As much as I appreciate the job that the members of the Request Club do, it still hasn't changed one of its most annoying habits since I left it.

You guys are giving 8's, 9's, and 10's left and right. Stop being so generous with your scores. Start being more objective. It's nice to have your ego stroked every now and then but it doesn't help an artist grow. I'm not asking you to give 3's and discourage people from making music, but a few more 6's an 7's would be nice. If our songs were really 9's and 10's, they'd be more popular and whatnot. But they're obviously not 9 or 10 material. Now, some reviewers like brutal honesty, others don't. It doesn't matter, take your chances and be extremely critical, that's why people request reviews in first place.

YES, it GETS tiring to nitpick the bad aspects of a song when you've got over 20 requests, but that's what's expected of you, or at least that's what I expect when I request reviews. The only (ex)member who was ever criticial here was Bezman, and that's why I loved his reviews. Thank you for taking the time to review songs and flashes, but please ensure you do a quality job instead of rushing through songs to get an 100% review rate. I read earlier that someone wanted to limit requesters to 2 submissions per week. Go ahead, do it. Hell, limit it to 1, even. You might get less requests, but you'll also do a better job.

All that being said, thanks again for the work you do. I'll get to responding your reviews soon.

P.S. You forgot to add me back to the club, I mentioned I wanted to join again on page 18. That made me sadeface ):

At 9/12/09 03:47 PM, GronmonSE wrote: As much as I appreciate the job that the members of the Request Club do, it still hasn't changed one of its most annoying habits since I left it.

You do realize that some of the members, especially people like me have no clue what makes a good song good and what makes a bad song bad. We can just go by if we liked it or not.

Now think about it for a second. If you knew basically nothing about something wouldn't it be better to give it a score higher than it deserved rather than a score lower than it deserved?

Don't focus on the score of a review anyway. That has nothing to do with what the review says.

That last line I can agree with, but you would expect the score to be coherent with the review.

Just my opinion in the end. I guess I just like people being critical of my work.

At 9/12/09 04:13 PM, GronmonSE wrote: That last line I can agree with, but you would expect the score to be coherent with the review.

Just my opinion in the end. I guess I just like people being critical of my work.

And again like I said those people that can't be critical with your submissions such as people like me can't do it simply because we don't have the knowledge about music to do it. It's like asking you to help fix something that you have no clue how it works. So sorry, but the only reviews that you will get from me for audio is how I think it would go with a flash, what it makes me think of, whether it was too repetitive or not, and whether I liked it or not. You'll have to deal with it. I obviously give you 9's because that's how much I enjoyed your submission.

hey why not ill join :D

At 9/12/09 03:47 PM, GronmonSE wrote: P.S. You forgot to add me back to the club, I mentioned I wanted to join again on page 18. That made me sadeface ):

Yeah I missed your post and it probably escaped notice because you also put a request in your applying post. You could have droped me a PM if no one replies was replying to your post.

But anyway, I've just checked your reviews and my decision is that you can join. Your reviews go from very helpful to quite poor (especially the flash ones) but if you review the requests like you reviewed "Dirty War", it's all good. By the way, I haven't seen any of your reviews with a score below 7 on the first page ;).

Welcome to the club, you can start reviewing these requests but the update is tomorrow so I advise you to wait until I post the list for next update.

At 9/12/09 04:13 PM, GronmonSE wrote: That last line I can agree with, but you would expect the score to be coherent with the review.

Just my opinion in the end. I guess I just like people being critical of my work.

I give quite high scores, but I always give a decent amount of critism. I usually give out 10's if I can't find anything wrong in the song or the pros outweigh the cons, a 9 if it's very good but has a few problems, an 8 if I enjoyed it, but it needs some more work put into some details, seven if it had a good idea put into it, but wasn't performed well enough, 6 if it didn't really fit well with me and has quite a few defects, five if it's pretty bad and shows that the author didn't work hard on it, 4 if it sucks and I disliked it, 3 if I hated it and there were barely or weren't even any good things to the song, 2 if it's just plain awful and with no effort put into it, 1 if it hurts my ears and makes me want to smash down that mute button, or 0 if I couldn't tell the difference between the song itself and the sound a constipated elephant would make. I think that's a fair enough score system, right? :3.

Oh, and they didn't add you to the club since you didn't post the points you gained at the end of the week from reviewing the requests the first time ;).

