Open Zone Posting Guidelines
The Open Zone is a lightly moderated comment section which is open to all members. With enthusiastic fans eager to defend their favorite platform this place can get pretty hot. Only highly inappropriate comments will be deleted by the N4G staff.
Gamer Zone Posting Guidelines
The Gamer Zone is for members who want a more friendly and civilized discussion. This section is heavily moderated by the N4G staff, so leave your fanboyism at the door please. Members who are unable to behave in a mature and respectful manner will be temporarily or permanently restricted from posting in the Gamer Zone. Using words such as Xbots and Sony droids, or other words from the console war vocabulary, is strictly prohibited in this Zone.
Comment Settings
You can easily change your comment settings by clicking on the "Comment Settings" link or you can
Click Here.
Bubble System
All new members are given 5 speech bubble containers that will be visible on all posts. A member with 5 speech bubble containers is allowed to post a maximum of 5 comments per news article. As comments are made the speech bubbles will turn yellow, representing how many comments a member has made per news post. Members who post comments of low quality or ignore the forum rules will risk having their comment limit reduced, while members who receive positive feedback from other members and makes useful and interesting comments will be granted more speech bubble containers.
Things that will raise your comment limit
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Provide relevant and useful info related to the news posts
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Give constructive and intelligent feedback/criticism/comments to the news post
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Debate with other members in a mature and tasteful manner
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A good sense of humor
Things that will lower your comment limit
- Offensive language, name calling and personal attacks on other members
- Pointless comments like the classic “I am first” post
- Extreme Fanboyism
- Bad sense of humor
- Immature language
- Immature screen names (You can edit your screen name through your CP if you feel you have made a mistake when signing up)
- Extensive use of forum language like LOL and ROTFL and similar. Try express yourself in more creative ways.
- Making up “funny” names for consoles like PayStation 3 and CrapBox 360, seriously these jokes are so old so please save your self the humiliation.
- Posting lies and made up facts.
- Posting with all CAPS or using more than one exclamation mark per sentence.
- Using Avatars with nudity.
- Having more than one active user account.
Members who follow these guidelines and contribute to the site in a positive way will most likely get their comment limit raised, while members who ignore them risk getting their number of speech bubble container reduced. However any upgrade or downgrade is not permanent. Members who break away from their bad posting habits may regain the lost speech bubble containers, and vice versa.
The amount of speech bubbles you get is decided by the number of positive and negative votes you get from other members.
