At 5/31/12 02:16 PM, SpiffyMasta wrote:

At 5/31/12 12:03 PM, SCTE3 wrote: I think a better question is will voters ever learn? If it has stolen and deletion tags, just vote 0 instead of 2-5. There is absolutely no reason to vote through stolen content when the user makes it obvious it is not their work.

I'll be honest here, and I've said this before, I'm not a fan of having genre mods or whatever they're called tagging stuff as stolen, or deletion or shovelware.

I think that this practice should be stopped. There are proper channels to get that content reported, and it's not by tagging stuff. And I've seen more than once items wrongly tagged as deletion or stolen or shovelware that shouldn't be.

When I posted it, the flash wasn't even marked as any of the above. I just looked at it, and saw those things on my own. I am guessing after I posted it here genre mods tagged it as such afterwards. But even with these tags the stuff still gets pass judgement.

Not sure if it's shovelware but it's still horribly sad. WHO COMES UP WITH THESE IDEAS?

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  Roll A Troll

  by KotubukiMedia

  Remove all these pesky trolls with this fun and casual physics game.

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  by <deleted>

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Original Link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJum3mdJSrY

True Author: pugfarts; originally released 2009

Better keep an eye on this guy, this is his second theft.

Stolen Flash

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  by <deleted>

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Original Link

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True Author: 3quarter-aiming 2010

Well, it's that time of month again...oh, yeah..it's also time for the Roster, too. (hehehehe...)

I think it's time for another role call. We have 33 members, but only 18 showed ANY activity this month. Last month wasn't much better. I am grateful to those members who are active, because all our efforts do add up - and together, we do make a difference! If you are close to a member that seems to be falling off the grid, give'em a shake and see what's up. If they're having difficulties they can always PM me - I'm always willing to listen.

Anyway, without further delays...

Barracks Roster as of June 1st, 2012:

Milestones::
Asandir - 3K blams
byteslinger - 13K blams, 77K saves, 90K total B/P
Coop - 75K saves, 105K total B/P
Cootie - 23K saves, 27K total B/P
Decky - 5K saves, 7K total B/P
Gimmick - 14K saves, 16K total B/P
Jolly - 28K saves, 33K total B/P
Tycrane - 23K saves, 25K total B/P

Promotions::
BrokenDeck - Sgt. Major
Decky - Master Sergeant
Gimmick - Major

Entering Or Leaving The Barracks::
No members joined or retired this month.

The List:
No. B/P / Gain / Average / Level / Change / Username / Rank / Posts / Level
01) 105,555 | 1,195 | 38.55 | B | -010.95 | Coop Sup. Commander | 2 | D
02) 90,532 | 1,379 | 44.48 | A | +011.12 | byteslinger Sup. Commander | 5 | C
03) 80,294 | 0,000 | 00.00 | F | +000.00 | Phantom Sup. Commander | 0 | F
04) 55,815 | 0,260 | 08.39 | C | -001.52 | Little-Rena Sup. Commander | 0 | F
05) 51,861 | 0,000 | 00.00 | F | -100.00 | EagleRock Sup. Commander | 0 | F
06) 33,048 | 1,237 | 39.90 | B | -000.48 | Jolly Sup. Commander +1 | 0 | F
07) 32,109 | 0,000 | 00.00 | F | +000.00 | ArtDanVal Sup. Commander -1 | 0 | F
08) 30,348 | 0,000 | 00.00 | F | +000.00 | idiot-buster Sup. Commander | 0 | F
09) 29,568 | 0,298 | 09.61 | C | -005.40 | RohantheBarbarian Commander | 1 | D
10) 27,425 | 1,004 | 32.39 | B | -019.03 | Cootie Commander | 0 | F
11) 26,223 | 0,000 | 00.00 | F | +000.00 | sixflab Commander | 0 | F
12) 25,444 | 1,349 | 43.52 | A | -008.23 | Tycrane General | 2 | D
13) 21,772 | 0,000 | 00.00 | F | +000.00 | Lizzardis Lt. General | 2 | D
14) 19,221 | 0,000 | 00.00 | F | +000.00 | Ismael92 Colonel | 0 | F
15) 18,961 | 0,209 | 06.74 | C | -051.51 | Asandir Colonel | 0 | F
16) 16,421 | 1,532 | 49.42 | A | +000.92 | Gimmick Major | 25 | B
17) 11,328 | 0,140 | 04.52 | D | -062.86 | IzzyDude Praporshchik +1 | 0 | F
18) 11,267 | 0,000 | 00.00 | F | -100.00 | AnalPenguinFarming Praporshchik -1 | 0 | F
19) 9,928 | 0,000 | 00.00 | F | +000.00 | SeeD419 Sgt. Major | 0 | F
20) 9,551 | 0,141 | 04.55 | D | -002.76 | BrokenDeck Sgt. Major | 5 | C
21) 9,352 | 0,000 | 00.00 | F | +000.00 | NGFan14 Sgt. First Class | 0 | F
22) 8,387 | 0,000 | 00.00 | F | +000.00 | PossiblePancakes Sgt. First Class | 0 | F
23) 7,334 | 0,007 | 00.23 | D | -041.67 | phantomlassuk Master Sergeant | 11 | C
24) 7,299 | 1,218 | 39.29 | B | +057.77 | Decky Master Sergeant +2 | 53 | A
25) 6,372 | 0,001 | 00.03 | D | -085.71 | HeavenDuff Staff Sergeant -1 | 0 | F
26) 6,190 | 0,010 | 00.32 | D | -061.54 | Ronald-McDonald-Lol Staff Sergeant -1 | 0 | F
27) 5,932 | 0,473 | 15.26 | C | -029.61 | SpiffyMasta Sergeant | 28 | B
28) 5,467 | 0,013 | 00.42 | D | -045.83 | BenwaHakubi Sergeant | 0 | F
29) 5,230 | 0,005 | 00.16 | D | -099.27 | ZJ Sergeant | 0 | F
30) 5,073 | 0,000 | 00.00 | F | +000.00 | Afro-Mann Sergeant | 0 | F
31) 4,581 | 0,000 | 00.00 | F | +000.00 | Luke Corporal | 0 | F
32) 4,287 | 0,000 | 00.00 | F | +000.00 | EmmDubya Corporal | 0 | F
33) 4,062 | 0,000 | 00.00 | F | +000.00 | MultiCanimefan Corporal | 0 | F

