N4G: Videos and Images Have Different Sourcing Rules

Hello everyone.

This is a quick post to remind people that our sourcing rules for images and videos are not the same. This is of course outlined in our guidelines here: https://n4g.com/user/blogpo... .

But, to reiterate because there has been a lot of confusion in the pending section of submissions:

Images can be sourced from social media, forums, or the like if they are the specific news being shared.This is an exception to our usual rules regarding sourcing as it doesn't require an industry professional to have posted the material. It applies broadly to all people for just images.

Videos are only allowed from gaming news sites or official channels/sources (such as a developer or publisher's social post). They are not allowed from forums, Reddit, or similar places unless it's from a professional source (again, developer and publisher only).

Please note this because we don't want false reports and confusion in the pending section.

Thank you,
Christopher

[albertperk]

Thanks for posting this for clarification.

[GamingonPhone]

Thanks for the info.

[RaidenBlack]

This was informative.

[FTLmaster]

Useful info, thanks!

[UltraNova]

Good to know, thanks.

[rainslacker]

In both cases the source has to be valid though right? No mocked up images or fan made video? So, say a concept image has to be listed as such, and a video has to have some valid named industry source?

[Christopher]

The content has to be valid as it relates to video game news and not just fan content or steaming content. The specifics on sources are as they are explained above, no more, no less.

[specialguest]

Basically no videos from youtubers. I find that kinda behind the times, because in many cases certain big name youtubers are better at delivering the latest gaming news and unbias views than gaming websites with either a certain slanted view or paid off by sponsors. However, there's the malicious and unprofessional side of youtube too. They could present damaging and false info and take hardly any accountability/backlash

[Christopher]

YouTube videos get posted here all the time. But, streaming isn't gaming news on it's own and we're not going to open the floodgate to every YouTube creator because less than 1% of what exists is "popular" or deemed "relevant". If video game sites report on them, that gives some cadence to their relevance to video game news. But we won't be turning N4G into a place for people to find game streamers, YouTube and Twitch do that well enough without our help.