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Ideas for Newgrounds' Evolution Mk2

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Response to Ideas for Newgrounds' Evolution Mk2 2005-07-04 10:43:09


I'm not sure if this idea was ever posted but... how bout an automative webcam portal. A person can just place their cam URL inside of their settings after they login. It would be much easier and if someone has their cam down then they can just simply remove it from the portal. But only one cam url per user of course. And a user can always edit their cam URL if it were to change. Any chance this idea can happen?

Response to Ideas for Newgrounds' Evolution Mk2 2005-07-04 16:34:33


Goddamn it, forgot to mention, make something for Wade to update cam info quicker,if there isn't something there for him already. Or have people with cams on NG able to change the info themselves. Doubt anyone with a cam here would missuse a feature like that.

Know the cams are not high priority. Also know when changing hosting it sucks to have the same image on there till Wade gets around to it, if he's even the one that truely messes with it. Promising him nakied pics of myself has got me no where, =/ ...


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Response to Ideas for Newgrounds' Evolution Mk2 2005-07-05 00:00:32


I came up with a simple idea just recently so I though I'd run it by you. Somedays I'm a little forgetful of what I did on Newgrounds the previous night for one reason or another and I dont remember if I deposited my experience. It might be nice to have a little message that told you how many hours you have left to deposit under the animation in the portal, and once you've deposited it changes to tell you when you can deposit again.

I realize that it isn't much more difficult to quickly vote on something in the top 50 to check so it would be more of a luxury to have it right there. I'm not sure how simple this would be to implement so feel free to shoot this idea down.


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Response to Ideas for Newgrounds' Evolution Mk2 2005-07-05 00:39:20


Well, I have an idea.

I really dont know if it has been posted, and if it has I solemly apologize for wasting your time in advance.

Anyway, my idea is simple. When clicking the link "Portal Submissions" it will show all your submissions and the score that it has to the nearest two decimals.

Well, how about we move the decimals two more places to the right, just like when you actually vote on a movie.

I have spoken with others who have submitted movies, and they also think its a good idea. They just think its annoying not knowing exactly how their movie is doing. Does it have a score of 3.9951 or a score of 4.0049?

I think it would just add some relief.

Again, sorry if this has been suggested, and thank you very much for your time.


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Response to Ideas for Newgrounds' Evolution Mk2 2005-07-05 10:15:27


Not so much an idea as a glitch, I assume you've been playing with the linking/automatic line break scripts. I've seen a few since yesterday

11th post in http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/...ds.com/
bbs/topic.php?id=300818

3rd post in http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/...ds.com/
bbs/topic.php?id=300822

3rd post in http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/...ds.com/
bbs/topic.php?id=300814

I also had one in non-link text when I posted some code in Flash yesterday, I had two lines that were maybe 40 chars with no spaces, and the got broken onto the next line - which is not great when people are copy/pasting actionscript from the BBS into Flash

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Response to Ideas for Newgrounds' Evolution Mk2 2005-07-05 10:46:25


Just a few little ideas I got while browsing NG over the past few days. Apologies if they have been suggested before, I did a quick browse and couldn't really find anything.

First off, in regards to profiles, we have Alias, Web, AIM, Age, Gender, Habitat, and Job; and I think this gives pretty much all the information we need to see. However, there are a few extra choices in personal profile as well as the public profile areas which could be added. I remember when school used to appear, and I can understand why this doesn't as it's pretty pointles in my opinion. I was thinking mainly the Webcam option. Maybe if this box is filled out, it could appear below site in the profile. I'm guessing this feature probably used to be active in the past, but was disabled because of abuse, but I can't really remember it. Anyway, it was just a minor thing.

Also, another idea I had has to do with the popularity and score ranks for flash. We are given a number rank, but not a total number to put it in perspective. I'm thinking this may make it look cluttered, due to the huge number of flash on the site, but the total could just be placed at the the bottom of the ratings. So, after score and popularity, it could have the total flash on site, or something.

