Maybe you flagged flashes wrongly. If you do this, you lose many whistle points. And remember to give as much information as you can when blowing your whistle on a flash. Also read carefully a review before flagging it, don't just flag everything that is posted on Rage's thread because sometimes things that are not abusive are posted there.

I'm pretty sure you flagged something wrong, otherwise you wouldn't have a garbage whistle.

Have luck getting that normal whistle back!

Sometimes when you search for a term that is less than four characters long, the following pop-up appears.

Spanish lololololol

At 10/23/08 04:45 PM, Ismael92 wrote: Wow, I've just realized the pop-up only appears when you search a term of 1 or 2 characters.

Wait, that was just a coincidence. The pop-up only appears sometimes.

Sorry for the triple post.

Wow, I've just realized the pop-up only appears when you search a term of 1 or 2 characters.

Cool, now we don't have to wait for it to load.

Still, it would be better if we were allowed to search words under 4 characters.

I've seen it before, it looks like a mistake that the staff isn't aware of, or just don't want to fix.

It's not an easter egg, easter eggs are hidden, like for example if you hold your mouse over the angry face in the forums.

Lol, I just noticed I have 666 blams.

At 10/23/08 01:39 PM, Bahamut wrote:

At 10/23/08 10:05 AM, Ismael92 wrote: Making that list on IE felt so weird...

Making my congrats list on this laptop feels so weird. Infact, the whole of NG does.

I know what you mean. It was very weird whne I had to use my gf's laptop for a while when my mainboard gave up it's ghost.

Yeah, when I wrote that I was on my sister's laptop. I use it if someone else is on the main computer and she's not using the laptop.

At 10/23/08 10:07 AM, Hellian00 wrote:

At 10/22/08 09:21 AM, TheMaster wrote: It is a bit ridiculous. I remember when I first joined, and unless they specifically set out to do it, no one had more saves than blams, and there were always more entries deleted than saved each day.

It's pretty much the opposite now.

Yup. Also, the score to pass judgment needs to be increased to about this:

100 votes: 1.5
150 votes: 2
200 votes: 2.5

That makes more sense, because most everything under 2.5 is crap.

Well, 2.5 is pretty high, I think the requirement should be 2.00. As I said, that would encourage people to put more effort into what they do, and the voting would be more balanced (0,1,2 are blam and 3,4,5 are save).

:D

Congratulations to:

darknessdweller: 3000 Posts
zimzap: 7,777 Blams
DarkSoldier: 12,000 B/P
Corky52: 18,000 B/P
Shanus: 20,000 Saves
MICHhimself: Level 16

Making that list on IE felt so weird...

At 10/22/08 09:37 PM, perfect-insanity wrote: NGPD Roster -Tuesday October 22, 2008

Thanks!

Top 5 Gainers

Ismael92, Police Lieutenant - 484
bananasrus09, Police Sergeant - 399
perfect-insanity, Police Lieutenant - 114
sinskae, Police Sergeant - 59
---------Gu-rilla, Police Sergeant - 42
---------youngblood26, Police Captain - 42

It's nice to see someone who gets a lot of points too! bananasrus09 was close, but everyone knows I shall always be the first :3
Congrats to all of you!

No.## ||[+\-]|| [Total B/P] || [Gain] || [Gain/day] || [Name, Rank]

>>> 01 || __ || [ 2097 ] || [ 0042 ] || [ 005.3 ] || youngblood26, Police Captain
>>> 02 || __ || [ 2013 ] || [ 0009 ] || [ 001.1 ] || pigeonmaster88, Police Captain
>>> 03 || +6 || [ 1898 ] || [ 0454 ] || [ 056.8 ] || Ismael92, Police Lieutenant

Wow, from 9th place to the 3rd. Although I like being in the top 3, that means I'll have to leave soon :(

At 10/22/08 10:56 PM, jew193 wrote: On a side note, we've discussed this before, but not this particular question. Does anybody here actually want to be a real cop?

I'm bored and wondering...

Since I'm too young to work, I haven thought about that, but I think I wouldn't like to be a cop. Even if the risks here aren't to high, you're still in danger.

