Gamefilter Guidelines

Welcome to Gamefilter, friend! Here are some guidelines for participation. Please take a couple of minutes to read them, love them, and subsequently live them.

What makes a good post to Gamefilter?

A good post to Gamefilter is a link or set of links to something that is related to gaming, gamers, or gaming culture. In a perfect world, the idea is that most people won’t have seen it before, that there is something interesting to most people about the content you’re linking to, and that whatever it is might warrant discussion from others.

If you haven’t posted to the site before, it’s a good idea to have a look at some earlier posts and discussions to get a feeling for what goes over well with the community.

It seems obvious, but make sure you’re linking to something on the web. Gamefilter is all about the links, and a post without a link to something interesting will be deleted.

Basically, though, if it’s gaming-related and it’s interesting and it hasn’t been posted before: you’re good to go.

What makes a bad post to Gamefilter?

Posting a link to something you or your friends have made and asking for feedback is not a good post.

Self-promotion isn’t what this site is about. Self promotion can be “earned.” If you consistently post interesting and fun comments or links on the site, people will click on your name to know you better. You can put links to your sites and stuff on your profile, and people can check those out if they’re interested.

(It’s fine to link to your own things as comments in threads, if it adds to the discussion and/or saves space because you’re written a reply elsewhere)

Posting a press release for your company’s latest game launch or website makes for a bad post. We love games; we don’t love astroturfing.

What makes a good comment thread on Gamefilter?

Gamefilter is a member of the Mefight Club Network of sites. Mefight Club is a worldwide group of adult gamers (of all ages), and we value kindness, reasoned discussion, friendliness and having fun. We also do our best to use our words; the LOL BUTTS KTHXBYE English-mangling so prevalent in the gaming world is something we have little patience for.

We also have little patience for racism, sexism, homophobia or bigotry of any kind. So please — if you want to join us, leave that sort of stuff at the door.

Please keep comments focused on the topic at hand.

And, of course, don’t trollTrolling: posting purposely inflammatory things for the sole purpose of baiting others to argue the points until blue in the face - basically being argumentative and annoying for lulz, to destroy conversations and communities, for the hell of it.. Repeated trolling will earn you a one-way ticket to Bansville: Population, YUO.

Follow the golden rule, treat others’ opinions with the same respect that you would expect. Disagreements happen, but flame wars are never necessary.

Failure to follow these guidelines may result in your posts being deleted, your posting rights revoked, or your account banned. If you have any questions, feel free to contact the admin or mods.

Most of all, though, the Rule of Rotato is an easy one to follow: have fun, and try to have fun in such a way that it doesn’t ruin other people’s fun.

The spirit of this community is such that we encourage and expect all users to act as mature, considerate adults. To that end, our basic guidelines have been elaborated by Herr Doktor (‘Dok’) as follows: