At 4/25/08 06:13 PM, Doublelinked wrote:
The same thing basically happened to me except I was silver and went to bronze and I've been on but hadn't flagged many reviews lately unless they were so obvious that there was no question about it.
(i.e. ones that say things like **** you and complete incoherent spam)
But when I saw my whistle level go down I thought well maybe I made a mistake or something even though I didn't really flag any borderline and I had been silver for I think 3-4 months and after I got silver I flagged enough abusive reviews that it wouldn't go down without me flagging at least 10 non abusive. But I just kind of shrugged it off and then I read it was happening to others.
Thanks for sharing your testimony. It's still hard me to say if how many abusive reviews were incorrectly marked, but it would seem you and Aci6 knew the difference. ;-)
Now, if I was playing devil's advocate at the moment; I would have asked in light of all of these testimonies.. "How do I know if you weren't lying?". I standby that you guys are giving the truth though its also possible some members just flag incorrectly. Only the numbers behind the system could give any hard evidence.
As for PM'ing an admin I don't like bugging people.
Seeing as this may still be a tangible problem, the admins have the right to know. It would significant help if you submitted your testimony to the admins. ;-)
At 4/25/08 09:55 PM, TheGreatPatten wrote:
Uh just a question...
Isn't a review only abuses if it is threatening?
So if a reviewer says "That fuckin sux!" That would make it a bad review, but not abusive.Some of you guys have the wrong idea of abusive reviews, which is why some get garbage whistles.
There's various types of reviews that would be considered abuses, aside from threatening say.. (promotional, SPAM-a-lot, blam this! etc) and I'd have to agree with your comment that that type of review would be useless, but can become abusive if he's leaving these types of reviews, consistently.
http://bob.newgrounds.com/news/post/1029 98
Bob actually is addressing his own type of guideline in that:
In the case of group spam movies (KK for example), if you flag a review that rightly points them out as spammers (i.e. "Get this shit off here", "Stop submitting these!") then you'll be penalized while if it remains to be highly abusive, than the review will be deleted.
For anyone thats interested, I highly recommend checking out Kidray76's Guide to Abusive Reviews as well as some interesting tidbits on the flagging point system at NG FAQ- re-design
At 4/25/08 10:27 PM, TyPah wrote:
Please continue updating this because most of 'em don't exist anymore! At the bottom ofthis review page, there is an abusive review.
Those reviews have been long been deleted. I suggest you stick with all the latest findings and use your judgement when differing between what is useless, and what is abusive. :-)