I lost 3 reviews the other day, and although I don't know exactly which ones, they were all for stolen shit. They're working through it apparently, but for something 6 weeks old, I'd say drop a note. When I compile my list I usually leave out anything under 2 weeks old on flagging. The stuff older than a mont has been on the back burner so long they've likely forgotten about it.

At 8/29/03 02:50 AM, gfoxcook wrote: Tell me about it. I reviewed and whistled a stolen moonlander knockoff/ripoff on July 9th (that's 6 weeks ago now!!!).... and it's STILL not cleared from review.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view.php?id=108732

Well, they finally cleared ChatClock stealing the stolen movie a few days ago, so that one should hopefully go soon (I wasn't aware the one you said was stolen, but CC's was exactly the same) and lose me a review too.

The new voting system has kicked in - grand total of 4 points yesterday, and lost two ranks. Only the second time that's happened ever for me since April when I came back. There's three new movies in the portal under judgement that I could have watched, but fived my favourites instead to get my daily points. If I get this job I have an interview for today, I'll pretty much just be here to get my daily points until we get broadband. Which could be a week, a month or never.

At 8/29/03 05:24 AM, jonthomson wrote:

Well, they finally cleared ChatClock stealing the stolen movie a few days ago, so that one should hopefully go soon (I wasn't aware the one you said was stolen, but CC's was exactly the same) and lose me a review too.

Chat's in deep shit no matter which way you look at it. Getting cleared in one instance isn't going to help him.

If I get this job I have an interview for today, I'll pretty much just be here to get my daily points until we get broadband. Which could be a week, a month or never.

Good luck !! DSL is always an option. A friend of mine has a phone for one reason ... to get DSL. I have to call into the cell to get an answer =) When they have problems with the internet and call Frontier ... can't tell them the phone number but can recite the IP lol

I just pulled Chat up. I was already pretty sure he was screwed. Now that I'm putting this together I see just how badly lol

He's now calling himself Illwipeass (PID 432720). He's down to 4 flash listed out of at least 14+ ... LMFAO ... Undress Bunnies is the exact same thing we flagged at least 5 other times as being overly porn. All the other copies of it finally got deleted and hopefully that one follows suit. There's dress-ups, there's theres trash like that.

Two weeks running he and FlameClock were pulling the switch game to try for Turd of the Week. Wade must have finally read all the e-mails on it so those are gone now as well.

He has an alternate submitting account, Chaturai (598567) with which he resubmitted Blammed Fury and TROC1. That's against at least two rules. Both of them are flagged as stolen too lol

After Toocool and Syme started rifling through my stuff, I went through theirs (wink wink). Quoted from Syme's reviews:

THIEF August 19, 2003
Entry: TROC I - Clockday Overall rating: 0
yet anotherstolen submission from chatclock. hehas his own ID and already submitted this.
Graphics: 0 Sound: 0 Interactivity: 0 Style: 0 Violence: 0 Humor: 0

Author's response:
hmm, i am chatclock u silly fuck, i made a new account cause i was in deep shit with ma other one, fuck you

0/0 people found this review helpful. Did you? [YES] | [NO] | [ABUSIVE]

THIEF August 19, 2003
Entry: Blammed Fury - Pizza Paai Overall rating: 0
dunno why you are stealing from chatclock, but he has his own portal ID and this ain't it.
Graphics: 0 Sound: 0 Interactivity: 0 Style: 0 Violence: 0 Humor: 0

Author's response:
again, for fuck sake, i am chatclock, i made a new account cause i wasin deep shit with the chatclock account

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BTW Syme, Impetus wasn't kidding. You really need to give some decent reviews out. Give some encouragement to someone ... ANYONE. You've got favorites listed ... write something nice about them or something lol

At 8/28/03 10:02 AM, jonthomson wrote: I'll probably drop my rate from 30/day to about 10/day.

Lol I'm down to about one a day!

At 8/29/03 06:21 AM, D0GMA wrote:

At 8/29/03 05:24 AM, jonthomson wrote:

Well, they finally cleared ChatClock stealing the stolen movie a few days ago, so that one should hopefully go soon (I wasn't aware the one you said was stolen, but CC's was exactly the same) and lose me a review too.

Chat's in deep shit no matter which way you look at it. Getting cleared in one instance isn't going to help him.

By cleared, I meant cleared from the backlog. The movie got deleted.

There's only one choice for broadband where I'm at right now. It's just a question of persuading the olds to get it in.

