people use TOR and mutivote. There's no stopping it.
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Hoogiman
@Hoogiman
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*comedy here*
Joined on 5/29/04
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wha wha wha conspiracy wha?
I love you.
I choo-choo-chooose you...
I know exactly what you mean.. I've been a member of this fine Portal for years now and the standards and quality of a lot of things has just gone down. There's so much crap that it's near impossible to find the shining gems just waiting to be discovered and set into the engagement ring of popularity and breakthrough.
Yes it's a shame, but no one does anything about it, many newfags think by making a 5 or less review using the phrase "BLAM THIS PIECE OF SHIT" actually affects whether the flash passes or not. Plus we don't have enough high powered voters. Out of every ten users, only two have a level higher than three. And didn't the rating for a flash to be blammed lower? Didn't it used to be 1.90 or higher or it gets blammed?
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anyway i actually read everything you wrote do i is teh has cookie plox
hi thk you i wrked very hard 2 hrs on this flash!!!! lol!!!!!
omg yai front page!!!!!
yeah man its cause, some of those idiotic flash spam fools, have people behind em, voting high, no wonder eh?
I read from read hear but decided to reread all of it you're right we do need to tighten up the portal
Hay there.
I'm not an oldie like you, but I'm not too far off. :)
Yea, I know what you're talking about. (Yes, read the whole thing...was bored.)
So, I'm a lvl 30 right now and I definitely see what you mean...
Honestly, I when I vote on flash content under judgment these days, I don't see my voting power as being very influential in the result...
But! I did notice something that you should know.
I found a trend that I've been following and I'm pretty sure I'm right.
Others and myself in newgrounds have seen the influx of blamable content passing. Especially when the same spam artist submits 20+ flashes that are 0/10 overall and it still passes...(a few come to mind just while writing this)
But the trend is this. Instead of even watching the flash, just check their history to see how many flashes they've submitted in the past.
If the have more than say...5-10 past flash submissions, it means one of two things.
1) They really are a good flash artist.
or
2) They are very bad flash artists, but they have duplicate accounts or "friends" to help their bad content pass anyway.
So, that's my theory anyway. So far, it's been true.
I remember when I first lost faith in voting power... *sigh*
I don't want to name names and whatnot. But it was sad that day after day, another trashy flash by the same artist would pass. And I couldn't stop it...
eww yuck.
hi alt.
yeah some people like to 'like' crap to be ironic or something. i dont really get it. i actually went through a similar experience you did, only recently had something get accepted (on a new account, i gave up on my old one) i give out quite a few zeros and low scores these days. even feel bad about it sometimes but being someone who has used flash i know what took a few hours and what actually took some work.
NG should maybe bump up the passing score.
Me too! eight... maybe more. Ive just about scratched a decent sprite movie and it's hanging on... Cant wait to get flash, make some decent ones
I totally 10000% percent agree with you, it makes me sad as well.. :(
People have been saying the same stuff for as long as I can remember.
I haven't B/P'ed for a couple of years until recently, and I saw some very very VERY noticeable changes in the quality that gets through. I've never witnessed such a large change because it wasn't like this when I was here earlier.
But yeah, whining does get old. This acts as a preface for something...
read it all,
i believe that people often give a blammable submission a score of 2 to pass because they often read on the authors comments that it is their first animation so out of pity they vote higher than they should
People use to blam pleas because it was annoying. Doesn't look like it anymore!1
Such words have never been spoken so true.
you are gay stop caring g2h
hi alt!!!!!
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dang it bobbeh
Ya know, your right. 2 years ago if I submitted this <a href="http://farfenwaffle.com/tid5.html">http://farfenwaffle.com/tid5.html</a>
It would get blammed. I bet if now I submitted this it would pass with a 2.1
I swear to god.
Although the voting standards are a lot more generous, this would not pass. Too badly drawn, too immature. In its current state, even with the crap that's getting through I would've not hesitated at all to vote 0.
However, you could whip up a sprite movie involving Sonic/Mario in about 30 minutes and you could get something past. Stuff still gets blammed. Stuff about popular stuff hardly gets blammed.
Read what you had to say and while I haven't even been here for a year I see users like Kanahouse (or whatever) who posted something retarded called the 69inator and it was just the number with inator behind it and and random talking and it passed with a 2.30 or so. Its retarded how such stupid stuff gets through.
i-am-hell
I read everything :D I know what you mean, back in the days i submitted 2 crappy stick animations when I was 12 and they got blammed with a 1.4 each I think. Some time after I submitted some rpg like finalfantasy-esque animation (no sprites however, all drawn with tweens and a bit fbf) and I got blammed (1.58 I was like WTF) I didn't submit anything until last year when I was 15, it was a game and got right trough with more than 3/5, took me 2 months at least to complete. But nowadays crap just flies in the portal. Maybe people may feel a little nostalgic when they see a crap mario animation, and think back of the old NG days when everyone submitted stuff like "mario versus sonic the dragonball Z version 0.01 beta test" and just vote 5.
When I see a crap animation on NG, the thing that suprises me is, it's loaded with comments praising it's greatness, even when it's not funny... I don't get it, it's horrible why would you vote 5... or even a 2? NG ain't what it used to be :(
Hoogiman
Passing the portal used to be a challenge. I remember a big defense to flames used by flash authors would be: Flash by (username): -none-. Having passed flash actually meant a big ass thing. Now I've seen some guy who doesn't even understand how an animation works load up some software and pass the portal in less than 10 minutes.
I don't think people feel nostalgic, it's a lot of n00bs who have been here for a short while and gain a pretty big voting power with irresponsible voting habits. And then suddenly they start gaining lots of protect points because the bad voters have more power. And then they never stop.
Also, maybe having the flash and the voting panel right next to each other might make people vote quicker, or vote 5 quicker if there's (insert character here), but that's probably hardly a reason.