Good advice — it’s really pointless to write about a game in which you have no skin, as it were — but I’d be pleased to see greater emphasis on whether you know about your subject. Recently Medium has been following the lead of Facebook and Twitter in highlighting passionate sophomoric essays by people who just discovered an old topic and think no one else ever has. For example, see my little rant: https://medium.com/@jessh.brewer/please-dont-be-so-wrong-e7d29d942504