The broken submission system of N4G

Following the submission of this post, I received any number of reports based on it. Some of them your standard "Lame" or "Spam" reports given. Based on the actual content of the story, I can understand those reports.

But then I get to the next few. First was a "Bad Editing" report because I had Youtube as the main source URL. Admittedly that was my error as that's NOT where I first discovered the video, it was actually on Facebook. So I switched the URL's.

Then received another Bad Editing report citing that Facebook wasn't allowed. So, I read up on the guidelines and in fact it doesn't say anywhere that sites like Facebook are not allowed, which I stated in my disagree vote. These votes aren't really that big a deal, this kind of thing happens all the time and is nothing really to complain about.

But the next reports kind of irked a bit. I received about 3 "Duplicate story" reports, with url links to a story posted almost 25 minutes AFTER my posting. How is it a duplicate story if I posted mine first? And in one of the reports, some said I didn't use an official image. What? Official image? So the stories where the submitter uses stock photos of random women with large breasts for a story that vaguely references women is somehow official? Where in the guidelines is the requirement "must use an official image?"

Now that I've gone on my roundabout rant, the focus of this blog is simply that the report or approve system is terribly broken. I'm sure there have been many blogs on this, and mine isn't any different than them, but it's just the truth. It's akin to the User Rating system of Metacritic. It really needs an overhaul.

You get people thinking they're N4G's editors or something and yet they don't even know the basic rules laid out in the guidelines about submissions. The post I made was purely for the hilarity of the content, so it's no surprise that individuals that have a jaded opinion about the source of the content wouldn't like it, but should not the submission of anything be approved or unapproved based on an objective process and not a subjective one? That's just my 2 cents. Everyone knows that N4G is not a perfect website, that doesn't make a bad one though.