Hello Members! Just wanted to stop in and say hello to you all, hope all is going well for you all.......Been quite busy but i hope to return too, talk to you all soon laters.......

At 8/29/03 08:38 AM, -_James_- wrote:

At 8/28/03 10:02 AM, jonthomson wrote: I'll probably drop my rate from 30/day to about 10/day.

Lol I'm down to about one a day!

What really pisses me off is when you watch the damn submission and the buttons fail to appear. Complete waste of time, especially if the submission was crap.

At 8/29/03 03:35 PM, Recon_Rebel wrote:

At 8/29/03 08:38 AM, -_James_- wrote:

At 8/28/03 10:02 AM, jonthomson wrote: I'll probably drop my rate from 30/day to about 10/day.

Lol I'm down to about one a day!

What really pisses me off is when you watch the damn submission and the buttons fail to appear. Complete waste of time, especially if the submission was crap.

I dunno - maybe try to refresh the view submission page while leaving the movie open? I haven't had any problems yet but that sometimes worked for me before the new system.

One good thing is that with no incentive to view large new flashes, I can do some unfinished projects, like working through and reviewing the top 50. I've just seen Qi for the first time and it's fucking brilliant.

At 8/29/03 11:57 AM, XkwiziTOnE wrote: Hello Members! Just wanted to stop in and say hello to you all, hope all is going well for you all.......Been quite busy but i hope to return too, talk to you all soon laters.......

damn good day it's only morning for you now i all way's for get that =)

At 8/29/03 03:41 PM, jonthomson wrote:

At 8/29/03 03:35 PM, Recon_Rebel wrote:

One good thing is that with no incentive to view large new flashes, I can do some unfinished projects, like working through and reviewing the top 50. I've just seen Qi for the first time and it's fucking brilliant.

I could have told you that ;) It's been my "Favorite Flash" since I had anything listed as "Favorite Flash" lol

What's funny about Qi is that all summer it was "precarious," dropping as low as 29 every Wednesday with the weekly influx of good-but-overrated-stuff. By the following Wednesday it would bob back up to the low 20s as all the overrated stuff got voted down, then start it all over again. Now it's back in the teens. w00t!!!

I just leveled up woo hoo

At 8/29/03 06:31 PM, popularjck wrote: I just leveled up woo hoo

Congrats, only another 10 weeks until you level up again :-)

At 8/29/03 05:34 PM, D0GMA wrote:

At 8/29/03 03:41 PM, jonthomson wrote:

At 8/29/03 03:35 PM, Recon_Rebel wrote:

One good thing is that with no incentive to view large new flashes, I can do some unfinished projects, like working through and reviewing the top 50. I've just seen Qi for the first time and it's fucking brilliant.

I could have told you that ;) It's been my "Favorite Flash" since I had anything listed as "Favorite Flash" lol

What's funny about Qi is that all summer it was "precarious," dropping as low as 29 every Wednesday with the weekly influx of good-but-overrated-stuff. By the following Wednesday it would bob back up to the low 20s as all the overrated stuff got voted down, then start it all over again. Now it's back in the teens. w00t!!!

A similar thing happens with lots of movies - look at my favourite movie, Johnny Rocketfingers, in the teens. That does the same fluctuation, only higher up and will hopefully climb back into the top ten where it belongs. I should have got a screenie of that one glorious day in mid-June when JR was rated number 1. Only reason I don't have JR listed as my number 1 is that I feel Dopewars is just so cool I want people to see it if I ever became UOTD. Sonne is another good example.

Off to watch something now, and make my new sig further out of date. Winamp-esque coloured bars are cool :-)

At 8/29/03 06:31 PM, popularjck wrote: I just leveled up woo hoo

congrats popularjck =)

At 8/29/03 06:49 PM, _lightning_ wrote: congrats popularjck =)

Uh _lightning_, you do know the difference between 7 and 9 right?

Pssst. Check your BBS sig.

At 8/29/03 08:56 PM, Recon_Rebel wrote: Uh _lightning_, you do know the difference between 7 and 9 right?

Pssst. Check your BBS sig.

LOL! He has his wi/ht rank listed as if he joined after me!

Oh, and he might have his bp total wrong as well, I didn't check his profile...

At 8/29/03 05:24 AM, jonthomson wrote:

At 8/29/03 02:50 AM, gfoxcook wrote: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view.php?id=108732

Well, they finally cleared ChatClock stealing the stolen movie a few days ago, so that one should hopefully go soon (I wasn't aware the one you said was stolen, but CC's was exactly the same) and lose me a review too.

