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At 11/1/11 07:13 AM, Coop wrote: I see your issue with the system here. I wouldn't agree with programming an entire additional section to the flash submissions, so that people can have a spammy little discussion, which would require moderation and so forth for each individual flash. It would be better that someone made a thread for each flash, but then again, that just puts a massive weight on General traffic.

We're capable of moderating the "reviews" as they stand and even if they happen to be a little short, positive comments, as opposed to reviews are better than no reviews at all.

The comment section could follow the Youtube template, where the submitter is capable of moderating it himself.
I get your point that this would be a major setup though.

I tend not to notice them these days (you tend not to after you've clicked the buttons 100,000+ times), but I agree, they aren't as "street" as they used to be. Perhaps the imminent redesign will make you happy in that respect?

It will be redesigned soon? That sounds interesting.

Thanks for your reply by the way, I expected having to wait longer for something decent given this forum's reputation.

At 11/1/11 06:59 AM, Scarface wrote: The administrators just read this thread and are working on it right away. Your minor inconveniences will no longer be a minor inconvenience to you anymore.

The second one might be a minor inconvenience. But the first one is a pretty major inconvenience to anyone who want feedback on their submissions.

At 11/1/11 07:00 AM, JoeMation wrote:

At 11/1/11 06:57 AM, reyalz wrote: I came here back in 2003 and I have not been all that active on this site. Didn't create an account until 2007 either.
But I still have these 2 things that has been bugging me ever since then

So for 4 years you couldn't rate, review, submit, or even post on the forum. So pretty much your 'much needed changes' are extremely irrelevant because you were just s spectator. There's a difference between watching sport and playing it.

2003... I am currently 20 years old. Which would make me roughly 12 years old back then. I barely understood English, let alone felt capable of writing reviews. The rest of your argument seems like a strawman and doesn't address the essence of what I wrote in the slightest.

I came here back in 2003 and I have not been all that active on this site. Didn't create an account until 2007 either.
But I still have these 2 things that has been bugging me ever since then.

1:
Something that strikes me as a major problem here. People are simply incapable of telling the difference between a review and a comment. The solution seems obvious: Make a comment section.
Think about it, if you place it where the current review system is and locate the review section in a different tab or something, then the general quality of the reviews would be a LOT better. The people working on projects need their constructive feedback. But they have to search through pages and pages of trash reviews to actually find it. That just doesn't seem the least bit optimal.
Not to mention that a comment section is needed. Some people just want to drop by and say: "Hey, that was a pretty neat game you made there. Thanks for your effort!". Doing this would optimize this whole thing for everyone.

2:
This is kind of a minor rant but... am I the only one that finds the rating descriptions on flash submissions lame as hell? It kind of makes me feel like a retarded 12 year old when my 5/5 is labeled "WOOT ALL MY 5 R BELONG TO THIS". Not only is this reference outdated and unfunny, its also a general representation of the people whose feedback few people would care about, let alone wish to have influence over the grading. Could we please have something a bit more neutral? I mean, look at the 4/5: "This flash is crunk, fo shizzle!"
Who talks like that these days? This isn't the 20th century! How is anyone supposed to pinpoint their impression based on THAT? It was lame back in 2003, now its just obnoxious.

yeah yeah violence against wifes is a baaaaaad problem!
lets compare it to people who get randomly smashed down on the street:

Case 1 Violence against wifes:
- it happens rarely
- the wife knows the person who does it and for some reason decided to be with this person
- the wife most likely picked a guy with a reputation for being a fucking dangerous asshole
- the wife gets to report the husband and hes gets a hard time in prison where he is going to get assraped by lonely men
- if the wife had children with him they are going to suck dry the money on his bank account while hes taking it in the ass behind the bars.