At 9/12/09 05:06 PM, Sonofkirk wrote:

At 9/12/09 03:47 PM, GronmonSE wrote: P.S. You forgot to add me back to the club, I mentioned I wanted to join again on page 18. That made me sadeface ):

Yeah I missed your post and it probably escaped notice because you also put a request in your applying post. You could have droped me a PM if no one replies was replying to your post.

But anyway, I've just checked your reviews and my decision is that you can join. Your reviews go from very helpful to quite poor (especially the flash ones) but if you review the requests like you reviewed "Dirty War", it's all good. By the way, I haven't seen any of your reviews with a score below 7 on the first page ;).

Welcome to the club, you can start reviewing these requests but the update is tomorrow so I advise you to wait until I post the list for next update.

I don't do flash reviews and, as of late, I've only been reviewing songs I really like (hence the 9's and 10's) or returning favors. Page 8 is filled with 6's and 5's, which was the period when I was part of the club last year.

I'll wait. I'll probably limit my reviews to music.

If any of you could review my art that would be excellent.
http://epicfail.newgrounds.com/art/

At 9/12/09 03:47 PM, GronmonSE wrote: You guys are giving 8's, 9's, and 10's left and right. Stop being so generous with your scores.

I see what you mean, but sometimes it's pretty hard to come up with a score. My main problem is that I don't listen to techno at all, so it gets hard for me to review techno submissions from an objective point of view in the first place.
That does influence the score I give as well, because it would be unfair to take away points just because I don't like a certain genre. So it might be that my scores are a bit higher than what I would usually give if I reviewed a submission of a genre I liked.

Oh yeah, im in this now so here. Dont be mean im a noob.

http://art.ngfiles.com/images/26/joshsou za_noobscape-player-profile.jpg

Oops, HERE's the shortcut sorry :P

Oops, HERE's the shortcut sorry :P
http://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/joshs ouza/noobscape-player-profile
Oh yeah, how do you get the picture of the flash and the Gif. icon of the flash and stuff?

New band song done. Please leave a review.

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  by <deleted>

  5 Views

I'd be honored if people could review this piece of art please:

http://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/krevz abijak/origins

I also want to extend sympathies to all the others that got hit by the massive DD pruning.

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  Aliens_On_Earth [Box-Killa]

  by Box-Killa

  Alienish Dark Techno Song

  Song

  Techno

  2,298 Views

  PLAY

I made an awesome song. About aliens!

You will love it :D

I have no time to comment on the update, I won't have access to the computer anymore in a minute. Here are the request for the next week, good luck everyone. Enjoy the update.

Flash Requests (4) - Brought to you by Coop83, Fro and I
Pizza City By Adult Swim (AdultSwim)
Mac, PC, and a Hedgehog By Recorderdude
Otakuhell At Animefest 09 By tohoscope
F L i G H T By Clovvach (someplaceelse)

Audio Requests (12)
Cast From the Stars By Bracksta
(N-BU) Instrugator By Naerbu
Flash/Audio Collab By SessileNomad
Dortmunder By Kurt Cobain (EpicFail)
A Marvelous Suitcase By Kurt Cobain (EpicFail)
Almany By DJ-Chilvan
My Savior (Dance Remix) By DJ-Chilvan
Noisy - Lifehouse: Beacon By Noisy (INoisy)
Hate You Better By WeHaveFreshCookies
Excrated Homicide By Colt (Blackdoom13)
Gritty Soundin' (WIP) By Naerbu
Aliens_On_Earth_{Flux} By Box-Killa

Art Requests (1)
Kinetic By KrevZabijak

Member's Update #11:
[#] [Total] [Total Stats] [Total Ratio] || [Gain] [Weekly Stats] [Weekly Ratio] [Username]

1 ) 1567 | 244 / 244 | 100.00% || 130 | 20 / 20 | 100.00% Coop83
2 ) 1543 | 240 / 245 | 097.96% || 130 | 20 / 20 | 100.00% Haggard
3 ) 1483 | 230 / 230 | 100.00% || 124 | 19 / 19 | 100.00% Fro
4 ) 1169 | 181 / 222 | 081.53% || 086 | 14 / 20 | 070.00% Insanimation
05 ) 786 | 125 / 135 | 092.59% || 130 | 20 / 20 | 100.00% Supersteph54
06 ) 708 | 112 / 137 | 081.75% || 021 | 03 / 20 | 015.00% Soapbubble
07 ) 553 | 087 / 245 | 035.51% || 000 | 00 / 20 | 000.00% MulticanimeFan ***
08 ) 311 | 052 / 245 | 021.22% || 000 | 00 / 20 | 000.00% milinko959 *
09 ) 105 | 013 / 244 | 005.33% || 003 | 00 / 20 | 000.00% Sonofkirk
10 ) 085 | 014 / 215 | 006.51% || 000 | 00 / 20 | 000.00% EpicFail **
11 ) 060 | 009 / 105 | 008.57% || 000 | 00 / 20 | 000.00% FlashtoorREV *
12 ) 027 | 004 / 061 | 006.56% || 000 | 00 / 20 | 000.00% Frenzy **
13 ) 006 | 001 / 020 | 005.00% || 006 | 01 / 20 | 005.00% Lizzardis New

