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At 5/5/08 09:54 PM, HotActionYiffFur wrote: Hahahaha, Portal Watch.

God this is priceless.

Not really... there's not much we can do until the Administrators start working on a Portal Moderation team to fight the spam : /


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Wade, I remember you posting about this before, and it still makes as little scene as it did last time. Define "stealing an award" because crew activity in itself has nothing to do with it. So what does count as something that would help in stealing an award? It would not hurt to name things that you are banning, would it?


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Also, I'm glad to see you're finally taking action, Wade! :)

That was meant to be in my last post, but the server lagged out and somehow when I meant to post my actual post, it said "Error you're posting to quickly". I checked page two to see if I actually posted something and there was this post already made.

What the hell? NG servers are crying :(


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At 5/5/08 10:10 PM, FBIpolux wrote:
At 5/5/08 09:54 PM, HotActionYiffFur wrote: Hahahaha, Portal Watch.

God this is priceless.
Not really... there's not much we can do until the Administrators start working on a Portal Moderation team to fight the spam : /

So let's make a thread asking people to join something called the Portal Watch, in hopes people can suck up to Wade enough to be able to alert admins of problems.

You can't honestly say that's a good idea. You know as well as I do what this site is capable of doing to itself when the almighty Wade Fulp asks for help.

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Hooray! About time, its really sad they have nothing better to do than spam the portal and steal awards from actual artists.

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At 5/5/08 09:57 PM, H-h-h-heliopios wrote: It was the accidental double review by my Original Heliopios and Notafuckingnoob.

Considering a bunch of people were leaving multiple reviews, why would I think your actions were a mistake? Also I thought you had a track record of causing problems. Maybe if you weren't using alts you wouldn't have made a "mistake" like that. If you play with fire you get burned baby! :)

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At 5/5/08 10:13 PM, HotActionYiffFur wrote: You can't honestly say that's a good idea. You know as well as I do what this site is capable of doing to itself when the almighty Wade Fulp asks for help.

What you are about to hear is real, it has not been edited or enhanced

I openly support the SS and all the times they've won RCP by cheating the system, it brings a tear to my eye when a stick figure fight that has COOL GRAPHICS doesn't win

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Personally, I think TOTW and UOTW should just be eliminated entirely. Surely there would be at least a 90% reduction in spam.

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The award stealers know who they are and how they steal awards. We also have plenty of users that understand how they do this and can spot them doing this, or are in the groups that carry out the stealing. I know there are enough users out there that will alert me when these abuses take place.

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At 5/5/08 10:14 PM, Joshiwa wrote: Hooray! About time, its really sad they have nothing better to do than spam the portal and steal awards from actual artists.

The thing is, arushi is actually one hell of an artist. He could definitely do much better than mass reviewing and spamming, and maybe someday he will. He likes all that weird stuff, so he could end up the next Zekey if he's not IP banned first. Zeeb could probably do a lot better than he does too, but he's too Anonymous-ish, too /i/nsurgent to do anything but break rules.


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At 5/5/08 10:16 PM, WadeFulp wrote: Considering a bunch of people were leaving multiple reviews, why would I think your actions were a mistake? Also I thought you had a track record of causing problems. Maybe if you weren't using alts you wouldn't have made a "mistake" like that. If you play with fire you get burned baby! :)

Hey, I use my alts "responsibly". What I don't understand though is why only he was chosen.

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I don't think I made the portal watch. I wasn't contacted.


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erm, what?

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At 5/5/08 10:13 PM, HotActionYiffFur wrote: So let's make a thread asking people to join something called the Portal Watch, in hopes people can suck up to Wade enough to be able to alert admins of problems.
You can't honestly say that's a good idea. You know as well as I do what this site is capable of doing to itself when the almighty Wade Fulp asks for help.

I can't say it's the best idea ever, but you have to agree there IS a problem, and not much has been done about this problem lately. The last threads Wade posted about the Spam in the Flash Portal and other abuses actually changed something. If you haven't noticed, most of the spam is getting blammed. The "Blamming" clubs, Paltalk and many things helped that... but I believe Wade managed to change people's minds over "free protection points" and "spam.

I'm not saying contacting Wade on AIM to tell report the problems in the Portal is the best solution, but while we can't have a Flash Portal Moderation team, it's probably the best solution. Randomly reporting stuff to Wade on Paltalk just doesn't work well enough.


