Are We Now TOLD How to Vote on NG??

Shrapnel

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Response to Are We Now TOLD How to Vote on NG?? 2003-01-10 21:37:15

At 1/10/03 07:04 PM, AvocadoClock wrote:
At 1/10/03 05:45 PM, Shrapnel wrote:

Draco should've swallowed the SOB
That would've made for such a better ending! Almost any alternative ending would be better than its current ending. =\

That's why they need voting buttons at the movie theatre.

It'd make them more interactive.

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DingleberryClock

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Response to Are We Now TOLD How to Vote on NG?? 2003-01-10 22:37:23

At 1/10/03 03:31 PM, pewp wrote:
At 1/10/03 03:29 PM, Valz wrote:
At 1/10/03 03:23 PM, pewp wrote:
At 1/10/03 01:21 PM, Valz wrote: You are wrong & you know it.
I don't get how he's wrong.
In a previous post by Wade he said along the following lines, 'vote as you want as long as it's not below 0'. So basically even if myself or anyone else here thinks a movie is total crap & a waste of space, according to Wade we can only give it a 2.

So how can we VOTE the way we want when we are being told to give it nothing less than a 2?
voting 0 is tne only way nowadays to get a blam point right? If you vote 0, you're doing it simply because you want it to be blammed, adding a blam point. Why don't you ask wade to modify the voting system so that 0,1, and 2 lower the score of the movie.

Voting 1 counts for BLAM points as well, 2-5 are saves.

And all of them, except 5, have the potential to lower a movie, under certain circumstances. Each vote number brings the score of the movie as close to that particular score as it can. So if a movie is at 4.01, a 4 vote should lower it to 4.00, unless it has tons of votes.

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Qjedi

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Response to Are We Now TOLD How to Vote on NG?? 2003-01-10 23:34:18

Thanks for the huggles Shrap.

I kinda liked the postman, but I am from Oregon, where the movie was filmed, so I am kinda biased. I just liked the part where Tom Petty got to basically play himself.

Postman: Hey... aren't you.... ?
Mayor: I used to be...

Or something like that.

Anyhow, has anyone else read the novel? It was by (I think) David Brin, and really, the first half was pretty similar, but by the end of the book it was a completely different story.

I think the movie was quite a bit better, but the book had some pretty cool info on why the mad general guy was such a psycho and how the postmen were able to take him down so easily.

Anyhoo, back ta drinkin', I'll catch ya all later.
Especially you, Shrapnel. *wink-wink-nudge-nudge*

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MI4-REAL-2001

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Response to Are We Now TOLD How to Vote on NG?? 2003-01-10 23:36:52

At 1/10/03 10:41 AM, liljim wrote: Most of the people who have reacted negatively to these posts are people who don't need to worry anyway - there are just a select few users who repeatedly vote down everything. They don't appear to have anything positive to contribute and one has to wonder how much enjoyment they're actually getting from the site if they're of the opinion that everything they see is absolute crap! :)

Then you can put xJBombx on that list. He was deleted before because of that. Only once did I see him ever give a 10 for a movie. That was under his old account.

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MI4-REAL-2001

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Response to Are We Now TOLD How to Vote on NG?? 2003-01-10 23:39:56

At 1/10/03 03:33 PM, Valz wrote: That's like me slapping someone in the face & then saying I'm sorry only to spit in it. This is my feeling on the situation & I was kind of taken back by recieving an email threatning to have my account deleted for voting on something that Wade had a personal liking for. That is what made me mad & then to apologize & still say I'm wrong, to me that only adds insult to the injury.

"But you're still wrong for giving it a 0"
So our opinion is totally null and void here? I'm the co-administrator of a forum myself, but I always make sure that I end up polling/considering the public before I take action.

The only thing I can see is a bunch of 0s in spite, or otherwise it being unchanged. So if I voted 0 on the #1 entry, then I'd get warned, eh? Is that it?

BTW co administrator=admin of a forum that you do not own.

