At 9/14/05 08:28 PM, gumOnShoe wrote:

At 9/14/05 07:51 PM, Pauls wrote:

At 9/14/05 06:06 PM, gumOnShoe wrote: Actually the scores do change after they pass judgement. Usually dropping or raising .4 after the movie comes in. It really depends on the traffic and who was on at the time. This allows new submissions to make their way into the top 50 and

Yeah but it doesn't change the score dramaticly because people tend to vote equally both while the submission is under judgement and after it has passed the judgement.

No... I'm sure liljim could prove that, but he doesn't release the statistics. Besides the fact that while a movie is under judgement people are blam/save happy and don't always vote like they would once it is out.

Well, could you imagine a world without the following?:

Turd of the Week
Underdog of the Week
and Weekly User's Choice?

I'm sure no Turd of the Week would really piss off some people... I know it would piss off me, wondering how that flash ever got passed judgement...

it allows more traffic for NG because people are attracted to vote on their favorite submissions. Is it neccesary no, but its a good idea anyway.

You see I'm not very thrilled about this idea of making people vote on submissions that have already achieved a stable score. Because their vote isn't going to mean jack shit. Since the quality of a submission has already been desided.

If it doesn't matter don't change it. It makes people come here. Its not causing problems

No response here...

Newgrounds should be more about viewing and showcasing than stats and voting. It'll make thing alot simpler and pherhaps attract even more users and potential artists. Instead of stat whores who think their voting and opinions matter.

To me it seems like a waste of resourses.

It isn't a waste of resources. It doesn't effect the bandwith at all. And the voting attracts more people than you would believe. And another thing you have not considered is that sometimes movies are updated after they are submitted. If this happens, the scores may change.

If it weren't for those voting things, I would never be at NG.

It isn't causing any problems, just deal with the system

It really isn't - I agree, go with the flow, and vote on already submitted flashes.

I think that maybe the helpful/not helpful feature should be remove from the reviews just leaving the abusive button.

They should be removed because hardly anyone uses the helpful/not helpful buttons for whether they're helpful or not, people just mark a review as helpful if the reviewer likes the movie that they like, but if the reviewer hates the movie that person likes it gets marked as not helpful no matter how good the review.

So that feature really doesn't work at all, as people don't use it for the purpose that it's intended for.

I think something on the bbs that only grabs the pictures and you can scroll through it like a gallery. Maybe have a ratings system aswell.

uhm.. could you change it that they open in a new window? I accedently clicked away a few movies.

Wow... Just think i've had ideas for all of my different alias'... LamboFactor, Rude_Buddha, Religiously_Rude, and now BareNaked/CuteLittle EmoKid...

This idea is for the audio portal:

Earlier today i was downloading some music for itunes in the student lounge at my school (from the NG audio)... I liked some of the songs and well i decided to download some of them for the itunes on my computer... While i was at the audio portal i was thinking of all the ideas suggested (by myself and others) to make the audio portal better...

The actual idea:

When you go to the audio portal page and it shows the recent submissions and it shows the name of the song and the genre... What about the author? I think you should add a colomn for the authors so you can see who submitted the music...

At 9/15/05 01:40 PM, Britkid wrote: Ok, how about an exalt or smite button?

If you like another user, for good BBS posting, good movies, good b/p or something like that, you could use the exalt button to show on their profile how many exalt or smit buttons they have.

Similarly, if a user is going round spamming or posting unhelpful post or keeps on submitting crappy movies, you could "smite" them.
So, in a new exalt/smite bar, there could be 1 point for an exaltation and a -1 point for a smiting.

I don't think that would work. People would fuck around with it, and we'd have to come up with some sort of system to make sure people don't screw around, and would just end up making things needlessly complicated.

Or we could have the "smite" system be linked to the "whistle" system - if you smite someone wrongly, it would count against you.

At 9/15/05 07:04 PM, BareNakedEmoKid wrote:
The actual idea:

When you go to the audio portal page and it shows the recent submissions and it shows the name of the song and the genre... What about the author? I think you should add a colomn for the authors so you can see who submitted the music...

i'm liking the small idea, but i think the whole audio portal layout needs a change. i noticed there was a graphics buff, and not a lot of support is thrown to the author.

Well, it's goo to know that we now have reply with quote/reply buttons on deleted account posts, but what about reviews?

At 9/15/05 07:59 PM, OsAmARaMa wrote: Well, it's goo to know that we now have reply with quote/reply buttons on deleted account posts, but what about reviews?

Well, I'm sure we don't really need it - it says specifically you are reviewing the submission, not other reviews.

Also, where'd you get that picture from? lol....

