What follows are our (N4G, NewsBoiler) Guidelines for User Reviews and User Blogs. You can find the original forum post here: http://forums.n4g.com/Guide...
At the end I will also discuss some of the "invisible rules" and contest criteria.
Hope this helps! :)
USER REVIEWS
Topics
All your User Reviews should be related to the topic of the NewsBoiler site where your review is hosted. Reviews should be well written and of interest to the community.
Language and Writing Style
We suggest you put some effort into your user reviews to make them as entertaining or useful as possible. User reviews with immature language and low quality posts will be deactivated from the User Review Channel, which basically means that you no longer will get any traffic to your reviews.
Where the Content Comes From
It is okay to post review content you have authored on your personal blog, so long as you post the content in full. Do not include links to your blog. Do not sign up and post your entire blog archive. Basically, feel free to share your writing, but don't spam!
USER BLOGS
Topics
All your blog posts should in some way be related to the topic of the NewsBoiler site where your blog is hosted. This is not the place to talk about your personal life, so try instead to post interesting thoughts or information that will interest other members. Blogs should be well written and of interest to the community.
Language and Writing Style
We suggest you put some effort into your blog posts to make them as entertaining or useful as possible. User blogs with immature language and low quality posts will be deactivated from the Blog Channel, which basically means that you no longer will get any traffic to your blog.
Where the Content Comes From
It is okay to post content from your personal blog, so long as you post the content in full. Do not include links to your blog. Do not sign up and post your entire blog archive or really old posts. Basically, feel free to share your writing, but don't spam!
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That's it. Pretty straightforward, right? Beyond these Guidelines, many user reports and requests fall under N4G culture, or the user-driven aspect of our user-driven site. While some statements like "low quality" and "well written" seem vague to some and tough to others, the idea is to weed out undeveloped ideas (one paragraph rant that's better suited to the forums) and have something enjoyable to read (as in, you can read it instead of needing to run it through a spell check translator).
To the last point, we have a large international community yet we do require submissions, including user content, to be in English. Reporters: be helpful in your reports. Don't strangle gnats. Bloggers: If you are unsure of your English, take advantage of some of the blog regulars and ask them to give your blog a read-through before posting. That's not a requirement, just a suggestion. :)
Above all, if you have any questions let me or another staff member know. I really love our Blog and Review section, and look forward to reading what you guys submit (even when I don't always have time to comment :)).
Contests! Having a "perfect post" isn't required to win our User Review or Blog Contests, we look a lot at the "of interest to the community" criteria. Coolbeans loves to proofread my posts. :) However...it does hurt your chances if your post is riddled with incorrect capitalization, spelling or similar. Paying attention to things like grammar and spelling shows that you care about the content you're putting out there, that you took the time to proofread (even if you missed a few things). We're not professors looking to reward the tidiest post, but interesting blogs and reviews do suffer if you don't use punctuation.
The End.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
I feel like we are getting told off...... Sorry Cat
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-I...
This is exactly what I've been looking for thank you! :)
There was a user that would post an entire transcript of their youtube video as a blog post here and then at the end link to the youtube video. What about something like that? Does that fall under Spam or the aforementioned blog re-post?
The blog rules were pretty vague for a while, so this is a positive step.
Thanks for the clarity; I’ve got a stack of titles I need to review over the coming weeks.
I’m also happy to volunteer my proof-reading services to the community.
Any bloggers who would like me to cast my peepers over their content before submission, feel free to PM me.