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Why is it that the site always has some sort of article that is blatantly biased or misinformed every single time I go onto it? It makes me feel I'm supporting a site that produces ridiculous and obviously attention-whore (pardon my French) articles. Why is this? I apologize if this isn't the general consensus but I had to express my opinion.

EDIT: Yes I'm talking about the gamrFeed articles



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It isn't limited to this site, on reviews on the run one of the guys said the hackers got banking information, banking information isn't even used on your ps3...



BrokenBones646 said:
It isn't limited to this site, on reviews on the run one of the guys said the hackers got banking information, banking information isn't even used on your ps3...


I guess there's just a heap of useless information out there... One just has to find the relative stuff. Really though, every once in awhile articles are uploaded that should never have been given the go ahead, and this seems to be happening more and more frequently on VGChartz.



uh how many debates have you been in on VGC?

when you've counted them all on one hand, quote me and you'll have your answer.



I'm confused your talking about article bias, are you refering to the Gamr Feed and actual written articles by the staff. Or are you refering to the articles written on Gamr Connect. Honestly I think the opinion peices on gamr feed are useless as they are just someones opinion and I think that belongs in the forum to be discussed rather then on the front page with the news.

As for threads created by users, of course they have bias they are users opinion's not proffesionally written articles. I myself used to write reviews and articles for a newspaper, as a journalist it was extremely important for me to be unbiased, I spell checked every article and did hours of work for each article. But here on the forum I'm not a writer I am just a member, so I am as biased as I feel like.

If you want unbiased writting don't go on a game forum for it, also alot of our bias in our threads is their with the intent that other users will see different opinions and help contribute to their decisions. Not to mention many are their to cause debates in which the intellectuals of VGChartz gather to debate.

Again I'm not sure if your refering to the proffesionally written articles found on the front page, or the consumer and user written threads here on the boards. But I think bias is expected in forum's and shunned in proffesional game journalism. If you don't want bias don't go on a forum!



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I think he is talking about all the useless "articles" on gamrfeed, which are disgusting pieces of trolling. They have damaged the reputation of this site big time for me.

I dont take anything that gets written on here serious anymore, especially all that stuff on gamrfeed.

Gamrconnect is a haven for well thought out, reasonable articles in comparison.



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The gamrfeed and news are terrible on this site. Possibly the worst i have seen, but that is not why I come here. I come for the sales and the community.



I don't really look at the front page. I come here for off topics.



RolStoppable said:
Faxanadu said:
I think he is talking about all the useless "articles" on gamrfeed, which are disgusting pieces of trolling. They have damaged the reputation of this site big time for me.

I dont take anything that gets written on here serious anymore, especially all that stuff on gamrfeed.

Gamrconnect is a haven for well thought out, reasonable articles in comparison.

Pretty much this.

Some of the editorials posted on gamrFeed would get locked if they would be threads on gamrConnect, because they are so blatantly biased and ignore readily available data (like sales numbers on this very site). The forum members of gamrConnect are held to stricter rules than the writers for gamrFeed.

Agreed.

Even though these are opinion articles they are pretty bad. Opinions are fine as long as they are based on facts and follow from logical conclusions, some articles that have been written lately do not have the right facts nor are the opinions logical. Two particular articles stand out for me over the last month or two:

http://gamrfeed.vgchartz.com/index.php?page=5&&type=originals

http://gamrfeed.vgchartz.com/story/87384/nintendos-arrogance-and-the-3ds/

These articles in particular were biased and in some cases not based on facts. In fact i had a good laugh reading these, wasn't sure if these were serous articles or not. 



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Well I dunno how they do it...

Yesterday I even commented harshly at a guy who in all apparences is a nintendo supporter (game collection) but somehow seemed to be just as biased in his comments on the 3DS.... Worst part is that even PS fans went at him for the comments on Vita, so he managed to antagonize both sides... This really means it's not the users that are biased in the comments (or it could mean that the guy is so unbiased that he sees the truth... but that was not the case).



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