At 8/29/23 11:28 AM, AKA-38CAUTION wrote:At 8/28/23 11:42 PM, Anonymous-Frog wrote:I asked because @ScottMalin is a very popular artist on here and on the rest of the internet, and I didn't want to lose whistle points.
It shouldn’t matter on popularity of artist (that basically some form of Double Standard if otherwise, for lack of better words)
Everybody has to abide the site rules regardless. If they wanna advertise, they can do so in their Blog Post
In practice, this isn't fully true, though.
E.g. Kajenx, the creator of William and Sly - which is a big part of Newgrounds Flash history and I freaking love the game - recently published his Steam trailer for the remake to the Movie portal, and it's both an ad and gameplay footage. And it was frontpaged. Which I don't really mind and it feels like he earned the right to bypass the rules this once.
But I hope I'm not mistaken to think you may still report cases like this, as even if the flag is dismissed, they're unlikely to be considered "poorly reasoned" to make you lose whistle points.
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