In its second year of operation, the Games Hotline focused on finding more and better ways to share its wisdom and guidance with the community. The resources we created centered on concerning trends and addressing common situations and needs that are relevant to the community, including a comprehensive and detailed guide for mitigating hate raids,… Keep reading “2022 Impact Report”

Blackmail can feel like an impossible, unfair, stressful, and scary situation, but it’s also an old, old trick. Your blackmailer, no matter who they are, wants you to feel terrified and alone and ashamed and rushed, so they can control you. It’s OK to feel all of those things. It’s also OK to breathe, slow… Keep reading “Responding to Blackmail”

Sometimes people who have caused harassment or have been accused of abuse in communities will text into the Games Hotline for emotional support.  Why would we talk to people who may have harassed, abused, or harmed others? Aren’t we anti-harassment? Well, what we know is that harassment happens in an ecosystem, and we’re committed to… Keep reading “Does the Games Hotline Talk to Harassers Too? How We Have Accountable Conversations”

What really happens when you text into an emotional support hotline? Do we have a secret key to supportive conversations? What if you want to offer emotional support to someone in your own life? Could you do what we do? Honestly, there’s nothing exclusive to how we hold conversations with people reaching out to the… Keep reading “What we do & how you could do it in your own life”