Top 5 Gainers::
Gimmick - 1,532 (14.63% of total)
byteslinger - 1,379 (13.17% of total)
Tycrane - 1,349 (12.88% of total)
Jolly - 1,237 (11.81% of total)
Decky - 1,218 (11.63% of total)

Top 5 users accounted for 64.13% of B/P points (6,715 total)

Top gainers, repeat appearances::
byteslinger (41)
Jolly (17)
Gimmick (8)
Tycrane (6)

Total gain for month: 10,471 (18 Active Members)
That's 337.77 per day, or 18.77 per day per active member.

At 6/1/12 10:28 AM, byteslinger wrote: Well, it's that time of month again...oh, yeah..it's also time for the Roster, too. (hehehehe...)

TMI

I think it's time for another role call. We have 33 members, but only 18 showed ANY activity this month. Last month wasn't much better. I am grateful to those members who are active, because all our efforts do add up - and together, we do make a difference! If you are close to a member that seems to be falling off the grid, give'em a shake and see what's up. If they're having difficulties they can always PM me - I'm always willing to listen.

As much as I hate to do that, it probably is about time to clean the roster up. Lots and lots of inactivity.

Promotions::
BrokenDeck - Sgt. Major
Decky - Master Sergeant
Gimmick - Major

Congrats guys. I came within 68 of getting a promotion as well, but my b/p slowed down some this month, as work has been keeping me busier.

24) 7,299 | 1,218 | 39.29 | B | +057.77 | Decky Master Sergeant +2 | 53 | A
25) 6,372 | 0,001 | 00.03 | D | -085.71 | HeavenDuff Staff Sergeant -1 | 0 | F
26) 6,190 | 0,010 | 00.32 | D | -061.54 | Ronald-McDonald-Lol Staff Sergeant -1 | 0 | F
27) 5,932 | 0,473 | 15.26 | C | -029.61 | SpiffyMasta Sergeant | 28 | B

I must have lit a fire under your ass Decky, getting pretty close the last two months prior, now you decided to leave a bigger gap between us. Good on you! At my current pace, I should easily get passed HeavenDuff next month if he's still on the roster.

Top 5 Gainers::
Gimmick - 1,532 (14.63% of total)
byteslinger - 1,379 (13.17% of total)
Tycrane - 1,349 (12.88% of total)
Jolly - 1,237 (11.81% of total)
Decky - 1,218 (11.63% of total)

Oh MY. OH MY. COOP!!?? WTH MAN! First no top 5 in what? 4 years? Bummer...

Total gain for month: 10,471 (18 Active Members)
That's 337.77 per day, or 18.77 per day per active member.

Still sitting above the average for active users. Not bad.

Thanks byte!

At 6/1/12 10:28 AM, byteslinger wrote: Well, it's that time of month again...oh, yeah..it's also time for the Roster, too. (hehehehe...)

Well that took me a while to get. Wish I didn't know, o' how I miss the innocence of being a child. Anyway, yay roster time.

I think it's time for another role call.

