http://www.enworld.org/forum/content.php?5204-Harassment-Policies-New-Allegations-Show-More-Work-To-Be-Done
This is character assassination period. This is NOT journalism. It is a fevered machinations of a clearly emotionally-compromised human being desperate for the false-love of his fevered SJW sycophants.
I officially hereby take back everything nice I've ever said about Christopher Helton. He is using ENWorld as a platform to carry out his arrogant witch-hunt to satisfy his obviously personal shame for who-knows-what.
Don't let Chris Helton fool you. He is not a journalist. He is a demented self-appointed inquisitor.
I have cancelled my support of ENWorld, my EONS subscription and will be seriously considering my support of WOIN.
Meh...
Enworld really hasn't been very good as a gaming forum for gamers since
Eric Noah left in 2003, and that was a decade and a half ago, fifteen years now. I have caught Morrus on more than one occassion making some screwed up unverifiable statements about the game Industry, called him on it, and been threatened with a banhammer for that... so haven't really posted there myself since about 2013 or so...
Just an interesting side note for you. This character assassination, and that's all it is, because the testimony provided in this case so far is only hearsay, ...not even admissible in a Civil Court case. This particular case continues in a common vein with all of the other character assassinations cases I have witnessed over the last eighteen months. That is, ...a Successful Independent game publisher is accused of wrongdoing in a public forum, and is publicly humiliated. No actual trial occurs, yet the Indy Publisher suffers tremendous damage to his/her reputation in the gaming community with no actual proof of wrongdoing, and their income is also affected. Where are the photographs of the supposed victim with the wrongdoer? We don't see them. There are no recorded conversations, no Independent confirmation, no Independent third party corroboration. Nothing. ...No real evidence at all, of any wrongdoing. Just whispers in the dark. This reminds me of Wormtongue, Theoden's advisor.
They call themselves
Social Justice Warriors, and the compare themselves to heroes who fight for the oppressed and downtrodden, but with these cases it is clear that the successful Indy Game Publishers that are the only ones being permanently harmed. The big game and toy companies are renowned for fighting dirty like this, and have since the Tabletop Games Industries was founded early last century. The SJW show only a fleeting knowledge of the games and people they interact with, and are pretentious, shallow, callow, and openly disrespectful of anything outside of their reality bubble. Sometimes I really wish the Department of Defense had the draft still in place, so these losers could get sucked into serving their country for four years and get stationed in some dunghole that smells like a dunghole, where there are very real sexual predators. Pretty sure they would find that an enlightening experience.
I'm also 100% certain that there are women in the gaming Industry who have been harassed, or imposed upon. There is a couple of really simple solutions for this, just to start they should really use their iPhone and all that fine portable tech like their tablets and such, to very discreetly record one of these real losers making unwanted advances, and record themselves rejecting such an advance. If it happens once... no big deal. the nerd was probably just trying to get a date. If it happens repeatedly, take his or her A$$ to court, and get a Judgement, then publicise the hell out of that. I would support a lynching for that 100%.
This whispers in the dark character assassination campaign though, ...holds no interest for me, and as you mention reflects very poorly on the organizations that sponsor and support such douchebaggery.
P.S. you socially inept nerd gamers who want a date, shouldn't be looking for a date at a gaming convention, you should be bringing your date to the gaming convention, 'just sayin...