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[glover85]

what is the more common review that is abusive?

[NEVR]

At 12/3/07 11:05 AM, glover85 wrote: what is the more common review that is abusive?

What on earth are you talking about?

[glover85]

At 12/3/07 11:12 AM, NEVR wrote:

At 12/3/07 11:05 AM, glover85 wrote: what is the more common review that is abusive?

What on earth are you talking about?

i ment an example of some reviews that were abusive

[citricsquid]

http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/7426 4

[NEVR]

Go to this thread and take a look at the stuff they are posting.

An abusive review is generally one that gives a low score with no reason for that low score, no constructive criticism, or just generally insults the author. Ultimately, if a review is in violation of the review guidelines, it is considered abusive.

Review Guidelines:

- Stay on the topic of the submission and do not make personal remarks or insults towards the author. This is a big offense. Telling artists "You suck!", "You should go kill yourself!", "You are gay!" etc., will get you banned and you may lose your account. Without our contributors Newgrounds wouldn't be what it is, so we take seriously any insults directed at them by reviewers.

- Do not post TONS and TONS of crappy reviews just to get high in the rankings. If we catch someone doing this we will delete all their reviews - wouldn't that be a pain in the ass? Take your time and write a sincere review for every movie you wish to critique. Make sure your review is relative to the submission. Reviews that are found to offer no benefit to the author may be deleted.

- Do not use the review space for the purpose of promoting things. Stick to reviewing the movies - we don't want to hear about how great your website is. Also, posting links to websites that reward you for sending hits is prohibited; we will delete your account for the first offense with no warning. Posting unrelated links is also prohibited and will result in a ban.

- Do not flood the review title or body. Examples would be long strings of characters or words with no breaks or repeating words or phrases over and over. Do not submit images made from text and characters, as this will also get you banned.

- Do not use reviews to express your feelings that the entry should be BLAMMED. If you post "BLAM this" or something similar you will be banned. Use the review option to tell the author how they can improve their work.

- Do not use the review field to address other user's reviews you didn't agree with. You are to be reviewing the submission, not other people's reviews.

- If you believe an entry is stolen, do not comment about it in your review. If you are wrong, you may convince other users that the entry is stolen and you may cause a legitimate entry to receive an unfairly low score, or have the whistle blown on it. Use the whistle option, if available, to flag the entry as stolen when you believe that is the case. If there is no whistle option available (the entry is no longer under judgement) contact Wade with as many details as you can about the stolen Flash and where you think it was stolen from.

- If you think a submission doesn't belong on the front page of the site or shouldn't be featured in special sections of the site, keep it to yourself. The submissions on the front page and in special sections of the site are put there by our staff, not by the author. Keep your focus on how the person who submitted might improve their work.

[glover85]

At 12/3/07 11:33 AM, jokerscard wrote: Blam this is one example.
You suck is another.
Fuck you fag burn in hell is another.

what about a long one that is just saying how bad everything in it is?

[neon-dude]

On a related topic, how many times do you have to succesfully blow the whistle before getting a bronze one?

[LittleWashu]

At 12/3/07 12:09 PM, glover85 wrote:

At 12/3/07 11:33 AM, jokerscard wrote: Blam this is one example.
You suck is another.
Fuck you fag burn in hell is another.

what about a long one that is just saying how bad everything in it is?

It depends on what it says. If the review has some info on how to improve the flash without it violating any of the review then yes it may stay (I say this because sometimes legit reviews do get deleted by mistake by the mods) But if it breaks even one rule it is gone.

[kidray76]

In my opinion, the most common that I see are just unhelpful reviews.

Assuming that a user can give the standard review for a submission, I generally sees those more due to forgetfullness or lack of finer detail.

It's more subjective than anything. Varies from person to person which they see more.

[Cheekyvincent]

At 12/3/07 01:44 PM, kidray76 wrote: In my opinion, the most common that I see are just unhelpful reviews.

true, but, they can be very borderline and extremely risky. I find that stuff that offends the author/submission is the most common. And about your question if its long. If it offends the author "eg fuck you" and caries on like that, then yes. If it isn't, and goes "i didn't like this bit BECAUSE" it is not

[kidray76]

At 12/3/07 02:03 PM, Cheekyvincent wrote:

At 12/3/07 01:44 PM, kidray76 wrote: In my opinion, the most common that I see are just unhelpful reviews.

true, but, they can be very borderline and extremely risky.

I find that stuff that offends the author/submission is the most common.

Well, those are the most obvious. So I can see what you would say that.

And about your question if its long. If it offends the author "eg fuck you" and caries on like that, then yes. If it isn't, and goes "i didn't like this bit BECAUSE" it is not

Read the review. Even if the sentence carries on like that, still might be abusive. No real clear black and white when it comes to this. case by case basis.

[glover85]

At 12/3/07 11:05 AM, glover85 wrote: what is the more common review that is abusive?

if the author curses at the reviewer does that make the review abusive?

[BlueHippo]

At 12/4/07 10:35 AM, glover85 wrote: if the author curses at the reviewer does that make the review abusive?

Well he can curse, what if he were like "Man this was the greatest fucking flash I've ever seen!" But I don't think that's what you meant. If he is insulting the author, and cursing AT him, and insulting him... then yeah. If he's talking about the author, instead of the flash movie, that's not really a review. But just because he used a curse doesn't make it automatically abusive, but it is often a good way to look for abuse :)

[NEVR]

Yes. Read that earlier post of mine with all the review guidelines in, and you won't need to ask any more questions about it.

At 12/3/07 11:21 AM, NEVR wrote: - Stay on the topic of the submission and do not make personal remarks or insults towards the author. This is a big offense. Telling artists "You suck!", "You should go kill yourself!", "You are gay!" etc., will get you banned and you may lose your account. Without our contributors Newgrounds wouldn't be what it is, so we take seriously any insults directed at them by reviewers.