I'd seen the exact same game by a different author a few weeks before, the only thing different about the flash at the above address was that he'd changed the UFO from the original ship to a crappier one.

Changing one image and leaving the rest as-is, to me, is stealing.

The new voting system has kicked in - grand total of 4 points yesterday, and lost two ranks. Only the second time that's happened ever for me since April when I came back. There's three new movies in the portal under judgement that I could have watched, but fived my favourites instead to get my daily points. If I get this job I have an interview for today, I'll pretty much just be here to get my daily points until we get broadband. Which could be a week, a month or never.

Hmmm. I feel yer pain, man (mostly with regards to the dreary dirge that is the job search nowadays, but also in regard to the broadband-lackingness. I myself was in your shoes from 1996 (when I moved offcampus and lost ethernet) till 2001 (when I finally got my cable modem), and am deeply saddened for your pitiful point accruing... (sniff)

At 8/29/03 03:41 PM, jonthomson wrote:

At 8/29/03 03:35 PM, Recon_Rebel wrote: What really pisses me off is when you watch the damn submission and the buttons fail to appear. Complete waste of time, especially if the submission was crap.

I dunno - maybe try to refresh the view submission page while leaving the movie open? I haven't had any problems yet but that sometimes worked for me before the new system.

That's another thing that's irritating about this new system, and you don't have to have the blank-white-screen-on-most-movies shit like you and others have to have THIS problem.

If you refresh the flash page, even with the flash movie open, or if you vote on the flash movie, but there's an error on NG and you have to go back... it ALWAYS hides the voting panel again, so you have to close the flash and open it again.

It's fairly aggravating.

One good thing is that with no incentive to view large new flashes, I can do some unfinished projects, like working through and reviewing the top 50. I've just seen Qi for the first time and it's fucking brilliant.

:::nods::: Qi's in my faves. If you want some good recommendations aside from the top 50 that's there now, check out the top er... 32 that's in my profile. My newly-expanded fave movie list isn't quite done yet, I think I'll find 18 movies (even just among my reviews... yeah, check through my reviews, too, if you want. over 80 movies in there, and most are good ones to me at least) to fill it up to a full top 50.

The 10 or so after the Beebo movies are especially recommended. Those are the ones that were my top 10 before this new limit was expanded.

At 8/29/03 06:48 PM, jonthomson wrote:

At 8/29/03 05:34 PM, D0GMA wrote: I could have told you that ;) It's been my "Favorite Flash" since I had anything listed as "Favorite Flash" lol

What's funny about Qi is that all summer it was "precarious," dropping as low as 29 every Wednesday with the weekly influx of good-but-overrated-stuff. By the following Wednesday it would bob back up to the low 20s as all the overrated stuff got voted down, then start it all over again. Now it's back in the teens. w00t!!!

Yar... it's nice to see it and Sonne holding on so well up there.

I wish the same could be said for at least ONE of the Beebos (part 6 would be the best candidate, the rest, aside from 7 which wasn't the best by far, are all down at like #400 now, it's horrible).

John's Arm series is also not doing well enough, but at least one part is still on the top 50. I Eat People should be closer to being on the list, if not on it...

I forgot to put John's Arm on my faves list, I'll have to do that sometime. Hmmm....

A similar thing happens with lots of movies - look at my favourite movie, Johnny Rocketfingers, in the teens. That does the same fluctuation, only higher up and will hopefully climb back into the top ten where it belongs. I should have got a screenie of that one glorious day in mid-June when JR was rated number 1. Only reason I don't have JR listed as my number 1 is that I feel Dopewars is just so cool I want people to see it if I ever became UOTD. Sonne is another good example.

I keep Beebo part 2 at the top of my list because it's my fave movie on NG, but I also am hoping to advertise it via the UOTD slot for when I get it, as well. :::nods::: #;-}>

Off to watch something now, and make my new sig further out of date. Winamp-esque coloured bars are cool :-)

Your new sig rules! Could you post the last update of your old one, though? I'd like to compare the looks if you don't mind.

At 8/29/03 10:51 PM, -_James_- wrote:

At 8/29/03 08:56 PM, Recon_Rebel wrote: Uh _lightning_, you do know the difference between 7 and 9 right?

Pssst. Check your BBS sig.

......

!!!!!

