ Pitts]- Editor at Polygon, formerly TechTV.
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*[https://twitter.com/Babylonian Nick Robinson] - Video Producer (currently suspended)
 
  
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[[#cite_ref-5|↑]] [https://archive.today/H227E Gone Home review: Living Room]</li>
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[[#cite_ref-9|↑]] [http://www.polygon.com/2013/8/15/4620172/gone-home-review-if-these-walls-could-talk#178609837 Polygon- Gone Home Review: Phillip Kollar's statement (No archive)]</li>
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[[#cite_ref-10|↑]] [https://archive.today/iuDHi Developer Zoe Quinn offers real-world advice, support for dealing with online harassment]</li>
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Parent Company Vox Media
Owner Christopher Grant
Editor-in-Chief Christopher Grant
Ethics Policy View on site
Boycotted? Yes


Polygon is an American Games Media website that publishes articles detailing news, culture, reviews, and opinion pieces, as well as frequently creating videos, about video games. It launched as Vox Media's third property on October 24, 2012. The site was built over the course of ten months, and its 16-person founding staff included former editors-in-chief of gaming sites Joystiq, Kotaku and The Escapist. Vox also produced a documentary series about the founding of the site, which Microsoft funded to the tune of over $750k,[1] while the estimated cost was only 10% of that.[2]

Many Polygon writers took part in the GameJournoPros mailing list, as well as participated in the Gamers are Dead effort.

Contents

Pre GamerGate Controversies[[[index.php?title=Polygon&action=edit&section=1|edit]]]

Conflict of Interest in the Gone Home Review[[[index.php?title=Polygon&action=edit&section=2|edit]]]

On August 15, 2013, Danielle Riendeau[3] reviewed Fullbright Company’s[4] Gone Home, giving the game a 10/10 score stating that it was “a quiet triumph in storytelling” [5]

Danielle, Chris Remo[6] and Steve Gaynor[7] had a friendship that dated back to at least 2011 publically. This was confirmed via a podcast hosted by members of the Fullbright team, Idle Thumbs,[8] in which she admitted to being friends with Chris Remo since he had been working at Irrational Games.

This relationship wasn't disclosed during the review. When this was pointed out on the comment section of said review, Phillip Kollar, Polygon's Deputy Reviews Editor, responded with this:

I don’t think Danielle guesting on one episode of a podcast that one of the game’s developers is also sometimes on is the same thing as “having ties to the developer.” Danielle can respond to herself here, but I think the podcast was even recorded after she had finished the game. I feel confident that didn’t have any sort of bearing.
— Phillip Kollar[9]

From this statement we can gather that Kollar didn't know that she had confirmed in the podcast that she had a longstanding friendship with Fullbright Company's staff just 2 and a half minutes into the podcast, nor the exact date the podcast was recorded.

Conflict of Interest between Ben Kuchera and Zoe Quinn[[[index.php?title=Polygon&action=edit&section=3|edit]]]

On March 19, 2014, Ben Kuchera, senior editor at Polygon, published an interview with Zoe Quinn that focused on the harassment she claims to have received from Wizardchan and overall portrayed her in a positive light.[10] It was brought to the gaming community’s attention that Ben had been giving Zoe Quinn money via Patreon since January 6, 2014,[11] which proves that he had covered Quinn while providing her regular monetary support, something that was not disclosed in the interview. It has also been revealed that Philip Kollar, a deputy review editor at Polygon,[3] had been giving money to Zoe's Patreon account since January 9, 2014,[12] before Kuchera's interview with Quinn was published.

Role In GamerGate[[[index.php?title=Polygon&action=edit&section=4|edit]]]

Public Ethics Policy Modification[[[index.php?title=Polygon&action=edit&section=5|edit]]]

On August 28, 2014, Chris Grant, Polygon's Editor in Chief, released a blog post on Polygon detailing various issues that were brought to his attention in the lead-up to GamerGate in regards to disclosure.[13] In the blog post, he states that he does not believe donating to a Patreon constitutes a possible conflict of interest. However, he decided to require the disclosure of these relationships anyway, having it disclosed under the staff member’s byline as well as on their respective staff pages. This was retroactive, as the disclosure was added to older articles. This coincided with an update to their ethics policies, now covering Patreon, which stated the new disclosure policy:

  • Staff must publish on their staff pages to which Patreons they contribute.
  • Staff will have to disclose their relationships with developers they're covering.