It's horrible to watch the news and see that some random person was killed unfairly. I just can't stand that, this work is not for me.

At 10/23/08 08:32 AM, sinskae wrote: well, I want to go to the FBI or the DEA. But maybe I will try for state police first, just to get some background.

What about the USMC?

I even have a friend who wants to join... But he's not from the USA...

I remember reading a thread like this which had been made some time ago. After a little research I found this, although that's not the one I found before.

It's not a big problem because it's nothing permanent, but try logging out, clearing your cookies and stuff, and logging in again.

If the problem isn't solved after that, I think you should PM liljim because he takes care of the programming.

Cheers!

PS: Remember you can (and should) use the Where is / How to? forum for things like this ;)

At 10/22/08 06:12 PM, Peaceblossom wrote:

At 10/22/08 06:11 PM, Ismael92 wrote: The problem about currentYear'ers is that they are new, and probably didn't read the rules, and just spam. But if you're new, and you come to the general forum, you'll see a lot of spam and useless topics and posts. So you may assume that making useless comments is correct, and that's why many new people are annoying.

Well Poozy really straightens them up, or makes them leave within their first few days on being here. He's like the new BBR, except a lot more active.

Yes, honestly I love having a mod like him here, people who complain about him can't accept the consequences for what they've done.

It's slowly killing you.

You should read this information I've just found, it's pretty interesting, and true.

There are actually some 08'ers who are intelligent.

The problem about currentYear'ers is that they are new, and probably didn't read the rules, and just spam. But if you're new, and you come to the general forum, you'll see a lot of spam and useless topics and posts. So you may assume that making useless comments is correct, and that's why many new people are annoying.

There are also people who signed up years ago and are still stupid, what about that?

At 10/22/08 03:44 PM, Clbull wrote: What if you see 25 movies in a row that deserve blamming for good reasons or deserve a 5/5 because they're really good?

Ok, what about 80,000 votes in a row.

Seriously, what about 75 or 100?

Congratulations to:

Marsupial: Staff Sergeant
Mendou: 19,000 Saves
Metal-Therapy: Lt. General
Aci6: 12,000 reviews
AbyssalDarkness: Level 10
Perceptor: 3,000 Blams
Gatling: 1337 Saves

At 10/22/08 05:28 AM, youngblood26 wrote:

At 10/22/08 03:20 AM, Coop83 wrote: Ismael92: 16th Birthday

I guess real life achievements are now considered. Anyway, my 200th log.

Considered or not, people congratulate me because I'm awesome.

Thanks to everyone!

At 10/22/08 02:22 PM, milinko959 wrote:

At 10/22/08 02:17 PM, Ismael92 wrote: And people who vote 5 on everything should stop doing it. Why do you care so much about getting protect points if they don't mean anything.

And blam points mean something compared to protects? If we blam everything then the opposite will be true.

I didn't say we should blam everything. I think we should vote fairly, and not only 0 or 5.

We could also rise the requirements for a flash to pass judgment, so if it gets 2.00 it gets blammed, and if you vote 2 you get blam points. If 0, 1 and 2 is blam and 3, 4 and 5 is save, then it would be more balanced. We also prevent more shitty submissions to pass.

Not going to happen. 1.6 is good for people who actually make an effort, and raising the passing score by 0.4 will just discourage every day people who are new to flash and want to get work out there.

Discourage people who are new to flash? Don't you thing that it can actually encourage some people to work harder?

At 10/22/08 09:53 AM, EyeLovePoozy wrote:

At 10/22/08 09:48 AM, Shaun wrote: They should make the aura connected to your voting habits again.
No one wants a blue aura so no one will 5 everything anymore.

Umm..I like my blue aura, and would keep voting 5 just to keep it. Plus then there would be no Fab aura, which would piss a bunch of people off.

Well, that's something interesting. So, supposing more people act like you, then some people would vote according to the aura they want.

Also, it's just a stat guys.
You should be watching flash because you enjoy doing so not B/P'ing just for the sake of stats....

It's a stat, hence why people vote 5 on stuff they know would pass. So the only way to get people to stop voting 5 on everything would be to remove the stat, which would also piss people off.

