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The Elite Guard Barracks

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Response to The Elite Guard Barracks 2016-02-18 03:28:15 (edited 2016-02-18 03:33:18)


At 2/18/16 03:10 AM, Jolly wrote:
How exactly did you find those? As long as they're publically viewable somehow (other than manually typing in a URL) then it's safe to say it's reportable.

I just type "watch" on the NG search tool (using the "everything" parameter) I find a lot of audio spam accounts(which already reported to the Audio Portal Cleanup Thread), but some of those "Misc Projects" pop randomly :

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Response to The Elite Guard Barracks 2016-02-18 07:10:24


Says they're not the author of this game.


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Response to The Elite Guard Barracks 2016-02-18 07:26:41


At 2/18/16 07:10 AM, DeftonesFan665 wrote: Says they're not the author of this game.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/670797

Yeah, it's a Zone-Sama game. Taken care of. Thanks for the report.

*salutes*

Response to The Elite Guard Barracks 2016-02-18 07:43:02 (edited 2016-02-18 07:44:24)


A HiddenEscape aka Enagames game.


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Response to The Elite Guard Barracks 2016-02-18 09:30:14 (edited 2016-02-18 09:30:34)


At 2/18/16 07:43 AM, DeftonesFan665 wrote: A HiddenEscape aka Enagames game.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/670800

Sorry that took so long. I was having a snooze.

Is this working for you? All I get is a picture with a link. Even right clicking and hitting play doesn't work for me.

Response to The Elite Guard Barracks 2016-02-18 09:34:40


At 2/18/16 09:30 AM, gamejunkie wrote:
At 2/18/16 07:43 AM, DeftonesFan665 wrote: A HiddenEscape aka Enagames game.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/670800
Sorry that took so long. I was having a snooze.

That's okay.


Is this working for you? All I get is a picture with a link. Even right clicking and hitting play doesn't work for me.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/670801

Nope, looks like the author only wants us to watch it on YouTube.


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Response to The Elite Guard Barracks 2016-02-18 09:36:41


At 2/18/16 09:34 AM, DeftonesFan665 wrote: Nope, looks like the author only wants us to watch it on YouTube.

Thanks that's what I thought and so it goes bye bye.

Response to The Elite Guard Barracks 2016-02-18 11:10:44


At 2/18/16 07:10 AM, DeftonesFan665 wrote: Says they're not the author of this game.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/670797

Gotta love it when they steal from famous Newgrounders.

Response to The Elite Guard Barracks 2016-02-18 12:17:58


A picture, not an animation.


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Response to The Elite Guard Barracks 2016-02-18 15:17:00


Just Sonic footage with music over it.


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Response to The Elite Guard Barracks 2016-02-18 15:49:51


The vote limit was raised from 30 to 50. Maybe blamming will be possible again.

Response to The Elite Guard Barracks 2016-02-18 16:54:12


At 2/18/16 03:49 PM, Jolly wrote: The vote limit was raised from 30 to 50. Maybe blamming will be possible again.

Awesome, those news make me ..... quite jolly.


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Response to The Elite Guard Barracks 2016-02-19 04:00:56



Looks like someone took the lead hunting audio spam.

Found a lot more of those spam misc projects :


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Response to The Elite Guard Barracks 2016-02-19 13:04:53 (edited 2016-02-19 13:06:44)


At 2/19/16 04:00 AM, LexaHergon wrote:

Looks like someone took the lead hunting audio spam.

I went through and made a list of all of the usernames from those projects (that was a pain) so all of those misc project accounts should be deleted now. Unfortunately I don't think there's anything that can be done about those projects.

If you find anymore and the accounts haven't been deleted then just link one per account. Linking the projects of the deleted account is unnecessary for now since we can't do anything about them.

Also, there's 20~ pages of Google search results of these projects.

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Response to The Elite Guard Barracks 2016-02-19 22:55:11


At 2/19/16 10:42 PM, ThexxxReaper wrote: Another one...
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/670874

Removed. That's the first one in over 9 hours. That's a huge improvement over what it was.

Response to The Elite Guard Barracks 2016-02-19 23:03:04


At 2/19/16 10:55 PM, Jolly wrote:
At 2/19/16 10:42 PM, ThexxxReaper wrote: Another one...
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/670874
Removed. That's the first one in over 9 hours. That's a huge improvement over what it was.

Must be a fun job. If they weren't actual teasers I might not have reported them.... or reported after I watched it lol

Response to The Elite Guard Barracks 2016-02-20 00:31:14


Are prompts as a game even allowed? I don't think so. That is all this game is.


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Response to The Elite Guard Barracks 2016-02-20 01:00:54


At 2/20/16 12:31 AM, DeftonesFan665 wrote: Are prompts as a game even allowed? I don't think so. That is all this game is.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/670879

We're discussing it in the Mod Forums as we speak, but the direction is heading toward 'no.' This was removed yesterday and this is basically the same game, but with an option to 'exit' if you want. ...assuming that you also read the author comments to find out about it before clicking play.