The stars indicate for how long the user has been inactive in this club. "Inactive" means, that user hasn't gained any points by reviewing OR by posting.
*: User has been inactive last week
**: User has been inactive for the last two weeks
***: User has been inactive for the last three weeks
****: User has been inactive for the last four weeks

If you are inactive for more than three weeks AND if your completion rate falls below 20%, OR if you are inactive for more than four weeks you are excluded from the list. You may rejoin this club, but your points will be lost.

Statistics:
*Requests this week: 20
Total requests all time: 245
Review made this week: 97
Average per member: 7.462
Average per request: 4.85

*New To the List: Lizzardis
Leaving the List: blackcat2000 and idiot-buster (on request)

*All Requests Completed:
Coop83, Haggard, Fro and Supersteph54

Member's Update #10 - 9/8/09

At 9/13/09 02:55 PM, Sonofkirk wrote: Flash Requests (4) - Brought to you by Coop83, Fro and I

4, and none requested by the authors themselves. Still, it's very rare for a flash to pass the front page without a review, unlike the audio portal, so they won't really need reviews.

Audio Requests (12)

12, getting better -.-.

Art Requests (1)
Kinetic By KrevZabijak

1. I think the most art requests in a week were 8.

Member's Update #11:

Thanks for the update :).

05 ) 786 | 125 / 135 | 092.59% || 130 | 20 / 20 | 100.00% Supersteph54
06 ) 708 | 112 / 137 | 081.75% || 021 | 03 / 20 | 015.00% Soapbubble

:D

*All Requests Completed:
...and Supersteph54

Heh, too easy XD.

At 9/13/09 02:55 PM, Sonofkirk wrote: Flash Requests (4) - Brought to you by Coop83, Fro and I
Audio Requests (12)
Art Requests (1)

We need more flash requests... And by requests I mean requests, not spotlights. :(
17 reviews in total this week, 3 less than last one. So it should be even easier to get them all done. :)

Member's Update #11:

Thanks for the update!

[#] [Total] [Total Stats] [Total Ratio] || [Gain] [Weekly Stats] [Weekly Ratio] [Username]
1 ) 1567 | 244 / 244 | 100.00% || 130 | 20 / 20 | 100.00% Coop83
2 ) 1543 | 240 / 245 | 097.96% || 130 | 20 / 20 | 100.00% Haggard
3 ) 1483 | 230 / 230 | 100.00% || 124 | 19 / 19 | 100.00% Fro
4 ) 1169 | 181 / 222 | 081.53% || 086 | 14 / 20 | 070.00% Insanimation
05 ) 786 | 125 / 135 | 092.59% || 130 | 20 / 20 | 100.00% Supersteph54
06 ) 708 | 112 / 137 | 081.75% || 021 | 03 / 20 | 015.00% Soapbubble

Oh, two of the top 6 didn't get 100% this time. Too bad. But at least the top 3 is still going strong, even though Fro falls behind because of his requests. But that's the price you have to pay. ^^

*New To the List: Lizzardis

Hi! I expect more reviews from you next time. :P

Leaving the List: blackcat2000 and idiot-buster (on request)

Bye. :(

*All Requests Completed:
Coop83, Haggard, Fro and Supersteph54

4 this time isn't too bad.

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  by <deleted>

  Under Judgment

  (Everyone)

view and review it

At 9/13/09 02:55 PM, Sonofkirk wrote: Flash Requests (4) - Brought to you by Coop83, Fro and I
Audio Requests (12)
Art Requests (1)

Well, this looks about like what an average week will turn out to be. I guess I'll just have to carry on reviewing and finding stuff to review elsewhere as well.

