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How about INSTEAD of Pico day, you rename it Newgrounds Day? Then you can use everything on THAT day.

That may be cool.

At 1/22/08 01:53 PM, WadeFulp wrote: Part of the problem is too much of their crap passes. More people need to get inovled and vote 0 on entries that deserve it. People need to watch the entries to make sure they aren't being tricked by a fancy intro, etc. Too many people just vote 5 because they want the points because they think the entry will end up passing. That attitude has lead to this problem. Screw the points, vote 0 if an entry deserves it. If enough people help do this, these entries will have a harder time passing.

Haha! THAT sound familiar!

I can't agree more. I can't even count how many Blams I've lost because I've held to that motto and people are voting to pass Flash that is absolute crap. 0 is my vote unless on the very RARE occasion one actually had some thought and it made me laugh. Then it might get a 2.

I liked the days where I got more Blams than Protects. Now they are somewhat close to the same, but protects are slightly higher. BOOOO!!!

Hey, Wade. What about people who use alts to get around the 2 Flash uploaded per day?

I see that a LOT. Especially in those spammy-type groups.

Well, if you are banned aren't they banning YOU from posting?

Getting around a ban by using an alt is cheating the system and rendering the mods useless.

If you get banned you just need to take your medicine and return when you are no longer banned.

At 1/22/08 01:28 PM, Ragnarokia wrote:

At 1/22/08 01:24 PM, knuxrouge wrote: Nicely said Wade. The crackdown has finally started!

I fear to much to fast, I heard nothing of Wades view before I saw this, Maybe there should have been a warning prior to this, though I may have just missed it.
Well Wade knows best so I will go with it.

It's been in the rules for a very, VERY long time.

People doing this KNOW it's against the rules. Wade's just reinforcing the fact that if you do it, you lose everything.

Fine by me.

At 1/22/08 01:31 PM, NintendoMadness wrote: But I snowboard....yeah that makes me cool. :)

Haha. Yeah, but only if you're GOOD at it.

I ski from time to time. Still trying to get the time to go this season, though dammit.

Oh, and why is it that in your sig it says, and HAS said, you are a level 14? Y ustill have a little ways to go for that level.

At 1/21/08 07:20 PM, SlashFirestorm wrote: I found a good thread in General.

In GENERAL? There's no such thing as a good thread in General!

Looks like Wade's reaching the end of his rope with award-stealing alts and alt-users.

Oh, ok. Maybe there is!

Bravo, I say to this. Bravo.

Hip, Hip, Hooray!
Hip, Hip, Hooray!
Hip, Hip, Hooray!

At 1/21/08 08:43 PM, NEVR wrote: Ironic thing was, yoshi77777 was posting in there with his classic sycophantic comments, saying he agrees with it all, when I'm SURE he uses alts in his 'Lucky 7 crew', and apparently used one to make abusive reviews with. Such hypocrites, some people.

I swear, that guy is a waste of space.

Not to mention he's used multiple accounts to get around the 2 Flash submitted a day, PLUS they were stolen.

At 1/21/08 09:44 PM, Sterockicy wrote: Barracks roster - January 22, 2008

Thank you muchly!

Sterockicy's note:

Help me to get to 1,000 responses!

eh?

Well, then review my stuff!

Top 5 Gainers:

Sentio - 539
Lilhunter03 - 442
NEVR - 434
Idiot-Finder - 328
AnalPenguinFarming - 282

Wow, nice week for you guys.

jerks

26 // 07195 // 074 // 10.6 // 12.8- // RSQViper
27 // 07190 // 058 // 08.3 // 08.7- // PantyWipe

Not a great week for me, but I still managed to pass somebody.

Who-du-thunk-it?

30 // 05039 // 282 // 40.3 // 05.0+ // AnalPenguinFarming

Damn it! Slow down, you bastard!!!

All I can say is "Thank you, Wade. It's about time."

Also, check out that Fleek dude (read 'idiot') and anything submitted on Clock Day where he used tons of alts to submit over 100 Flash in one day ON HIS OWN as well as Milfreds who did the same thing on the same day. Looks like you already got fr0ks, too which is great. Of course, these may all be the same person, who knows? (You do)

I do think you're being a bit soft keeping any of their accounts active, but at least make sure they have ALL alt accounts deleted if they are found abusing most of them.

So, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. It'll be nice to see a legitimate TOTW and UDOW again.

