At 3/28/11 05:25 AM, SlashFirestorm wrote: Back in my B/P'ing days (and I'm sure it still happens now, though I'm not on the Portal enough to know the prevalence), a lot of shitty flash passed because they had relatively lengthy and well-made preloader/intros...which they used to trick idiots into voting protection on even the shittiest flash. What I did was consider the intro in my voting once...and only once. First time I saw it, I'd include it in my scoring procedure, but after that I would just consider the feature presentation. I'm not active anymore, but if I saw one of those dress-up games, I'd likely give it a passing score as long as it functioned and had at least modest graphics and sound...but only that one time. Every single remake would get a zero from me for having no original content (changing images is not sufficient), period. If the submitter wants me to give them a passing score, then they better make something new for me to vote on.
Slash this shit still happens. What is worse is that even unknown people who have at least one or two passing flashes can 9 times out of ten get flash passed even if it is complete shit. Hell I remember earlier in the year the clock crew was doing some flash flood shit and every single one passed most of them where complete shit. But did the masses care Hell no! Just because it was a clock crew member it passed. One of the flashes I remember was just a clock saying "you are gay!" before ending. I voted 0 on that shit but did it get blammed no! It passed with a score above a 2!
I will admit that some of those dress up games fooled me and got my protect vote for it being a functioning game that work with some quality, however after I started seeing the same shit over and over I voted 0 but it didn't do any good what so ever.
As for that flashy intro shit you were talking about the biggest offenders of this was the SS. One example of this was the BPB (Big penis Begaide) Anyone who was voting in the portal in in early 2006 would remember this shit. They used the same fancy intro that ran a minute long to fool the masses into voting on that before the actual flash played. What was worse was that after a while they used the same cartoons without changes and the shit still passed. The only good thing I can say happened was Wade finally deleted the spam account and the series went with it.
Unfortunately, since the majority of the Portal-browsing people don't do this...yeah.
Of course not, they just open the flash vote 2, 3, 4, or 5 and move on without looking at the flash. Some ldiots even say "If it is spam I will vote 2 to lessen the of it passing" (Insert Facepalm here) What they are really saying is that "I am voting 2 because even thought it is spam I don't want to part with a point!"
Portal mods portal mods portal mods. I don't care if it'd make people bitch about them not getting to decide everything---they've proven that they cannot be trusted to make the final decision on anything. Hell, just two or three people (who've proven they're not idiots) to delete obvious shit would be all it takes, especially since it seems that the daily submit rate has gone down quite a bit from a few years back. Three people watching the Portal when less than 100 submissions are submitted a day? More than enough.
I remember Wade talking about adding these in 2006 but I guess the idea never went through. Most likely thinking that these mods will abuse their power. Though it would be nice if the NG staff hired some people they trusted to do this job so they know that it would be fair.
But I don't think that will ever happen. fgfgsdfgsdg
We can dream can't we?