Regarding Rule 9, Rumors and Weibo

Lords and Ladies

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No Unsourced News Articles/Bannerlord Updates

News articles which refer to Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord without direct and trustworthy sources for their information are not allowed on the subreddit. Always link to the source of the information unless the article in question adds significantly to the material in question. Bannerlord updates, through the form of text or video, are not allowed on the subreddit without prior moderator approval. These types of posts commonly add little to the discussion and feature incorrect information.

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You may have noticed a post recently linking to a Weibo (A Chinese Microblogging site) post alleging a 2018 release date for Bannerlord. This was claimed to be the "Official Taleworlds Weibo account" allegedly under the administration of the Taleworlds staff. The post garnered 4200 views and lots of consternation directed at Taleworlds.

The post stayed up on the grounds that it would be considered sufficiently sourced if it was indeed the official TW Weibo account. Given the site is in Mandarin and the mods are limited to English and Swamp-German this was hard to personally verify.

Rather helpfully, our resident (verified) Taleworlds PR staff, Callum, has stated that Taleworlds has NO official Weibo account. The post has since been removed.

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We would like to take this opportunity to reiterate our commitment to Rule 9 and against spreading potentially incendiary rumors. We understand the frustration of the wait but there is no need to build false expectations and undergo further unnecessary disappointment. There have been a variety of unsourced posts alleging to have "insider information" all pointing to mutually exclusive outcomes, and they have been summarily removed.

Submitted July 26, 2017 at 09:11AM by Mephistopholees http://ift.tt/2uXC9bM