At 1/22/08 02:14 AM, Gu-rrilla wrote:

At 1/21/08 03:12 PM, GOTHCLAWZ wrote: So I suppose you guys are into American sports. I remember hearing about the football world cup being hosted in America, They used all the big stadiums like American Football stadiums & Super-Ball Stadiums.

Do you mean Super Bowl?

No, he means the Soccer World Cup the US hosted 5 years ago.

Here's what I think about that: I don't care. It's soccer and soccer is boring as shit.

Give me football (real, AMERICAN football), give be basketball and give me baseball. You can keep Hockey as I only watch the playoffs and I can live without it.

Oh, and get this: the proxies to get on NG are blocked as well from my work. SUCKS SO MUCH! But, I am getting the Voyager cell phone as it's already been shipped to me. I can get on the 'net with it and check in here that way from time to time.

We'll see how it goes.

At 1/21/08 07:19 AM, Sir-Nuts wrote:

At 1/21/08 02:24 AM, Sterockicy wrote: And finally this one...

What is he holding in his hand on that picture?

Those are rattles.

Get your minds out of the gutter!!!

At 1/20/08 11:13 PM, TheThing wrote:

At 1/20/08 10:32 PM, Sentio wrote:

At 1/20/08 10:24 PM, TheThing wrote:

Trust me, it was a beautiful game. By the Giants. Aside from a single 90 yard TD play from the Packers (Favre to Driver), Green Bay struggled on offense; during the 3rd quarter, the network showed a stat - "1 play - 90 yards; 26 other plays - 91 yards". But with the Giants missing 2 game winning field goals, the game went into overtime. There, the Giants intercepted Bret on the first play (outside of kickoff) of the OT, then drove down to the 20 yard line, giving Tynes a 36 yard chance at redemption. And he found redemption, and a ticket to Arizona for the Super Bowl.

The Pack played like crap. The whole time I watched I kept saying they were playing like crap and that the 90 yd TD was a stroke of luck. At halftime I felt that the Giants had the game even though it was still very close.

The Giants played alright... not great by any means. 2 missed field goals to top it off? Can't be doing that in the Super Bowl, pals.

At least the super bowl is being shown in the UK.

That is a good thing.

Good, you can watch the Pats march to victory.

Just please, please, don't let the Patriots win- the Giants are on a roll of upsets, just one more...

Stop hating, Sentio. Stop hating. I'd rather see any team win that doesn't have a Manning in it.

Hey, 10 straight road wins. I think the Giants can win 1 more.

Yeah, well, the Pats have won 18 and lost none, so... yeah.

even as a Broncos fan I was willing the Chargers to beat them today, damn LT being injured, they might have stood a chance if those field goals had been TDs instead.

Hater... Drink some more Hater-ade why-don't-cha!

Hopefully our international cries for a Giants win will be heard by the football gods, and answered.

They are pretty outmatched, man, but it should be a good game. All Patriot Super Bowl wins have been great games decided by 3 points each. This will probably be no different.

And Viper, don't be so hard on APF and his Jets; I mean, they did have one of their best years in recent history....

LMAO. True, true. 4-12 is great for them. But ManGenius still has a very LONG way to live up to THAT nickname. Why they call him that I do not know.

Who thinks Favre will retire this year? It's impossible to tell these days. He never actually does it, but you KNOW he wants to.

At 1/20/08 10:51 PM, AnalPenguinFarming wrote: I hate both teams equally. But as a NY Jets fan I'd like to see the Patriots lose, because they're a bunch of cheats.

Oh, puh-leeease! Cheats... HA! You htink the Jets had a chance week 1 when they "caught" the Pats doing every team does? Nope. 16-0 in the regular season was happening regardless of what happened in week 1, man. The Jets are... excuse me... WERE terrible this year.

But today was an absolutely superb day for b/ping for me. According to the NG log I hit 67 b/ps. But that's only because I was shooting for my new badge today...and I got it...SERGEANT NOW BABY!!!!

So exciting!!!

Cool. Good to see you are ranking up a bit over here.

At 1/20/08 10:24 PM, TheThing wrote: Sorry guys, I've been neglecting the portal today. I was playing God of War 2, then I had to watch the Giants game.

But I don't care what you think of me; the fucking Giants are going to the fucking Super Bowl!!!!!!1

Yep, they made it. Green Bay played like ass.

Now they get to face the Pats so they can lose to them the second time this season. Which is great since 1.) I live in New England and am a huge Pats fan; and 2.) I want to witness history and the undefeated 19-0 season.

