[Site Staff] Forum Updates: Thread Creation and What That Entails

[fireburn95]

Smeags said:

fireburn95 said:
Agreed!

Also, I think we should ban Dualshockers articles, much like Neogaf have done.
I know vgchartz are more open per se than neogaf, but Dualshockers is merely clickbait
and 99% of their rumours are sourced from job listings and random twitter folk
e.g. Tidux who is always very vague but enough it seems to warrant an entire article

Remember this travesty? http://www.dualshockers.com/2014/05/07/sony-e3-conference-details-leaked-uncharted-guerrilla-games-media-molecule-and-much-more/

To be honest, we're somewhat uncomfortable with outright banning certain sites. I understand why GAF does it, but I also want the community to have the freedom to discuss what they want to discuss, as long as it's accurate and worthy of discussing. The closest we got was taking a hard look at allowing insiderp threads or not.

It's an ongoing discussion for sure.

@alternine

That was certainly a factor in our talks.

If the 'rumours' are persistently wrong, ridiculous, unsourced or based of ridiculous sources, I think the mods should at least discuss whether that the site in questions adds to vgchartz discussions. We shouldnt encourage bad journalism, it hopefully is the reason why vgchartz news do not make ridiculous articles, otherwise what's stopping a random noob like me from making a news website with clickbait titles and bad articles and forum-posting it here.