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Welcome Artists & Best of November!

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Response to Welcome Artists & Best of November! 2018-12-08 00:36:57


I just read through the updated NG History page. First of all, thank you for going through the trouble to do that. I can see why 2013 and beyond was blank for so long. I'm really happy that you never gave up on NG or on your users, even when it was looking grim. Here's to another 20 years and beyond!

Response to Welcome Artists & Best of November! 2018-12-08 02:55:59


@TomFulp speaking of supporters.. if possible it would be great to see on Newgrounds when our support renews. I'm a yearly subscriber and it's kind of a pain to find it in PayPal.


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Response to Welcome Artists & Best of November! 2018-12-08 04:02:37


At 12/7/18 04:13 PM, Cyberdevil wrote: Hey Congrats @YellowisCOOL! Cool to see a familiar name there! :D

It is always great to see a familiar name win it. I am still waiting for my turn to win.

And Congrats to the winners! So much great stuff this month, and it keeps pouring in...

Every month you will see plenty of great submissions.


Gotta keep grinding away with that EXP now. Don't think I've missed any yet... this stream of new content's really been keeping me on NG way more than usual the last few days. Feels just like the old days just not being able to keep up with all the new content that's streaming in. Good times!

The XP is just a bonus. Seeing all the new stuff is the main event.


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Response to Welcome Artists & Best of November! 2018-12-08 06:31:34


At 12/7/18 09:24 PM, Whirlguy wrote: That's a damn good Top 5 right there. I love how the first two winning movies are actual originals! The past few weeks were pretty exciting indeed, I do hope those artists are planning to stay! The twitter memes spawned by this whole tumblr debacle were a good laugh and it undoubtedly helped promote Newgrounds on the side. Oh, and I did find some underrated movies while doing my monthly voting :)

I kept meaning to get Little Messenger up on the front page, will do that now.


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Response to Welcome Artists & Best of November! 2018-12-08 06:38:03


At 12/7/18 09:58 PM, Andre-APM wrote: Not really coming from Tumblr (since I don't have any audience there), but I wanted a better place to post my artworks.

So far I'm slowly figuring out how to build my presence around here but it's been good to explore. The layout is pretty neat, forums are a very useful tool to discuss art related stuff even if you don't have much popularity. Also at the moment my art is getting even more attention than any other art community like DeviantArt/Pixiv. The system of getting scouted to get into the Art Portal still bugs me a little, but it's working out. So far, so good :D

Just a doubt: Once someone scout me I'll be able to post in the Art Portal forever? Or I'll need to be scouted several times?

Once you're scouted, you stay scouted unless a moderator takes action on your account.

A main reason we made the scout system in 2009 is that we were pretty sure people would fill the Art Portal with goatse if there wasn't any sort of community vetting. We've also had waves of spam accounts that try to use the Art Portal to upload marketing materials but they don't get very far due to not getting scouted.


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Response to Welcome Artists & Best of November! 2018-12-08 06:40:00


At 12/7/18 10:00 PM, BoMToons wrote: Awesome to see the influx of new artists and feel some hope for NG kicking more butt!

Side note: I think you mis-spelled Phoenotopia in the NG news!

Ooh thanks for catching that, I like getting typos out of the history.


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Response to Welcome Artists & Best of November! 2018-12-08 06:56:39


At 12/7/18 11:37 PM, Vinsionary wrote:
At 12/7/18 09:58 PM, Andre-APM wrote: Just a doubt: Once someone scout me I'll be able to post in the Art Portal forever? Or I'll need to be scouted several times?
If I understood correctly, Scouting is a branching system. Let's say for instance I scouted you and someone else, and as a scouted artist you scouted two more people. If the other person I scouted does something and got their scout status revoked, my own scout would be revoked for being the one "responsible" for the transgressor, and as consequence you and the other two people you scouted would lose your scouted status due to being "under" me. Like snipping a branch from a tree, its leaves fall with it.

...At least that's how I understood it; I could be wrong.

Almost there!
When the person you scouted gets their scout status revoked, your scout status won't be revoked BUT you won't be able to scout anyone else (you'll still be able to recommend them for the art portal)

Trust me, happened to me a few months back


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Response to Welcome Artists & Best of November! 2018-12-08 07:04:45


At 12/8/18 02:55 AM, Masculine wrote: @TomFulp speaking of supporters.. if possible it would be great to see on Newgrounds when our support renews. I'm a yearly subscriber and it's kind of a pain to find it in PayPal.