Case 2 Random street violence:
- it happens very often and its almost never women who are the victims
- the person getting smashed down does most likely not know the guy whos kicking hes face.
- the person getting smacked down will most likely be unable to identify the man who therefore wohnt get convicted
- there is a huge chance that the victim will get killed.
- it happens around 10 times as often as wifes getting beaten by the husbands
- unlike case 1 the victim did not chose to have anything to do with the person smacking him down

i know people from both cases.. a bunch of my friends got beaten by a local gang for no appearent reason. they had never even talked to them before. one of them got so badly injured he nearly passed away. they were all guys.

then i know this woman who got killed by her husband. they had been married for 10 years.. for those 10 years she had been beaten by him. he had beaten her kids up as well.. dispite that she were stupid enough to stay with him for those 10 years... she even got a kid with that man even though he were beating her up. therefore my sympathy for her is minimum. she were so weak that even though her and her children were getting beaten up for 10 years she didnt do anything to stop it.

now. dont even DARE telling me that violence against wifes is the major problem with violence today. its such an extremely small fragment of a general issue with meaningless violence.. and besides from rapes its the ONLY one were the victims are women... and when women marry a guy with a leather jacket with the Initials HA. or a sweet young afro with a bandana. THATS HER OWN GOD DAMN FAULT!

At 1/20/09 09:52 AM, Deaththe14th wrote: I just think that no one should be *allowed* to beat up anyone.

However, chivalry and such would generally dictate that men shouldn't hit women, but in this day and age of bitchy, vampiric women who wish only to suck whatever life blood out of you before they hit you up for child support, the whole equality thing really needs someone to take a look at it.

SALUTE! well said random guy with emo name! i fully agree with you
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u leik mudkip?

i have several suggestions:
1
go outside and play in the grass. find a beetle. name him James. draw a picture of James and your family at a house or something. give the picture to your parents. have milk and cookies.
2
start building the worlds highest stack of History books.
3
join the army
4
play scrabble with a warthog and use the words to create random jokes and use them in a flash movie with 2 geometric shapes jumping on a grey line (Front page guaranteed!)
5
talk to humans. they can be really nice. especially those with the things popping out of their chest

At 1/20/09 04:50 PM, Lost-Chances wrote: That's not an achievement. Punching Paris Hilton in the face and getting away with it is an achievement. What you did was boring, lame and not worthy of people giving a shit about anything remotely related to you.

IMO punching Paris Hilton in the face is an achievement even if you dont get away with it

At 1/20/09 11:31 AM, jesus-of-subway wrote: MissingNo.

haha yeah i remember that one.... it could copy any item into 130 or something :P that was kinda awesome after you got bored with the regular game ^^

because they ALL LOOK THE SAME? 80% of our memory is visual. Therefore roughly 80% of what we find unique and entertaining about film clips / flash movies or whatever is what we see.
and when the stuff we are seeing is sprites we have seen OVER 9000! times before it takes away all of the excitement. sprites movies needs to be very very very good and VERY original to even get a little credit.

HIT IT WITH A BEAN BAG!

Religious extremists.

i heard this... seriously google can go fuck themeselves

At 9/4/08 10:08 AM, jcgurango wrote: So, I was about to have sex with my girlfriend and then suddenly she started talking about his ex, and about her sexlife. then I said "Ok, you just turned me off. I can't do this." does anyone else think it was worth it?

sure! you just kicked ass! 10/10 for that comment

Basically, it coes down to the fact that your review was short and unhelpful, and the author would not benefit from hearing about how you were embarrased watching it.

WOW WOW WOW hold on a second!
"the author would not benefit from hearing about.."
heres a thing i learned in language analysis class:
a review is an article.
an article has a sender and a receiver.

now im the one whos writing the review. so i am the sender.
but whos the receiver? the author?
uuuuuhm.
lits think this through shall we?
right i watched a movie.
if you look in a magazine, newspaper or whatever.
youll find movie reviews.
these reviews tells about the movie and if it is worth watching. so that must mean that the receiver is...

OTHER POTENTIAL VIEWERS!

which means the receiver of a review is not the author. lets have a short look at the wikipedia post again:
"A review is an evaluation of a publication"
an evalutation of something that is public.

which means that the receiver is: "THE PUBLIC"

now stop saying that this was not usefull for the author because it was not intended for the author.
review is simple not the correct term for that sort of evaluation

try watching the movie and youll understand my point of the review.

