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submitted 3 days ago by atro_city@fedia.io to c/gaming@beehaw.org

And leave reviews saying "Bought this game because it was on the anti-woke curator's list. Thanks"?

Edit: it seems like people understand this post as a "let's buy non-woke games". I mean it as "use the list to find 'woke' games" and buy those. Not mindlessly, of course. But review-bombed "woke" games can have a harder time (especially in their forums), because of such curators and it could be a good way to discover actual good games that are subjugated to hate coming from these curators and groups.

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[-] Bougie_Birdie@piefed.blahaj.zone 26 points 3 days ago

It's a typo in the post title. The body refers to anti-woke curators, which incidentally makes your description accurate

[-] TheAlbatross 17 points 3 days ago

...oh.

This post is supremely stupid then.

Yeah, I think this post suffers from being vague. The default reading would be to take the curators at face value and follow their opinion.

A more charitable reading, and one that I hope OP had intended, is to buy the games that these curators recommend against, because if they think they're bad for being woke that probably means they're good.

To OP: I'm of a divided opinion. On one hand this is probably a decent method of discovery, and I absolutely want to make those curators feel as unwelcome and foolish as their hateful rhetoric. On the other hand, I don't want to surround myself with hatred or live for spite. Plus I think calling them out would count as feeding the troll, and the Streisand effect suggests that would actually help them by creating engagement.

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