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'''July 5, 2011''' -- Flux [http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/last-round-of-d3here-answers posts the last batch of answers] from D3Here. They provoke no additional controversy.
'''July 7-1612, 2011''' -- The [http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/vote-long-skill-cooldowns final word comes came from a community vote] on Diablo.IncGamers.com. Here are the results:
::'''What do you think about the D3here guy’s claims?'''
::: * 2) I’m not sure. Could he really have made all that up? — 678 votes, 25.03%
The arguments in comments were lost when Diablo.IncGamers.com switched servers and news scripts, but Flux's main point was that D3Here was clearly newsworthy, given the hundreds of comments his site was attracting from the Diablo community. Since informing the readers is the whole point of an independent media, and since Blizzard was banning all threads pointing to the D3Here information, Flux felt it would have been wrong to join in their censorship, so long as D3Here wasn't doing anything to ruin the game experience or breaking any laws.
Flux's argument , while always making clear his personal skepticism of D3Here, was that anyone could or could not read D3Here's posts, and then make up their own minds. Free flow of information is the goal of the media, and if a Diablo fansite only posts what the PR department of Blizzard approves, then what's the point in existing at all?
