POLYGON ARE DELETING COMMENTS
Maybe the game changer is censorship?
Stay classy, Polygon ...
POLYGON ARE DELETING COMMENTS
Maybe the game changer is censorship?
POLYGON ARE DELETING COMMENTS
My issue is that I think it's a bit naive to think that all relationships would be the same and that a person who is obviously quite 'tight' with PR and publishers would say anything else. What did anyone really expect her to say?
Have Polygon deleted those negative comments? They're not there anymore!
EDIT: Some deleted, not all.
Yes, they deleted my comment. It was the second one.
POLYGON ARE DELETING COMMENTS
Maybe the game changer is censorship?
Presented as news, yeah, kinda.So you all are against advertorials?
From Polygon's Ethics statement:
"Our policies do not permit placements of advertorial on Polygon. We will endeavor to clearly mark any advertisement or "infomercial" (videos, Flash animations, etc.) shown on Polygon as an advertisement."
Seems like a clear breach to me.
So you all are against advertorials? The only part of gaming website that should be unbiased is the review and preview section imo.
I suppose there's not much bandwidth left after a super-compelling "Who Has The Best Titz in Videeo Gamez?" article.
ghst make a thread about it. Add your usual panache.
So you all are against advertorials? The only part of gaming website that should be unbiased is the review and preview section imo.
ghst make a thread about it. Add your usual panache.
How about at least, "Well, at Machinima, we let our video producers take money from sponsors and I don't see a problem with it. In fact, this happened just yesterday with Need for Speed."
How about being honest and not being a hypocrite?
We are actually talking about games media getting money from a game maker to post content about their game. Literally. If that doesn't bother you, well, I guess nothing will.
I think you're being naive if you think that these standards are set in stone or so high. It's common practice in business reporting and all enthusiast reporting.The point is it is not news at all. It should be labelled "(payed-for) advertisment", not "news".
I have zero issues with looking at junk food ads next to my news but when you label a game/foodchain cross-promotion thing "news", that's embarrassing.
Now, this is fine.this is why gamasutra has a section dedicted to vanilla press releases
http://gamasutra.com/pressreleases/
might as well just chuck them out there in a transparent way instead of blurring the lines between marketing and reporting such that you're literally repeating the exact words microsoft wants people to in the same format that you use for your real first person reporting.
I'd say yes.Because Polygon has been hyped as fuck, does this news of regurgitating press releases as pure advertisements along with deleting reader comments justify a new thread? I think they deserve to be called out, at the very least.
Even before this happened several people in the WC threads "Caught" her trying to pass off reading PR bullet points as her own impressions/opinions of a game.
I'd say yes.
POLYGON ARE DELETING COMMENTS
Maybe the game changer is censorship?
Press reset? More like PRESS RELEASE. Am I right, guys?
I hope this one stays, cause it's gold:
Your goal in PR is to get as much as your verbiage through to the final story as possible.Pfftttt Journalists... If I was the PR that wrote that text I would be pissed. Publishing without attribution? How dare they? PR are nothing more than ghost writers and those "journalists" get all the credit.
They set those standards themselves: "No advertorials allowed". This is clearly an advertorial. What now?I think you're being naive if you think that these standards are set in stone or so high. It's common practice in business reporting and all enthusiast reporting.
There are stories you spend time on (actual feature stories) and then there are the daily blotter stories, which you essentially take a release (be it, say, police blotter news, city press release, external press release), add some color by following up on some sources, and pushing out a story. A story like this...has nobody to talk to and frankly doesn't deserve to be published.
Agreed.Now, this is fine.
Thanks <3I hope this one stays, cause it's gold:
You, uh, wouldn't happen to have a link to that would you?
(I'm kidding, it's Tina from DOA).
I'd love for Arthur to return to this thread for an explanation.
Phil, explain this noise
This was copied and pasted by one of Polygons' senior reporters.
MY problem isn't reporting on it; its massively HOW its been reported on. Its been fed to them by Microsoft; who just happened to pay for a documentary to hype the site.
I've left this alone for a while, and I'm sure that if I say this it will suddenly be the first time he does it, but Gies doesn't seem to respond to direct arguments a lot. I don't expect him to have a good reason for deleting comments.
Ill do it.This needs a new thread.