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Abusive Reviews

Posted by OLD293 - May 21st, 2009


*I just got a bronze whistle* xD (Thursday May 21, 2009 at 11:03 EST time)

They are always out in the Portal, stupid people just saying stupid things because they probably don't have anything else better to do; let alone not being able to stay constructive with their criticism. Most are because people submit under average flashes or just bad flashes in general.

If you want to help me (and many others) keep Newgrounds clean of the trash (while helping your whistle points/status as an award) then help me find the abusive reviews and flag them. Make sure that they break the review guidelines and only if it's serious, not that itty bitty stuff:

" * Stay on the topic of the submission and do not make personal remarks or insults towards the author. This is a big offense. Telling artists "You suck!", "You should go kill yourself!", "You are gay!" etc., will get you banned and you may lose your account. Without our contributors Newgrounds wouldn't be what it is, so we take seriously any insults directed at them by reviewers.

* Do not post TONS and TONS of crappy reviews just to get high in the rankings. If we catch someone doing this we will delete all their reviews - wouldn't that be a pain in the ass? Take your time and write a sincere review for every movie you wish to critique. Make sure your review is relative to the submission. Reviews that are found to offer no benefit to the author may be deleted.

* Do not use the review space for the purpose of promoting things. Stick to reviewing the movies - we don't want to hear about how great your website is. Also, posting links to websites that reward you for sending hits is prohibited; we will delete your account for the first offense with no warning. Posting unrelated links is also prohibited and will result in a ban.

* Do not flood the review title or body. Examples would be long strings of characters or words with no breaks or repeating words or phrases over and over. Do not submit images made from text and characters, as this will also get you banned.

* Do not use reviews to express your feelings that the entry should be BLAMMED. If you post "BLAM this" or something similar you will be banned. Use the review option to tell the author how they can improve their work.

* Do not use the review field to address other user's reviews you didn't agree with. You are to be reviewing the submission, not other people's reviews.

* If you believe an entry is stolen, do not comment about it in your review. If you are wrong, you may convince other users that the entry is stolen and you may cause a legitimate entry to receive an unfairly low score, or have the whistle blown on it. Use the whistle option, if available, to flag the entry as stolen when you believe that is the case. If there is no whistle option available (the entry is no longer under judgment) contact Wade with as many details as you can about the stolen Flash and where you think it was stolen from.

* If you think a submission doesn't belong on the front page of the site or shouldn't be featured in special sections of the site, keep it to yourself. The submissions on the front page and in special sections of the site are put there by our staff, not by the author. Keep your focus on how the person who submitted might improve their work."

People break most of these all the time, but as said, try not to flag them unless they are serious. Here are the "serious" ones:

"You SUCK"

"This was bad' (with no extra advice/criticism)

"BLAM this PIECE OF CRAP!!!" (with no extra advice/criticism)

"I voted it a 1 because it didn't have any music!!!"

Flag stuff like those, but if you have to think about it before you flag it then don't flag it at all. Don't go too crazy with the flag unless you are sure you are flagging abusive content. If it's not abusive then you will lose lots of whistle points (and the MODS don't like clearing non-abusive reviews I'm sure)
so try to be careful.

If you are stuck on whether it's abusive or not then go here:
http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/99 3518
Make sure you read everything so as to make sure your question is answered, they don't want you posting the same question over again.

There will be abusive reviews here to flag as well, if I find them then I'll put them up.

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