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Rules For r/gamingnews Sub:

• Rules that visitors must follow to participate. May be used as reasons to delete, report or ban with or without warning. If you see any rule-breaking or questionable posts/comments, please report them so the mods can have a look! Reporting really helps to keep the sub cleaned up.

Game Developers:

• Game Developers wishing to promote their games must contact Moderators for permission before submit or post and explaining their game and to confirm official site or Steam Store link and their studio/company position to the Moderators. Failing to do so will result in post removal.

General Rules:

• Keep content & submissions related to Games, Gaming, News, Articles. News should not be more than 7 days old (1 Week). Submissions & comments must be in English only. Use the original article title, no clickbait and no titles in all-caps. Posts with incomplete/edited or clickbait titles will be removed at our discretion without warning.

• In case of a doubt please PM a Moderator. We will be glad to help you.

• Get Warned Get Banned

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• We will not tolerate any personal attacks, homophobia, witch hunts, inflammatory language, Racism, Sexist or Trolls. Will result in a perm Ban without warning. Please use the report button.

• Be civil and respect other redditors opinion/s regardless if you agree or not.

No Linking To Piracy:

• No enabling or linking to piracy of any kind including illegal torrents or other illegal downloads/content etc. Will result in a Perm Ban without Warning.

Spam & Promotion:

• This is not the place to spam your channel or your website or stream. Self-promotion is allowed & is acceptable, within reason. No more than 10% of your submissions across all of Reddit may be to any single site, profile, channel, or on any given topic. So long as it is balanced out by a far greater volume of non-self-promotional participation. So you should be posting content from other news sites as well, and we'd appreciate it if you take part in the community (Comment on submissions other than yours).

• Failure to adhere to these rules will result in removal of your submission. Further infractions will result in your account being banned and your site or channel being blacklisted.

• Spam websites will not be tolerated. Reddit General Rules For self promotion

No Link Shorteners:

• Do not use any kind of Link Shorteners in your thread or post/comments.

NSFW Submissions Posts Or Comments:

• Mark all NSFW posts and submitions appropriately please.

How To Use Spoiler TAGS:

• Please also make sure to use spoiler tags if you're posting anything about a game's plot that might significantly hurt & spoil the experience of others that haven't played the game yet (no matter how old or new the game is). See Example Below how to properly use Spoiler TAGS:

• Format: **Spoiler:** >!How To Use Spoiler TAGS!<

• Result: Spoiler: How To Use Spoiler TAGS

• Posting unmarked spoilers will result in removal and warning and posting spoilers with malicious intent will result in a Ban without warning.

No Duplicate Posts Use Search Function:

• No duplicate posts & or links from different sources of the same article. Use the Search Function before submit. Reposts or submissions with extremely similar content to an existing submission may be removed at mod discretion. Please report any duplicate posts.

No Referral & Affiliate & Survey Links & Petitions, Polls, Campaigning, Fundraisers, Questionnaires, Surveys etc:

• Links that, when clicked (or used to purchase/sign up from), give the referrer some form of bonus or compensation are not allowed. Asking users to sign a petition or fill in data for a survey is not allowed. Firstly because it's not good discussion and secondly because we don't know what happens with that information. Surveys, Polls or requests for feedback are prohibited. fundraisers (GoFundMe, IndieGoGo etc.), questionnaires, surveys etc. are not allowed. This includes friend/group/clan recruitment.

Low Quality Self Posts & Comments & Low-Effort Content & No Off-Topic Posts or Comments:

• We only allow text posts if they are informative and are bringing up issues that are interesting to a significant part of the community. Low-effort posts that aren't meant to create discussion are not allowed. Low-effort comments are also prohibited: Single word replies, replies consisting of emojis, and copy-pastas are some examples of low-effort comments. Please keep posts and comments related to the topic being discussed in that particular post.

Use The Original Source Title, No Editorialized Titles And No Duplicates:

• Use the original title of the article. You may add text from the subtitle or the first paragraph where necessary for clarity. Refrain from including your opinion within the title or arbitrarily emphasizing selective segments.

Contact The Mod Team:

• All Above is a summary of the Rules for this sub. In case of a doubt or any other question please feel free to PM a Moderator