And one more thing in respect to usernames. Lots of times I notice people with ridiculous numbers of characters in their name, for example "---------------username". Is there any way to limit the amount of these special characters you could put in your name. Just because it looks rather silly, in the last post display, users browsing, etc.

Thats about all I can think of for the moment ; )


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Response to Ideas for Newgrounds' Evolution Mk2 2005-07-05 21:25:11


At 7/4/05 10:43 AM, YoinK_VineS wrote: I'm not sure if this idea was ever posted but... how bout an automative webcam portal.

There's a problem with this, in that we'd then be responsible for all of the content in the cam images as well as everything else, even if the cam images are hosted off-site. If you haven't done already, read Wade's thread about the new legislation that's come into affect about nudity and people contained in said nude images... You'll have to do an author search by his name to find that, I'm too tired to do it myself at the moment.

A person can just place their cam URL inside of their settings after they login.

Most people just type mundane stuff in there anyway (that gets past the checks), rather than their URL. Most people type some sort of thing that they'd like to achieve in their AIM field as well.

Any chance this idea can happen?

Unlikely, sorry bud. We have talked about cam stuff in the past, as well, like auto-archiving images onto the site and hosting all of the images from the site rather than from external sites, but that's probably not going to transpire for the forseeable future, either.

At 7/4/05 04:34 PM, _altr_ wrote: Goddamn it, forgot to mention, make something for Wade to update cam info quicker, if there isn't something there for him already.

The trouble with Wade's workload at the moment is that it's mostly e-mail based. It's easy enough to change that stuff through the actual HTML in the pages, the problem here being that Wade is so inundated with shit that he might struggle to find time to do that stuff. You can always e-mail me with updates to URLs of new cam locations if you have a cam on the pages already (and I know you have, _altr_). But, (for the rest of you) and for the love of God, please don't e-mail me about generic account questions (as lots of people have been doing lately).

At 7/5/05 12:00 AM, Jercurpac wrote: Last deposited stuff.

I'll look through that tomorrow, although I'm pretty inundated with getting other stuff pumped out at the moment, so don't expect anything too quick to happen there (if it happens at all).

At 7/5/05 12:39 AM, -NightCrawler- wrote: Well, how about we move the decimals two more places to the right, just like when you actually vote on a movie.

Done!

At 7/5/05 10:15 AM, Denvish wrote: Not so much an idea as a glitch, I assume you've been playing with the linking/automatic line break scripts.

Yeah - I updated the number of characters before breaking stuff up from the old template to the new template style (long overdue, but I assume mods have deleted most of the template-breaking posts, since I haven't seen much of that since the layout changes, until last night). Fixed those problems this morning after reading this post.

I also had one in non-link text when I posted some code in Flash yesterday, I had two lines that were maybe 40 chars with no spaces

What the hell are you doing typing up code with no space for 40 characters? :) BTW, the new limit before wrap is, I believe, 43 characters.

At 7/5/05 10:46 AM, -idle- wrote: I was thinking mainly the Webcam option.

It wasn't ever an active feature and I don't think it ever will be (unless I get told otherwise by those who govern me). Have a read up through this post for at least one reason why. :)

Also, another idea I had has to do with the popularity and score ranks for flash. We are given a number rank, but not a total number to put it in perspective. I'm thinking this may make it look cluttered, due to the huge number of flash on the site, but the total could just be placed at the the bottom of the ratings. So, after score and popularity, it could have the total flash on site, or something.

That sounds good. Or a popularity/total, score/total ranks...

And one more thing in respect to usernames. Lots of times I notice people with ridiculous numbers of characters in their name, for example "---------------username". Is there any way to limit the amount of these special characters you could put in your name. Just because it looks rather silly, in the last post display, users browsing, etc.

Yes, I should get around to preventing that at some point.

