At 5/4/12 01:39 PM, SCTE3 wrote: Portal banning everyone just to keep a few accounts from uploading content is still a terrible idea.

Precisely.

That's why our focus is on shovelware accounts that submit twice a day everyday.

Just sayin'

At 5/4/12 10:03 PM, SCTE3 wrote: So aside from it being a screamer, it doesn't do anything?

Eh, I don't think it does anything more, because as misty said, the previous one was the same and that was a screamer (at least, it was a pic of a roblox guy saying "i am teh noobz", because my volume was on mute.
I'm sure it'll get blammed eventually.

At 5/4/12 09:54 PM, MistyEntertainment wrote: also I think screamers are against the rules

I have to ask, what is a screamer?

I'm having a serious problem with this guy. He's been submitting crap games almost every day, all with mochiads. I would think it's safe to assume it's a shovelware account

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  Snake, Just simple snake.

  by TGAMES901

  Its just a game of snake

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If I see one more version of Snake I don't know what I'll do. I'm guessing that there is a tutorial that can be found that gives you the programming so it takes little effort at all. Why would you upload it, if I wanted to play Snake I'd buy an old Nokia.

This isn't abusive but it shows the horrendously low standards a flash needs to pass

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I've seen a few things in the portal over the passed few hours that have been marker by the genre mods as stolen. I didn't think that it was worth bringing them up in here but for future reference should I? I mean, after they have been marked they will more then defiantly get blammed anyway so whats the point.

Just a video ripped off of Youtube:

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Original video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqHeSaAIl4c

At 5/7/12 10:36 AM, SCTE3 wrote: Seems some voters choose to ignore tags altogether.

Sometimes I lose a little faith in the NG Portal system but I guess that is why we are here.

Haha congrats on the 1337th page, guys. May the Barracks continue to prosper and serve for the good of the Portal.

*Salute*

The EGB thread has of course gotten to the 1,337 page, but its being going for 7 years now. Amazing to thing how many pages this club has so many memories. Nice to see you on here TailsPrower. Thanks for the warning SCTE3 I wont be clicking on that link!

1337 pages over 7 years - that's quite an accomplishment!

I salute all of the EGB, both past and present, for doing such a great job in protecting the portal and making Newgrounds a better place for all of us. I am honored to be a member of these barracks, and hope that we have many more years of service ahead of all of us. The recent activity in this thread shows the Newgrounds community that we do not sit idly by while junk floods the portal - that we have the best of the best on guard each and every day.

Keep up the excellent work, my comrades - and keep fighting the good fight!

(Now, if we could just convince Chuck Norris to join...)

*SALUTES*

As you were...

At 5/7/12 08:31 PM, byteslinger wrote: 1337 pages over 7 years - that's quite an accomplishment!

Yay for the EGB! I have to ask this though, why are we celebrating the 1337th page? Is it exactly 7 years and people just keep highlighting how many pages we have got in that time?

(Now, if we could just convince Chuck Norris to join...)

We need to aquire an email address and then hope that he reads it. I see no other way.

*SALUTES*

*Salutes*

At 5/7/12 05:36 PM, SCTE3 wrote: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/595091
Do not watch. Automatically puts you in fullscreen and has loud music. Does not appear to do anything else though.

What is so malicious about this? Ok it pops up full screen and has loud music but I don't see how it should be deleted, there's no rule breaking going on. It's more of a spam/joke than anything else. All you have to do is hit esc once, it doesn't hijack your screen.

I'm starting to think that genre mods shouldn't just be allowed to mindlessly change tags to deletion and do not open this, or whatever else. This is definitely a case where I don't think it's warranted.

At 5/8/12 10:52 AM, SCTE3 wrote:

At 5/8/12 10:30 AM, SpiffyMasta wrote: What is so malicious about this? Ok it pops up full screen and has loud music but I don't see how it should be deleted, there's no rule breaking going on. It's more of a spam/joke than anything else. All you have to do is hit esc once, it doesn't hijack your screen.

Felt like it was though. Automatically forcing the viewer into full screen. :(

Wade decided to delete it even though it wasn't the most malicious thing ever. So I guess you were partly right.

Stolen, any idea where the original might be?

What pointed you towards saying it is stolen? It looks cruddy, that's about it. Prob borderline shovelware.

At 5/8/12 03:18 PM, SCTE3 wrote: So anyone noticed that at least two different accounts today have uploaded content that is "find the difference" with the main site they all go to being NextDifferenceGames?
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/595145
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/595137

Yea already spotted those earlier. Reported to Wade, but he's out and about ATM. There was actually a couple other ones that he deleted earlier from NDG.

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Stolen entry.

The user Cadenm09 has been submitting stolen flash for a while now, methinks.

Original listed below:

Link

Well the portal seems to be bursting with under judgement flashes at the moment, I wonder if it is anything to do with the fact that it is Friday. I've also throught that since the redesign it has taken a longer time for an under judgement flash to get saved or blammed, does anybody know if the amount of votes needed or however it is done has changed?

At 5/10/12 04:26 PM, Decky wrote: Well the portal seems to be bursting with under judgement flashes at the moment, I wonder if it is anything to do with the fact that it is Friday.

It's Thursday.

I've also throught that since the redesign it has taken a longer time for an under judgement flash to get saved or blammed, does anybody know if the amount of votes needed or however it is done has changed?

No it hasn't changed. I think it just has to do with the redesign.