1 ) 1567 | 244 / 244 | 100.00% || 130 | 20 / 20 | 100.00% Coop83
2 ) 1543 | 240 / 245 | 097.96% || 130 | 20 / 20 | 100.00% Haggard
3 ) 1483 | 230 / 230 | 100.00% || 124 | 19 / 19 | 100.00% Fro

Thanks for the update, Sonofkirk. Nice to see that things are still ticking over here nicely with the regulars (supersteph included as well - just not in a neat little column like the rest of us... for now)

At 9/13/09 02:55 PM, Sonofkirk wrote: I have no time to comment on the update, I won't have access to the computer anymore in a minute. Here are the request for the next week, good luck everyone. Enjoy the update.

Well thanks for the update!

08 ) 311 | 052 / 245 | 021.22% || 000 | 00 / 20 | 000.00% milinko959 *

Sorry for this. Moving back to school has really cut into my NG time, especially reviews. Already done a good chunk of this list though.

Holy shrimp, I was looking through AnalPenguinFarming's Flash reviews (I know it's about time...). They are MASSIVE :O. Heh, and I thought I wrote long reviews... It must be a real loss taking him out of the RRC :(.

I don't know if I can make it to all of the reviews this week... Only did 1 art and 1 flash so far :'(.

At 9/15/09 08:09 AM, Lizzardis wrote:

At 9/15/09 07:51 AM, Supersteph54 wrote: Heh, and I thought I wrote long reviews... It must be a real loss taking him out of the RRC :(.

Wow! They are very good. Very well detailed too!

Yeah, I wuldn't be surprised if they're just about as much as the character limit.

I don't know if I can make it to all of the reviews this week... Only did 1 art and 1 flash so far :'(.

Well I've just started on my mission to complete every single flash request since the start of this thread...I have 60 left to do! 0.o

:[].

I'm just trying to make up for the lack of reviews i did before the last roster.

Oh yeah, you'll definitely be making up for it :D.

At 9/15/09 08:48 AM, Lizzardis wrote: Wasn't there a user a while back who actually had to use 2 accounts to post his reviews because they were so long and detailed?

No clue, but that sounds utterly amazing O.O.

At 9/15/09 08:48 AM, Lizzardis wrote:

At 9/15/09 08:46 AM, Supersteph54 wrote: Yeah, I wuldn't be surprised if they're just about as much as the character limit.

I've actually had many reviews go over the character limit, but I never used another account to finish them I just made them shorter.

Wasn't there a user a while back who actually had to use 2 accounts to post his reviews because they were so long and detailed?

http://afrounderscorestud.newgrounds.com /reviews/flash

I'm pretty sure a lot of the reviews were deleted because of the whole two accounts thing and it made him quite upset so he just sticks to B/Ping. Of course he's the top B/Per on the site. :P

Okay, for the last time, im IN THIS!!! Yeah ive been stupid thats because i forgot to type in my request in so Sonofirk, can u list me?

At 9/15/09 09:50 AM, Fro wrote:

Wasn't there a user a while back who actually had to use 2 accounts to post his reviews because they were so long and detailed?

http://afrounderscorestud.newgrounds.com /reviews/flash

I'm pretty sure a lot of the reviews were deleted because of the whole two accounts thing and it made him quite upset so he just sticks to B/Ping. Of course he's the top B/Per on the site. :P

Yes, it was afro and yes his reviews got deleted. Too bad he didn't quite understand why. I mean it's nice to read long and detailed reviews, but it's a review, you shouldn't write a book. Also, he rated the submissions he viewed twice because he used two accounts to review them, which is clearly against the rules.

At 9/15/09 10:46 AM, Joshsouza wrote: Okay, for the last time, im IN THIS!!! Yeah ive been stupid thats because i forgot to type in my request in so Sonofirk, can u list me?

Two things. First, I didn't added on the list the request that you posted on page 20 since your art was almost spam - no effort at all - and other members of the club approved this decision. And secondly, I'm not including you on the members list; as you said you are a "noob" and this club is not for "noob" reviewers, we look for quality reviewers who can write helpful reviews and provide tips for the authors.

Your reviews could be deleted since you are forbidden to post "TONS and TONS of crappy reviews just to get high in the rankings". Take a look at Coop83's reviews, that's how you have to review things to be a member.

At 9/15/09 09:24 AM, Lizzardis wrote: Well I know that Stamper did it with God a long while back. That's actually a funny review. I like that! xD

Suspended-3rd-Chord has done that with 3 accounts last year, that's pretty epic :P

This club rules and has been giving me such awesome feed back! I love it! thank you so much! i have a remix that i did of my latest song that is pretty tight, i'd love for anyone to check it out! Thank you for your time :D. -Bracksta

Cast From the Stars (Chill MX)