Response to Ideas for Newgrounds' Evolution Mk2 2005-07-05 21:34:54


At 7/5/05 09:25 PM, liljim wrote: If you haven't done already, read Wade's thread about the new legislation that's come into affect about nudity and people contained in said nude images... You'll have to do an author search by his name to find that, I'm too tired to do it myself at the moment.

Here you are, my good man:

http://www.newground../topic.php?id=298331

Response to Ideas for Newgrounds' Evolution Mk2 2005-07-06 14:17:50


Small idea, there tend to be a few "Hi I'm new" topics, what about if we made a lil sub forum for introductions? Then rather than not listening to them in the general board, we can not listen to them in the introductions forum. XP

If such things happen there could be like an addition rule to it, like a member can only ever make one topic in that thread...

Response to Ideas for Newgrounds' Evolution Mk2 2005-07-06 14:21:01


At 7/6/05 02:17 PM, FrOzEn_FoX wrote: Small idea, there tend to be a few "Hi I'm new" topics

Personally, I'd rather just create one offical "I'm new" topic in general that people can post in, rather than have a whole new forum which probably wouldn't be used as it's supposed to. Only problem is that it'd almost certainly become spammy.

Response to Ideas for Newgrounds' Evolution Mk2 2005-07-06 14:30:11


At 7/6/05 02:21 PM, jonthomson wrote: Personally, I'd rather just create one offical "I'm new" topic in general that people can post in, rather than have a whole new forum which probably wouldn't be used as it's supposed to. Only problem is that it'd almost certainly become spammy.

Also, it will die out and n00bs wont see it on the front page of the BBS so they will make a "Hi I'm new" topic anyway. =(

Response to Ideas for Newgrounds' Evolution Mk2 2005-07-06 16:42:32


At 7/6/05 04:17 PM, Rude_Buddha wrote: I think there should be a characters remaining box when you edit your sig...

...

At 6/8/05 05:49 PM, Denvish wrote: 3) READ the posts in the thread, to make sure that you are not simply rehashing a previous post.

Suggested ideas still under speculation/works in progress: (May not be implemented, but have not been refused)

Profile:
'Characters remaining' for signature edit page.

Anyway, here's a simple thing. Many new people seem to think that voting on submissions and reviewing submissions are the same thing, and then they complain when they don't gain experience. My sugestion is to add some type of note to the "how to gain exp" section of the FAQ that clarifies the difference between the two things.


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Response to Ideas for Newgrounds' Evolution Mk2 2005-07-07 12:11:33


I think this would be a pretty nifty idea, but it would only be of use to mods, not the general population of NG.

How about some sort of code that logs all the locked topics into one file that the mods can see, ofcourse the topics would have to be at most 7 days old and whenever a mod feels the need, he can just visit and delete those topics at his whim. It would save time, space, alot of bandwidth i imagine. It would also benefit your autp pruner i guess. Anyway, thats just the idea. If it was in effect, m,ost of the topics that are locked under 7 days old, would be deleted IF the said mod deleting felt it deserved to be.

That brings up a problem i think though, do all locked topics deserved to be deleted, i say yes, let us do the dirty work, im more than willing.

Response to Ideas for Newgrounds' Evolution Mk2 2005-07-07 13:33:30


At 7/7/05 01:10 PM, totoum wrote: thanks for taking the idea ! just one question, does it have to be activated or will e-mails be sent automaticly?

If this is set (see attached image), you should get the e-mails automatically.

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Response to Ideas for Newgrounds' Evolution Mk2 2005-07-07 18:24:17


Idea - Being able to search based on content rating (suitable for all, teen, mature, and adult)

Reason - Because I, like most guys I know am a pervert. Also there are some people who could want to filter out adult submissions from their searches (insecure little boys).

Response to Ideas for Newgrounds' Evolution Mk2 2005-07-08 00:29:18


Ok, I just read through (...skimmed...with the find feature...) the thread making sure this wasn't suggested, but it's late at night so I hope this hasn't been said anywhere and rejected.