From your Account Options page there's a link to your Supporter options. Does this page have the info you're looking for?

https://www.newgrounds.com/account/supporter


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Response to Welcome Artists & Best of November! 2018-12-08 08:00:37


Ah, so it's Tumblr that's made the Portal look like it's 2001 again

Response to Welcome Artists & Best of November! 2018-12-08 08:31:02


At 12/8/18 07:04 AM, TomFulp wrote:
At 12/8/18 02:55 AM, Masculine wrote: @TomFulp speaking of supporters.. if possible it would be great to see on Newgrounds when our support renews. I'm a yearly subscriber and it's kind of a pain to find it in PayPal.
From your Account Options page there's a link to your Supporter options. Does this page have the info you're looking for?

https://www.newgrounds.com/account/supporter

I can’t believe I missed that at the very top of account settings :). Thanks Tom, I found it!


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Response to Welcome Artists & Best of November! 2018-12-08 10:13:33


All I would like to type is, thanks for the extended double xp votes until the coming Wednesday, also congrats to the winners.


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Response to Welcome Artists & Best of November! 2018-12-08 13:21:23


At 12/7/18 02:36 PM, TomFulp wrote:

First congratulations to this month winners ! And also welcome to all the new artists !
Things are changing so much on the site! I never excepected things to go this well for Newgrounds.
Who knows if NG will really take more and more importance from now on . I hope so in anyway .


Drink coffee.


Congrats to all the winners! I didn't have time to vote this month, even though I really wanted to help out Flex Calibur. But @Tom, I have a suggestion. Could we add filters to the under judgment sections? It's just that with the new outpouring of Adult content, it's a bit annoying trying to find SFW stuff. I mean, we have the filters for every other content-based section of the site, so why not this?
Oh, and thsnks for the double EXP!


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Response to Welcome Artists & Best of November! 2018-12-08 17:22:30


At 12/7/18 04:47 PM, Spazkid wrote:
At 12/7/18 03:39 PM, Mel-Agaroth-Xilliam wrote: the last thing newgrounds needed was the influx of gay diaper furs and incest fetish from Tumblr .

That is being a bit harsh. Don't you think?

I havent seen a single Diaper fur piece, and ive scouted 100s of people. but if it DOES exist, just mute the artist and there work. Thats why it exists...

I have not seen that either.

At 12/7/18 04:50 PM, solitonmedic wrote: This new unexpected change had me in tears for while now..

It has been very surprising for everybody.

I'm so glad NG is picking up traction again, free from bad business decison and meaningless censorship. Now let's hope Youtube goes under one day too.

NewGrounds is really gaining for Tumblr's bad decisions.

At 12/7/18 05:15 PM, Mel-Agaroth-Xilliam wrote:
The one thing that I don't like is that many of the tumblr "artists" (used in it's most loosest of meaning) already had an in on newgrounds, plenty were scouted in advanced just because they had been established already, and were well known ,

That is true. We do scout many artists here.

secondly it's only a matter of time before we become tumblr 2.0, I don't know about you but I for one don't wish to see that happening, we should not have to rely on a function of the site but rather lay down actual rules that forbid such content .

NewGrounds will always be strong, we would never become any other website.

there was a reason these people had their content barred from tumblr , because it was not fit for human consumption !.

That is not correct at all. Tumblr made a poor decision and embraced censorship. NewGrounds will never do that.


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Response to Welcome Artists & Best of November! 2018-12-08 17:33:21


I don't want to be that guy... but isn't 10 sec porn loops winning portal award is a little strange?

Response to Welcome Artists & Best of November! 2018-12-08 17:39:30


At 12/8/18 04:59 PM, TheReviewTrickster wrote: Congrats to all the winners! I didn't have time to vote this month, even though I really wanted to help out Flex Calibur. But @Tom, I have a suggestion. Could we add filters to the under judgment sections? It's just that with the new outpouring of Adult content, it's a bit annoying trying to find SFW stuff. I mean, we have the filters for every other content-based section of the site, so why not this?
Oh, and thsnks for the double EXP!

The Classic Portal has basically remained the same since 2000 but when we spruce up the layout there we do need to get some content filters going once and for all.


