If Kotaku couldn’t get that righ,  then that shows that they don’t check their sources.

Shit site.
Faggot users.
Shit articles.

Avoid.

http://www.animenation.net/forums/showthread.php?s=b91f3d55245c4b010583c9b84143a185&t=217595

Granted, this is just a small sampling of people from nearly six years ago, but not only does the disparity between what’s allowable offline and on still pervade people’s perceptions today, but that anyone at any time could write shit like this off by playing the “It’s just a blog…” card in the first place depresses the shit out of me.

Whether or not Kotaku is a blog, they owe it to their readers to demonstrate some degree of journalistic integrity. The assholes put ads up on their site, and if they essentially expect to be paid for the content they post there, then we readers deserve the comfort of knowing that said content is substantially more credible than the shit that gets posted by fanboys to your average videogame enthusiast forum. Shit like this just undermines the site’s value, and sadly, that Kotaku can’t understand that is owed to the fact that so few of us hold sites like theirs to a better standard. Sadly, the folks in that link who argue that this is okay aren’t the minority, and until we gamers start demanding better as a collective, this is all we’re going to get.  

The sad thing is that in the six years or so since this happened, Kotaku hasn’t improved at all. In fact they’ve actually managed to become worse in the years since. They frequently post ridiculous op-eds, many of which are so tangentially related to gaming that you have to wonder if the folks who write for the site are even trying anymore. They frequently post articles that marginalize and objectify women, seemingly based on two assumptions; the first being that females don’t play videogames and so wouldn’t read the sexist articles they post, and the second being that your average gamer is such an undersexed freak that they’ll ignore the lack of quality in Kotaku’s posts as long as they utter the word breast at least once in the body of the article. They post articles that are all of one sentence long, and will post press-releases wholesale, promising follow-ups that essentially just reiterate what the press-release said whenever they get around to posting them. They continue to post unsubstantiated rumors without bothering to research them, and quite oddly, their unwillingness to research also includes checking to see if they’ve previously posted an article about something themselves before posting another one. Ashcraft still uses the site as a platform for his obsession with Japan, the editors are still ban-crazy, and all-around the site is just one of the worst places on the internet for fans of the hobby to go to get their news. The sooner the site dive-bombs, the better off we’ll all be.