As I write this blog I have been on this site for 462 days. It may be I have become more observant but the amount of poor reports generated by users is astounding.
When a story appears that a user doesn't like they instantly report it as SPAM (Hypothetically for example a title saying Xbox is better) . Now it maybe just me but Spam is "Spam is the use of electronic messaging systems (including most broadcast media, digital delivery systems) to send unsolicited bulk messages indiscriminately" (from wikipedia on 24th August 2011 updated at 17:57). So why do N4G users report things as Spam when they are not. Why isn't the other section of the report function good enough. Why does something get labelled as spam. It may be flame bait but that doesn't make it spam. The spam button is there for a reason and is not to be abused.
Another bad use of the report function is reporting saying something is lame and not saying why. There is a box when you report for you to put in the reason why something is lame. It isn't helpful at all. It does happen with the other report. Just reporting other doesn't mean anything. Other is so ambiguous. For the same hypothetical example I used in the previous paragraph I will show how stupid not saying why is. If I was to report other, what does it mean?
I am sorry these seams to be a rant but some of the users on the website need to realise what they are doing is not helpful for the users trying to get stories out. Reporting other means nothing and saying something is spam just because you do not like it when it isn't is just plain moronic
Some things need to change on N4G to quell these bad reports. I personally have solutions like for instance forcing users to type in X amount of characters for each report. A way of reporting users more efficiently for reporting incorrectly. These users should face the same punishment those who approve reported articles (X amount of days management ban. All it needs is a little report button nothing to taxing. I personally try reporting these users by reporting there account but not only does this seem like an uphill battle but it feels I am the only one doing it and trying to make the site better by getting rid of the ridiculous reports
I do hope you (the users) read these and seriously consider actually report stories properly. It has fortunately not happened to me but people posting stories and then getting ambiguous reports back is just not helpful. The report button is there to help not just to get rid of the rubbish
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.
To be honest I find the whole of N4G pretty nuts when it comes to articles. Things get reported for the smallest flaws, or because it's insulting the damn PS3 or something.
I try to keep my reporting as fair as possible, and if it's just a minor error (a couple of small spelling mistakes for example) I'll report it and explain the mistakes. But other people seem to make there reports sound so offensive. So what if he didn't spell something correctly; typos happen, you don't need to chew him out about it. :D
One of the things that used to annoy me the most was when some of my submitted news got reported for being spam.. Yet I see articles get reapproved all the time. Also, its funny how they approve all the flame bait articles. There are sometimes I wonder if the person reporting even looks at the link
people report as SPAM because a story can't fail by just report it as Lame. You can have 40 reports of LAME and the story can still pass through and that's why people report as SPAM. And stories that are of really bad quality like for example, HHG, they get approved because they have friends who approve the stories as soon as it gets posted in the pending section.
This is how N4G has been rolling since when it started and is never going to change because these flame-wars and drama is what attract people to the site.
I'm gonna take a wild guess here and say that a lot of the mislabeling is due to the fact that there is no button that says "flamebaiting trash". At least when it comes to articles that are flamebaiting trash, such as the "Why 360 is better" article you used as an example, which we see on the front page 7 times a week here. Shit like that should be flagged as whatever will get it removed quickly as possible. If the site doesn't have built-in functionality to let us dismiss articles on grounds that we've decided are appropriate, then we should take whatever steps possible to make it a better place to browse and chat. If that means calling yet another "10 Reasons why PS3 Exclusives Destroy M$" spam when it isn't spam, then so be it. I'd rather have this be a place where interesting stories are displayed prominently, and discussions revolve around them, rather than the same 5 recycled articles that people have the same recycled arguments in.
Yea most of the articles on here are top tens and just nonsense articles revolving around the hottest game or games out. COD vs BF is the latest cop out. Put COD or BF in the title, barf out your opinion, criticize a few groups of people and sign off on it- That's N4g... It has to start from the top, otherwise, what the fuck do we care?