At 5/9/12 05:26 PM, SmashLuigiFan1 wrote:

At 5/7/12 05:36 PM, SCTE3 wrote: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/595091
Do not watch. Automatically puts you in fullscreen and has loud music. Does not appear to do anything else though.

He's doing it again.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/595231

And again

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At 5/7/12 11:33 AM, SCTE3 wrote:

At 5/7/12 11:01 AM, Tycrane wrote: Just a video ripped off of Youtube:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/595072
Original video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqHeSaAIl4c

Saw that, voted 0 on both entries.

Happy 1,337 EGB! Perfect timing for the first log-in in months. michelinman checking in. See some old faces and some new ones. Glad to hear things are active as ever in here. Keep up the good work troopers.

*salutes*

Stolen audio by butchjr:

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Possibly stolen flash:

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Definitely stolen:

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Original for above:

http://armorgames.com/play/13141/new-world

At 5/10/12 05:00 PM, Spretznaz wrote:

At 5/9/12 05:26 PM, SmashLuigiFan1 wrote:

At 5/7/12 05:36 PM, SCTE3 wrote: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/595091
Do not watch. Automatically puts you in fullscreen and has loud music. Does not appear to do anything else though.

He's doing it again.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/595231

And again
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/595257

And now for the fourth time. I'm surprised he isn't portal banned already

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At 5/11/12 12:12 AM, Spretznaz wrote: And now for the fourth time. I'm surprised he isn't portal banned already
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/595330

He was portal banned. He created a second account to go around that. There's an i in his new account instead of an L.

At 5/11/12 08:08 AM, SCTE3 wrote: I'm going to make a guess and say that since the redesign that there is no way to give a user in the flash portal a ban yet. Hopefully that gets fixed soon. Would be very helpful.

Nope still works. Two blammed submissions gets you portal ban for 2 weeks I think.

Just a heads-up for you here:

According to Tom, this is basically where the line should be drawn on what counts as shovelware. Any more generic than that, and it's likely to be a sweatshop account. Obviously there are going to be some grey areas with which are the sweatshops and which are just generic, uncreative flash makers, but there are 2 things I can think of that you can use to spot the difference:

1. Presence / absence of ads in the flashes.
Obviously, a submitter probably isn't a shovelware account designed to generate ad revenue if it's not putting ads in its flashes. Lack of ads pretty much rules them out of being submitted for that purpose. Of course, one of them might get clever and only put ads in after their flashes pass judgement, which is why it's a good idea to re-check it after it comes out of the purple if you're unsure.

2. Amount of flashes submitted.
Again, pretty obvious, but the clue's in the term here: "Shovelware" isn't shovelware until it's being submitted by the shovel-ful. One or two random things that might bear a resemblance to something you've already seen before isn't worth bringing up, but if you come across the same submission more than 3 or 4 times with little or no real differences between them, you've got a shoveller.

For this reason, I don't think it's really worth flagging up every last thing that looks like something else that might've been submitted before (unless it's one of the really obvious ad nauseum dress-up etc. games that've already been stamped into everyone's cranium here); only when you start seeing said resemblance more than a few times should it be a cause for concern. We do want to look for new types of games they come out with (which they will, if they haven't already), but we don't want to get so strict with originality that we end up going after the wrong submitters. It's all about fairness in the portal, after all.

Just my random 2 cents on the matter. Along with a penny of unknown currency I found in the couch.

At 5/11/12 04:36 PM, Sheizenhammer wrote: 1. Presence / absence of ads in the flashes.

I had this discussion with Wade also earlier. If it doesn't have ads, there is no need to worry about it.

2. Amount of flashes submitted.
One or two random things that might bear a resemblance to something you've already seen before isn't worth bringing up.

There's an important thing that you need to remember here. A lot of the submitters are simply creating new account to work around this. We've caught gamesgrow more than once with multiple accounts submitting.

For this reason, I don't think it's really worth flagging up every last thing that looks like something else that might've been submitted before

First, I'm not sure what you mean by flagging. There is no flagging system. If you're talking about genre mods tagging stuff as deletion and shovelware I agree with you that is kind of inappropriate.

Second, I'd much rather anything suspicious get posted here (crap you can even send me pms) cause a lot of times I'll miss stuff and I see it in here and I make my own judgment (which is usually pretty good) and then report it to Wade. So far this line of communication has been working pretty well, I see no reason to change it. Much more effective than 10 people sending the same pm to Wade that probably won't get read.

Just my random 2 cents on the matter. Along with a penny of unknown currency I found in the couch.

Must've fell out of your butt crack. Let me sniff it.

Stolen flash:

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  by <deleted>

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Original:

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/349194

Lmfao, he even tried copying his profile image and everything.

I saw that account butchjr I bookmarked that page looks like he stolen lots of stuff. I remember those shovel ware accounts have like over 100 flash games dress up ,and the spot the difference. I'm glad they cant submit that amount of stuff again it was cookie cutter. I don't think they ever replied to reviews or posted on the BBS. I miss having the whistle button though having portal mods does mean that flashes getting seen to more quickly right?

At 5/11/12 04:36 PM, Sheizenhammer wrote: 1. Presence / absence of ads in the flashes.
2. Amount of flashes submitted.

What about adding the duration between flashes to that? If an account keeps piling flash on the portal every week or so, then it's shovelware; if there's a duration of a month or so, or even a year or a half, then it's not shovelware. Would that be sensible or not?

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Is it possible to stop this guy from making alts short of an ip ban?