But basically, this thread brought to my attention that you can't suggest an entirely new collection for a flash to be put into. Some new series that don't have their own collection yet can't really be suggested for being added to a collection when there needs a collection made for them, such as the one in question. So basically, I'm suggested that under the "Submit to collection" menu that there be an option at the bottom where you select "Other" and then have a blank space where you can type up a suggested title or such for the flash series or flash. ;)

Waits to be slapped. *sleeps*

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Response to Ideas for Newgrounds' Evolution Mk2 2005-07-08 18:26:01


A potential solution for the voting system problem in the audio portal, that so many of us musicians have complained about.

This is based on these two root ideas

1. People should only to be able to pass such harsh judgement as a 0 if they have some skill as a musician, and some respect from other talented musicians.

2. 0 Voters who 0 work that someone has put effort into only get away with 0'ing without backlash as no one who isnt staff knows who they are.

So, the solution i propose:

1. You must have had your audio up to a set standard to be able to judge other people's works. I propose an overall score of 3.

2. If you get 0 voted, you get informed in some kind of message as to which users 0'd you.

Role of the NG Staff in this solution:

Reset either all but the most respected artists work to 0, or all artists scores to 0
Any new submissions must demonstrate some skill in making a loop or track. This means audio moderators must have some skill and respect for many genres of music, which those in my experience (denvish) do

Roles of those who submi musict :

There is a potential problem, but i see it solving itself. This is :

Groups such as the scummy Star syndicate who seek to enforce their opinions on everyone else will 5 each other to get 0'ing power as quickly as possible.

BUT (problem solutions and overall benefits)
1. They must submit something that is a decent loop or track, anything that is rubbish, and audio equivalent of B will be 0'd by people who arent in any collective, and by those who are. The audio mods will also play a role in ensuring that absolute shite doesnt get through, which is something they already do i believe?
2. Therefore, they will develop a more mature understanding of what effort goes into peoples music that they make, and refrain from 0'ing good artists.
3. If the star syndicate (for example) start picking off good artists, good artists will seek artists of similar skills and annihilate those who seek to devalue their work. This will be in their interests, as the more good artists get shot down, the less they can protect each other.

Summary: NG staff will have to reset scores back to 0 for all artists, those who have made a name for themselves will get their popularity restored to them by their fans.
The staff will also have to prevent utter crap getting through.

0 voters will be known, so vengeance can be taken which may discourage them.
Good artists will not 0 other good artists, as it would mean they get 0'd and shunned by a group of good artists.

If syndicates do actually make something good, then only the one that makes the work will have the power to 0 vote. However, they could claim it was a collaboration to give them more fire power. BUT we would know who they are, so they would get shot down by many people.

There are two possible problems: The creation of alternate aliases, but again, if they 0 voted using different aliases the good musicians would swoop to annihilate them, knowing its in their interests to look after their own.

And also, the sheer amount of members of these organisations is unknown. But i'm sure some espionage could be arranged....

The overall benefits if this works will be a) making the syndicates less effective
b) the syndicates that mostly produce crap but have some good artists will begin to understand what putting effort into music actually means, and what its like to be group 0'd for hard work if they 0 any of the good musicians.
c) it will stop the good musicians from whining and bitching so much, as they will be getting 0'd off people they can react to, instead of anonymous people.

As a more final measure, those who are in syndicates who constantly 0 others work should be banned permanently.

If you log ip's then this will work, if thats not how it goes (ie dynamic ip's?) they will have to create an alternate alias and start from 0 again, meaning the syndicates will spend more time 5'ing them up than 0'ing us down. And when they 0 any of us, then we annihilate them.

Another problem: time frame: They could 5 themselves to voting power and 0 us before we even get started. Whilst not all syndicates make absolute crap, many do
BUT since only their more skilled would be able to 0 us, they would be less likely to 0 us because of the backlash. I propose collaborations limited to no more than 4 people, as any more than that many musicians working together is unlikely anyway.