This is my first role call with The EGB, how is this going to work? Will it be done through PM or is me just posting here enough to say that I want to stay? Looking at the list it is clear that we need one as it's still a lot of users that aren't getting any B/P.

I know that Emmdubya has recently started posting again after a long absence.

Barracks Roster as of June 1st, 2012:

Milestones::
Decky - 5K saves, 7K total B/P

A double milestone this month, I should be proud of myself I guess. I did spent a bit more time in The Portal this time though I probably should have spent it doing college work. O' well it's looking like I'll be getting higher then what I was predicted there anyway.

Congrats to all other users that passed milestones this month.

Promotions::
Decky - Master Sergeant

Another promotion in the bag too, I'm moving up the ranks.

Congrats to all other users that got promotions this month.

The List:
No. B/P / Gain / Average / Level / Change / Username / Rank / Posts / Level
23) 7,334 | 0,007 | 00.23 | D | -041.67 | phantomlassuk Master Sergeant | 11 | C
24) 7,299 | 1,218 | 39.29 | B | +057.77 | Decky Master Sergeant +2 | 53 | A

Got a huge amount of gain for me this month, probably the most gain I have ever got as my time as a Newgrounds user. Same for the amount of posts in this thread too. Now I'm in the Master Sergeant section of the list with Phantomlassuk, and by the looks of things I think that I'll easily be able to over take her and get a bit into the next rank by the next roster, helped by the fact that I'm leaving college in 3 weeks time.

Top 5 Gainers::
Decky - 1,218 (11.63% of total)

And I'm in the top gainers as well! Doubt that'll ever happen again and I'm sorry to Coops because I think I kept you from the fifth place.

At 6/1/12 10:54 AM, SpiffyMasta wrote: I must have lit a fire under your ass Decky, getting pretty close the last two months prior, now you decided to leave a bigger gap between us. Good on you!

How did you know Spiffy ;).

At 6/1/12 02:03 PM, SCTE3 wrote: Are they serious? Why do they feel a need to make multiple accounts for this crap?
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/596523
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/596467

Probably because they've gotten banned before and want to have an alt in case it happens again.

2 questions:
Are "escape the room" games generic enough to be shovelware? I've seen them submitted by both shovelware and legit accounts and have no idea what to make of it. I assume it depends on amount and quality, as usual?

Do you think it would be a good idea if a link to the submission guidelines was put on the portal front page? That way they would possibly be noticed and read by many more people-including the vast amount of people who click "agree" without reading it on the submission page.

Stolen Flash

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Original Link

http://www.kongregate.com/games/chillcade/rocky-rider?acompl ete=rocky

True Author: Chillcade; originally released in 2009

Stolen Flash

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Original Link

http://www.kongregate.com/games/CrackedGames/ultimate-doodle -man

True Author: ultimatearcade; released 2011

This game is literally posted everywhere on the internet by numerous different authors; it was posted on kongregate twice by two different people (not even sure if either is the true author). Nevertheless, I'm pretty positive that this guy isn't the original author.

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I know I've seen a game essentially exactly like this on Newgrounds before, I just don't remember the name.

At 6/2/12 10:28 PM, Scarface wrote: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/596609
I know I've seen a game essentially exactly like this on Newgrounds before, I just don't remember the name.

Just beat me to it. That's a Stencyl tutorial, I've probably seen over 20 of them submitted. It's not stolen but still against the rules.

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  by <deleted>

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And another Nextdifferencegames alt. Do the three cents they make off their games before they get deleted actually matter that much?

I've been nervous about posting back here considering my tendency to go on unexpected hiatuses, especially after the most recent one, but seeing as I'm still on the roster I assume returning won't be too much of a problem for anyone, should I just get back into the barracks spirit (and the portal) as per usual? Thanks, guard.

At 6/3/12 07:14 PM, EmmDubya wrote: should I just get back into the barracks spirit (and the portal) as per usual?

Get back into The Portal EmmDubya, you have a lot of B/Ping to get if you are going to ever have a chance at passing me on the roster any time soon.

At 6/3/12 07:44 PM, Decky wrote: Get back into The Portal EmmDubya, you have a lot of B/Ping to get if you are going to ever have a chance at passing me on the roster any time soon.

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24) 7,299 | 1,218 | 39.29 | B | +057.77 | Decky Master Sergeant +2 | 53 | A

Yeah, I'm not sure that's going to happen soon again. It seems you've managed to keep up the great gains, though, well done in regards to that. I'm not sure about being back to full activity anytime soon, however I'll be doing what I can in any free time I manage to get, in the time that I was away I managed to re-establish a social life, balancing that and exams alongside Newgrounds may prove to be on the difficult side.

