4,767 Forum Posts by "Rage"
I spent much of the day today deleting abusive reviews, but they keep on stacking up, almost as fast as I can take care of them. I know I'm not alone, though! =)
I wouldn't really be able to answer that in an objective manner. The review guidelines address what is acceptable in the subject of the review, but not the acceptable manners of writing them.
Every now and then I do come across flagged reviews written in "1337" code or with AlTeRnAtInG cApItAlIzAtIoN. If the review is borderline abusive, I'd likely delete it, but if the review itself is actually of some use and reviews the submission itself, maybe not.
If any of the NG admins decided that they didn't want reviews to be written in that fashion, then that'd make answering it a little easier. Maybe I'll ask Wade sometime.
At 10/10/06 06:32 PM, Andersson wrote:
What I'm on about is that it was a fake pre-loader.
These members wrote such reviews to make people believe that the submission was working aswell as good, though it was infact nothing more than a pre-loader.
Ah, alright. I thought you moved on to a different topic for some reason. That review would be unrelated and useless and should be flagged and deleted. At least in my opinion, since it has nothing to do with the actual submission itself.
At 10/10/06 06:04 PM, Andersson wrote:
This is Gavin's profile, and you can obviously see that he isn't a legit reviewer.
Non-related reviews could be considered abusive. If you do find such a review, flag it as abusive, and it'll eventually get on the list (if other people shared your viewpoint and flagged it too). I'm usually too busy trudging through the list to actually go out and flag reviews myself. If they aren't flagged enough, it is likely that nothing will be done about it.
falcon176 made a similar review:
lmao
hillarious
(Also here, giving it all tens).
That doesn't really come across to me as abusive. It could be considered useless, but in that situation I often try to think: "If I was the author, would I appreciate this comment?". Perhaps the author is trying something new and they are wanting to know if people enjoy it our not. That kind of situation could make this review useful.
On a side note, this submission first got the "Turd of the Week" award, but can now be found in the Newgrounds Graveyard.
However, these aren't all. The submission got loads of reviews like that one, as for most of the groups' submissions.
However, this is a review that's a bit more covered and not obviously (but in fact) a "promotion" review.
By HandsomePete:
Hey...
I played for about 3 hours, but I could never find the Wizard's Key... where was it?
Similar to what I feel about the second to last review, this review could also be useful to the author. If you're making a game, it is good to get feedback on where people had too much trouble. If many people encountered the same problem, then you'd know you're better off making changes.
At 10/10/06 05:40 PM, Black-Flame wrote: Isnt one of the rules that short, unhelpful reviews that are like comments are classified as abusive?
I think its an unspoken rule.
This is the closest that the review guidelines seem to come to that:
Take your time and write a sincere review for every movie you wish to critique. Make sure your review is relative to the submission. Reviews that are found to offer no benefit to the author maybe deleted.
Unhelpful reviews can definitely be against the rules, but it does not list any requirement for review length. This makes sense, since a short rewiew could be useful to the author.
At 10/10/06 05:20 PM, Brandon53 wrote: Yeah speaking of which why did I have a review removed for a comment I made 7 months ago?
I mean this is ridiculous, we shouldn't be getting shit for reviews we've made years ago cause some 13 year old with alot of time on his hands are going thru reviews trying to flag them all.
It is possible for a review mod to delete old reviews if they have been flagged as abusive enough. That could be considered proper justification for deleting the review, especially since the reviewer doesn't really get penalized. However, we don't (or try not to) ban users who left abusive reviews a long time ago. Personally, I have been deleting reviews that are around 30 days or older rather than deleting and banning the user. However, that could change when most of the old reviews have been gone through and only new reviews populate the list =)
At 10/10/06 05:20 PM, Rucklo wrote:
Why you not submitting music anymore btw?
I have spent these years becoming better and better at audio. I'm simply not submitting it yet. I'd rather wait until the Audio Portal has a system overhaul before I start submitting again. I have been put off several times at the contraband voting that occasionally takes place there.
At 10/10/06 05:19 PM, Andersson wrote:
Yeah, I actually think so. Anyone can put more effort into a review than that, and if people write many short reviews like that one, it'd be a shame if the person's reviews weren't deleted.