At 9/15/05 10:58 PM, Nomader wrote: Also, where'd you get that picture from? lol....

I made it myself...but the review is real and all.

At 9/16/05 12:12 PM, Funkybob2 wrote: How about a system that shows your chances of being modded? In members grounds gold menu, it would should the chance of you being modding in percents. So if you're a very well liked bbs user, or mature or just have a high chance in general, it would say about 88%. It would greatly reduce, "CAN I BE A MOD?!" threads.

Anyone that would make a thread like that drastically reduces any chance they ever had.

At 9/16/05 12:24 PM, Maus wrote: Anyone that would make a thread like that drastically reduces any chance they ever had.

Anyone who cares about it that much wouldn't even be considerd.

At 9/16/05 12:42 PM, Funkybob2 wrote: Ok, I just had a great idea. What if there was a whistle button for under judgment movies that are just one cut out picture with speakonia?

There would be no need for it. People would just blam it.

At 9/16/05 04:08 PM, Funkybob2 wrote: Oh, one more thing. What if there was a rule banning anyone who had anything directly hateful to another Ng member on there sig pic. I've seen several Sig pics with hateful messages to other Newgrounds members.

Actually, I'm pretty sure some mods and admins can delete sig pics... I'm not complteltly sure though...

At 9/16/05 04:12 PM, Nomader wrote: Actually, I'm pretty sure some mods and admins can delete sig pics... I'm not complteltly sure though...

They can do that.

At 9/16/05 04:12 PM, Nomader wrote: Actually, I'm pretty sure some mods and admins can delete sig pics... I'm not complteltly sure though...

Perfect lead in to the next suggestion that I had. I was just trying to remove the link in my current signature pic since it leads to a topic of mine where I offered to make sig pics for other people. However, as of a couple months ago sig topics are no longer allowed in general, so nobody could ever request anything new, and if they attempted to it would result in the thread probably being locked, or them getting their post deleted and banned.

TO THE POINT: I was wondering if we could have (in the Grounds Gold Menu) the option of removing the link ONLY. We can remove the whole thing, or we can update the URL if we simultaneously update the sig pic, but we can't just update the URL it links to (or delete it completely for that matter). It'd be nice if we could do that.

That's all I can think of for now. The above is bolded so it stands out more so jim doesn't have to bother with all my other mindless blathering.

As for a statistic that tracks likelyhood of becoming a moderator: not only is the idea in itself ridiculous, but also impossible. It's a subjective thing, not objective, so you'd never be able to implement it anyway.

At 6/8/05 05:49 PM, Denvish wrote: BBS spell checker.

Smilies in BBS posts.

Polls for BBS.

Favorite threads in Profile.

Why exactly are these not put into Ng? I mean an actual reason. Those would do a lot of good for Newgrounds.

At 9/17/05 08:52 AM, Nightmaric wrote: Why exactly are these not put into Ng? I mean an actual reason.

And you will get an actual reason.

BBS spell checker.

MS Word has a spell checker. People can use that or ignore it adn tpye badly lkie tehy alwais hav.

Smilies in BBS posts.

We technically have a smiley and one should be more than enough. Or just use :) or =). Also, smiley spam can happen and using 6,500 smilies in a post would make scrolling impossible and freeze the browser (I've only survived 200 animated smilies on a different site).

Polls for BBS.

Online polls are always unreliable and if you've been on this BBS long enough, you can already guess half the topics that are going to pop up.

Favorite threads in Profile.

Topics would probably get bumped up more often.

At 9/17/05 08:52 AM, Nightmaric wrote:

Favorite threads in Profile.

I believe that if you bump random threads for no reason, and simply respond to somebody who last posted around 20 months ago, I believe that the thread would be locked, and it might get you a ban (not sure about that though)

The only thing that might work, is if you can only link to lounges, or highly successful clubs (as the NG Congress once was...)

Even that might not work, as the lounges might simply die. That would not be good, if people were again posting in a thread where the last person posted 20 months ago.

I think that's why we can't do that suggestion.

I've got an idea. I read the stuff, and I didn't see this, so hopefully it was not already said:

Have another color for the portal for scores above 4.0, like white.