Shovelware

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At 6/1/12 10:28 AM, byteslinger wrote: Well, it's that time of month again...oh, yeah..it's also time for the Roster, too. (hehehehe...)

Bloody hell, did you have to?

I know I did :P

No. B/P / Gain / Average / Level / Change / Username / Rank / Posts / Level
01) 105,555 | 1,195 | 38.55 | B | -010.95 | Coop Sup. Commander | 2 | D
02) 90,532 | 1,379 | 44.48 | A | +011.12 | byteslinger Sup. Commander | 5 | C

Wow, a sub-40 month. The cricket season has taken its toll on my pace. Hopefully I can make up for it by taking wickets and scoring runs. (Scored 16, without losing my wicket and took four wickets this month, so yes is the answer)

Sweet pulling (I always liked a girl who knows how to pull) to get me on 105,555. That was pretty epic. This also means that I've lapped BenwaHakubi, ZJ and Afro-Mann

At 6/1/12 10:54 AM, SpiffyMasta wrote:

At 6/1/12 10:28 AM, byteslinger wrote: Top 5 Gainers::
Gimmick - 1,532 (14.63% of total)
byteslinger - 1,379 (13.17% of total)
Tycrane - 1,349 (12.88% of total)
Jolly - 1,237 (11.81% of total)
Decky - 1,218 (11.63% of total)

Oh MY. OH MY. COOP!!?? WTH MAN! First no top 5 in what? 4 years? Bummer...

It's only about 6 months this time. Given that I've managed to keep the pace up, I'm not that bothered. It's nowhere near as bad as me taking a month's hiatus, is it? I was only 23 points behind making the list, so it's not all that big of a deal. I just need to make sure that I check the portal when I'm out tonight.

I'm surprised nobody saw this yet. Literally nothing but hidden letters/numbers/objects and room escape games.
http://gamesbygh.newgrounds.com/games/

Thanks for the monthly Roster byteslinger no change in my b/p ratio it is still pretty low only 1 b/p per week. Shame to see the accounts submitting shovel ware crap looks like they keep making new accounts. I cant believe the nerve of that comment not caring about stealing. Still nothing new Alvin-Earhworm I think quit making his series shame though, I liked the series. I only saw mabey like a few of his when he used to be active.

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And there was me thinking that he actually left...

At 6/5/12 05:37 PM, Spretznaz wrote: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/596752
And there was me thinking that he actually left...

I've been talking to Wade about this particular account. Something might be in the works. We'll see.

At 6/5/12 06:26 PM, SpiffyMasta wrote:
I've been talking to Wade about this particular account. Something might be in the works. We'll see.

And done.

It got the zapper.

At 6/6/12 03:35 PM, SpiffyMasta wrote: It got the zapper.

It's at times like this that you really just want to sit back and put on a little bit of Queen's Another One Bits The Dust and celebrate a small victory over crap getting into The Portal.

At 6/6/12 08:37 PM, Decky wrote: It's at times like this that you really just want to sit back and put on a little bit of Queen's Another One Bits The Dust and celebrate a small victory over crap getting into The Portal.

It'd be nice if we actually got enough time in-between crap entries for it to finish playing, though.

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^^Obvious Derpware.

I've been seeing quite a few shovelware accounts submitting these, more so than before.

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  Parking Time

  by Perseus35

  Park your cars to designated places.

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Hey, I've got an idea: Let's steal the base code from a game that comes with every Windows PC ever manufactured, make some barely noticable half-assed tweaks to the animations and sounds, stick a giant ad for a generic flash-dump site in it and hope no-one notices.

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Sounds like a plan, right?

Quite alot of under judgement flashes in The portal at the moment. I took this screenshot but the text seems to have buggered up when I zoomed out, still get what I'm showing though.

At 6/8/12 06:20 AM, Decky wrote: Quite alot of under judgement flashes in The portal at the moment. I took this screenshot but the text seems to have buggered up when I zoomed out, still get what I'm showing though.

That is excellent news I thought I saw a lot of under judgement flashes today I wish I had the time to see them all! I usually watch the movies not the games. It been ages since the portal been that busy I hope it stays that way. I wonder why it is that busy Friday perhaps? I remember lots of authors submitting games on that day.

At 6/8/12 06:20 AM, Decky wrote: Quite alot of under judgement flashes in The portal at the moment. I took this screenshot but the text seems to have buggered up when I zoomed out, still get what I'm showing though.

Nice to see the portal so busy. Looks like there's plenty of pretty good stuff there! Wait a minute...looks like there's also a load of crap there too.

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(questionable since it has the NG API)

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  TWOTO DARK

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  TWOTO DARK is an addictive pairs game, fun and challenging!

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And

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we've got our latest gamesgrow alt