I agree with CNET. They approached it all wrong but have a valid point: enabling toxic negativity and the vile rhetoric that gamers usually spew does not create a better, more intelligent or constructive community. The more meme-ified and sadistic viewpoint you push onto topics as neutral as tech, the more you'll attract the frenzied, fooaming-at-the-mouth rabid dogs that are YouTube's trolling underbelly. You don't need those kinds of people in a tech community, or anywhere else for that matter.

Journalism at its finest. They proved themselves to be hypocrites and dumb in front of everyone.