10-24-2011, 05:35 AM
I'm hoping maybe someone can enlighten me here, but I don't really see how this is an issue.
Don't get me wrong, yeah, pretending to be someone else and apparently scamming people into buying you stuff (I'd like to see more evidence for that) is Not Cool, but I don't think it exactly justifies a witch hunt, I've certainly never been dumb enough to buy things for someone just because they're a pretty girl on the internet.
(I have bought things for female friends though, and if it turned out they were male I'd mostly be bothered that they weren't honest with me, but I didn't buy them things based on what's in their pants.)
Part of me almost thinks it's almost a good way of teaching people not to be so damn childish, it's a very low price to pay to learn that things on the internet aren't always what they seem.
Either way it strikes me as a non-issue really, the only possible outcome is to create drama and possibly ostracize someone.
Maybe you'll somehow prevent someone from being stupid enough to throw their money around trying to impress a grrlgamer, but honestly people like that deserve to get a nasty reality shock anyway.
Don't get me wrong, yeah, pretending to be someone else and apparently scamming people into buying you stuff (I'd like to see more evidence for that) is Not Cool, but I don't think it exactly justifies a witch hunt, I've certainly never been dumb enough to buy things for someone just because they're a pretty girl on the internet.
(I have bought things for female friends though, and if it turned out they were male I'd mostly be bothered that they weren't honest with me, but I didn't buy them things based on what's in their pants.)
Part of me almost thinks it's almost a good way of teaching people not to be so damn childish, it's a very low price to pay to learn that things on the internet aren't always what they seem.
Either way it strikes me as a non-issue really, the only possible outcome is to create drama and possibly ostracize someone.
Maybe you'll somehow prevent someone from being stupid enough to throw their money around trying to impress a grrlgamer, but honestly people like that deserve to get a nasty reality shock anyway.