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To moderators: Reporting abuse - May-2th-2008 7:44:09

Glad to be a gamer

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I tried to post an article on Play.com offering an unofficial GTA4/360 bundle from 2 different gaming news web sites about a month ago. Both got reported in 5-10 minutes by 20+ people. I now look at the website and this news about ps3 bundle being sold out at play.com. Not to mention other articles like Gta4 driving Ps3 sales.

I even got messages telling me why it not "news" how ironic. I wonder where all those reporters are now and why they have not reported this among other articles about bestbuy,amazon,play etc etc etc etc etc when it favours the PS3.

It seems when it paints the ps3 in a good light these articles are news worthy but otherwise the reporters come in.

TIME TO START NAMING NAMES! So that people can see who these pathetic individuals are!!!

These are the people that are either trying to maintain "N4G RULES" LMAO or CENSORING THE NEWS . you decide i already have and only person there that i think was trying to do the right thing is MEUS. Buubar and decapitator(i know hes been here a while) are definately some of the abusers as ive seen them report other articles that are 360 favourable then approve the same type of articles for the ps3(ie ps3 gta4 bundle sold out at play.com)

This kind of abuse needs to stop as you will lose credibilty and real gamers that actually want to come on here and read the news good or bad. Im definately at the point of just not bothering to look at N4g due to its constant slant on News approval. I should just go ahead and make my own site if this is what the great N4G'S has become. Sort it out or end up going the way of Gamespot is my advice. I with alot of others used to bother reading their articles/reviews and we all know what happened there.

Reported by: MUGEN
Lame: (20 days 20 hours ago )
Read my post

Reported by: Meus Renaissance
Lame: (20 days 20 hours ago )

Reported by: Buubar
Lame: (20 days 20 hours ago )
advertising

Reported by: vasilisk
Spam: (20 days 20 hours ago )

Reported by: DADO
Spam: (20 days 21 hours ago )
still not a bundle, PS3 bundle with GTA4 is still more popular and will shift more units.

Reported by: Spike47
Spam: (20 days 21 hours ago )
Advertising: This is an online only bundle. Is that your n4user ?

Reported by: decapitator
Lame: (20 days 21 hours ago )
Just fail already!

Reported by: whoelse
Lame: (20 days 21 hours ago )

Reported by: Novacell
Fake: (20 days 21 hours ago )
it is only an offer

Reported by: SickNick85
Lame: (20 days 21 hours ago )
Very misleading.

Reported by: Leord
Spam: (20 days 21 hours ago )
extremely misleading, change GTA 4 360 Bundle Made Possible by Play.com

not GTA 4 360 bundle available........its not a bundle its a promotion/offer not a bundle.

Reported by: xhi4
Lame: (20 days 21 hours ago )
it's not a bundle come on get serious

Reported by: PopEmUp
Other: (20 days 22 hours ago )
ITS GTA:IV, and its a terrible article. It has already failed approval about 5 times.

Reported by: Buubar
Fake: (20 days 22 hours ago )

Reported by: HighDefinition
Lame: (20 days 22 hours ago )

Reported by: HighDefinition
Fake: (20 days 22 hours ago )
how many times does this have to fail...

Reported by: Boink
Fake: (20 days 22 hours ago )
Its not an Official Bundle, its a special offer from Play. Official Bundles are available in ALL stores, this is just a "bundle" exclusive to PLAY.

SECOND ATTEMPT FROM A DIFFERENT SOURCE

Duplicate Story: (20 days 19 hours ago )
Reported by: Darkiewonder
Other: (20 days 19 hours ago )
Not news, plus its a duplicate of a failed one,

Reported by: Meus Renaissance
Duplicate Story: (20 days 19 hours ago )
it is not a bundle and it is the same news in failed with 17 report

Reported by: SickNick85
Duplicate Story: (20 days 19 hours ago )

Reported by: decapitator
Other: (20 days 19 hours ago )
Just drop the bone, the 360 won't have an Official Bundle.