Response to The Elite Guard Barracks 2016-02-20 03:45:34 (edited 2016-02-20 03:48:59)


At 2/19/16 01:04 PM, Jolly wrote:
If you find anymore and the accounts haven't been deleted then just link one per account. Linking the projects of the deleted account is unnecessary for now since we can't do anything about them.

Got it. Only projects linked to an account, 1 per account. I'll keep my eyes open.


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Response to The Elite Guard Barracks 2016-02-20 11:07:01


At 2/18/16 03:49 PM, Jolly wrote: The vote limit was raised from 30 to 50. Maybe blamming will be possible again.

It seems like it's even harder to blam submissions now. There are so many submissions that come through with terrible scores, but still passed somehow. It's like they have to have less than one star to be blammed.

For example, this passed. How!?


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Response to The Elite Guard Barracks 2016-02-20 12:18:49


At 2/20/16 11:07 AM, DeftonesFan665 wrote:
At 2/18/16 03:49 PM, Jolly wrote: The vote limit was raised from 30 to 50. Maybe blamming will be possible again.
It seems like it's even harder to blam submissions now. There are so many submissions that come through with terrible scores, but still passed somehow. It's like they have to have less than one star to be blammed.

For example, this passed. How!?
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/670893

Yeah that's pretty bad. It's actually at .81, so it is under 1 star. Or at least it is now.

Response to The Elite Guard Barracks 2016-02-20 12:33:37


At 2/20/16 12:18 PM, Jolly wrote:
At 2/20/16 11:07 AM, DeftonesFan665 wrote:
At 2/18/16 03:49 PM, Jolly wrote: The vote limit was raised from 30 to 50. Maybe blamming will be possible again.
It seems like it's even harder to blam submissions now. There are so many submissions that come through with terrible scores, but still passed somehow. It's like they have to have less than one star to be blammed.

For example, this passed. How!?
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/670893
Yeah that's pretty bad. It's actually at .81, so it is under 1 star. Or at least it is now.

Pretty easy to figure out. That submission and others in the same vein started to pass because users who just vote for the maximum amount of B/P points realised that standarts for passing have dropped to an absolutely terrible low thanks to the recent vote changes, so instead of voting 0 on some stuff they now vote "safe this one" on everything.


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Response to The Elite Guard Barracks 2016-02-20 12:43:53


At 2/20/16 12:33 PM, Asandir wrote:
Pretty easy to figure out. That submission and others in the same vein started to pass because users who just vote for the maximum amount of B/P points realised that standarts for passing have dropped to an absolutely terrible low thanks to the recent vote changes, so instead of voting 0 on some stuff they now vote "safe this one" on everything.

That could be, but if you ask me, it seems like the score required to get a submission blammed got lowered. I swear, there are submissions passing with scores below the blam requirement. Whatever is going on, I'm kind of getting pissed off.


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Response to The Elite Guard Barracks 2016-02-20 17:06:50


YouTube material.


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Response to The Elite Guard Barracks 2016-02-20 19:29:36 (edited 2016-02-20 19:33:50)


At 2/20/16 11:07 AM, DeftonesFan665 wrote:
At 2/18/16 03:49 PM, Jolly wrote: The vote limit was raised from 30 to 50. Maybe blamming will be possible again.
It seems like it's even harder to blam submissions now. There are so many submissions that come through with terrible scores, but still passed somehow. It's like they have to have less than one star to be blammed.

For example, this passed. How!?
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/670893

I can agree with this. I have only achieved ONE blam ever since the changes and that was only because a movie spam account was deleted. The scores for a submission to pass should be raised IMO. There are way too many tests and other stuff passing that would normally be blammed. A good example would be something like this:

Response to The Elite Guard Barracks 2016-02-20 19:51:54


This passed jugdement:

What has become of the portal.


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Response to The Elite Guard Barracks 2016-02-20 20:20:04


At 2/20/16 07:51 PM, Decky wrote: This passed jugdement:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/670910
What has become of the portal.

Just got home and checking the feed. Holy hell. Passing below 1 star? That's unheard of. Have there been any more changes to the system since the 1 vote per lifetime rule was implemented?


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Response to The Elite Guard Barracks 2016-02-20 22:04:47


@All @TomFulp
At "lately", users have said:

I can agree with this. I have only achieved ONE blam ever since the changes and that was only because a movie spam account was deleted. The scores for a submission to pass should be raised IMO. There are way too many tests and other stuff passing that would normally be blammed. A good example would be something like this:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/670860

True. And thank you all for the reports. The mod forums have been very active with all the spammers and the changes. We're working very hard to get things corrected and/or improved.

With any changes, tho, it takes time to see things level out. Please don't be too harsh on the Portal while this is going on. And please don't change your voting habits. Try to keep the quality up, cuz if we stop the quality control, will there be any at all? Some will get thru, but that's always happened. Tom, the Admins, and the mods are actively working on it in the background. ;)

Response to The Elite Guard Barracks 2016-02-21 01:41:06