Alright this is gonna be long, and its just gonna concern the audio portal:
#1: Ive noticed a lot of people commenting on an audio playeron your user page - thats rather self centered imo. we have a perfectly good audio player based on new submissions, popular artists, and oldie goldies rotting away at the top of the page in the ng mag, and it's broken - I say you revamp its look so it matches the rest of newgrounds - and stick it in the bottom aroea that says "some account type thingie here" - that way everyone can always listen to music from the audio portal when they want to listen to it the most: when they are in the forums.
#2: Let me delete my old songs damnit - and don't give me the excuse that if its been used in a flash it can't be deleted - the removal of all of dreamscaper's songs, as well as kingbastard's songs in the past has proven that deletion of music used in flashes IS possible, just not by us.
#3: have picture icons for all the mods - not just the ones employed by newgrounds. And maybe even for users who have shown great prominance over the years. I am sure stamper and Johnny Utah are prolly bored of not making anything new like that these days :P
4: fix the damn bug where if you write a really long review/response and then press submit it takes the last paragraph and sticks it way at the top of the page - its annoying, and weird, and I still get it, no matter what computer/browser I use.
5: Not to brag, but I've got pages and pages of fans who like my music, just cuz well, ive been here forever and I got a shitload of songs haha. I had the great idea that in order to get attention I was going to pm every single one of them telling them I had a new song - it took me about a week! Why can't we fwd things to all the people in our faves list? I can understand not being able to get a notification thats auto generated from your favourite authors- but we should be able to mass-email our OWN messages to our fans!
6: there are days when I realyl can't check my reviewsdaily - or even every couple of days - and I have a lot of songs to check! About 280 after deleting a shitload when the redesign came out.. after a couple of days a lot of them just say "0 reviews" when they still have reviews. It gets frustrating - it takes me about 3 hours to check every single song and see if it has new reviews and respond to them.
7: bring back the "blow my whistle baby" flag button! There is a lot of stolen content in the audio portal, and it really needs to be flagged!
8: implement the damn chat room that you've been promising since the redesign! I talked to psychogoldfish quite a while ago and he said hes been done it for quite a while, and he's just waiting for someone to implement it - whats the hold up?
9: make more audio mods - and make one for EACH genre - each person appropriately matched to their genre - and THEN - take the new users list, which is always long, and which they always complain just doesnt go down fast enough, and split it up by genre, and assign each to their respective genre audio mod. Not only will this clear up a HUGE list, but it will make sure the right mod governs the right area, and that they are listening to new users submitting to a genre they know best, and not just "assuming" that the song is passable. This would also crack down on the stolen submissions that leak through - a person in Trance would be more likely to know if someone is submitting a rob mayth, ben sage or teisto ripoff than someone in say, heavy metal.
10: every year, allow the users to vote for a new mod, and remove a mod that isn't doing their job. I am sick of seeing mods that don't, DO anything! I mean I was glad to see some dead weight cleared out this year, a few users were stripped of their gold icons, but I think it should happen every year. Someone shouldnt be allowed to become a mod and then just slack off or LEAVE THE SITE for 2 or 3 years as has happened in the past. If you are a mod, you have a job! Sure its voluntary, but if you don't want the responsibility, pm an admin and have your modhood removed! It's entirely possible, Rucklo did it as an example.
11: don't give audio mods the ability to remove other user's songs - thast is giving waaaay too much power into the wrong hands - power that should only be in the hands of hte users themselves, or admins. Instead, as said above, make it so that the user can delete ANY of their songs, and have the audio mods pm them telling them to remove said song, if that fails, give the audio mods the power to report the account to an admin, and in which case that admin would either delete the song (you never know, maybe the guy is on vacation or something) all their songs (if known persistance is encountered or if they refuse), or delete their account (for people who just plain don't follow the rules). Personally I think this is the safest way. If (heaven forbid) someone managed to lay their hands on an audio mods account, they could otherwise go on a deleting spree and that would NOT be pretty. Of course, if someone laid a hand on a regular user's account they could do the same, but only to that specified user, thus damage is less.
I do however think that if an audio mod encounters someone submitting stolen content - they should have the ability to freeze said users account - meaning they cannot upload any more songs until their punishment is dealt to them. This would prevent rampant abuse of the system.
thats all I can think of for now..