Reported by: Buubar
Duplicate Story: (20 days 19 hours ago )
http://www.n4g.com/xbox360/...

Reported by: Buubar
Duplicate Story: (20 days 19 hours ago )

Reported by: MUGEN
Other: (20 days 19 hours ago )
sigh...this again ?

Reported by: decapitator

< Message edited by Glad to be a gamer -- May-2th-2008 7:49:55 >

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RE: To moderators: Reporting abuse - May-2th-2008 7:48:09

Dukester101

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So what do you want us (the moderators) to do about it?

The only way you're contributing to fixing the problem is by complaining about it... how about offering some suggestions.

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RE: To moderators: Reporting abuse - May-2th-2008 9:35:26

BloodySinner

Posts: 486
Joined: Jun.-18th-2007
From: Canada
Status: online

quote:

ORIGINAL: Dukester101

So what do you want us (the moderators) to do about it?

The only way you're contributing to fixing the problem is by complaining about it... how about offering some suggestions.

I believe this contributor wants the users who reported his story to be punished in some way or another.

LOL @ Your avatar.

< Message edited by BloodySinner -- May-2th-2008 9:42:38 >

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RE: To moderators: Reporting abuse - May-4th-2008 9:50:09

Glad to be a gamer

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Joined: Mar.-3th-2008
Status: offline

Exactly what bloody sinner says. If members are abusing the reporting/approval rights then they should have them stripped for a period of time.

Im suprised some of you moderators have not thought up an idea of how to deal with this. If this is not part of your job then what exactly do you guys actually do to upkeep this site????

Except delete my post of the names that reoprted the two story due to "gamers" reporting it as spam. Im gonna give you guys the benefit of the doubt but in all honesty im begining to believe what some others who have left said. that the real problme is that the moderators are crooked hence why this site is overun with PS3 fans and 360 fans have gone else where.

Im a gamer and wANT to read informative news GOOD or BAD for all the consoles. That should not be to much to ask from a site whos name imply it offers "NEWS FOR GAMERS"

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RE: To moderators: Reporting abuse - May-4th-2008 12:01:56

RuJoshin

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So I looked into your complaint a bit Glad to be gamer and I can see why things went down as they did.
Even though you are a trainee you should be able to see why linking to play.com's buy now page would get hit with lots of spam reports.
The second attempt however was an actual article hosted by a legitimate source and IMO maybe should have been approved.

But here's what we can do...
Nothing.

This complaint is about a submission from 23 days ago...
When you have issues and believe the approval system is being abused, You need to contact a mod or admin right away.
We can step in and overturn a approval or failure and we can restrict certain contributor abilities..

You can contact the N4G staff using:
News 4 Gamers Administrative Staff:

News 4 Gamers Moderation Staff:

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RE: To moderators: Reporting abuse - May-4th-2008 12:38:37

Snoozer282

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Just out of interest, is there a stickied thread with such a list, as that's extremely handy as I had no clue really who the moderators were.

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RE: To moderators: Reporting abuse - May-7th-2008 16:56:46

Boink

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at the time you had reported it there was no official notice from sony that there would be an official bundle.

it was just a rumour/package from play.com, which is actually spam/advertising IMO.

now if we had turned down the official press release from sony that would be different.

same thing would apply if you were reporting on a 360 bundle from specific store. I don't see that as news. When the company officially annouces the bundle everywhere, that I consider news, or if there were other sources (ie other stores all showing the same bundle). otherwise it's just adverstising for that store.

I stand by my report, sorry.

< Message edited by Boink -- May-7th-2008 17:02:33 >

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RE: To moderators: Reporting abuse - May-11th-2008 1:17:36

harry190

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Could someone see to it that this user gets a reality check?
Has been abusing the report system with false unsubstantiated reports.

http://www.n4g.com/up/27519.aspx

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RE: To moderators: Reporting abuse - May-11th-2008 6:30:02

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