No it won't piss people off removing the stats. If you think about it, stats were not made to benefit the users. They were made to benefit the site.

If someone has a deity whistle, then she/he flagged submissions/flashes correctly and therefore he/she knows how to use it, and that's why it pulls more weight.

The idea of voting power, is that you've been a lot of time in here and vote correctly, you're supposed to know how to vote, so your vote is more important.

And there's people who don't only vote 5 on things that they think it's going to pass. Actually, many people vote 5 on everything under judgment without even watching it.

At 10/22/08 02:45 PM, NeonFlame126 wrote:

Also, I have a great picture :D

I got it from here.

Oh yeah? I saw this one myself.

Yeah, but I also think that the one I posted is good because the entries blammed are higher by one.

Having more entries blammed than protected isn't something too strange, although it's unlikely.

:)

It's great to see a thread like this in the General, and see people who worry about it.

Many submissions pass now due to mass voting, and people who don't watch the submissions and just vote 5 on everything.

Spammers many times get their friends to vote on their crappy submissions so they pass judgment. And people who vote 5 on everything should stop doing it. Why do you care so much about getting protect points if they don't mean anything. OK, you may have a better B/P rank (although voting fairly is better) and therefore you have more voting power. But why do you want voting power if it's useless? I remember someone who had 70,000+ saves and less than 1,000 blams...

We could also rise the requirements for a flash to pass judgment, so if it gets 2.00 it gets blammed, and if you vote 2 you get blam points. If 0, 1 and 2 is blam and 3, 4 and 5 is save, then it would be more balanced. We also prevent more shitty submissions to pass.

At 10/22/08 09:53 AM, EyeLovePoozy wrote:

At 10/22/08 09:48 AM, Shaun wrote: They should make the aura connected to your voting habits again.
No one wants a blue aura so no one will 5 everything anymore.

Quoted for emphasis.

Also, it's just a stat guys.
You should be watching flash because you enjoy doing so not B/P'ing just for the sake of stats....

Quoted for more emphasis.

At 10/21/08 11:58 PM, jew193 wrote: It's not how often, it's when you B/P. It only happens if you're the last voter to vote on a submission. If you happen to be the last voter on something that is blammed, and you gave it a 0-1, then you get that message. If you are the last voter on a submission that passes and you gave it 2-5, then you get a different message. Usually it happens when the submission has about 230 views, or something around there.

Exactly. But if you vote 2-5 in a submission that is blammed, don't you get a message saying that regardless of your vote it was blammed? (Or something by the style, and the same for the opposite situation).

Anyway, I've only got those kind of messages 2 times.
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Also, I have a great picture :D

I got it from here.

At 10/21/08 09:22 PM, Corky52 wrote: Happy birthday my friend. How was your day? :D

Today was a weird day...

I woke up sweating, it was hot like fuck (and I can't stand when it's too hot). I went to school, a lot of friends congratulated me, and they hit me a lot too (I don't know if you the same hitting-the-b-day-guy thing in the US). But it wasn't that bad.

About 11:50, it became clouded and very dark. The weather changed dramatically in less than 10 minutes, it was very weird. It became dark and cold, like if it was 21:00, it really seemed like it was too late. Imagine going from something like hot as fuck to very cold. Everyone was freezing (except me, who love/s cold and doesn't almost feel it [that's why I can't stand the hot]). It rained as fuck, it hasn't rained like that for months.

I came home some hours later and it got sunny and hot again, pretty weird. I spent the rest of the day with friends and family.

I had a chocolate cake too.
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I'll post this later in my last news post. With all grammar mistakes included.

For the guys who are trying to get out of garbage (insert quote here), just keep trying and you'll make it, don't give up and flag carefully!

At 10/21/08 08:20 PM, pigeonmaster88 wrote:

At 10/21/08 07:02 PM, SoulMaster71 wrote: There's very little that feels better than this...
Congratulations! You just destroyed someone else's hard work! This Flash has been blammed.
My first one in what feels like ages. I had almost forgotten how good it feels to get that last vote...

