At 10/6/12 03:45 AM, VicariousE wrote: I have yet another question (sorry I'm not a member). Just caught a completely plagiarized review in Tom's "Talk Head" app/game, so I flagged it. Will a review mod catch what I caught? There's NO mod on duty just now...... can mods overrule a previous decision?
Both reviews were on the same page. I don't think http://ericho.newgrounds.com/ would like his hard work as a reviewer being lifted like that.

Tigerkitty was kind enough to straighten this out with a bit of advice: if you flag something that isn't plainly abusive, PM a Review Mod and explain why. Still lost whistle points (haven't tagged a review in some time, and it went to garbage thanks to this incident).

Anyone remember the field that would pop-up when you hit the old abusive button? It had check marks for what in particular was wrong and an optional text field to describe WTF is up. This could be a potential bummer for the mods to wade through, but I really think this feature should be bought back.

At 10/12/12 05:31 AM, Criminal-23 wrote: Generic dress-up shovelware.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/604319

That's already been posted here. It was temporarily removed but we've decided to republish it. Dress-up games are okay as long as they're not completely soulless and aren't simply re-skinned. That submission doesn't have the soulless feel most shovelware submissions have and it has an NG preloader that doesn't even have ads enabled.

It isn't something that was quickly thrown together for money, so it's okay.

At 10/12/12 05:51 AM, VicariousE wrote: Tigerkitty was kind enough to straighten this out with a bit of advice: if you flag something that isn't plainly abusive, PM a Review Mod and explain why. Still lost whistle points (haven't tagged a review in some time, and it went to garbage thanks to this incident).

I've always PMed review mods if it isn't obvious why it's abusive just to be safe.

Anyone remember the field that would pop-up when you hit the old abusive button? It had check marks for what in particular was wrong and an optional text field to describe WTF is up. This could be a potential bummer for the mods to wade through, but I really think this feature should be bought back.

I think that should be reimplemented and made so only people with a deity whistle could use it. I'm assuming they probably removed it because people who didn't want to type out why it was abusive either didn't bother flagging it or they typed random stuff.

I miss when you had to review each part of the flash like the art, music, etc.. but again, IIRC, that also had problems. Didn't you have to rate everything.. even if the submission didn't have it?

At 10/12/12 06:09 AM, Jolly wrote:

At 10/12/12 05:51 AM, VicariousE wrote: Anyone remember the field that would pop-up when you hit the old abusive button? It had check marks for what in particular was wrong and an optional text field to describe WTF is up. This could be a potential bummer for the mods to wade through, but I really think this feature should be bought back.

I think that should be reimplemented and made so only people with a deity whistle could use it.

Absolutely brilliant idea Jolly. Absolutely brilliant.

And, No Offence to Blondes but this is just hilarious. Authors Comments;

Play as a blonde driver and try to park your car in the parking lot of a mall.

Seriously WTF?

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Not too sure about this one. No mention of meetreengames on it anywhere, it just has BubbleBoxGames all over it.

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  Indiana Jonas

  by meetreengames

  Explore a deep dark temple in this awesome puzzle adventure!

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And all his other submissions are the same. Either from BubbleBoxGames or Bored.com or MoFunZone or AGame.com or ArcadeBomb.com or DwarfGames.com or GamesGames.com.

The only 2 games that actually have his name on them are Long Way

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  Long Way

  by meetreengames

  Enter the wild west in this western-themed tower defense

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and Adventure of fish Gobbi.

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  Adventure of fish Gobbi

  by meetreengames

  This game is about little fish, that wants to become big and strong

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Everything else submitted looks like it's easily downloadable share/shovelware. I know this guy has had an account for quite some time but these all look rather dubious. I shall leave it in your capable hands.

This account recently had all their submissions deleted for good reason. Anyway here's a Tic-Tac-Toe game Stolen from MyStarsGames.

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This is getting ridiculous! Stencyl Snake. I believe it's just a Stencyl Tutorial Game from past deletions?

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At 10/12/12 02:52 PM, gamejunkie wrote: This is getting ridiculous! Stencyl Snake. I believe it's just a Stencyl Tutorial Game from past deletions?

It does appear that there will be on average around two snake games submitted a week that are simply made using an easy tutorial. I don't see why, if I made a snake game I certainly wouldn't think it was worth submitting even if I'd not used a tutorial, it's just the most done to death concept for a game.

This is about the hundredth time I've seen this, or something extremely similar. Is this a flash tutorial?

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Stencyl tutorial

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At 10/12/12 03:13 PM, Decky wrote:

At 10/12/12 02:52 PM, gamejunkie wrote: This is getting ridiculous! Stencyl Snake. I believe it's just a Stencyl Tutorial Game from past deletions?

It does appear that there will be on average around two snake games submitted a week that are simply made using an easy tutorial. I don't see why, if I made a snake game I certainly wouldn't think it was worth submitting even if I'd not used a tutorial, it's just the most done to death concept for a game.

How dare you! Snake games are timeless masterpieces! ...Kidding. :p

Anyways, is this type of thing allowed?

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Some shovelware for you

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And still they come.

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At 10/15/12 01:18 AM, gamejunkie wrote: And still they come.

I think that it is almost safe to presume that any game with "Ben 10" in the title is going to be shovelware.

gamesgrow alt.

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gamesgrow altt what a surprise not! that author sure is a annoying with flouting the rules. I'm hooked on the game Dark Souls I have gotten passed the Undead Asylum, but I cant make up my mind as to what class is best. I love the thief class but I'm having my ass kicked ,but I love that class. Maybe I need to use a better glass as a newbie to the game. I have got Dragon's Dogma not bad not sure about this new game yet.

gamesgrow alt and serial offender

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Shovelware. That's all.

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I'm fairly certain these Mario Games are unacceptable too.

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Last I checked angry bird games were taboo here so unless I am mistaken they still are.

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From the same author as the last one I posted.

gamesgrow alt.

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At 10/16/12 06:57 AM, LittleWashu wrote: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/604529
From the same author as the last one I posted.

Oops! You beat me to it.

gamesgrow alt

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gamesgrow alt

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This is another gamesgrow alt. This first one is Stolen just click the developer link to see that.

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and somehow this one (this accounts only other submission - gamesgrow) got through the system too.

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Looks very much like this is stolen from GameSurfer.com

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All generic ATV/BMX games go here, right?

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Not sure if this breaks any rules I just get the feeling that there'd be a tutorial to make this somewhere online

At 10/17/12 05:38 PM, Decky wrote: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/604595
Not sure if this breaks any rules I just get the feeling that there'd be a tutorial to make this somewhere online

If you Google "Tetris" that is the second result, first being Tetris.com. It's probably the most popular version of Tetris on the internet.