[REBUILD] Remember to support journalism outlets that treat you like human beings! [x-post reddit] I had a revelation today as I was reading Niche Gamer: I am not doing my part as a consumer to help encourage those who are not leveraging nasty tactics to order to profit in less ethical ways. A) My Ad Block was on, as I had recently migrated to a new Google account, and forgot extensions sync based on your login. B) When was the last time I actually gave a penny to one of the few sites I frequent and actually respect? I literally had never. It then became apparent to me that I was part of the problem that was causing outrage culture, simply by not being generous enough with the outlets which behaved respectfully and in a way that I wanted to encourage. Suffice to say, I have fixed that, and will be looking for donation buttons in the future whenever I see one of those articles that makes me feel really happy or excited. I realized I spend so much time criticizing the bad in this industry that it's easy for me to forget to encourage the good. Don't be like me. If you have a favorite site, make sure they know. Send them encouraging emails. Donate to them by whatever means they have available. Contribute content. Turn off ad block. Sorry if this got preachy; I was just slightly ashamed when I thought about it, and I wanted others to learn from my failure. This post was mirrored from http://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/3bayy7/rebuild_remember_to_support_journalism_outlets/ and may have been edited at the original location.