LOL! He has his wi/ht rank listed as if he joined after me!

Oh, and he might have his bp total wrong as well, I didn't check his profile...

Not just AFTER you, but he has it listed as though he's got MY number! WTF?!?!?

"--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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am #37 of b/s BLAM/SAVE's: 7,550
Voting Power: 8.30 votes
where is/how to? #9 sig by war machine
BBS RULES!-HELPFUL LINKS!-E-MAIL ME! "

What be up with that, man?!

The funniest part of it is... wasn't lightning the guy who didn't join the membership until there were 6 members so he could get #7? If I'm remembering my reading wrong, let me know, but I know someone heldout until they could get a specific number, and I think it was him.

And now, what, he wants MY number? #;-}>

Well, I'd trade with him if he felt THAT strongly about it, but it wouldn't be fair to James to jump over him to #7. :::nods:::

:::points lightning down to the #9 in MY sig, damnit!:::

At 8/29/03 10:51 PM, -_James_- wrote:

At 8/29/03 08:56 PM, Recon_Rebel wrote: Uh _lightning_, you do know the difference between 7 and 9 right?

Pssst. Check your BBS sig.

LOL! He has his wi/ht rank listed as if he joined after me!

Oh, and he might have his bp total wrong as well, I didn't check his profile...

lol that was stupid =P and yes my bs total is wrong a lot too becouse i don't update that ever day =)

At 8/30/03 09:00 AM, _lightning_ wrote: lol that was stupid =P and yes my bs total is wrong a lot too becouse i don't update that ever day =)

Well yeah, that changes all the time. If you're voting heavy, it can change every few minutes...

BUT YOUR WI/HT MEMBER # NEVER CHANGES, DAMNIT! Stop stealin' my number without askin' first! #;-}>

anywho, I'm tired and I'm out...

I was considering an all nighter to try and fix my off-kilter sleep schedule, especially considering I'm trying to slam into Lieutenant Colonel just after the weekend ends, and considering there's maintenance in a bit less than 24 hours, and sleeping then would be ideal...

but I can't make it another 14 hours or so, so I gotta nap. Hitting the couch (hit the bed, sleep for 12 hours prolly... too comfy) so I don't sleep for too long. Might be back on in around 5 hours... then again, might wander to the bed upon waking up groggy and sleep for another 8 after that! Heh. Happy Labor Day Weekend, anyone who cares...

and this makes... 2700. Later!

At 8/30/03 10:28 AM, gfoxcook wrote: BUT YOUR WI/HT MEMBER # NEVER CHANGES, DAMNIT! Stop stealin' my number without askin' first! #;-}>

well it's only a number, good night =)

At 8/30/03 04:32 PM, _lightning_ wrote:

At 8/30/03 10:28 AM, gfoxcook wrote: BUT YOUR WI/HT MEMBER # NEVER CHANGES, DAMNIT! Stop stealin' my number without askin' first! #;-}>

well it's only a number, good night =)

That's funny. How is everyone? Just stopped in to say hi. I see spancker has vanished again. I think the new voting system has a few people upset. Hey! I'm close to 300 posts (lol).

At 8/30/03 04:44 PM, Afterburner wrote: That's funny. How is everyone? Just stopped in to say hi. I see spancker has vanished again. I think the new voting system has a few people upset. Hey! I'm close to 300 posts (lol).

/me waves to Afterburner's contrail

At 8/30/03 04:44 PM, Afterburner wrote: That's funny. How is everyone? Just stopped in to say hi. I see spancker has vanished again. I think the new voting system has a few people upset. Hey! I'm close to 300 posts (lol).

haven't seen you in a while how are you?? =)

At 8/30/03 04:44 PM, Afterburner wrote: That's funny. How is everyone? Just stopped in to say hi. I see spancker has vanished again. I think the new voting system has a few people upset. Hey! I'm close to 300 posts (lol).

Yeah, that new voting system pisses me off.

View submission (c. 300K, author b+) hoping to get a very rare save point.

No preloader.

Movie appears to be about 15 frames repeating.

Continues for ages while it loads.

Pause Winamp to see if there's a funny audio clip. Silence.

Wait for movie to finish loading.

Movie finishes loading, a crude death scene of three stick-esque figures appears for a second. Movie ends.

I vote 0.

My vote lowers rating to 2.11. Bollocks. I'm not going to get those two minutes of my life back :-(

Well, its for the benefits of the authors I say. Not much for the Blammers and savers ;-).