How one magazine avoided the wrath of GamerGate and anti-GamerGate

Not sure if you've heard of GamerGate but it seems to be the current online feud of note. Regarding it, I found the following in an article entitled How to End Gamergate: A divide-and-conquer plan for dissolving a toxic online movement:

One site, the Escapist, did issue new ethics policies and allowed civil discussion of Gamergate early after the start of the controversy, and Gamergate members, shockingly, seemed satisfied, as the Escapist did not make the Gamergate community’s boycott list, even after the Escapist subsequently ran 10 interviews with anonymous female game developers, many of whom were sharply critical of Gamergate.

What the Escapist seems to have done is to have accepted criticism to the extent it was legitimate. Not too surprisingly this defused tension against them. In consequence it then gave them a more effective platform from which they could address negatives associated with the same movement.