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fireburn95 on 23 April 2015
Aura7541 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/

I would at least ban Dualshockers' job opening articles. They're basically "The sky is blue. Water is wet".

I know - he thinks it is news when a company hires :O

Or he thinks it is news when a company is looking for people who are good at doing their job :O

Or he thinks it is shocking that companies are looking to improve graphics/lighting tech for their next game :O

I say ban dualshockers completely. Nothing more than a farse and fanboyism with awful ethical reporting and lack of sourcing.
Any real rumours which stem from dualshockers in the future could be posted on vgchartz 1) from another website 2) from vgchartz themselves naming but not linking dualshockers



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Smeags on 23 April 2015
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.



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vivster on 23 April 2015

You forgot to mention "Do not post directly under the OP with something that could've easily fit in the opening post." That is nothing more than double posting and should be treated as spam.



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Smeags on 23 April 2015
Ka-pi96 said:
Nice. A little note suggesting that people check the latest topics page before posting their threads wouldn't be a bad idea either

Absolutely.

Site Staff unite! (do we even coun't since we're unpaid? )



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vivster on 23 April 2015
kowenicki said:
vivster said:
You forgot to mention "Do not post directly under the OP with something that could've easily fit in the opening post." That is nothing more than double posting and should be treated as spam.


I dint agree with that at all.  It also depends on what you are posting.  This site cant handle too much content in one post sometimes, especially if it is graphic heavy.

Hence the bolded. I'm seeing that a lot with a certain thread creator. The thread creator's immediate comments about a news or opinion piece belong in the OP.



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Aeolus451 on 23 April 2015

I'm guilty of posting articles as is for the most part (sometimes I change the pictures) but I always give credit to the writer of the article and provide a link to their article titled "Source". I don't see how that as plagiarism but I will respect the mod team's wishes on this. 

Out of curiousity, is this a preemptive change before the sites are combined so that the writers get the clicks on the articles they write?



TruckOSaurus on 23 April 2015
RolStoppable said:

Serious question for the mod team: Do you know what "plagiarism" means?

To present someone's else work as your own. Which I think fits the situation when someone pastes a complete article without a source. Sure most will figure out that's it's an article from somewhere but gotta give credit where credit is due.



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fireburn95 on 23 April 2015
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.



Jaywood2010 on 23 April 2015

I link eveery single article i post, but fair enough, will still be putting up a plethora of news every day. For the good people of VGC ;P




       

chocoloco on 23 April 2015

Half of the threads I ever posted on this site were news threads. Now the only place to get unadulterated news will be the xbox empire and occasionally the playstation thread. Seems like a waste of time.