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At 5/5/08 10:21 PM, EtchASketchClock wrote: erm, what?

Yeah, you guys aren't going to get to steal RCP anymore, at least not without major penalties... Sorry about that.


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At 5/5/08 10:19 PM, WadeFulp wrote: The award stealers know who they are and how they steal awards. We also have plenty of users that understand how they do this and can spot them doing this, or are in the groups that carry out the stealing. I know there are enough users out there that will alert me when these abuses take place.

I know every time they do it, i've only been a fan of the SS since 04, truly the most wonderfully diverse group of artists in the history of Newgrounds.

And hey, even Zekey is part of your little group for the Tank Award, so you guys probably agree that the sum of them are hardly bad people.

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At 5/5/08 10:22 PM, SoulMaster71 wrote: Yeah, you guys aren't going to get to steal RCP anymore, at least not without major penalties... Sorry about that.

I'm thinking that this is just an attack on clocks.
Portal Watch
Can't have a watch without a clock.

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i like how pretty much every single totw award has been 'hENTAI FUCK YOU' since late 2004

before then you never saw people trying to go for turd


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Try Medals

Stealing Awards

NOW IS WHEN YOU RAM HAPPY WITH LIFE SAUCE.

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Stealing awards is lame guys. if you don't have the ability to do it on your own, then actually put effort into your flash!! Fuck, the amount of effort it takes to make new accounts, proxy, get friends to do the same...pales in comparison of the time better spent with Flash open and actually working on something. My god. if you idiots spent just half the effort you spend trying to fuck with the portal you'd all be great flash artists and you wouldn't have to worry about the fact that you suck and need to steal awards to feel "cool", because you would be cool.

and if you see something fishy going down, it never hurts to shoot out a few emails/IMs/PMs to mods/friends etc. so that wade can find out quicker.

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I got an idea.

Stop giving out awards.

This account is inactive. If you're reading this then go fuck yourself.

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At 5/5/08 10:27 PM, HotActionYiffFur wrote: I got an idea.

Stop giving out awards.

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The problem with Paltalk is there is a lot of garbage in there and I don't monitor it that closely. So if someone says "Hey Wade! Portal spam here!" I probably won't see it. However, an IM on AIM won't be missed and I keep a close eye on it.

I invite people to Paltalk that have an interest in helping to combat the abuse on NG. If we get more people in the Paltalk room that want to talk about abuse, point it out, etc, I may be more active in the room. We could even have a voice conference, like a Q&A, where we talk about the problems and discuss ways to deal with them.

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At 5/5/08 10:25 PM, cr0mx wrote: i like how pretty much every single totw award has been 'hENTAI FUCK YOU' since late 2004

before then you never saw people trying to go for turd

Yea, it did start to turn into a fight over it. I saw that way too often when I first joined the KK. Fighting the SS, xh4ck and some others over a picture of a turd... Some of them were funny in their own way, but if you are going to fight for it with a one frame boring flash, there is no point in it. These were the good days of turd, at lest when it started to become competitive.


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At 5/5/08 10:25 PM, EtchASketchClock wrote: I'm thinking that this is just an attack on clocks.
Portal Watch
Can't have a watch without a clock.

I rest my case.

I'm pretty sure it's not that. Admittedly it may have been the extreme to which ph33r w33k was taken, mass-reviewing PepsiClock's movie for Review Crew Pick, which possibly prompted Wade to start this sort of thing, but CarrotClock wouldn't let Wade make official anti-Clock policies on NG. It's Wade making these policies, not a reborn ki1o.


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At 5/5/08 10:27 PM, HotActionYiffFur wrote: I got an idea.

Stop giving out ANY awards.

I like this idea better.
Nobody needs money or little golden tank trophies to shove in their asses.

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At 5/5/08 10:30 PM, EtchASketchClock wrote:
At 5/5/08 10:27 PM, HotActionYiffFur wrote: I got an idea.

Stop giving out ANY awards.
I like this idea better.
Nobody needs money or little golden tank trophies to shove in their asses.

And flash artists will actually concentrate on making art instead of appealing to the masses for OMFG DAILY 3RD

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Someone get Wade a tampon.


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At 5/5/08 10:22 PM, SoulMaster71 wrote:
At 5/5/08 10:21 PM, EtchASketchClock wrote: erm, what?
Yeah, you guys aren't going to get to steal RCP anymore, at least not without major penalties... Sorry about that.

oh shit


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