Ah, yes. It feels good :)
But trying to get the message that says something like: Even if you tried to save this flash it was blammed anyway, it's very hard :/
I got one when I was starting here back in December. I wish I got that message again :(

Lol, with the low amount of flashes that get blammed, I think that's the most difficult message to get.

:D

Well, thanks too all people who posted here, I won't quote every post (only some of them), but you know I love you all.

At 10/21/08 04:35 PM, darknessdweller wrote: HAPPY FUCKING BIRTHDAY!!

Today, Ismael92 celebrates 16 years of existence!
AND he's gonna get his driver's license this year too! I think...

No, I need to be 18 for that :(

16 years ago, Ismael92 was born, and I'm sure he's accomplished TONS of things in his life!

Sadly, that's not true. I sure have a lot of great moments in my memory, but I haven't achieved anything great. I still have time for that though.

So tell us, Ismael, anything special you'd like to say?

Thank you all! 16 is my favuorite age.
Yes, favoUrite, damn it, I like writing it in that way.

Anything you're proud of achieving in these 16 years?

Not really. As I said, I have time for that. But I'm happy because of all the friends I have, my life would be nothing without them. It just gives me a good reason to live.

Glad about being a year older?

Yes, I've always wanted to be 16. I don't know why, but I feel that this year is going to be great.

Here's your cake!

Thanks a lot! I've already eaten cake, but I think I can have some more :P

PARRRRTTTYYYYY!!!!!!!!!

FUCKING YEAAAAHHH!!!!!!!1!!1!·"%"!"!!!$·11!!

At 10/21/08 04:38 PM, MisterUnderstood wrote: Happy Birthyday.

She is forever in your debt.

If you put peanut butter anywhere on your body, she'll lick it off. Anywhere.

OMG, thanks, that's the best present I've got!

In my whole entire fucking life

At 10/21/08 04:39 PM, Elios wrote: Damn, there sure are a lot of birthdays this year...

lol, and I have a birthday every year! It's great!

At 10/21/08 04:41 PM, fish1892 wrote: Happy Birthday.

IMO, you're an unsung hero of NG. :D

/Exaggeration

At 10/21/08 04:57 PM, mwmike wrote:

At 10/21/08 04:55 PM, Basspro55 wrote: Happy birthday dude best of luck to you and we hope to see you on the BBS more often.

His posts are of high quality, but not high quantity. He posts often, but he'd rather post one helpful post then five or six posts like most users on General.

:D

At 10/21/08 05:18 PM, MercatorMap wrote: I find it pretty fucking fail when the person the birthday topic is made for does not post in said topic.

I had a great day today. A great day off line. I lived the real life, spent time with family and friends. It was pretty good.

At 10/21/08 05:45 PM, 36Holla wrote: Happy birthday to a fellow Wi/Ht? regular. After you're finished with cake, you have to come back and answer questions about how to level your account up. It'll be a grand day I assure you.

What kind of questions?

At 10/21/08 05:57 PM, Spirosgod wrote: Who is this guy???
He hasn't even posted in here...

I'm not popular, and I don't fucking care about it.

Wow, I quoted more posts than what I was going to post, I'm also pretty sure there's some time of grammar mistake in the previous statement!

Thanks to all, I hope you've had a great day too!

RL achievement:
16th birthday

Congratulations to:

Haggard: 17000 Saves
Dream-of-Duke: 25000 Saves
PimpMasterKDOG: Level 48
darknessdweller: 6666 B/P
LordZeebmork: Level 20

Level

idiot-buster: 18888 B/P
gfoxclock: Level 42
life: Level 40 - ugh, that icon looks so weird under your name...
Shaun: 15000 Experience
Gu-rrilla: Level 17
Gatling: Level 17
X8X: Level 21
Coop83: 666 Review Responses
Corky52: Level 23
Phil: 800 in B/P
SlashFirestorm: 10000 Experience
1337: Level 29
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At 10/20/08 01:48 PM, Haggard wrote: So, I downloaded Pidgin today and I also created an AIM account. Anyone here interested in adding me?
See my profile for AIM-Name. ;)

lol @ putting NG before your username. Everyone does the same (including me).

