Exedor 2017-01-12 05:19:11

I will provide helpful advice to anyone who asks. For $5.
I remove large strings of level code when that's the only substance in the review. And charge $5.
Asking to be scouted gets your request and/or review deleted. ...$5.
@NekoMika owes me ...$3.28.

Cyberdevil 2017-01-12 05:45:44

Course you gotta choose one of my reviews with a typo in it. XD Hope I don't have more of those than I think I do hmm, maybe I'll start re-reading a bit more after this. Do appreciate the mention! And good guide, albeit with a bit much don'ts and few do's. I assume lots of users just aren't very good at formulating constructive critique, even if they know it's better. Hopefully they won't be discouraged from writing at all, since even short and positive (but non-constructive) comments are better than none. Maybe the process behind writing a good review could be something to delve into too? Like how to use the sandwich method, or focus on the work; not the person, etcetc...

Don't think anybody actually writes more than one single-word review saying something like 'shit' to up their stats btw. If that is their purpose, it'd make sense for them to spam positive reviews instead, but regardless, tons of crappy reviews are of course no good. I feel like the guidelines could be phrased better on that one point. Maybe once upon a time all the 'shit' reviews really were for that purpose. Feels like users aren't as concerned about their counts now as they used to be overall.

Anyway: good read! Thanks for making these educationaries.

TaintedLogic 2017-01-12 13:22:55

Thanks so much for the shout-out! I deeply appreciate the effort you've put into showing people how to make helpful content and support our community. :)

Guidodinho 2017-01-13 07:56:40

Nice to see a little domestic anouncement here on how to make/keep it nice here. Though trolls are gonna be trolls, we always gonna keep that shit as long as there is internet. But for the people with the will to have a shared good time here, this is handy.

Though I don't agree with your argument on newgrounds' comment system. Even if there would be no idiots on NG's comment section, I still prefer this one over the system youtube has.
Having it like this makes the author have the last word, wich I think is valid, cause the comment section is for comments aimed at the author of a post, not a big discussion place for anyone to blabber around.
Also, if you have one place to say your saying with more text (opposed to a lot of things to say with little text on youtube) it forces you more to think and put your thoughts together in one place.

And even with the trolls, I still see better reviews here than on youtube Even if I don't care for the content, I sometimes still can get a good little read out of the comments here there. Though it sometimes can get a little hard to find a good read from time to time: like a lot of Shadman's fans, either there are just to many idiot following his stuff, or the ones with something to say are just being too quiet...

Psychopath 2017-01-13 15:22:43

"Perhaps you're even looking to bolster the number of reviews under your belt without having to worry about lesser quality ones disappearing, or how to write reviews more efficiently without sacrificing quality. Statwhores, I'm looking at you."

Ericho is the "best" example of the sort of behavior, by the way.

daetj 2017-01-13 15:47:18

thx for the tips

CANDYdisturber 2017-01-14 00:48:54

"Would any of us as newcomers have been motivated to keep submitting content if no one ever bothered to say, "Hey bud, your stuff right here is crap, but there's this one thing I like about it that you should keep doing," or vice versa?"

This; a hundred times this. That's why I always try my hardest to leave the most positive/helpful review I can, whether I enjoyed the content or not. Everyone needs just a little encouragement every once in a while, though people should know that they're not going to be the best thing ever right out of the gate. Slash the ego, and build from the foundation.

A lot of my older reviews were pretty garbage though, I will admit. Slowly starting to become more active on the site and I'm seeing a lot of what you talked about in your guideline. Great read, really brings light to the subject.

ADR3-N 2017-02-13 06:07:42

@BronxBrother, it looks like you need to read this.

JujubeLock 2017-07-14 22:05:47

Good to know I'm still internet famous

ShangXian 2025-04-10 07:02:40

Amazing blog, this will be useful and used as partial reference (it will be linked in my "references and footnotes" part of my future blog) for a future blog of my series "Newgrounds Adventures". Thank you, I enjoyed every bit of it *_* because it's really helpful and gives an insight to those who might not even know the distinction between a review and a comment.

People don't realize that this website might even be a nice tool to develop cognitive skills such as developing the ability to evaluate between abusive and useless, between flag worthy and not, between a blam and a save, and even writing abilities. Again thank you^^

ShangXian 2025-04-11 19:12:44

@ADR3-N Of course my guide is intended for users who are starting to know the site and are unsure how things are (similarly to what I did with my B/P beginner guide), so I don't rule out there will be errors, due to my younger experience compared to yours or other seasoned people here^^
Plus these guides are based more on my personal experience and lots of reading through forum threads (both old and new) and posts that can be found in the internet web archive.

Sure I will mention you, I usually write down the name of the person and copy-paste the link to their profile because I don't want to disturb people with my @, but since you gave me permission to mention you in the blog I will do that way^^

Have a nice day!

ShangXian 2025-04-11 19:27:20

@ADR3-N Ok, I will spam you then!

Yeah, I am collecting some data from the web archive to see how the site was back at the end of the 1990s and during the automation of the Portal. I even made a playlist about Newgrounds's archeology if we want to call it like that XD
I don't like spamming my stuff on other people's blogs or works so I will just tell you that in the previous blog to today's one on birds, I talked about some future plans between guides for beginners and precisely this sort of "archaeological" research of the history of NG for generations to come. For example I've discovered the very first Pico's school walkthrough, or even a funny April's Fool that involved a user whose submission has been considered one of the worst submissions, if not the worst, of 1999 Portal. I seriously laughed my ass off reading both people's negative reactions and hate mail Tom got at that time.

Ofc that playlist I made is still in a slapdash state because it functions more like a general guide on how to get things right in terms of timeline evolution.

Yatsufusa 2025-04-12 05:44:32

I will link to this News Post next time somebody talks about how they preferred the community as it was during "old Newgrounds"-days or how everything was better "back in the day..."

Those screenshots are like a time-capsule - FROM HELL! ;D

ShangXian 2025-04-12 07:45:42

@Yatsufusa I second this! I am reading tons of old discussions in threads back in early 2000s especially in General (I will dare to read Politics too in future) and people ignore how vitriolic environment was at that time. No filters, I am glad to be in nowadays NG and this led me the future idea of making a blog about if I ever suggest NG as site to experience.