If theres anything that i've not foreseen, and you have, please inform me.

Response to Ideas for Newgrounds' Evolution Mk2 2005-07-09 07:52:16


At 7/8/05 10:53 PM, SPaZGHoST wrote:
0 Voters who 0 work that someone has put effort into only get away with 0'ing without backlash as no one who isnt staff knows who they are.
That sentence is so random I can't even understand it

0 voters who 0 music that someone has put hard effort into COMMA only get away with 0'in without backlash COMMA as ONLY NG staff knows who they are.

Does that help?

Response to Ideas for Newgrounds' Evolution Mk2 2005-07-09 08:55:38


At 7/8/05 06:26 PM, SpamWarrior wrote: 1. People should only to be able to pass such harsh judgement as a 0 if they have some skill as a musician, and some respect from other talented musicians.

That's the same retarded train of thought as people who think only those with Flash should be allowed to review.

2. If you get 0 voted, you get informed in some kind of message as to which users 0'd you.

Why, so you can zero them back or flame them on the BBS?

Response to Ideas for Newgrounds' Evolution Mk2 2005-07-09 11:36:06


At 7/9/05 08:55 AM, jonthomson wrote:
At 7/8/05 06:26 PM, SpamWarrior wrote: 1. People should only to be able to pass such harsh judgement as a 0 if they have some skill as a musician, and some respect from other talented musicians.
That's the same retarded train of thought as people who think only those with Flash should be allowed to review.

Since the public rarely go on the audio portal compared to the flash, from the statistics i've heard liljim mention( 3% of the traffic) or something similar, i fail to see what the problem is. Since the AP's original PURPOSE was for making music for flash, i think there should be some quality control. The general public rarely go in as i state, and the syndicates just go in to have a laugh and own people that they dont like or dont know.
If there was better music and publicity, more flash artists would use it, and the more the general public would go there.


2. If you get 0 voted, you get informed in some kind of message as to which users 0'd you.
Why, so you can zero them back or flame them on the BBS?

Exactly. If someone makes bad work, and tries to 0 somone who makes better work, they will get annihilated by the better musicians and will not be able to judge others as harshly until they have talent and respect in the community. It is both a curative and preventative measure to the problem that is pointless 0 voting.

Could you please tell me why it was necessary to be so rude, and also why didnt you express any valid reasons for my thinking being retarded, other than a semi relevant comparison to the flash portal?

Is it because the more reasons you come up with, the more i can reason back?

Response to Ideas for Newgrounds' Evolution Mk2 2005-07-09 11:54:11


At 7/9/05 11:36 AM, SpamWarrior wrote: Exactly.

So, let me get this straight. If I wanted to voice my opinion on your audio submissions, I can do, except if I want to give the opinion that it sucks. Unless of course I've got some submissions already, in which case you want to know that I personally think it sucks, in which case you'll vote 0 in retaliation if you think your stuff is better.

Unless, of course, you have some big conspiracy theory that people are voting your music down in an organised manner, which isn't for this thread to deal with.

Invoking rule 1 - In an attempt to keep the thread concise, discussion of ideas is no longer encouraged. Because you can't seem to see the obvious lack of thought your idea has had put into it.

Response to Ideas for Newgrounds' Evolution Mk2 2005-07-09 12:17:12


Everything is accounted for in my original post, please put some effort into reading what is clearly a LARGE amount of effort. Anyway, i'm leaving this now before i get booted :S

Response to Ideas for Newgrounds' Evolution Mk2 2005-07-09 13:14:43


A few things about alphas.

http://www.newgrounds.com/ngmag/alphas/#

The alpha FAQ link is dead, and leads to the alpha main page, not an FAQ.

