I'd take that gal over gator twatshitters any day.

Eh?

I think it's a derogatory term for alligators.

Reading your comment I expected a nude moderator with a whip. I was sorely disappointed.

"gator" as in "member of the GamerGate bowel movement".

Seriously: What the actual fuck. Does the pile of bio waste which wrote the article know what a conflict of interest is? Will it know a conflict of interest if it bit it in the ass?

Hint: it's in the name.
Two (or more).
Conflicting.
Interests.

Say, you're hired to sue a company you own shares in -- that's a (potential) conflict of interest because you might benefit from doing your job poorly and thus might flunk it intentionally. (Of course, an exception is possible when you're suing the management on behalf of the shareholders.)

How is "I backed a project because my friend works there" a conflict of interest? Which interests are conflicting? She gave money to a project. It wouldn't matter if all her friends worked there. It wouldn't matter if all her enemies worked there. No conflict can possibly arise out of giving money to a game, because a kickstarter pledge is not an investment and platformers are not a competitive market. "I paid for the game" = "I want the game to succeed". "My friend works there" = "I want the game to succeed". "I was hired by the company" = "I want the game to succeed" (maybe). There could be a conflict if she was hired by funders to audit the company. Given the gator got this very basic fact vice versa, I have to assume it thinks with its ass.

Also: Applying for a job because you've heard from someone who works there they have an opening is normal. People get paid for recommending potential hires. The only possibility of corruption is when your friend, a higher-up in an organization, orders to have you hired regardless of qualifications. That can be thoretically called a "conflict of interest" (by an ignorant twat who doesn't know the word nepotism) -- as in "the boss's interest in maintaining the friendship conflicts with the company's interest in hiring qualified workers". Does the fat fuck have any evidence of that? Of course not.

Ah, I stayed away from all that SWJ vs GG mess.

Uh well, I was more interested in the fact that she banned backers and did other crazy things.
It was just for the lols, I surely don't want to start serious discussions about who's right. O_o'
(also because I've never been in Mighty9 forums)