At 10/6/06 12:22 PM, AndersonCouncil wrote: Abusive reviews are [ilarrious].

Fixed yout typo.

Oh sweet, it's about time. <3

I got review banned a long time ago and was stuck unable to review for months, I learnt my lesson pretty quickly but I suffered for months!

I'm glad the system has been fixed, hopefully now stupid and offensive reviews will drop, but reviews will perhaps increase.

The increased whistle power is also somewhat nice, I wonder how much more power I got? No way to tell, haha.

Nice work Ross!

It's good to see new features added to Newgrounds.

Nice one Wade, someone's been busy. :-)

At 10/6/06 11:19 AM, WilliWowza wrote: Go freedom!

My mom's ass - resembles you're sig. I want to slurp it.

At 10/6/06 11:17 AM, WadeFulp wrote: It's been a long time coming, but we have found some time and resources to work on the review mod tools! Now that we have both Ross and Liljim doing all our back end programming, they each have more time to work on more things. While they have both been very busy with the redesign, Ross was able to spend some time improving the review mod tools. Review mods can now set bans like they do on the forums, that expire automatically.

Jaesus, finally. It took forever for that to be pulled off. :\

In addition, a copy of your rule breaking review and a ban reason from the mod will be automatically sent to your PM inbox! We are trying hard to make the site more fair, and fun, for everyone involved. We hope this improvement in communication makes things easier on those getting banned. In the past they would typically email me, or others, asking why they were banned. Now they will know why they were banned and won't have to inquire about their ban.

Awesome. This is a really good idea, and i'm surprised it hadn't been implemented earlier. Thank goodness for Ross, huh? ;)

There may be a lot more bans being handed out howerver. The mods would often hold back on banning users for small offenses because they knew they maybe sentancing them to a 2-3 month ban, or longer. Now they can give a 2-3 day ban if they feel it's a small offense, but it lets the user know they did something wrong and they can hopefully learn from the mistake.

C'est la vie. I like this idea a lot tbh, it's as good (if not better) than the current way the forum banning works.

Nice job guys , now Newgrounds is closer to perfection!

Excellent! I'll definitely be review modding more, now that the system is a whole lot more functional. Thanks, Ross!

Nice to see that the review banning system has finally made a big improvement, despite how long it took to do it. :p

Wow! Freedom rocks!

hurry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! more freedom!!!!!!!!!!!!

well good steps wade and tom! so.. wade may i inquire as to how one becomes a review mod? i would be willing to offer my services!

Do you get a PM from BBS bans too?

I like the new improvments, newgrounds just gets better all the time...

~X~

This is great! Maybe my whistle level will go up and my review ban gone. I'm happy.

Even though I don't review submissions very often, it's great to hear that we now have review bans that automatically expire and PM notifications of review bans explaining what happened. I'm also glad to hear that the whistle power has improved too. It's always nice to see the site removed.

At 10/6/06 03:25 PM, Powerage wrote: It's always nice to see the site removed.

*improved

Sorry about that.

Good. Maybe now we will be seeing more golden whistles.

I'm sick of the silver now.

Can we appeal a ban?

Hmm, maybe this'll motivate me to review a flash movie for the first time.

At 10/6/06 12:18 PM, ramagi wrote: Watch out people!!!!!

I have been holding back on a lot of small offense.

I will be enfore the rules

Make sure to read them!

Yay! Now I can bug you about people's minor offenses too!!

This will be a day long remembered.

At 10/6/06 02:36 PM, RageVI wrote: Excellent! I'll definitely be review modding more, now that the system is a whole lot more functional. Thanks, Ross!

Good to hear.

At 10/6/06 03:54 PM, Dekathos wrote:

At 10/6/06 12:18 PM, ramagi wrote: Watch out people!!!!!

I have been holding back on a lot of small offense.

I will be enfore the rules

Make sure to read them!

Yay! Now I can bug you about people's minor offenses too!!

This will be a day long remembered.

I know how to use the block feature >:)

I'm busy with these new toys.......I already have given out some new bans. :D

Can I be a review mod? :p

That's good news, though, Wade!

ooh sounds good. there were some obvious problems before, but looks like they are getting solved. hot damn! great work guys, this news is grand :3

...now if only i could get that gold whistle :'(

Ooh, I've broken the review guidelines a few times back in the day. I actually hope that they get flagged and deleted. I look back on them and say, "Oh, my God, what the hell was I thinking when I wrote that?"

At 10/6/06 04:39 PM, Frenzy wrote: Can I be a review mod? :p
!

I actually wouldn't object to that. In comparison to most of the garbage I get from people your age group you're a pretty good reviewer.

I do wish you'd stop labelling everything though. :'(

- Dekathos

At 10/6/06 04:51 PM, TheAmateurAnimator wrote: I actually hope that they get flagged and deleted. I look back on them and say, "Oh, my God, what the hell was I thinking when I wrote that?"

I would love to delete reviews I've left in the past too that I just don't agree with anymore and some of my old reviews are pretty gay. ha ha.

nice

At 10/6/06 11:17 AM, WadeFulp wrote:

So if you're not a review mod, how can you help? Flag those abusive reviews! We have increased the power of user whistles! The system we had gave the top power to the user with the most whistle points, and users with less whistle points had less power, but as the top user moved higher up, the majority of the users far behind got less and less power. We have changed that to a fixed scale so now all users wiith positive whistle points will have more power than they did before.

I guess it suck to me then. Oh well it for the good of NG so thanks for the improvement maybe now more people will flag and I still will flag as well to help out.

I am very glad to hear it. This is a new mile stone in newgrounds history! Although almost all of the abusive reveiws I see are from low scoring flash's that will inevitably be blammed. I really wish you could count reviews for blammed flash's I would have maybe about 50 more on my review count. Making it to perhaps 500 in total.

i'm still banned from reviewing i think. and all my 80 reveiws have been deleted. nothing will bring them back

At 10/6/06 06:42 PM, The-Prep-Hunter wrote: i'm still banned from reviewing i think. and all my 80 reveiws have been deleted. nothing will bring them back

You're not review banned becuase I can see your reviews but looking at them though -- particularly the negative ones I hope you know why you were. They are pretty bad. You don't have to be abusive if you don't like the movie you know? :/ The guidelines apply to you know matter how bad the movie is. In fact leaving an adult comment is infintely more effective because an author can't dismiss you as being ignorant.