"i feel embarressed of watching it"

i thought it was extremely silly and that bothered me a lot since i like the charecters in it.

as a matter of fact.. before this post got deleted someone send me a private message that he agreed what i said in the post.

and i DONT NEED to post constructive critism or anything in a review because its a REVIEW for those of you who appearently dont know what a review means lets ask Wikipedia:
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A review is an evaluation of a publication, such as a movie, video game, musical composition, book, or a piece of hardware like a car, appliance, or computer. In addition to a critical statement, the review's author may assign the work a rating to indicate its relative merit. More loosely, an author may review current events or items in the news.

as far as i see this phrase was not included: "and if the reviewer didnt like the product he has to give specific reason to why and make suggestions on how to improve it"

i said sorry 3 times before saying in a very polite way that i didnt like the movie. NOW SERIOUSLY? WTF? how can i be more polite than that?

said the guy with 500 posts to the guy with 10

this is my 4th review i get deleted on newgrounds for no reason whatsoever! i dont swear and i dont spam.

i review the movie that i saw.
latest review i got deleted was this one:

This message is to inform you that the following review, which you left for Super Mario Hyadain on 7/8/08 at 7:21:30 PM, has been deleted:

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Score: 0 / 10
Summary: uhm
Review: SORRY SORRY SORRY if im being negative here but i think this is extremely bizare and i feel embaressed when watching it. like i am supposed to find better to spend my time on.
besides i dont like the fact that the singing is not english.
i have chosen not to rate it though.
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Please review the review guidelines in the FAQ to ensure that you're following the rules and to prevent any further action being taken against other reviews you make.

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now i said nothing wrong in that review at all... i just said i didnt like the movie. now tell me. does admins remove posts or are they just removed when they get enough negative votes?

if its the thing with the votes its downright stupid! then my reviews are being removed by dumb 12 year old fanboys.

lol :D this is a quite silly thought . who would replace tits with a computer

This is even more stupid

At 8/19/08 02:11 PM, ShanyBoy-XX wrote: stupid foreign humour, not a single lol cat or dead baby

dude thats just sick!

ok we all watch dead babies to pass time now and then..

but watching lolcats is just sick and gross!

congratulations you have reached puberty.

your life will be an emotional roller coaster from now on and you will cry and laugh completely randomly.

At 8/19/08 10:09 AM, ZeroAsALimit wrote:

At 8/19/08 10:08 AM, putzpie wrote: Oh silly old me. I read "Kid with Katana kills for Santa"

hahaha, oh boy...

Santa just can't keep up with the population explosion.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH OMG WIN!

well i dont know. to be completely honest i think that it is 100% based on impression.
there is no way to score a girl. you can only make a good impression on her and if you dont get that right you have no chance. if you however do its no like you even have to try.

i have only had like 4 girlfriends in my entire life and im 17. however i have got laid with 3 girls. none of them were my girlfriends.

but really. if you dont make a good impression you wohnt suceed. its simple as that. shine yourself up. wear fancy clothes. give yourself time in front of the mirror. work on the attitude. and the women will come to you.

i have tried to score several times. i havent suceeded once. however sometimes when i just went to a random party not expecting it at all i did.

its simple as that.
take a look in the mirror. what can be improved. once thats done people can learn about your "inside" afterwards but without trying to look like your giving an effort at life you will never even get to that point so DONT RELY on meeting a girl because she likes you for who you are. that happens for 1 of 3 people. however dont stick to a girl who doesnt like you for who you are afterwards.

btw that post was epic win riots

havent bought anything and i dont plan to either

im not trying to troll im trying to understand how this junk has got so much attention when its not even close to being funny

i actually do like some kinds of british humor. i think britain sketch shows are some of the worlds best. but really you guys dont really seem to explain why edible castle is funny. its not very hard to. so how about giving it a try since its obviously so "fun"

At 8/19/08 12:01 PM, hhcash wrote: It's entertaining. Close enough.

thats not a review thats A COMMENT! point out a point and tell me why its funny.
the jokes are lame. the voice acting is not very enthusiastic and the GOD the jokes are bad!

the only good things i can see in these cartoons is "suitable for everyone" and a charming british accent. BUT THATS NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR 10 FRONTPAGES!