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At 5/13/14 02:39 PM, Idiot-Finder wrote:

At 5/2/14 02:49 PM, GamerTheory wrote: I'd rather not read it myself, but I'd fight for anyone's right to read and write it whenever they wanted. If no real people are being harmed in the making of it, it has every right to exist.

To be fair, when a real life people were being portrayed in the fic, it can cause some level of concerns which is why one can never take chances when it comes to that.

Yeah, I get where you're coming from on that point. A lot of artists I know won't even draw real people in sexy scenes without their consent, and I'd imagine snuff artists and writers are the same way, if not even more cautious.

I'd rather not read it myself, but I'd fight for anyone's right to read and write it whenever they wanted. If no real people are being harmed in the making of it, it has every right to exist.

Call of Duty: Ghosts on PC. People's experiences varied, but it had so many technical issues that it was borderline unplayable for me on release day. Like an idiot, I didn't ask for a refund right away, so I waited for Infinity Ward to fix it.

Fast-forward half a year and now it's a free weekend, so I tried it again. Turns out they'd only fixed one major issue (dishonest RAM requirement), and the game still played horribly several months after release. In fact, they made it worse in some ways. They disallowed community-made FOV sliders and implemented their own crappy one that only went up to 80, whereas community sliders went to 110.

At least my friends on Xbone are having fun with it. There's a reason CS:GO and TF2 dominate the PC shooter scene.

The strength of a vote on audio is dependent on how many movies/games the user has voted on.

This alone should be raising red flags everywhere. Somebody who loves games but knows nothing about music has more voting power on music than experienced music critics?

I also wish the experience system would extend to art and audio. It just seems like an incomplete metagame as it stands.

As far as I know, most professional anime are made in 3D programs like Maya, using their 2D capabilities for the most part and swapping to 3D when necessary.

At 9/29/12 02:04 PM, Sheizenhammer wrote:
I honestly don't know why they didn't include the EXP system at least in the Audio and Art portals. As of now, the only ones who bother voting in either are the dicks who 5 all their own work while 0'ing everyone else's. Encouraging people who don't have vested interests to vote would dilute the effect said dicks have.

(I don't think the BP system would work there, though. Due to the lack of traffic, nothing would ever pass judgement if it were implemented in either portal.)

This, however, would be harder to do.
The only thing that can be used to quantify helpfulness of a review is the review's rating... which has been horribly misused for so long, I doubt it'd be worth the effort of trying to fix to the point where you could tie EXP in with getting helpful ratings. Currently (and for as long as it's been here, as far as I can tell), people will vote reviews as helpful or not depending on if they agree with it, if they find it funny, if they (don't) like the reviewer, or any number of reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with how helpful the review actually was. Such is inevitable when there's no penalty for abusing the + and - buttons.

Since the majority of people who leave and / or rate reviews come straight from Youtube, and immediately assume it's the same as a comment system without looking at any of the guidelines concerning reviews, it'd be a huge pain to implement a system that rewards people for making good reviews that wouldn't be either ignored and / or vote-spammed to farm EXP by the statwhores on here too.

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I haven't run into anyone zeroing my art, and I certainly haven't rated my own (though a friend of mine is frequently zero-bombed). Regardless, if people are doing that, that's even less helpful than the lack of reviews. Right now, though, it's frustrating to have one of my pieces rated lower than another and no one will tell me why. While I appreciate them rating it in the first place, since there's no reason to, I do wish the entire system was handled better.

You bring up a good point about the misuse of review ratings--one that I didn't consider. If I were Tom Fulp, I'd at least try it, though. If nothing else, content creators would get more reviews, and, while some would be bad, there would be reviews that wouldn't have been there otherwise. I wouldn't argue that the star experience system should be removed so much as nerfed--the top benefits reserved for reviewers. Also, to counter Youtube-like one-liner comments, maybe there should be some big red text somewhere noticeable saying something like "Tell them why you're rating it like you are."

Obviously, I'm not a webmaster, but as a user, I'd very much like to see some changes to make the site more helpful. Sheizenhammer, do you have any ideas on how we could encourage reviews? There are review groups in the forums, but I'm willing to bet most users don't visit the forums regularly. I have to believe there's a way to make it work.

First of all, I'm not at all opposed to the leveling system on Newgrounds, nor am I opposed to website gamification in general.

Currently, users can level up by rating games or movies. I have two problems with that: it encourages click-and-run ratings rather than helpful feedback, and it excludes artists and musicians.

I suggest two changes:

1. Expand the metagame to all four areas of Newgrounds.

2. Change the metagame to reward users for offering helpful, thought-out critiques.