As for B/P, I've gotten very little done today.

At 1/20/08 02:48 PM, RSQViper wrote: I'm going to vote on #2 (my idea) but like I said before like the missions idea deslona has and I also want to use them.

So, #2 with a spice of #1. haha

Well, crap. EDIT: I like the MISSIONS idea (#3) added to the idea #2.

So, #2 with a spice of #3.

Yeah, that's it this time.

I'm going to vote on #2 (my idea) but like I said before like the missions idea deslona has and I also want to use them.

So, #2 with a spice of #1. haha

At 1/19/08 08:13 PM, AnalPenguinFarming wrote: I'm seeing Cloverfield tonight first though,

I've heard two things about that movie. It's great and it sucked horrible.

I guess you never get much of the monster in it and the camera is shaking like crazy the entire time.

Where the hell are you Viper? You always post at least once a day here!!! Don't tell me you're tired of us!! Don't tell me you're tired of Newgrounds!!! ::sob::

I hate it here! I hate you! I hate myself!

Ah, I've been around... not much. Been busy today and yesterday.

I DID order a new cell phone today. Got the Voyager from Verizon. I already had Verizon and since it's been 2 years since I got a phone I got a lot off, plus an online and corporate discount so that's sweet.

At 1/18/08 06:22 PM, GOTHCLAWZ wrote: Hey, does it make any difference where I stand now I'm PC GOTHCLAWZ?
I was wondering, do you think my track "My Ideo of Hell" would make a good mix with any of Evil-Dog's subs? I try'd making a collab with him but he said that he was way too busy, his songs also lack bass.

Dude, I honestly can't tell what you're talking about 7-% of the time.

So I'll just put out a random answer.

No.

At 1/18/08 03:17 PM, NEVR wrote: Sorry for the double post (despite them being 5 hours apart!)

I just got my promotion to Lieutenant!

Awesome.

Congrats, man! Hopefully I'll achieve the same some day.

And I was glad to see Rage's got unlocked. Locking it is stupid. That thread does FAR more good than bad.

At 1/18/08 03:20 PM, NintendoMadness wrote:

At 1/18/08 02:46 AM, RSQViper wrote: So you will see a lot less posting form me during the week. No more NG on breaks anymore. *sniff*

That fucking sucks! Do you know if it's blocked on the server or on the computers? Becasue if it's been done by the comps you could take a laptop in.

It's on the servers, but I'm going to try the link on deslona's profile next week.

But for now, the weekend is here and so is freedom!

At 1/18/08 10:00 AM, Odyssic wrote: You will have to download., someone please tell a site that you can upload it and watch it on the site.

Putfile.com is a great place to host Flash SWF files. You can upload large sizes and you can have your own account and access them. You can also make them public or private.

At 1/18/08 01:00 AM, deslona wrote: These are the thoughts I have had on XR:

I urge all members to read this post!

Ok, I read the whole thing and it does look like a cool idea, but that is a lot of random things to keep track of. It not being as easy as looking at a profile will be difficult on department heads and the list keepers not to mention each individual member now having to keep track of their own stats to make sure they are having everything they report being counted.

Telling Dept Heads about things will help, but it would still be somewhat confusing. If the club grows (which I hope it will) then there will be an absolute TON of information to keep track of not only between updates, but always.

I think it's a noble idea, but putting it into action would probably be difficult, tedious and confusing.
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APF, as for my XR system I will edit it up and PM you tomorrow sometime, most likely.
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Oh, and get this shit. My work now blocks Newgrounds forum posts. I can get into the forums, but not the threads themselves. Some genius blocked the threads as "games."

Fuck.

So you will see a lot less posting form me during the week. No more NG on breaks anymore. *sniff*

At 1/16/08 10:07 PM, TheThing wrote: Meh, my computer can't handle it well enough to be worth my very valuable time.

lol!

You should take some of that valuable time you have and make some money to get a new computer.

And that game Sonny is great. one of the few games I actually like enough to play for more than 5 minutes.

I played it for like... a whole 15 minutes.

At 1/17/08 12:17 AM, aldlv wrote:

At 1/16/08 01:22 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: Your turn: What are your goals for 2008

get good score at the University..
and...
maybe... try to go out with the new I like... XD

new what you like?

new GIRL you like!

AWWWWW!!!!!!!!!

