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#1 crouzer
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RSS items should only include the rating, the summary, and a link to the full review. I don't find any value of the current RSS feed as it is now. It should be something similar to the list on http://www.gamespot.com/reviews/

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#2 crouzer
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Clicking the "Change password" link does not work: "The server at authorize.gamespot.com is taking too long to respond."
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#3 crouzer
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Good news! I wrote a python script and let it run over night, and I have now found the cause! If you look at the links for the duplicates in Google Reader you can see that they go different subdomains, e.g. http://au.gamespot.com/gas-guzzlers-combat-carnage/reviews/gas-guzzlers-combat-carnage-review-6378980/ http://www.gamespot.com/gas-guzzlers-combat-carnage/reviews/gas-guzzlers-combat-carnage-review-6378980/ http://uk.gamespot.com/gas-guzzlers-combat-carnage/reviews/gas-guzzlers-combat-carnage-review-6378980/ http://asia.gamespot.com/gas-guzzlers-combat-carnage/reviews/gas-guzzlers-combat-carnage-review-6378980/ That the links are different does not really matter, but what _does_ matter is that the links are also used as GUIDs, and that means that RSS Readers should treat them as separate items. Now please fix it. =)
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#4 crouzer
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The last 2 entries in the PC review list are currently being duplicated repeatedly: http://www.gamespot.com/rss/game_updates.php?platform=5&type=5 I downloaded the RSS generated page once before and once after the last repeating and they are identical apart from the lastBuildDate tag so it's probably an intermittent error.
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#5 crouzer
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Also, this page might contain useful information: http://support.google.com/reader/bin/static.py?hl=en&page=known_issues.cs It sounds like the post GUIDs is what Google Reader looks at. If you change the GUID of an RSS item it will be considered as a new item and it will appear another time in the reader.
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#6 crouzer
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Look further up, GameSpot has been responding that the bug is being considered. I just wanted to add some extra information about this bug which might help you fix it: Which browser one uses is irrelevant since Google Reader looks up the feeds for you and stores all old entries. Google Reader only does this once for every feed so everyone using Google Reader is affected by this. If you subscribe to an RSS feed in Google Reader you can see all the duplicates that has occurred which gives you a heap of data which is useful for pinpointing the cause of this bug. This bug has been around for a very long time, looking at the PSP feed which doesn't have that many entries I quickly found the entry Dissidia 012: ... duplicated in March 2011. However I believe that it started getting worse, often repeating all items in the RSS, around christmas 2011.
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#7 crouzer
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I am using Google Reader to subscribe to "GameSpot's *** Reviews" feeds. Recently it has happened twice that the items temporarily changed the pubDate element meaning that the news are listed again as unread in the item list. The problem has happened at the same time for all feeds.