I have 4 concerns about the audio portal
1) The Zero Bombers. I'm not sure if this happens on the flash portal as well or not, but it needs to stop and i have a couple of suggestions how. I suggest this, make either a list of all the people who vote on your submissions to find out exactly who bombs you so you can report them and if they get a sufficient number of reports they can be punished accordingly.
Or (I much prefer this suggestion as people could get reported when they truly think it deserves a zero), make them vote alongside the review, so that they have to say why they voted Zero on it, and if they don't have a valid reason, remove the review and vote. I've had a couple of my reviews from the flash portal deleted for me not giving any constructive criticism, I've learned from this, and so may the zero bombers.
2) Unpopular songs get VERY little reviews. I find myself unable to improve as not many people give me constructive criticism. I know this is partly because the audio portal is very unpopular compared to the flash portal, but i also reckon it's because of this: The flash portal has the daily leaderboard, whereas the audio portal does not. I reckon if you improve the weekly leaderboard on the audio portal so it's like the one on the flash portal, and add a daily leaderboard like the ones on the flash portal too. And maybe have separate daily and weekly leaderboards for each genre as well. I believe that this will dramatically change the number of people reviewing on the audio portal.
3) One other small thing is that you don't get voting power from voting on audio portal submissions. I spend most of my time on newgrounds on the audio portal, and I would probably have quite a high voting power by now, but i don't as you don't get voting power from it. I, and probably a lot of other people, would love for you to get voting power on the audio portal.
4) One last thing. It says on the audio portal new songs list that a song with a great score should be in green, and songs with an awesome score in blue like on the flash portal. But this doesn't work. I think that this would dramatically change the amount of reviews great and awesome songs will get. I find myself looking for good, new songs to review and I always go on terrible songs that i personally believe would be blammed if songs in the audio portal could get blammed.
I hope you all agree with me on some if not all of my concerns. The audio portal is underrated, not much attention is payed to it. A Lot of improvements need to be made in my opinion.
Thanks
Netty
