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Response to Review Ban Woes Are History! 2006-10-06 12:22:57 Reply

Congradulations you threw your dick into yet another part of the site.


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Response to Review Ban Woes Are History! 2006-10-06 12:23:43 Reply

nice wade, atleast people might be a bit more careful when writing reviews


Awesome post great job!

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Response to Review Ban Woes Are History! 2006-10-06 12:29:33 Reply

Good news, it's always nice to see the site's system getting improved.

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Response to Review Ban Woes Are History! 2006-10-06 12:32:41 Reply

Yea, as ramagi and Wade have said, we aren't being as lenient on the review guidelines, now that we're not committing to banning people for months on end.

If you're saying stuff like "I did not like this movie" you might get banned for a couple days. Why? Because reviews are a space to not only give your personal opinion, but also to explain WHY so that the author can improve their submissions in the future. "I did not like this movie" is not helpful in the slightest. You might not get banned, but it probably isn't worth the risk.


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Response to Review Ban Woes Are History! 2006-10-06 12:36:31 Reply

At 10/6/06 12:22 PM, AndersonCouncil wrote: Abusive reviews are [ilarrious].

Fixed yout typo.

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Response to Review Ban Woes Are History! 2006-10-06 12:44:56 Reply

Oh sweet, it's about time. <3

I got review banned a long time ago and was stuck unable to review for months, I learnt my lesson pretty quickly but I suffered for months!

I'm glad the system has been fixed, hopefully now stupid and offensive reviews will drop, but reviews will perhaps increase.

The increased whistle power is also somewhat nice, I wonder how much more power I got? No way to tell, haha.

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Response to Review Ban Woes Are History! 2006-10-06 12:46:59 Reply

Nice work Ross!

It's good to see new features added to Newgrounds.

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Response to Review Ban Woes Are History! 2006-10-06 12:54:30 Reply

Nice one Wade, someone's been busy. :-)


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Response to Review Ban Woes Are History! 2006-10-06 13:32:22 Reply

At 10/6/06 11:19 AM, WilliWowza wrote: Go freedom!

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Response to Review Ban Woes Are History! 2006-10-06 14:22:42 Reply

Awesome! Soon I will be back in the reviewing! Sweet!

Much <3 to Wade.


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Response to Review Ban Woes Are History! 2006-10-06 14:26:30 Reply

At 10/6/06 11:17 AM, WadeFulp wrote: It's been a long time coming, but we have found some time and resources to work on the review mod tools! Now that we have both Ross and Liljim doing all our back end programming, they each have more time to work on more things. While they have both been very busy with the redesign, Ross was able to spend some time improving the review mod tools. Review mods can now set bans like they do on the forums, that expire automatically.

Jaesus, finally. It took forever for that to be pulled off. :\

In addition, a copy of your rule breaking review and a ban reason from the mod will be automatically sent to your PM inbox! We are trying hard to make the site more fair, and fun, for everyone involved. We hope this improvement in communication makes things easier on those getting banned. In the past they would typically email me, or others, asking why they were banned. Now they will know why they were banned and won't have to inquire about their ban.

Awesome. This is a really good idea, and i'm surprised it hadn't been implemented earlier. Thank goodness for Ross, huh? ;)

There may be a lot more bans being handed out howerver. The mods would often hold back on banning users for small offenses because they knew they maybe sentancing them to a 2-3 month ban, or longer. Now they can give a 2-3 day ban if they feel it's a small offense, but it lets the user know they did something wrong and they can hopefully learn from the mistake.

C'est la vie. I like this idea a lot tbh, it's as good (if not better) than the current way the forum banning works.


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Response to Review Ban Woes Are History! 2006-10-06 14:31:48 Reply

Nice job guys , now Newgrounds is closer to perfection!


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Response to Review Ban Woes Are History! 2006-10-06 14:36:42 Reply

Excellent! I'll definitely be review modding more, now that the system is a whole lot more functional. Thanks, Ross!


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Response to Review Ban Woes Are History! 2006-10-06 14:51:12 Reply

Nice to see that the review banning system has finally made a big improvement, despite how long it took to do it. :p


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Response to Review Ban Woes Are History! 2006-10-06 14:52:30 Reply

Wow! Freedom rocks!

