Gokussj20 (and to any new user who sees this), let me wrap up what everyone is saying in a nutshell in case you see this again.
First of all, to join this club you need 50 BBS posts (make them very good; meaning not spammy or rude posts) and at least 400 B/P points. Now I know I don't even meet any of them (but one of my other accounts do) but that's besides the point.
To get B/P (blam/protection) points, you go to the flash portal and view the flashes highlighted in PURPLE. After watching them, vote accordingly on what you think it deserves. If the flash is deleted, and you have voted 0 or 1 on it, you get a blam point. If the flash passes judgment, and you voted 2, 3, 4, 5, then you get a protection point. If you voted 2-5 on a blammed flash, you don't get any points from it. Likewise if you have voted 0 or 1 on a flash that passes judgment, you don't get any points from it. As you gain enough points, you will level up and gain more voting power. A list of badges can be found here.
Note: Protection is another word for save.
If you find a flash that breaks the portal guidelines (which can be found at the bottom of this page), then you can blow the whistle on it to try and get the submission flagged. If a flash is stolen, hit the "This movie is stolen" button, include some details and a link to where the flash was stolen and hit the "Blow it!" button. For flash that is malicious and/or unsuitable, include reasoning in the respective boxes.
Note that even if you blow on the flash, it still may pass. If it does pass, make sure to send Wade Fulp a PM explaining why it should be removed and he will remove it. Make sure in the title of the PM is "Newgrounds Help - Abusive Flash" or something among those lines. As a protip, make sure all the PMs you send to Wade Fulp or any other administrator has the "Newgrounds Help - " section for the admins get a lot of spam and PM subjects with anything else than "Newgrounds Help" will most likely be ignored/deleted.
Your whistle status will depend if a flash is sent for administrative review, or if it passes (or even blammed if the general public decides it shouldn't pass anyway, so even if your whistle fails there's a chance it may be blammed). If you have a normal whistle, you have very little weight on what you flag; meaning it will take a lot more blows to pull the flash into admin review. If you have a deity whistle (the max powered whistle), you have a huge weight on what you flag. A deity whistle is much stronger than a normal whistle, so it will take less blows to pull the flash to admin review. Whistle levels vary from garbage, normal, bronze, silver, gold and deity. If you blow the whistle on abusive stuff and it is deleted, you will be awarded with positive whistle points (the points that will raise your whistle level if you gain enough). If you blow the whistle on legitimate stuff, you lose whistle points (this pulling you down to the lower whistle levels, or even garbage). The curve is very nasty, meaning the penalty of whistle points is greater than the gain.
There are two ways to earn whistle points: Blowing the whistle on flashes that break the guidelines, or flag reviews that break the review guidelines (info here). Flashes can be flagged by using the stolen/malicious/unsuitable forms respectively. Reviews can be flagged by clicking on the yellow X next to the + and - signs at the bottom right corner of the review. Obtain enough whistle points (the point count is hidden, so it may take awhile to level up) and you will go up a level. If you flag wrong stuff, you lose whistle points.
Also, getting a garbage whistle is very bad, for you have ZERO power over what you flag (meaning it's equal to nobody flagging the said material), so try to avoid that.
I attached a (crappily made) image below for easy reference.
I think that covers pretty much everything. It's a lot of information to swallow, but you'll get it eventually. PM me if you still need help or are confused.
This hopefully should cover information to any additional new users that stumble up here.
Hopefully I'm not being a nuisance here
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At 5/31/10 08:42 PM, Lizzardis wrote:
That would be of a great help my friend, and I think it would be a great idea to be honest if someone was to go around from OUTSIDE of the NGPD and collect up all of the stolen flashes and send them to Wade.
I'll try to if I can. But exams are coming up, so I can't really do so now. Once those are over with I'll run around in the portal picking up crap.
Alright I did enough spamming in this thread for one day.
Ask a mod to delete this post if you all feel like it's unnecessary; it's fine with me.
Back to studying for Biology; I already spend an hour with this.