Gamers are Dead[[[index.php?title=Polygon&action=edit&section=6|edit]]]

On August 28, 2014, Polygon contributed to the Gamers are Dead effort, adding an opinion piece by Chris Plante, Senior Editor at The Verge as well as a member of GameJournoPros.[14] In the article, Plante talks about the Polytron hacking incident, a LizardSquad bomb threat, the harassment of Anita Sarkeesian, and a SWATing incident that occurred live on Twitch.tv, implying these incidents were provoked by a "side of the movement" when in reality they were isolated incidents unrelated to GamerGate.

Ben Kuchera's attempt to suppress discussion of the Zoe Quinn Scandal[[[index.php?title=Polygon&action=edit&section=7|edit]]]

On September 17, 2014, Breitbart with the help of an informant, leaked the GameJournoPros private e-mails. Among the leaked e-mail threads was one that Ben Kuchera sent to Greg Tito on August 19, 2014.[15]

In these emails, Ben Kuchera and Jason Schreier of Kotaku pressured Greg Tito at The Escapist to shut down any discussion regarding the Zoe Quinn Scandal on The Escapist forums. After Tito refuses to shut down the forum thread, citing his belief in healthy discussion, Kuchera and Schreier turn more aggressive towards Tito, with Kuchera accusing Tito of enabling harassment.[16]

Ben Kuchera and other journalists also pressured and dogpiled Ryan Smith when he asked about the double standard regarding the coverage of other similar "personal cases" and questioned them for releasing articles about Quinn's claims on being harassed that lacked the investigations confirming their veracity.[16][17][18]

Brian Crecente[[[index.php?title=Polygon&action=edit&section=8|edit]]]

On September 5, Brian Crecente, who was absent during the Quinnspiracy events as well as the launching of GamerGate proper; wrote a blog post on his Subcathoin blog about his thoughts on the subject, including a Storify that detailed a conversation he had with Owen Good in which they give their opinion on patronage, as well as the need for standards in journalism.[19]

Polygon has yet to address the collusion discovered from GameJournoPros

GameJournoPros Members[[[index.php?title=Polygon&action=edit&section=9|edit]]]

These are the gaming journalists that work (and have previously worked) for Polygon and were part of the GameJournoPros Google mailing list.

Additional[[[index.php?title=Polygon&action=edit&section=10|edit]]]

https://medium.com/@EthicsAuditor/polygons-ethics-statement-a-review-14a09b21ae1

https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/2m16oi/polygon_accepted_750000_from_microsoft_to_create/

https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/2jy59e/more_corruption_at_polygon_gone_home_nepotism/

References[[[index.php?title=Polygon&action=edit&section=11|edit]]]


  1. ↑ Archived Tweet confirming


  2. ↑ IMDB Estimated cost


  3. ↑ a b About - Polygon


  4. ↑ Fullbright Company’s Official Site


  5. ↑ Gone Home review: Living Room


  6. ↑ Twitter- Danielle and Chris Remo


  7. ↑ Twitter- Danielle and Fullbright


  8. ↑ Idle Thumbs Episode 118


  9. ↑ Polygon- Gone Home Review: Phillip Kollar's statement (No archive)


  10. ↑ Developer Zoe Quinn offers real-world advice, support for dealing with online harassment


  11. ↑ Ben Kuchera's Patreon


  12. ↑ Philip Kollar's Patreon


  13. ↑ On Patreon support- Polygon


  14. ↑ An awful week to care about video games


  15. ↑ Exposed secret mailing list of the gaming journalism elite


  16. ↑ a b GameJournoPros: Zoe Quinn email dump - Breitbart


  17. ↑ Reporter Apologizes For Crude Sexual Comments To Female Game Developer


  18. ↑ Snapchat CEO 'mortified' by leaked e-mails


  19. ↑ Ethics (with tweets) - crecenteb

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