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At 12/7/18 05:17 PM, TomFulp wrote: Muting on a sitewide scale is something we still need to tackle... So at the moment:

1) You can BLOCK a user, which hides their posts in the forum, doesn't let them PM you, doesn't let them reply to your blog posts, and a few other things like that. A Block could also mute by default though.

Blocking can be a useful too, if you really need it.

2) You CAN mute a user who you follow or are friends with but it only applies to your feed.

Mute only works if you are friends with the person. If you don't like their stuff, you are probably not friends. lol

The final ultimate frontier is global muting, which would hide someone's content throughout the site. At some point the Art Portal browsing will be powered by our Elastic cluster, which makes filtering like that work better.

Global muting would be the last straw.

At 12/7/18 06:33 PM, BryanV wrote: Ohh wow,thanks to those who voted!!!

You are very welcome.

At 12/7/18 08:46 PM, carso150 wrote:
At 12/7/18 06:55 PM, Mel-Agaroth-Xilliam wrote: and for the record , just because one's quality of work is deemed to be of high standard in one site, doesn't mean it is or should be viewed as high standard anywhere else ,

That is a fair statement.

by using your own logic , we could start rolling out the welcome mat for the influx of artists that literally shit on a canvass, then ejaculate on it and who knows, maybe Newgrounds will sink to such a low level that it will allow that , nothing surprises me at this point .

I do not think that would ever actually happen.

there are plenty of great artists with really high quality stuff and they have bringed newgrounds back to the forefront of the internet for a change (something that hasnt happened in like 12 years) so yeah, this is literaly one of the best things that have happened to the site for a long time

I agree with you. All of us working together has made NewGrounds awesome.

if you personaly dislike tumblr well that site is burning in hell as we speak, your irrational fear of new people is seriously detrimental

Yes, Tumblr is rotting away. We are here to welcome all the new artists with open arms.


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Response to Welcome Artists & Best of November! 2018-12-08 18:53:33


At 12/7/18 05:15 PM, Mel-Agaroth-Xilliam wrote:
secondly it's only a matter of time before we become tumblr 2.0, I don't know about you but I for one don't wish to see that happening, we should not have to rely on a function of the site but rather lay down actual rules that forbid such content .

there was a reason these people had their content barred from tumblr , because it was not fit for human consumption !.

That's a slippery slope fallacy... I don't think NG will become the next tumblr. Personally, I'm glad that NG is gaining the visibility it deserves! Instead of looking at it from a catastrophic point of view, consider that the newfound (no pun intended) fame of NG will attract more people, not only artists, but also animators and maybe someone interested in developing games.
As for the reason you stated, I agree with DoctorStrongbad: poor business decision. To cleanse their site from pornbots (which users warned the staff about for a long time, but were left unlistened) and regain their place in the AppStore, they purged everything even remotely pornographic. Furthermore, I think that a lot of people considered some NG contents "not fit for human consumption" since the beginning of the site itself (Club-a-seal was met with a lot of controversy, if I remember well), so it's not that someone here gets to decide what's fit for the human eye or not.

Response to Welcome Artists & Best of November! 2018-12-08 19:42:40


I´m not going to react to the Tumblr. migrants like they´re a bad thing, it´s not their fault that they´re here and I´m happy that Newgrouns is reigning supreme again but holy shit the amount of the artwork and new artists is seriously overwhelming and kinda scare because I remember Newgrounds being a pretty tame and slow site when it came to art.

Response to Welcome Artists & Best of November! 2018-12-09 04:42:52


New user coming through!

Not for the porn, but for the community. I never knew Newgrounds had this art gallery aspect to it, for some reason I always thought it was just Flash animations and some music on the side... fortunately all the Tumblr migration gossip reached me and opened my eyes to the obvious. (:

I might be late, but I damn sure hope this place will thrive; as many others, I have a past of coming here and being entertained, and seeing how Tom is dedicated and personally involved with the community (over 20 years later!) made me smile.

Here's a heads-up:
uBlock hides the top bar, thus the Login/Signup buttons. You may prefer to keep the bulk of uBlocking folks out for the unpaid stress they put on servers, but seeing the site is under an attempt of populating the community and gaining traction, making sure the buttons show up for everyone could be valuable for now;

Other than that, is the whole commission market a thing here? The ToS says "no offering/requesting business and services", but I'm not sure of what that covers. For now, I'll observe.

Ok, now time to set my profile up, see you guys around!


