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How to Spot a Biased, Research-Free Article

As many N4G readers know by now Valve is forbidden to have an opinion on the basis that they are a video game developer.

Some have even noted that when an employee like Chet Faliszek says something controversial in a one on one interview, all 190 employees that make up the company also state the same quotations and in fact uninvolved founder Gabe Newell somehow said them both louder and previous to anyone else. Of course, his weight and what people plan on doing to his wife are both integral parts of the comments in question.
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Published: 51 days 7 hours ago | Article | Gaming
 
 

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minimartin91 - 50 days 22 hours ago
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link has a trojan virus ..
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The realness - 50 days 19 hours ago
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posted by "mark" comments section on that site.."N4G is an utter cesspool occupied by Sony bottom feeders." i cant front, i lmao readin that iv read similar comments about this site elsewhere on the web. you got quiet the rep N4G, buts its not a good rep at all.

edit, taken from the article: "Reading the top material on N4G for a day or so gives you an understanding of what the majority of readers are looking for when they come to the site. They're looking for legit game developers/journalists anyone with a URL to write an article that pushes their buttons, so in turn they can express their anger into what they feel is a completely reasonable response. Trolls are fed, flame wars rise, and most importantly the article benefits from it"

sums the psycology of the average n4g comment poster to me..
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get2sammyb - 50 days 18 hours ago
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Oh the irony.
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DigitalAnalog - 50 days 17 hours ago
4 - How to Spot a Biased, Research-Free Article (s)
Simple,

Just go to N4G.com.

-End Statement
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Some_One_Plays - 50 days 16 hours ago
5 - Is this article for real...
With Gabe he complains about being a developer, anyone who studies programming will know what was taught to you will most likely be obsolete later on. What Gabe complains about is just that, for example he might say I don't know any multi-threading programming - just for example purposes not what he exactly said, - well that's part of the job description relearning every so often. This is why I say Gabe is a bad programmer because the things he talks about is what makes him a programmer, what you learned will never stay for long.

As with the article I don't think the writer went to college, for example:

"4. Does the author blindly insist that the person/place/thing in question shut up as they incessantly continue to voice their own clearly biased opinion?"

- Erik Johnson, Examiner.com

What does this have to do with being bias in an article? Being rude doesn't make one bias, lol.
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PS360WiiRocks - 50 days 15 hours ago
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Ahahaha!

"Is the article on N4G between 500-1,000,000 degrees, with a title that ends in either a question mark or a controversial statement in the absence of legitimate news or valid insight?"

"Does the author outright tell the audience they're biased by prefacing his/her 'opinion piece' with something along the lines of: "Granted I write my column on a Playstation website, that gives me a vested interest in the Sony side of things."?"

welcome to n4g....
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Digital Commando - 50 days 14 hours ago
7 - This is pathetic!
People whine about Valve not making any PS3 games, but no one gives a f*** about Inosomniac not making any 360 or Wii games!
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dreamcast - 50 days 13 hours ago
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wrong post
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CLANCY BROWN - 50 days 13 hours ago
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If you ps3 people were as vocal over psn as you are here at n4g then Valve would not have a point. Nobody talks on psn- the community is dead. Ghost town is an appropriate description.Again the ps3 community is all talk no action.Not buying games, not buying headsets,not playing games but only watching bluray and surfing porn on the crappy ps3 browser.I have never seen a worse bunch of crybabies in my life. You guys are really ruining Sony's name this gen, and it really does show the level of maturity in the psn community (at least here on n4g)
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emjayx - 50 days 13 hours ago
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I find it hilarious for these websites to rely on an aggregator site to get hits.
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chad22hkd - 50 days 7 hours ago
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Just go to IGN or Gametrailers to see that!!!!!!!!!!!!
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