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Response to Review Ban Woes Are History! 2006-10-06 14:58:43 Reply

hurry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! more freedom!!!!!!!!!!!!

well good steps wade and tom! so.. wade may i inquire as to how one becomes a review mod? i would be willing to offer my services!

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Response to Review Ban Woes Are History! 2006-10-06 15:12:15 Reply

Do you get a PM from BBS bans too?


That was a great post. Right Zach?

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Response to Review Ban Woes Are History! 2006-10-06 15:18:10 Reply

I like the new improvments, newgrounds just gets better all the time...

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Response to Review Ban Woes Are History! 2006-10-06 15:21:43 Reply

This is great! Maybe my whistle level will go up and my review ban gone. I'm happy.


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Response to Review Ban Woes Are History! 2006-10-06 15:25:02 Reply

Even though I don't review submissions very often, it's great to hear that we now have review bans that automatically expire and PM notifications of review bans explaining what happened. I'm also glad to hear that the whistle power has improved too. It's always nice to see the site removed.

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Response to Review Ban Woes Are History! 2006-10-06 15:26:53 Reply

At 10/6/06 03:25 PM, Powerage wrote: It's always nice to see the site removed.

*improved

Sorry about that.
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Response to Review Ban Woes Are History! 2006-10-06 15:42:43 Reply

Good. Maybe now we will be seeing more golden whistles.

I'm sick of the silver now.

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Response to Review Ban Woes Are History! 2006-10-06 15:44:26 Reply

Can we appeal a ban?


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Response to Review Ban Woes Are History! 2006-10-06 15:48:50 Reply

Hmm, maybe this'll motivate me to review a flash movie for the first time.


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Response to Review Ban Woes Are History! 2006-10-06 15:54:10 Reply

At 10/6/06 12:18 PM, ramagi wrote: Watch out people!!!!!

I have been holding back on a lot of small offense.

I will be enfore the rules

Make sure to read them!

Yay! Now I can bug you about people's minor offenses too!!

This will be a day long remembered.

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Response to Review Ban Woes Are History! 2006-10-06 16:33:19 Reply

At 10/6/06 02:36 PM, RageVI wrote: Excellent! I'll definitely be review modding more, now that the system is a whole lot more functional. Thanks, Ross!

Good to hear.

At 10/6/06 03:54 PM, Dekathos wrote:
At 10/6/06 12:18 PM, ramagi wrote: Watch out people!!!!!

I have been holding back on a lot of small offense.

I will be enfore the rules

Make sure to read them!
Yay! Now I can bug you about people's minor offenses too!!

This will be a day long remembered.

I know how to use the block feature >:)

I'm busy with these new toys.......I already have given out some new bans. :D

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Response to Review Ban Woes Are History! 2006-10-06 16:39:45 Reply

Can I be a review mod? :p

That's good news, though, Wade!

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Response to Review Ban Woes Are History! 2006-10-06 16:42:17 Reply

ooh sounds good. there were some obvious problems before, but looks like they are getting solved. hot damn! great work guys, this news is grand :3

...now if only i could get that gold whistle :'(


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Response to Review Ban Woes Are History! 2006-10-06 16:51:42 Reply

Ooh, I've broken the review guidelines a few times back in the day. I actually hope that they get flagged and deleted. I look back on them and say, "Oh, my God, what the hell was I thinking when I wrote that?"


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Response to Review Ban Woes Are History! 2006-10-06 18:20:24 Reply

At 10/6/06 04:39 PM, Frenzy wrote: Can I be a review mod? :p
!

I actually wouldn't object to that. In comparison to most of the garbage I get from people your age group you're a pretty good reviewer.

I do wish you'd stop labelling everything though. :'(

- Dekathos

At 10/6/06 04:51 PM, TheAmateurAnimator wrote: I actually hope that they get flagged and deleted. I look back on them and say, "Oh, my God, what the hell was I thinking when I wrote that?"

I would love to delete reviews I've left in the past too that I just don't agree with anymore and some of my old reviews are pretty gay. ha ha.