Clarification: XboxIreland.com article - we used facts, we did not infer or imply

Games Toaster takes complaints seriously, so seriously
we are publishing this clarification in the same way we publish all of
our content. This post is a clarification, not a correction. At this
point, we see no reason to edit the article in question in any way.

On November 28, 2005, we published an article titled
‘XboxIreland.com launches, backed by publishers’, we have received
anonymous complaints, apparently but not certainly, from the one person
vie our comments system.

The article deals with the facts as we have established. In this
case, all such facts are available in the public domain (ie on websites, including

Xbox Ireland). 

In the article, we do not give our feelings of support or otherwise
for the site, there is one exception to this, after the use of the word
‘Irish’ was wrongly used as ‘irish’ we inserted ‘(sic)’, this is
commonly used with in print media to display a grievance distasteful
use of the written English language. Besides this we do not infer or
imply any thoughts on how ‘good’ or ‘bad’ the site in question may be.

One comment stated, “By linking their staff member to Microsoft’s
marketing company as if it means that they are biased”, we did not link
their ’staff member’ to a marketing company which works for Microsoft,
we merely publicised the fact that such a link is a realty, we said
nothing of bias. We did not infer or imply any ethically complicity of
somebody working on an ‘Irish Xbox community site’ and working directly
or indirectly for the Xbox maker. To infer (to form an opinion or guess
that something is true because of the information that you have — Cambridge),
is something the complaint did, not us, we just provided what we know
as the complete information, which we could not find on Xbox Ireland.

Another comment stated, “This quote: “Games Toaster has identified
least one person listed as a ’staff writer’ [of XboxIreland.com] as
being an employ of an Irish marketing company who works for Xbox
manufacture Microsoft. The site is billed as an ‘Irish Xbox community
site’.”: Yas make it sound as if yas have identified him from a
criminal line-up! ” To the best of our knowledge, to the term
“identified” is not solely generally associated with a “criminal
line-up”, or any other “criminal” activity. We do not believe many of
our readers will confuse our use of English in this way. 

In this case, the complaints were published publicly in our comments
system, if you have a complaint and want to issue it confidential you
can email or write to us (see the contact page),
if you wish we will only publicly deal with the nature or the complaint
without quoting the whole complaint. As always you can also post using
our comments system with or without entering a name or email address.

Again, this post is a clarification, not a correction; as such, we
see no reason to edit the article in question about XboxIreland.com in
any way.