Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 1)

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https://www.resetera.com/threads/ive-been-banned-from-eurogamer-for-saying-they-source-their-news-from-this-very-forum.1179918/

User banned (1 week): instigating cross-forum drama

So, yesterday Eurogamer ran an article about the recent Xbox price hike. What caught my eye is that they explicitly sourced the piece of news from this post. I noticed sometimes in the past that they tend to parse Resetera to make articles, and I even suspected a few times they really did exactly that without properly crediting Era. I posted in the comments something pretty similar (if not word for word) to "if you read Resetera, you can stop reading Eurogamer, and you shouldn't miss much." I did this a somewhat snarky comment to raise awareness that I, as one of their readers, have become increasingly aware that they're not particularly eager to produce original pieces of news, rather than simply opting to write about what is posted in Era, among other sites. I guess this is common practice in videogame sites, but this is not the first time, nor the second, that I've noticed this behaviour, which I, at least, consider just poor journalism. Perhaps am I mistaken? Maybe the tone of the criticism was out of place? For sure it's not the first time I wrote in their comments to mention this very issue. I simply don't know.

So... today they've banned me from the comment section, apparently. What puzzles me is that, if you read the replies to my very comment, people are left and right attacking this forum, and those seem to be completely unscathed. That's a bit weird and it saddens me. I overall like Eurogamer, just not that they simply regurgitate forum posts to call them news articles, only to ban people calling them out for precisely that.

Am I in the wrong here?

Imagine reading Eurogamer and NOT understanding you're already neck deep in the bucket of diarrhoea!