At 1/16/08 03:37 PM, Odyssic wrote: Hey people, I've been ill since monday thats why I haven't been posting at all. Also I missed a few days of getting experience.

Oh, no!! NOOO!!!!!

My level buddy has been taken down!!!

Ack!

At 1/16/08 05:48 PM, AnalPenguinFarming wrote: Vote on the new bill that I'm trying to pass for department heads having more power please, and thank you. I'd like to make it official by tonight but people haven't really voted on it yet. Thanks a lot.

I already voted yes. So... yes. Again.

Ugh, so glad that blue went away. It's nice for a little while, but it was up for way too long.

I don't have much for goals this year, really. I guess just don't die. That's a good goal I wish to achieve.

At 1/13/08 02:20 PM, Auz wrote: Update #121

Thanks for the update, man!

88) 0717 +017 RSQViper (+6)

Cool, cool.

Most ranked up: RSQViper

Sweet!

Most ranked down: SwitchBladeClock

Not sweet... =(

New: -

Nobody, huh?

Top 10 this week:
01) +281 | Cyberdevil

Holy crap.

02) +026 | Bahamut
03) +026 | wegra2007
04) +017 | RSQViper

Actually was more, but some dude I reviewed 2 of his movie deleted them the next day (he had replied, too, that sucks).

05) +014 | Darkside7000
06) +009 | Coop83
07) +007 | milinko959
08) +007 | Hydecka
09) +006 | BMX007
10) +006 | Aci6

Congrats to all.

At 1/14/08 08:01 AM, Bahamut wrote: Congrats on most ranked up.

Thanks. =)

Just making a series doesn't get you a series tab. It has to be a recognized series by a lot of people, do well in the portal and generally score very well.

I just checked out your series (which is 5, not 7 movies plus a game). I see you put work into it, but the graphics are really bad and the average score is under 3.00. I don't see that being made into a series without getting way better graphics at the very least.

Use this series to practice and get better. Once you're at a point where people are recognizing you, start another series.

My goal for '08 NG-wise is to finish at least 4 quality Flash. Sure would be nice...

...but I keep thinking up new ideas and not finishing things. Damn it!

At 1/15/08 05:40 PM, AnalPenguinFarming wrote: We just simply have contests. If you look back to the old NGDD pages there were things like "missions" for opportunities to rank up through the club. life gave me an example of this a long time ago so I'm going to use his. A higher ranking member posts up a Mission like "By Wednesday everyone has to get 10 bps and 10 Reviews, mission worth 5 XR." Everyone who does the mission gains XR. Some missions will have XR penalties for not doing it, but most won't.

Well, if this were to go into place there would have to be missions in every aspect of the NGDD. Like Flash missions, Audio, etc or it wouldn't be fair to those in other departments.

I like the missions idea, but not only using mission/rewards. It could be a cool thing to have as another thing we do here.

In regards to current members, we'll all be given a set amount of XR so that everyone isn't starting all over again as equals with 0 points. Department Heads will obviously get a decent amount, as will admins, but members of departments will gain a medium amount, and members on probation or just coming out will obviously get a smaller amount.

This would be pretty tough to do and be fair at the same time. Very tough.

Yea, this may have flaws, but I'm throwing down my idea. It's simple and we don't have to worry about anything too ridiculous, and it's an easier job on the listkeeper than calculating XR for every single member every week.

Not sure how easy doing that would be for a list keeper if they have to keep up with multiple missions.

This way we aren't just a club that goes out on our seperate ways all the time to get stats, but instead a close knit group just looking to have fun in a competitive manner.

It's a cool idea, but again, I don't think it should be all we do.

Again I apologize if this idea or variations of it were made, please don't yell at me, but I just wanted to get this idea out there just in case it hadn't been brought up yet.

I AM GOING TO YELL AT YOU!!!! ;-)

At 1/15/08 04:17 PM, Lebastic wrote:

At 1/15/08 02:38 PM, RSQViper wrote: No I don't. I already get exactly what you're saying. I also understand completely how the system currently works. You would be mistaken to take me, of all people, as a simpleton. And what I am saying is it's not the right way to do things.

Oh I know YOU are not a simpleton, I don't doubt your skills of observation at all, I was merely marking upon the fact that our current rank is much more qualitative and takes into consideration the fact that when you reach a certain level there's no such thing as knowing more or less, in this case acheiving nine ranks.

Right, but then you must choose a direction to go. With a different system you can just focus on what you like to do and still benefit and accelerate ranks without being held to an "and you need to do this" situation.