Cheers

Yeah, this is an important problem. People just don't read the whole thread before they post, and sometimes they don't even read the opening post. Fuck, sometimes they don't even read the title.

They just find it too difficult to read such a high amount of posts (even though sometimes there are only 4 or 5 posts). Sometimes I feel that we can't blame all the people who don't read, because there are like 5 posts/second (all made by people who don't read), and if you start reading at all the replies, most of them are useless crappy comments. Sometimes going through all of them is just annoying and makes you think that you're wasting your times by reading posts that, in the first place, shouldn't be there.

At 10/21/08 09:27 AM, Shaun wrote: Continuity IS NOT important.

I would much rather see a thread evolve and actually have some discussion that deals with the original point and moves on to related issues.
1. It gets rid of the need to create multiple threads for similar discussions.
2. If someone new reads the thread and has a new opinion of the original post there is nothing stopping them from inputting that opinion and the discussion turning back to the original issue.

Yeah, but then people make a thread, someone says something, like an opinion or an answer, and another person who didn't read that reply just posts the same thing again.

So you only find the same replies repeated all over again, and in the end, you realize that the thread itself is useless and doesn't make any sense. Threads which have a lot of potential several times end like this because of the people who post in it, who don't discuss between themselves.

That's not always true, but some people pay more attention to users with higher levels. But if you think about it, it doesn't make any sense, it just means they have deposited experience more times than certain other people, but that doesn't make them more important or intelligent.

At 10/21/08 11:45 AM, NEVR wrote:

At 10/21/08 11:43 AM, Gagsy wrote: Of course they do, just like how mods get quoted more.

People like sucking ass I guess =3

Yeah, since I got modded I find that my posts tend to get responded to a fair amount more than they did when I was just a regular. Just one of those things I guess.

Personally I'll try to respond to anybody who actually says something worth responding to, regardless of level or whatever.

Also, a gold aura attracts people, it's not common and it's very noticeable. They get more reads and therefore more replies.

There are people who just want to catch mods attention too, so they just reply to whatever they say hoping that they'll get noticed. I don't know if they just want to be a mod so they try to get noticed by the current ones, or some other thing.

I also find funny the fact that I quoted a mod and said this.

Cheers :D

Well, whether the internet is bad or not, it's something we can't define. It just depends on how you use it. Originally it was not invented to be used as this, it's our own fault.

Video games can be addicting, but that depends on the person. If a player just can't stop playing, it's his fault. Even if you compare it with a drug because sometimes it can be similar, it's not a drug.

If people become dependent of computers then there's something wrong with them, they should live the real life too.

There are different reasons why someone can have such a high post count.

Moderators, for example, post on topics that other people don't (when they lock it). For example if I see a topic that is extremely stupid, I don't post there, and later a mod will post locking it (unless it's just deleted).

Some people have a high post count because they've been for many years. Look, I usually make about 10 posts a day (sometimes more, sometimes less, but just to use an easy number). If I had been here since 2002, at this rate now I'd have 21900 posts (6 years, 10 posts each day).

And some people are just one liners that don't even care in which topic they are posting, they just post. Usually they make stupid or unnecessary comments, and they get banned many times, but they keep doing so. This kind of posts are useless. I mean, OK, I don't even have 2,000 posts. But I don't care about it because my posting quality is much higher that other people who have 20,000+ posts.

I thinks that's all :D

Congratulations to:

simon: Level 27, 21,000 saves
CruzAzul-19: Level 23
cadreamer: Level 21, 18,000 B/P
zimzap: 13,000 Saves, 2,222 posts
pigeonmaster88: 3000 Experience
BobbaQ: Level 22
RupeeClock: 15000 Experience
milinko959: 40000 B/P

Cheers :D

Yeah, I think you (or someone else) deleted it. I'm pretty sure you can download it from the web...

After a lil' research:
"If you still have your OS disk, you can reload it from that. Just go to the control panel, add & remove programs, and then to add & remove windows components. You will find MS Paint in the accessories and utilities, accessories."

Taken from here.

Cheers :)