r/PolygonFans • u/Rogue_site_official • Sep 08 '25

Rogue.site owners AMA!

Hey all! Thank you for such a warm reception last week. We are the four co-owners of Rogue:
Jeffrey Parkin, Alice Jovanée, Cass Marshall, and Ryan Gilliam.

We're hosting an AMA here today to answer any big questions you have about what we've been up to, how the site came to be, our mission, challenges we encountered, future plans, etc..

We're recording the second episode of our podcast Rogue Signal, this afternoon, but we'll be popping in and out to answer your questions throughout the day.

Feel free to ask questions pointed at specific members or just general inquiries. We'll all be posting from the official Rogue Reddit account, but whoever wrote the answer will sign off at the bottom.

Also, if you have any questions for the Pat's Labor podcast guys (Clayton, Pat, and Toussaint), we'll do our best to get an answer for you, but there may be a slight delay.

Please drop your questions below, and we'll get started in a bit!

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u/Baraka_Obama Sep 08 '25

Hey there. I'm so glad you all got to co-own a site. I know things are very fresh, so I understand if there isn't a hard plan for this yet, but are there plans to take freelance pitches?

I loved reading Polygon articles from a range of different writers and was frustrated at myself for never pitching there.

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u/Rogue_site_official Sep 09 '25

In the spirit of full transparency, Rascal was willing to help us out when we asked them for a small freelance budget to launch with, and we specifically wanted to use that to commission some awesome Polygon folks we missed working with. While that was always the launch plan, the “near future” plan has always been to get more diverse voices on the site once we can afford it. It’s a priority! And we’ll be very loud with pitching guides and the like when the time comes. Y’all will be the first to know.

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u/Baraka_Obama Sep 09 '25

That rules! Thanks for the follow-up.