At 10/12/09 10:08 PM, Fro wrote:
I know many of you don't visit the audio portal much, but I tend to see college assignments or other type of assignments for audio every week or so. I tend to review at least 10 audio a week and more times or not you find one like that. Most of the time they are good too so I believe they are legitimate.
That's a good point. I'm thinking at this point it's three groups of people:
1) One nucleus of people that made a bunch of submissions as a joke, for a class, etc.
2) A bunch of people that actually made flash for a class earlier on and figured "hey, if they can get a flash on NG for their schoolwork, so can i!"
3) Spammers that decided to try to sneak a few flash and fileswap
Oh well, just another NG fad that will come and go, just like Barney Bunch fileswaps. I remember trying to track the "decently good" flash they used as a facade for that stuff.
At 10/13/09 09:18 AM, michelinman wrote:
This whole situation makes me think of how much NG has changed. Flashes nowadays have the benefit of the doubt. Almost every flash makes it through judgement. I remember back in the day everyone used to watch UJ flashes with their cursor hovering over the vote 0 button. Haha. It's not a bad change I suppose, but it's different. :P
This is very true. Getting my own Flash on NG was like some huge stroke of luck. It's all but meaningless, but I at least concentrated on making the stuff not look like it was complete garbage. I think plenty of people were submitting holiday Flash at the time so people were a bit more forgiving. Of course, even 2005 wasn't as bad as 2001-2003, when NOTHING got on the Portal, practically.
That's also why I still have such a high Blam count compared to a Protect count. Times have changed for sure.