Personal attacks are out of the question, they dont help anyone - especially not those with a more complicated, non mainstream stance they still have to argue.
There are a few concepts though which are worth upholding.
- If you claim something very publicly - without laying out any details first (important for the non youtube audience to judge if "there might be something to it"), show proof. Not after people ask you to, do it out of your own valition - and do it first. Its an attention economy thing.
- If you are doing this to "promote" your youtube channel, and you are not the originator - and fail to mention that, and you don't go into important details, causing some people to loose their exploitable firmwares, in your attempt to "become famous" - you have lost. On all grounds. If you "independently discovered" a "built in feature" one of those accusations gets dropped.
- If you share information, let the information speak, don't try to prep things up with reputation plays ("i'm no fraud, I used moonlight to stream to my PS Vita (wohoo?!)") - also an information economy thing - and wishful thinking, but most intelligent people try to look for clues in language, if a thing is "real" or "made up". Dont try to "frame the response" (positive answers only, please), its actually counter productive, intelligent people will call you out on it, if its done "too obviously".
- Honor the original source. If you are a youtuber and like to live off copying the work of others, thats fine - but don't "forget" to credit them. Thats the difference between fair use and acting as an imposter.
If none of this is important to you - because you are the typical youtube consumer - and happy, that someone just told you something you didnt know, lets please still not loose this basic framework, because this is what makes "information communities" manageable.
Now to the specifics. There are small technical clues, to why this should not have been a sustainable thing to begin with. If it was "unintended" N would have always blocked it (/been able to block it). Game Updates have "minimum required firmware", so its use was always "limited", because over time required firmware versions will go up. There was always the question how this is "handled" by the "method", as the OP didn't care about that either (Turns out N sends a firmwareupdate, if minimum required version is not met). Limited use also meant, that the OP could only get the full potential out of it "now" which made the sensationalism suspect.
If your entire "reaction process" on this was to see the promise of a youtube video, and get excited - and now defend the person who made that video, because you got limited use out of it - thats ok, but also look at the remifications.
Information economies dont exist to serve the end user, in fact some of us/them (dont want to associate too closely..
) couldnt care less how they cope (deep wounds, early in our lifes..
)
We care about the validity and the importance (judging process) of information. And there are a few mannerisms to keep that process alive...
Your biggest critic can be your best friend in our circles, and safespaces - by definition - are out. But also, never get personal (serves no purpose, allows the other person to "live", everyone makes mistakes), and try not to act like an utter asshole (I'm guilty of that as well, sometimes - but still).