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Celestial-Avenger

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Response to Are We Now TOLD How to Vote on NG?? 2003-01-11 00:11:06

At 1/9/03 04:25 PM, WadeFulp wrote: We are seeing a bigger problem with many users voting 0 to rack up blam points since the new system. So simply put, if users can't use the system fairly, we'll have to remove the vote ranks and blam points and go back to less voting activity. If you don't care for something, but can tell it took some work, vote 2.

i suppose you're going to threaten to ban me now for voting 0 on "link's quest for ass" which has like a 3.7/5 rating. augh.

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Crownjo

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Response to Are We Now TOLD How to Vote on NG?? 2003-01-11 15:43:12

Ok it seems that users dont like the blam points becouse when you blam a movie you get one fucking point. Ask me this if we get rid of that we should get rid of protect points its the same thing but saveing a movie.So thats preety hyopcrial if you know what i mean.So overall i like the point system its better then nothing.I mean even without the point system movies are going to get blammed no mater what like tricky the clown no 1 likes thats flash so that wont stop them for getting rid of that type of flash.

Now voteing 0? Valz has a point its our own fucking opinion to vote and some dumbass noobs agree with wade like they fucking worship him. I dont give a fuck this wont stop me or valz voteing 0 dont get us wrong like we are some 0 voteing rednecks. We vote to our opinion like if one movie kinda sucked but it had little effort i vote a 1 or a 2 if it was a so-so i give a 3 if good 4 perfect i give a 5. So you think was wrong what about that shit movie you protected you pissed a lot of users off and what about that idiot adam z???? he broke a lot of rules buy resubmiting the same movies everytime and you did not ban him for that? thats sad what adam z did was 5x worse valz did.

And if one asshole user goes againse me or wade will counter talk me i got support from the clock crew and the blam club so i really dont give a shit what you lackys think. Like valz and i said our own opinion.

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Vicious-WTFN

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Response to Are We Now TOLD How to Vote on NG?? 2003-01-11 15:56:14

At 1/9/03 04:07 PM, Valz wrote: I sent a reply to Mr Fulp & got this in return.........

From :
Wade Fulp <wade@newgrounds.com>

Reply-To :
wade@newgrounds.com

To :
Valz

Subject :
RE: Warning

Date :
Thu, 09 Jan 2003 16:04:08 -0500

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The author put a lot of work into that submission like his other works. Why would you want to BLAM it? To rack up BLAM points? If that’s how you vote, we don’t need your votes on NG.

Regards,

Wade Fulp

Newgrounds.com, Inc.

http://www.newgrounds.com

wade@newgrounds.com

-----Original Message-----
From: valz
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 4:02 PM
To: wade@newgrounds.com
Cc:
Subject: Re: Warning

I didn't find anything good about it. So if NG is now telling people how to vote then I will leave. If you find the way I vote bad then I suggest you go after the blam club or the clock haters who seem to be more of a problem than me.

~Val

Well monkey face just because you don't like it you just don't go and vote zero, alot of effort was put into that movie and you can't just tell me that tahts worht a zero, those movies are painstaiking to make, even if I didn't like It would wouldn't vote zero I would vote 2, because there was effort in there. And by judgeing of your movies: -none- I wouldn't be talking

-KTHNX

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GrandmasterJ

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Response to Are We Now TOLD How to Vote on NG?? 2003-01-11 17:11:43

At 1/10/03 12:12 PM, WadeFulp wrote: I'm just saying 2 should be the bottom of the threshold if something bores you, but you obviously have the sense to realize the author put a lot of effort into it, and 1 if you think the author didn't try real hard.

I'll reiterate: The effort put into a movie does not matter. Only the entertainment value of the end result matters. That's how some movies that may or may not look like crap get high scores. Because they're entertaining. You can spend years on a flash and get blammed real fast because it was boring.
Take my two anti-clock movies that I made back in the day for example. They were total shit. I spent no more than an hour on each. By going what you're saying now, they should've been blammed within 2 minutes. But no, they have scores over 3.0 (I actually saw them with a steady 4 at one time!) and you and Tom put them both in a collection. People found them entertaining, (don't ask me why) and gave them high scores, despite the total lack of effort.