N4G Rolls Out New Guidelines On Abuse, False Reports

Aggregate news website N4G, or News for Gamers, has rolled out new guidelines for its users.

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Aggregate news website N4G, or News for Gamers, has rolled out its latest guidelines to help fixed the alleged bias within the site.

N4G Network Manager Christopher explained the new guidelines and their reasoning in a recent blog post on the site. Christopher begins by explaining the issue of N4G users submitting news articles from various online gaming journalism publications in a biased manner. N4G user GamerRN mentioned a preference for Sony found in the abundance of PlayStation-related articles on the website.

Christopher also provided a link to the updated guidelines, which include that generic tweets from gaming industry figures containing no news should be approved. Further, N4G discourages submitting articles based on upcoming video game-related movies and TV shows, submitting articles on polls (unless created by a company in the industry), and submitting articles based on roundup news.

Further, N4G discourages submitting articles based on rumors from anonymous sources.

These are among more updates within the new guidelines that provide some guidance out of the realm of bias.

Ultimately, N4G wants to weed out articles and article submissions that are heavily opinionated, as well as other concerns the site has noticed.

N4G has long been one of the most notable aggregate news sites for gamers to find and read news on the gaming industry, so bias is unhelpful for those looking for objectivity in finding news on the site. Further, N4G users are likely to show bias by submitting Opinion pieces with negative angles on an upcoming console or game.

As the blog post mentions, now is a hard time to remain as objective as possible in submitting articles on N4G due to the heating-up console war. The Xbox Series X and PS5 may cause a rift between gamers, as is the usual case when gaming industry companies compete. As such, objectivity is more important than ever to avoid swaying the opinions of N4G frequenters.

Perhaps, the issued new guidelines will foster more objectivity on N4G, and it may help other users of N4G to look out more often for instances of subjectivity in articles.

Source: N4G

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