Ladies and Gentlemen, Mods and Trolls. Let me have your attention for just a moment!
We here on Newgrounds have a responsibility to keep the place clean and tidy. This goes for everything that comes into this place and everything that goes out. You're as much a part of the community as the next person, so why not do your bit? I'm not asking the earth, just that you give us as much time as you feel is necessary.
The Flash Portal is in a state of disrepair and it will take a mammoth effort from all of us to help right the old girl and keep P-Bot happy. You know the drill, every flash that comes in from outside gets vetted by us, the community and we watch the movies and play the games, before giving a vote of 0-5, based on how good or bad it was.
That's the crux - I want people to join in with watching these movies and realising that a lot of them are actually crap that gets by with the reputation of the author that is on the left of screen, by a submission. THAT DOESN'T MATTER! A flash author's reputation should count for nothing, as should the crew, collective, or other bunch of wankers that he spams with. View each and every piece that comes in and afford it a vote that the piece deserves.
If we all make a little change to watch these pieces, before voting fairly, the balance can be restored. Everyone in this place seems to look at most submissions that come through and automatically vote them 2-5. Can it be said that they don't watch them? I'm sure that not everyone does, since otherwise, we wouldn't get pieces of absolute crap getting through the portal
Is a perfect example, as it is either broken (just being a black screen), or it was put there to prove a point and miraculously, it got through judgement, since people read the blurb and voted blindly. You can see how frustrating it is, can't you?
Yes, I am a stat whore. I vote on the portal on a daily basis and I watch these pieces and play the games, before rendering my votes. A lot of my votes go begging, as I vote a lot of 0 every day and still come away relatively empty handed. With more people to the cause, casually throwing away their zeroes, we will start to see more and more of these marginal flash disappear off our screens, being replaced with better pieces, as the authors get the message and make better submissions.
Zero Bombing
I am going to propose to Tom a radical change to the voting system, since I am aware that there is another plague that bothers us all - zero bombers on submissions. Particularly in the Audio and Art Portals, we have people that come along and daily vote 0 on various submissions for shits and giggles. It's a shame, since they probably don't listen to the submissions, merely do it out of spite.
It is here that I come to my proposal - every user be allowed to vote on each submission only once. You must be logged in to vote on Newgrounds submissions - this will encourage more people to register with Newgrounds and will put a stop to the abusive practices on the portal involving proxies and such like to mass vote spam through our fair portal. There is a time and a place to vote zero on submissions and I have identified these earlier in the text.
TL;DR - Fix your voting habits - watch the piece, rate it how you think it should be, not how you think it will be