And, The alpha pages needs a search like the flash portal. It took me forever to find my old alpha


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Response to Ideas for Newgrounds' Evolution Mk2 2005-07-09 22:19:11


I don't know if this has been mentioned in one form or another in this thread, but I think it would be a nice idea if people who contributed flash/audio to the portal got bonus experience points for their accounts. For example, basic stuff like 50 points for a passed flash/audio,100 points for award winning flash/audio, 200 points for a flash that makes it onto the front page. I think it would encourage people to make more flash for the portal, and try to shoot for award winning flash as well. Again, the points wouldn't count for blammed material, just for flashes that survive. Any thoughts?

Response to Ideas for Newgrounds' Evolution Mk2 2005-07-10 02:03:53


At 7/9/05 10:19 PM, PeelyPipe wrote: people who contributed flash/audio to the portal got bonus experience points for their accounts.

Been suggested numerous times, not going to happen.


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Response to Ideas for Newgrounds' Evolution Mk2 2005-07-11 18:58:56


Ok, this might be the most fucked up thing ever, maybe it's impossible to fix, maybe it's only on my computer, I don't know.

When I'm clicking links in the BBS and basically everywhere, the back of the screen either stays the NG theme, or flashes black.
But when I click links in the portal (that bring me to the "watch this movie" page) it flashes white while changing the page. And when it's dark that really hurts the eyes, I've even developed a reflex to close my eyes while the page is changing :S

Do you understand what I mean? Can it be fixed?

Response to Ideas for Newgrounds' Evolution Mk2 2005-07-11 22:44:40


At 7/11/05 09:44 PM, Loco-Evil-Dabdoub wrote: As I have found some abusive (or stupid at least) stuff in the BBS, why don´t you (liljim) include a useful, not useful or abusive, just like in the reviews of the flash portal?
It will be useful, as long as it works as a invisible counter that only mods will be able to see in some kind of special page -tool-, so that way they will find faster that kind of comments. They´ll still be able to lock threads in the old way.
What do you think?

Most of the silly threads get deleted or lock, not all. People would end up abusing that feature, reporting some because they didn't like them. Or some previous disagreement they had.

Response to Ideas for Newgrounds' Evolution Mk2 2005-07-12 12:05:29


I'm back with two suggestions:

Just like authors can see who put them as a favorite author, I suggest users have the option to see who else has put their favorite author as a favorite. That might be bad though, think of all the Foamy fans and haters. So I'm not 100% sure on this one.

As for the second, I suggest "subscribing" to threads, or better yet, e-mail notifications from the leaders of a club or crew from the C&C forum. If a leader has something important to say to all the members in the club/crew, he/she would have the ability to post a message on the thread, and the system would basically send an e-mail to all the members as an announcement. Some clubs have 100's of members, including dead ones, so this "system" might help the leaders a bit.

Response to Ideas for Newgrounds' Evolution Mk2 2005-07-12 12:09:43


At 7/12/05 12:05 PM, arab_freak wrote: Just like authors can see who put them as a favorite author, I suggest users have the option to see who else has put their favorite author as a favorite. That might be bad though, think of all the Foamy fans and haters. So I'm not 100% sure on this one.

I'm not sure that's a great idea. If someone wants to see if a specific person has a given author as a favourite, they can just check their profile. I'm not sure how this would have any real practical use for anyone, apart from abuse.

As for the second

Most clubs are either small enough that they can easily be managed from inside the thread, large enough that they create their own off-site forum, or don't have any "leaders" so to speak. As for subscribing, you could always bookmark a thread, but that could be a useful feature I guess.

Response to Ideas for Newgrounds' Evolution Mk2 2005-07-13 04:35:35


Blams system, well it needs to be fixed. I have a suggestion please for the love of your fans, NG please give us the right so that in the first week if a submission receives a higher ratio of bad reveiws then good that it should be blammed regardles of what the blammers think if they think it's good then let's give to the public to divulge. I have written my plea and again I get on my fat covered, dirt soddened, blood stained knees please for the love of the free public give us this right and we shall make this site twice as good as it can, is, and forever will be. If you agree please join in on this plea and help give us the freedom of blam justice and equality!