So basically one does what he pleases to get XR points, in this logic two people from the portal department can acheive the same rank one by doing his portal duty and the other by just posting around and a lucky deity whistle.

Well, no because posts wouldn't count inside the portal department because of the two tier system. Basically two types of XR. Overall XR to achieve the NGDD rank (things like Grande, Beginner, etc) and the departmental XR which is only things that apply to your department.

So, using that a Portal person would rank up in the portal department ONLY by doing portal things. So, say they made Warrant Officer I. And another person in Portal is a Staff Sergeant. In the department the Warrant Officer I would outrank the Staff Sergeant.

But, here's the kinda' cool part about the multi tier system. If the Staff Sergeant also makes Flash and has a lot of posts, they may have the rank of "Expert" and the Warrant Officer I may have the rank of "Amateur."

They would be an Expert Staff Sergeant and an Amateur Warrant Officer. (I used Expert and Amateur as pure demo reasons as these ranks have not been established yet)

Actually there was a choice. There was a choice to keep it. It was voted unanimously to remove it.

Let me rephrase that, was there another reforming choice? Of course let me add that I am not doubting someone's skill in coming up with ideas, nor accusing of dictatorship, only marking the fact that since everyone else is in favor of the reform and that was the only reformist choice, there was no other choice...

There was no other choice. I actually personally pushes for people to come up with other choices and I even tried a few others that I didn't like so never posted. I wanted more ideas put into the thread and not to only have my own to choose from.

You see? That's where our effort should be focused, how to improve the DD, but we need to improve what needs improving and I just made some research and found out that that "uselss" payroll system atleast was at some point exchangeable for newgrounds store credits, or something like that, I think something like that is worth keeping...

It is for exchanging NG Store Credit, but it was almost nothing and there was this odd symbol (§) that stood for a small sum of money (I want to say 0.05 US cents to 1 §, but I think it was even less.) Because no one really understood it and it was so little it basically just became a stat no one understood.

It was never perfect and I think that became obvious when it was brought up that change needed to happen and everyone agreed.

I repeat myself , how has it suddenly become flawed you told me it did,I ask how? why?

Ok, I am going to go thru the flaws of the system in-place. This is going to get long, so I apologize.

The BBS system is alright except the highest rank requires you have made another club which I find an odd requirement.

The Flash Department's requirements are off. It requires 10 Flash submissions and a BA of A+. Let me be the 1st to tell you this is not hard at all. Reason it's not hard is because your BA is only off of your highest scoring 3 Flash and an A+ is only a 3.50 or higher average. This is a piece of cake. It also requires a portal award and Daily 5th isn't the hardest thing to achieve especially if you jump into a collab.

So, with Flash once you achieve that, you're stuck. You have capped out and quick.

Audio Department is purely based on amount of submissions and Audio reviews. Personally, I don't know why Audio Reviews is here, but I also don't think an amount of submissions should be the basis of ranks when it comes to something where quality is the importance (Like Flash and Audio).

Portal Department has the most problems. The way it is built is in a cookie-cutter fashion where you have to fit into a pre-created criteria in order to achieve rank. If you don't care to whistle, you will be stuck at 3 ranks forever. Well, until you get level 28 (which jumps you from level 3 to level 6) which is also an odd requirement. Same goes for if someone only likes just doing 1 thing, like B/P.

For that example I give you Phantom who in this system would only have 7 ranks since he has only 405 Flash reviews and a gold whistle. It takes his 60,000 B/P and reduces them to the 15,000 B/P requirement of the 7th rank. I personally don't see how that's right. Luckily for him he's the leader of that dept, but someone else not in that position is getting screwed. Because he's focused on one thing he loved, B/P, he couldn't climb higher without going for Deity.

So, this is where that whole XR idea came from. I wanted to make a system that rewarded people for doing what they really liked doing as well as rewards for contests and time in.

I'm not saying that XR system is perfect, but I do feel it's the most fair and I think it would be a lot of fun to use.

I wish I could go into more detail, but I'm at work and time has become short. Back to the grind for me... =(

The system that is in place now has been there for quite some time and looking at the roster I can tell you this: We aren't growing.

Are we diminishing in numbers?

Well, we are increasing in inactive numbers and not really gaining anyone new, so I'd say yes we are diminishing.

Also, APF, I like the new idea of the Department Heads thing. I'd type more, but my lunch break is over. =)