By the guideline questions:

a. How much bandwidth? Barely any, if any at all. Firstly, small gifs like that aren't big filesizes. Secondly, if it hadn't been there, people would be loading the blue one anyways.

b. What level of demand? I can't be sure, but I know personally that sometimes when I'm just breezing through Newgrounds, I like to see the really good entries in the portal that have just come in. Yes, a 3.7 is very good, but when something is at 4.0 or above, it's like a must-see.

c. Serve a purpose? It would create more traffic for those peoples' flashes with high scores, giving them more publicity and also making portal browsing easier for users.

d. Is there something else already? Nope. We just have Red for near death, Green for decent score, and blue for excellent score. I think there should be a white for amazing (or stupendous, or exceptional, or whatever you want to call it) scores.

e. Somethign else awaiting implementation? No.

f. Reasoning included.

so to sum up:
Some times I don't have time to look at all the blue colored flashes in the portal, I only have time to watch 1 or 2. I think it'd be great to have a white-colored one (obviously also with it's own design, so it's not pure white, so it'd be like white and light grey) for the really amazing flashes that managed to scrape a score above 4.0.

Thanks for listening.

At 9/17/05 02:32 PM, TwinsenDude wrote: I've got an idea. I read the stuff, and I didn't see this, so hopefully it was not already said:

Have another color for the portal for scores above 4.0, like white.

I like the idea, but white isn't the best color - it would look too much like an under judgement flash... maybe pink?

Oh, right, I have another question - about red - I never see any red flashes, and if I do, it's normally an error for an under judgement flash... why is this?

At 9/17/05 02:37 PM, Nomader wrote: Oh, right, I have another question - about red - I never see any red flashes, and if I do, it's normally an error for an under judgement flash... why is this?

Because by the time you've loaded it, played it, and voted - it's been blammed. I'm not sure how many votes away from being blammed 'verge of death' means, but it's not many.

At 9/18/05 03:06 AM, Kam-Ron wrote: I have an idea, but I have no idea if it posted before. Why not use PayPal as an option of paying for stickers? I would think it'd be easier, and Wade wouldn't have to sort through all the envelopes and it wouldn't get all unorganized. The only real downside of it is Wade would have to provide the envelope. Just a thought.

And also why not have Wade charge us for the envelope. I'm sure people would pay a bit extra for less work.

Another thought I'd rather have the secret 2 be secret 3 or higher, because I think that should be earned. I hope that doesn't break the rule what I just said. It doesn't reveal much.

At 9/17/05 09:23 AM, Qwoxyl wrote: smiley spam can happen and using 6,500 smilies in a post would make scrolling impossible and freeze the browser

What about a limitation of, say 3? and ":)" can not count as words, so they can't just post ":):):)" and if you say that they'll just post something like ":)7:)7:)7" It's the same as basic spam. They'd do the same with or without the smilies.

At 9/17/05 05:18 PM, Maus wrote:

At 9/17/05 02:37 PM, Nomader wrote: Oh, right, I have another question - about red - I never see any red flashes, and if I do, it's normally an error for an under judgement flash... why is this?

Because by the time you've loaded it, played it, and voted - it's been blammed. I'm not sure how many votes away from being blammed 'verge of death' means, but it's not many.

So it's only for under judgement flashes? I've never really understood what that meant...

Review ranks.
We could get ranks for how many reviews we get just like how we rank up b/p and exp points. They don't do this because of course this would make people spam with reviews more. But what if we got a reward for whistle points. That would make people flag spam reviews more so it would be ok!

The review ranks could be like these
http://getrdonesites..ry%20Types/ranks.gif

or these
http://www.digitaleq..icc/images/Ranks.jpg

If I find more I'll post 'em

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Also BBS post ranks would be nice but *sigh* we can't do it becaseu it would encourage spam and blahdee blahdee blah.

But wouldn't that be cool?

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Oh yeah also what if NG had a currency like the revird did. They could be used for buying sigs and stuff maybe. What would really be cool would be is if there was a shop and a lottery that we could spend our money type thing on. The Revird was gonna have this also.

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And there should also be a spell checker that would *duh* check yur spelling before you posted and also we need to be able to EDIT OUR POSTS!! How many times have you had to double post because of a spelling mistake or you forgot a picture or something like that?

At 9/18/05 07:15 PM, Big_SciZot wrote: And there should also be a spell checker that would *duh* check yur spelling before you posted and also we need to be able to EDIT OUR POSTS!! How many times have you had to double post because of a spelling mistake or you forgot a picture or something like that?

And how many times have I had to post as to why those two suggestions will never be implemented, despite them both cropping up in this thread, its predecessor and a plethora of other threads throughout the bbs. Ross was even replying to that sort of suggestion back in 2001.

Not sure if this has been posted but what about a profile stat of the % of where we posted

General 33%
Wi/HT 22%
Politics 45%

Something like that...

~X~

At 9/18/05 08:09 PM, XwaynecoltX wrote: General 33%
Wi/HT 22%
Politics 45%

Users would just post in each forum (even if they didn't have the first clue about what they were talking about, let's say in the flash forum, or the audio forum) just to try and get an equilibrium-type percentage.