I had a wonderful discussion with this person, they joined my Discord, all because they don't want the Soup Squad to return. I don't really understand the point of people shitting all over someone elses fun, but there you go, apparantly that's what they want to do.

I just want to goof around, so I guess Soup Squad won't be coming back at this point, for the good of the portal. A shame really.

I'm wondering if this person https://fartsniffersalliance.newgrounds.com clicked on that malicious flash thing or something else and got hacked, their only "reviews" are complaints about how that artist they're talking about (helengiantess) sent them a virus. Or it could be a troll or simply the alt account of this guy https://redeyesthesecound.newgrounds.com/

I don't trust either of em, tbh. that Helen artist seems like a drama queen and redeyes is a known troll on this site. I'm surprised he hasn't been banned yet, but whatever.

The links don't seem to be viruses, just a Patreon account. For the users one does have a history with some of the Mods, but it's not my place to get involved. We'll let the chain of command take care of this.

*Sits back and cleans blam rifle*

Ding ding ding

Not sure about Helen or Redeyes, but I definitely don't trust FartSniffers considering his account was created just today.

There's carbon in the chamber. How are you supposed to blam submissions wItH cArB0n iN tHe ChAmB3r?!

*Stands at attention*

Yes, Commander Peregrinus! I will clean my weapon more efficiently, and get back to the Portal!

*Cleans more vigorously*

Screen recording, advertising a website.

I converted his video straight into the Recycle Bin. :3

Is this kind of review flaggable?

"why do you... keep making these? ITS THE SAME THING OVER AND OVER AGAIN"

Yes. At least, I flag them for being spammy and providing nothing of substance. It's a review section, after all, not a comment section. Usually they get removed.

What about comments on art/animation submissions "Should be A bruh" I see those alot should I flag those as spam, since it provides no constructive criticism for the artist?

I saw someone answer this a couple days ago, yes, it's against the rules, as it's technically saying something is breaking the rules, which is forbidden to do. I'm not really gonna look for those, though.

If I see it, I'll treat it as such. Thank you all.

It all depends on one key factor if I'm going to delete something like this or not. It is providing feedback. They are saying the artist should make something new because they're being repetitive in their creation process.

Would someone delete a review that said. "I think you should make something new because you make the same thing over and over and it's starting to get boring."??

I mean, I wouldn't. They're saying the same thing to me.

So that key factor for me? Is this all the effort they've been putting in on all of their reviews and are they stating this over and over? If you can say no to those then chances are I'm clearing it without penalty to those who marked it.

I have a suspicion that this flash submission is stolen.

It's suspicious that it's without sound, with no explanation provided.

It's the only upload by the author

When you go to his youtube account, you can see the quality of sprite flash animations he makes, and it doesn't line up with what's shown here.

Can anyone confirm?

I played this in my childhood, game by Free World Group. Good times.

So, I'm pretty sure it's stolen. Which means...

*TAKES OUT KNIVES*

CAN I KILL IT? :3

PFC @Dovod, while I can appreciate your enthusiasm, I'm certain those knives are not EGB issued. Use your blam rifle from 30 meters away, soldier - less mess on you, more gratuitous gibbs to spray all over creation. Remember, a wounded submission is a dangerous submission - go for the headshot and be done with it.

And in other news:

I have made some adjustments to the monthly roster calculator based on conversations with EGC @Peregrinus and EGSC @Big-Boss. Under "Repeat Appearances - Top 5 gainers" all members who had reached a top 5 ranking at least once will now be displayed, in descending order of occurrences. The previous version of the program would sometimes reset your counter to 0 if you had a bad month, which would drop you off the list. As long as you are an active member, your counter will remain accurate; if you don't reach top 5 in a month, your counter stays as is.

However, if a member is set to "inactive" status, and misses a few months of stats, it will reset to 0.

I also fixed the "add new member" glitch, so @Dovod is now in the database; his stats will become visible as of 01-Sep-2019

Ok, I'll use the rifle. Can I keep the knives though?

Perhaps as a bayonet? You know, in case those bad submissions get too close.

Good idea. Thanks a lot, Master Sgt ZomAlien.

Straight up ripped from youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rridXskgWg

Hello. I was flagging the same video and have a couple questions about how to flag based on videos like these. When you go to the flag prompt on a video there are 2 categories I am uncertain of: Spam and Stolen categories. The spam category lists pirated videos as qualifier for flagging. The Stolen description states 'This person / people / group took this from somewhere else.' These seem similar and a video like that could fall into either category couldn't it? Would my flag be ignored if put int he wrong category? Would my whistle status go down if I flagged the category differently the what the community generally flagged it as?. I Don't want to be in error when reporting these kinds of things but i report stolen work every time I see it so I wouldn't mind a little clarification for future reference.

my flag description of this video went something like this:

"This submission is just a exact (albeit low quality) rip of the Halo 3: Believe commercial. A copy of the original commercial can be found on the official (check marked) Bungie Studio Youtube channel:

https://youtu.be/a3ZGGIdpfEM

I report this because I don't see why everyone doesn't just re-upload exact copies of commercials just to say they are 'creating content' for views. I'm not sure of the reporting system methodology on whether this falls under the 'Stolen' Flag category, or the 'Spam> pirated video' category but it is not original content. If this was someone who was involved in the making of video as the part of some reel I think they would give more information about the fact that they had a hand in making it.  And as a continued copyrighted property even then I don't think they would have the right to post it."

(end flag)

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I am also uncertain if I have the right to post here since I see there seems to be some sort of criteria, So I keep my postings minimal. But the official Newgrounds user wiki directs to this forum for questions about flagging so I am still unsure on that.

Yes, the Spam category is a little esoteric sometimes. In this case it would be stolen because they stole every aspect of the video. They took it from elsewhere. That's stolen. Whenever the content is taken from elsewhere, stolen. Spam is more things like videos that are just ads for someone's website and things like that. One time we had an ad for a Chinese clothes hanger company or something. If someone reuploads a submission that was blammed before without making any changes, that's spam. Same goes for releasing a bunch of 0-effort submissions in a very short time with the intent of spamming.

Would my flag be ignored if put int he wrong category? Would my whistle status go down if I flagged the category differently the what the community generally flagged it as?.

Nope, what's important is the report you give to justify the flag. Also, mods will often clear flags with no consequences for the submission or the flagger if the flag was wrong but not meant to hurt the submission, the creator or spam the mods.

Damn dude, that is a long report. They don't have to be long, generally the mods know what you're talking about.

The criteria are for actually joining the Barracks, but anyone can post here, and is encouraged to do so, as it helps clean up the site. So when you see something flag-worthy in the movie or game portal, report it here, same if you're unsure about something. In time, if you're active and that's what you wanna do, you can meet the criteria and join as an official member.

Stolen would be correct here, but the category doesn't really matter. You'll only lose whistle points through total misuse of the entire flag system or flagging fine submissions. So long as your description is clear and has a link (where applicable) you should be fine.

Literally all you needed was "Stolen from youtube" or "Halo ad" with a link to the youtube vid. Thefts are very straight forward.

Stolen from, I guess, the backup channel of a Serbian animator. I did a quick search on YouTube for it, knew it was too good for the account it was uploaded by. This guy doesn't use the YouTube channel's name or anything, so yeah. Also this dude he's from Bulgaria.

Taken down.

Also HI EGB MEMBERS!!!

ffs that was quick.

Shit I forgot to flag it! Can I have it back?

.....Didn't we used to date?