• 24Jan 08

  Gamespot's bias

  After the Jeff fiasco and coupled with a valid and thoughtfully composed review being unduly removed by nameless Gamespot admins claiming issues without basis ( and without recourse or discussion with me), I am no longer participating in Gamespot. Since Gamespot's policy appears to allow only positive reviews of games on Gamespot and removes well composed and discussed opinions but lower scored reviews, this is a form of censorship and is considered media bias. This leads me to the question, "If they've done this to me, how many other people have they done this to?" The answer, in my mind, is probably more than you'd think.

  Worse, this form of media bias only serves to enhance game sales by attempting to slant opinions towards games by leaving only those positive reviews that are 'deemed worthy'. Then, nameless Gamespot admins proceed to remove all of the rest of the reviews based on invalid arguments and quoting site policy as the reason for removal. This leaves a message in your inbox and no way to appeal the removal (leaving no way to reply). As a result of this removal tactic, Gamespot does not actually allow reviewers of games to fully share their opinions and experiences of a game freely. Thus, this site does not really allow you to freely review games with a valid opinion and rating.

  Consider that CNET professes to allow unbiased and fair reporting and promote professional journalism practices; however, this censorship removal policy is an odd tactic for a CNET company. Clearly, Gamespot does not practice what CNET preaches. As a visitor to Gamespot, this issue should concern you greatly. As a visitor looking for user opinions and reviews, you are only getting those opinions that Gamespot has 'approved' and excludes everything else they've chosen to delete. So, again, as a visitor, you're now missing information that should have been here.

  As a result of these issues, I will no longer participate in this journalistically amateur and hypocritcally operated site. I also have no trust in this site for providing fair and unbiased reporting of games or game opinions. I have, thus, reset this account to its default settings and have removed all content uploaded by me.

  Note: If you operate a union and I am subscribed to it, you may unsubscribe me as necessary.

  Bye.

  --Commorancy

  • Posted Jan 24, 2008 8:17 pm GMT
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