That is true. I could just be ranting, but if a person simply says they liked their work, the artist would at least have some sort of idea why. However, if someone just said "it sucks", it doesn't do any good at all, since there is an infinite number of things the reviewer could have preferred.
One liners like "Awesome dude!" aren't exactly contributing much. Review banning someone who writes many reviews like that will most likely make the person put some more thoughts and effort into his/her future reivews.
You're right about that. That goes in to another review rule that I didn't really touch on.
Do not post TONS and TONS of crappy reviews just to get high in the rankings. If we catch someone doing this we will delete all their reviews- wouldn't that be a pain in the ass? Take your time and write a sincere review for every movie you wish to critique. Make sure your review is relative to the submission. Reviews that are found to offer no benefit to the author maybe deleted.
I personally haven't ran across too many people who do only "one-liners" like that.
At 10/10/06 05:13 PM, johnfn wrote: Rage, right on the Review Etiquette it says
If you are giving this submission a low score, please offer constructive criticism that will be useful to the artist.That's a perfectly legitimate reason to flag low scoring reviews.
Yes, as I have stated here
At 10/10/06 05:01 PM, RageVI wrote:
Remember, a good review could contain reasons why the reviewer didn't like the work. This is something that could actually be useful to the author.
However, people are even flagging reviews with constructive criticism. If it wasn't a problem I wouldn't have posted about it =)
At 10/10/06 05:14 PM, Peregrinus wrote:
Also, Rage I had no Idea you were still active :/
I boosted up my activity with the recent revamping of the review system. But hey, you remembered I exist, and that's cool enough for me =)
At 10/10/06 05:06 PM, Rucklo wrote: A little off topic here;
I´d like to know if you still serve as an audio moderator, RageVI. If so, there area quite a few issues to deal with around there... I´ve asked around to find out who the audio moderators are, except from Denvish... Wade hasn´t replied to my PM´s, and it seem noone really knows who they are (or who are active...) :-/
I have a list of audio moderators, but it's over a year old. I'll try to get it from Wade/James and I'll PM you the list once I get it.
But yes, I do still serve as an audio mod. If there are some issues with audio portal submissions, we probably can't help you. You can PM me what the issues are, though, and I'll see what I can do.
It seems that many of you people are having problems with understanding what constitutes a review as abusive.
Many people flag the review just because the reviwer says they don't like the submission, even though they aren't insulting the author, saying it should be blammed, etc.
Also it's really annoying to come across reviews like this
Title: !!Osama Bin Dumbshit!!!
Overall Rating: 10/10
Summary: I know what you feel like
Review: My uncle was a block away from the trade towers when they fell. I feel your pain, and I salute your uncle and you.
# of abusive flags: 17.64
I'm going to start clearing flags and penalizing the users who flag non-abusive reviews OFTEN. I hope other review mods do the same. Doing this will eventually reduce the number of reviews flooding in the abusive list and help us have a cleaner, more efficient list of abusive reviews to process.
Before you flag a review as ABUSIVE, ask yourself some questions. Some, based on the review guidelines, can be:
Is the reviewer not within the topic of the submission? Does it not concern the subject matter or respond to it in some sort of way?
Is the purpose of this review to insult the author? This doesn't mean the reviewer can't dislike their work. However, if they start saying things like "You suck" or "Kill yourself", this is indeed over the lines and justification for being flagged as abusive. Remember, a good review could contain reasons why the reviewer didn't like the work. This is something that could actually be useful to the author.
Is the reviewer PROMOTING an outside website? A simple link to an outside website in the review doesn't mean it's abusive. It could be a link to a tutorial to help the artist, for example. Note that the review guidelines state that UNRELATED links are prohibited. Consider the context in which the link is placed.
Even as I wrote this topic, I came across heavily flagged non-abusive reviews. (Such as "OMFG, wow this is hot!"). Do some of you people honestly think that the user who left this review should be banned or have their review deleted? Think about what the implications of flagging a review as abusive are.
People are a little too zealous when it comes to racking up whistle points. Don't let this hurt you. Comments? Discuss what the problem is!