At 12/9/18 04:42 AM, Marcotonio wrote: I never knew Newgrounds had this art gallery aspect to it, for some reason I always thought it was just Flash animations and some music on the side...

I thought the art gallery was a relatively new thing because I remembered when it was introduced, but apparently it's been around for about 9 years O_o

At 12/9/18 04:42 AM, Marcotonio wrote: Other than that, is the whole commission market a thing here? The ToS says "no offering/requesting business and services", but I'm not sure of what that covers.

I'd like to know about this too...are we allowed to advertise commissions?

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At 12/9/18 04:42 AM, Marcotonio wrote: uBlock hides the top bar, thus the Login/Signup buttons. You may prefer to keep the bulk of uBlocking folks out for the unpaid stress they put on servers, but seeing the site is under an attempt of populating the community and gaining traction, making sure the buttons show up for everyone could be valuable for now;

Thanks for the heads up on this, I don't see a good reason for uBlock to block the header bar so I'm wondering if we can get that fixed on their end.

Other than that, is the whole commission market a thing here? The ToS says "no offering/requesting business and services", but I'm not sure of what that covers. For now, I'll observe.

Commissioning is fine! The line in the ToS is more to reserve our right to remove people that are spamming questionable business opportunities.


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Response to Welcome Artists & Best of November! 2018-12-09 07:58:07


At 12/9/18 06:37 AM, HuntaKilla wrote: I'd like to know about this too...are we allowed to advertise commissions?

Yes, you are! In fact if you make a blog post with your commission info, we have something coming that will help you promote that more. :)


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Well for once I agree with Joseph (not that I had any an interaction with Joseph on the forums here), but I think there needs to be change for the art portal over there;
You should be able to block certain users and you won't ever have to see their artwork at all. Also change the whole ratings system as well. I know that NewGrounds is a private website, but some things have to be changed in order to protect some certain users (moral people, users under 18, etc).
I think the rating system needs to be redefined again. Any 'tease' (like showing some cleavage or some 'skin') or fetish art should have immediately have the rating changed to M related tag, if not already. It's not like that I go to the art portal that much. But the change could be better for some people who likes to hang around NG, but can't just stand that sort of stuff.


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Response to Welcome Artists & Best of November! 2018-12-09 09:48:57


Thanks! Glad to be here!
I remember NG in my beginnings of discovering the internet when I was a teenager. Great, that you guys still are around and that I am a part of this now. <3

Response to Welcome Artists & Best of November! 2018-12-09 12:28:20


There's a typo on the history page!
"On November 20th, Tumblr began randomly deleted accounts"
You should either remove "began" or turn "deleted" into "deleting"

Also, you erroneously forgot to mention that I actually won first place, every month, non stop, forever.

Response to Welcome Artists & Best of November! 2018-12-09 14:40:10


At 12/7/18 02:36 PM, TomFulp wrote: Each month on Newgrounds, a pool of active voters are invited to rank their favorite games and animation. Those selections determine our Best of the Month and will ideally include Art and Audio some day.

I don't know if this has been asked already, but if Art and Audio make it into the monthly voting, will we still only get 10 votes?

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At 12/9/18 12:28 PM, W-P-S wrote: There's a typo on the history page!
"On November 20th, Tumblr began randomly deleted accounts"
You should either remove "began" or turn "deleted" into "deleting"

Also, you erroneously forgot to mention that I actually won first place, every month, non stop, forever.

Updated!


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Response to Welcome Artists & Best of November! 2018-12-09 18:31:40


At 12/9/18 02:40 PM, GoodL wrote:
At 12/7/18 02:36 PM, TomFulp wrote: Each month on Newgrounds, a pool of active voters are invited to rank their favorite games and animation. Those selections determine our Best of the Month and will ideally include Art and Audio some day.
I don't know if this has been asked already, but if Art and Audio make it into the monthly voting, will we still only get 10 votes?

At that point I think we would let people select a top five for each category, so you could make a top 5 animation list, movie list, audio list, etc... And you could choose to only vote in one category or we might even only let you vote in categories you were active in during the month.


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Response to Welcome Artists & Best of November! 2018-12-09 22:09:04


At 12/9/18 08:39 AM, JosephStarr wrote: Even turning off all content except for E rated doesn't get rid of the porn-ish images.

I bet it's because of bulk uploads. At some point people will just forget to rate their projects under Publication Details. An easy solution is for age rating to be a mandatory task in a project's To Do list.


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