Article writing rules
Articles on Squader are written by players and read by people looking for a game to join. The rules are few, and they are all about one thing: the text must serve the reader, not act as an ad slot.
What to write about
- Games and everything around them: guides, tactics, reviews, patches, news, dev diaries, personal stories from lobbies - anything interesting where games meet IT.
- The title and summary honestly reflect the text: clickbait comes back to the author with a moderator note.
Text and tone
- Write your own: copied articles are not published. Translating someone else’s material is fine - link the original and say it is a translation.
- Check your facts; where unsure - say so. Story spoilers come with a warning at the top of the paragraph.
- No insults, harassment, hate speech, politics or adult content. Mask strong language with asterisks in quotes.
- Tags - up to 10, on topic: readers find the article by them, and the site counts related articles.
Links to your own channels
- Links to your Telegram, YouTube, Twitch or VK are allowed where they belong. Example: an article about racing sims - tracks and setups covered, and the very last line reads “More setups and hot laps on my YouTube channel - come check it out”. One such line after a useful text is fine.
- An article that exists for the sake of the link, not the other way round, is not published - moderation counts that as advertising.
- Forbidden: referral and affiliate links, payment pages, downloads of third-party builds and files, shops and other commerce.
- Links to external sources and documents - up to 50 per article.
Media and copyright
- Images and videos up to a minute - your own, via the editor uploader; longer ones - as a YouTube embed (link or ID).
- A caption for any embed - quoted text at the end of the parentheses, up to 300 characters: @[youtube](link "Full patch breakdown") or .
- Other people’s screenshots and clips - only with rights or as fair citation with the author named.
- A video with someone else’s music playing in full will most likely be taken down on a rights-holder complaint - that is on the author.
How moderation works
- A draft is saved on the server automatically once a minute - only the author sees it.
- A published article changes only through a new version: readers see the old text until a moderator approves the edit.
- Moderator notes arrive in “My articles”: editing opens right after the decision.