Yeah, flag them now because I think some need to be deleted.
Like snayk said, just get yourself to work. Getting something started can be considered the "barrier to entry". Once you get yourself working on it, it'll be much easier to keep at it. Although it may seem stupid, some websites offer good advice on how to prioritize your time.
Your website seems to be very lacking in content. Although I could write within this post a bunch of advice and suggestions, I think the best way to get a good idea on what to do would be to look at another text-base mmorpg.
Take a look at www.finalhero.com. It's also a text-based RPG, but it has attracted a lot more people. Your site seems relatively empty compared to it.
My family stopped celebrating Halloween probably 6 or 7 years ago. That doesn't mean much now that I'm the only child still living at home for the time being. However, we may buy some candy (since it gets pretty cheap at the time) and go out to dinner to get away from it all.
I'll get both the Wii and the PS3 eventually. I'm going to hold off on the PS3, though, so not only can I buy the games I'm waiting for at the time of purchase, but it may be cheaper by then. Heck, and then there's Christmas. I don't know what I'll get then =)
Although the link to the tutorial is getting me a 404 error, a great program to use is TechSmith's Camtasia Studio. You can make any movie out of your "screen capture" (It captures audio as well), and also has several editing tools once you're done capturing.
I share the same opinion. People who go through reviews to rack up whistle points need to read the review guidelines and know what constitutes an abusive review. Otherwise they'd be shooting themselves in the foot, since the review mod may clear the review of being abusive and penalize all the users.
Excellent! I'll definitely be review modding more, now that the system is a whole lot more functional. Thanks, Ross!
I got many calls from Ohio State University when I applied there. I ended up choosing a college that is better in the field I'm heading in to. However, Ohio State sure has a kickass football team. I'll probably head there for graduate school (for other reasons).
I'm also heading to an OSU game this weekend.
I always get rid of my hiccups by holding my breath for about a minute or longer. It works every time. It's different for everyone. I'm sure some people will find this method more pleasurable than others.
The largest reason that I have stopped voting on under judgment movies is that it takes too long for the vote panel come up [for larger submissions]. I'm really irritated when an 8mb submission consisting of poor animation and uncompressed audio takes several minutes before being able to have a vote.
I understand fully that this is a measure against voting without getting a fair glimpse of the submission, and that many good submissions probably have a more deserving score because of it. However, racking up B/P points, an activity I used to enjoy, now requires an uncomfortable amount of time.
Trust me when I say that when you're older (Say, 20 or so), you'll consider any 12 year old fully capable of spending their "play time" that way.
I always just pick what color looks best with the level icon at the time. Many people probably do the same.
At 9/21/06 08:25 AM, XwaynecoltX wrote:At 9/21/06 08:16 AM, MeMB wrote: Sorry if I'm false accusing, but it would seem smackhack didn't actually draw those pictures himself... Anyone sharing my thoughts?I also share those thoutgts reasons why a few were links when he could have posted them, and the drawings seemed to bedifferent styles from one another...
I only hope that if they are his work he will be honest about it and suply some sort of proof and if they are not his work that that he no longer posts work that is not his...
~X~
I didn't read the whole topic before my other post ^ but he has obviously stolen anything of merit that he has posted.
Sad =[
At 9/19/06 11:07 AM, smackhack wrote: i made another dragon, with both art AND paint, artpad is low quality though.
Low Quality Dragon.
I suggest you quit stealing artwork and make your own.
http://neondragonart..tutorials/dragon.htm
The first dragon you posted is from another tutorial. The web location of which I have forgotten.
Worth1000 has much, much better animal hybrids than that site =)
Starting out the game by swearing to avenge a slain friend or family member.
Strange. I get a 403 error when I try access that web page. I can't view ANYTHING, and I seem to be the only one. I wonder if it has to do with my ISP or whatnot.
I was able to view it through Google's cache, though. Very awesome, very expensive toys.
I'm sick of the elitist bullshit that emanates from people who defend one console or the other.
So fuck that argument. I'm getting them both ;)
You know what? I don't think I deposited yesterday, and I was able to throughout most of the day.
Talk about being pissed off at 12:03 am
