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At 7/13/11 06:33 PM, PsychoGoldfish wrote: you should totally start a new website that's not corporate in any way... figure out how to pay the bills without selling out at all... and don't ever try and grow it so that way no big sites ever take an interest in sharing your work. Problem solved!

Okay I see your point...

At 7/13/11 07:08 PM, liljim wrote: Corporate knob sucking brah

Yo man, you gotta be hatin' against the corporations, the corporations are evil brah stand up against the man.

Jesus! This whole thread is a god damn flame war! Can we just end it with peace? *points at sig*

Honestly, i think this thread is kind of pointless.

At 7/13/11 06:16 PM, Arch-Angel wrote: all I'm saying is that we should have a choice. If I were any good at flash, I wouldnt want my hard work to be carelessly slapped up on some twelve year old's Facebook page for their social benefit.

I would. They would very much appreciate my mario sprite flashes!!!

It's cool, he still has his theme tune.

Besides, has is not occurred to you that we're just fucking around (whilst trying to demonstrate some very rudimentary points) with him?

Excuse me for saying this, but i just laughed really hard at your sig since that is what we are debating about XD

I don't really mind. Since if i like things some of my friends go on the site more. Atleast its not the other way around

I LIKE THIS, FUCK THE HATERS

At 7/13/11 05:33 PM, Luis wrote: Most of the people that hate this 'like' button arent actual developers/animators cause if they were theyd see the value of it.

That's true. I'm far from front-page material, but I found one of my submissions with about 45 likes after realizing that like button was even there. 45 people shared that link on their Facebook page, and their friends all have a chance of seeing it, and perhaps liking it as well, and sharing it with their friends. Though, I assume those likes will stay stagnant around the 40-60 area for a while, though. Still, that means it is beneficial. Sadly, I still hate Facebook and Google as corporate giants, but you have to compromise in the end. And you have to use them. But, hey, let's hope they don't get too big or take over completely. Eh?

Hooray for trying to argue from one perspective!

''like'' buttons are the worst thing to happen the internet since ever

okay haha funny... but cmon guys gimie a break. seriously I'm sorry okay?

At 7/13/11 07:36 PM, PsychoGoldfish wrote: meh... I'm not the biggest fan of facebook either... but I also hate banks... but when people write me checks from those banks, I'll sure as shit cash those fuckers!

That's true. Like I said, got to compromise in the end, I know that. Just so long as something too drastic doesn't come along to Newgrounds, I'm fine. A "Like" button on submissions make sense and I see the benefit of it. The Portal is the biggest draw to Newgrounds, why not make it bigger and have more attention given to it? Especially before the redesign, when people some new people will just stumble across Newgrounds and later open it up to a completely new look.

That all makes sense to me. But yeah, as long as there is no huge sellout, like others have done. But I don't think that fear will be realized. Tom's been offered lots of money before, and denied it. Why start now?

I ramble too much.

Seriously, what do you have against Arch-Angel! Geez, what a bunch of brats - I find his idea, very helpful!

Holy crapcakes, I thought this was a joke until I checked the portal.

Nice feature, get artists more exposure.

Actually, there is one thing I don't like about the like feature on Newgrounds. On Chrome it's made it difficult to hover over the buttons to put the lights out, expand submission, etc. Not good for me when I really need most submissions expanded to make better icons.

At 7/14/11 09:53 AM, Bahamut wrote: Actually, there is one thing I don't like about the like feature on Newgrounds. On Chrome it's made it difficult to hover over the buttons to put the lights out, expand submission, etc. Not good for me when I really need most submissions expanded to make better icons.

Actually, it goes haywire depending on the flash dimensions. A submission like this wasn't liking those buttons whereas others were OK:

• 
  Tooth - Yer a Purty Sheep by PukeNoodles

  Click to view.

  Type

  Movie

  Rated

  Everyone

At 7/12/11 05:04 PM, FirstBaby wrote: Save the picture, it doesn't work for my IE...

lol, get chrome. ie is for Indian programmers

I heard that we'll have a dislike button on the redesign. But only for userpage posts in general forum.

I'm not able to use the like feature for this submission:

• 
  Professor Fucking Layton by backwardcompatible

  Click to view.

  Type

  Movie

  Rated

  Ages 13+

Whenever I click the like button, it unchecks itself, and is not posted on my Facebook wall. Additionally, if I hover over the buttons to the right, the flash area edges around. Perhaps that's what Bahamut was referring to in his above posts, something about the video's dimensions? I tried liking the submission he posted, and it worked just fine.

I'm using the latest edition of Chrome on a Macbook, if that helps.

Hi.

Exposure = good.

Like buttons = potential exposure.

Potential exposure = potentially more traffic.

More traffic = good.

Like buttons are good.