About Whistle(1), B/P points(2), BBS(3) & Ng stuff(4)

Content:
1) ROAD TO THE DEITY...
_i) __About Whistle
_ii) __Links
_iii) __Info from Mods
2) B/P POINT EATER...
3) BE AN EXPERT ON THE BBS...
4) the NG STUFF...
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1) ROAD TO THE DEITY...

i) __About Whistle Section

Exist 2 ways to GET WHISTLE POINTS...

the first one: If the submission is Under Judgment in the Portal...
and you find if break any of the Rules, you can Flag it clicking on any of this

- This movie is stolen.
- This movie is malicious (e.g. auto-spawns pop-up windows).
- This movie is unsuitable (e.g. hardcore adult, porn slideshow, hateful, illegal).

The second one: If you find a review that is rule breaker
you can flash it
0 / 0 people found this review helpful. Did you? | Yes | No | Abusive

You can find this info here

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ii) __Links Section

If you want to learn about Whistle in general... you can visit Cheekyvincent's page

If you want to learn about abusive review... & how to get to deity...
you can see DnaDraxxus's page...
(he has Deity.. so he knows what he is talking about...)

If you have any question... you can Pm Kidray76. One of the greatest Mods on NG

You can find some info about STOLEN FLASHES on Bstuk2's page
In my opinion is a nice guide...

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iii) __Info from Mods Section

Here I'm going to post here some info from the mods... that you may consider helpful...
From: http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/74 264/728 page728-730

BlueHippo wrote:

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Okay you guys, lately you've been a little flag happy... I know you guys really want a deity whistle, and hey, I can understand, I'm a stat whore, too. But you guys need to take it easy.

Just because the score is a 0, doesn't mean it's abusive. It doesn't have to be a paragraph, like users used to do on Foamy movies in order to review 0, but often I'll see a review that's highly flagged just because it's a 0. So what, are people not allowed to review 0 on submissions?

A review of "This movie was really long and drawn out, and the sound quality was poor too" would probably be flagged by many of you. Okay, well, the movie sucked, and he wanted to express his thoughts. People are allowed to have negative thoughts on movies, shit happens.
Now, here's a good example of an abusive review I just deleted. "This movie sucks balls!!! AND YOU ARE THE ONE WHO LICKS THEM!!! God you are an anoying sunnava bitch!" See, that was pretty abusive. I know you guys can tell that is abusive, but you all need to be more careful when flagging 0s.

Let me state that this wall of text is simply put = "just because it's a 0 doesn't mean it's abusive"

Just because a review has some bad words in it, or the word 'blam' does not automatically make it an abusive review. Yes, yes, I know blam has become a dirty word on NG, but, it's just a part of what Newgrounds is.

If someone were to say "The animation was really poor and I found the audio to be highly annoying, why wasn't this blammed?" Naturally I know you want to flag this review, but you'll have to resist the urge. Sure the review might have been somewhat lacking in content AND used the word blam, but c'mon.
As I already stated, people are allowed to have negative opinions. See how that compares to "This movie blew, blamming this shit. Stop making flash". Yes, that was pretty blatantly abusive, but you get the gist of things, right? Good I thought so ;)

Remember, the whistle system is to help us keep abuse at bay, not for you all to grow your e-penis by increasing your whistle level.

I'm sure you've all head "quality over quantity" before, right? Same goes for flagging.
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kidray76 wrote:

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To go along with what BlueHippo has already stated. Take the time to read the review. Seems some of you have been flagging shit carelessly.

If it helps any, look at the context of the review rather than just the words. The word blam doesn't equal abusive. Just depends on how it is used.
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RageVI wrote:

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First, let me bring up the part concerning "blam" from the review guidelines:

Do not use reviews to express your feelings that the entry should be BLAMMED. If you post "BLAM this" or something similar you will be banned. Use the review option to tell the author how they can improve their work.

If the reviewer is asking the submitter "Why wasn't this blammed?", they're implicitly (but usually clearly) expressing the opinion that they think it should have been blammed. What business does anyone have in saying a submission should have been blammed, let alone asking the author the question? In almost every case, whether the submission makes it on to the portal or not is completely out of the author's control.

The fact is that the submission has passed the under judgment phase once and forever. Addressing that phase again in the review body is almost guaranteed to be irrelevant or inappropriate. It's nearly always out of context of the constructive criticism the reviewer should be giving if they truly feel it should have been blammed.

Take a look at the review guideline entry concerning the front page:
If you think a submission doesn't belong on the front page of the site or shouldn't be featured in special sections of the site, keep it to yourself. The submissions on the front page and in special sections of the site are put there by our staff, not by the author. Keep your focus on how the person who submitted might improve their work..

I feel like this rule is almost the same as the blam rule, except "blam" is replaced with "front page". Again, getting front page or getting blammed/saved is out of the author's control, and the reviewer should be focusing on criticising the actual submission instead of its score/front page status.

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It all depends on how you're using the word. It's just like "Fuck you" vs. "Fucking awesome!". I just disagree with him in that I feel the phrase "why wasn't this blammed" is completely inappropriate (for reasons I stated before) and should warrant having the review deleted.

Of course, if somebody says "I love this! I hope it's not blammed", it's fine. That should be given, though. Is that the problem we're addressing here? I guess I'm yet to see a review with "blam" in it in which the word was used in an appropriate manner, which is in no way saying that all reviews simply containing the word should be flagged...
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UberBarista wrote:

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You're right (RageVI), artists don't have control over whether a submission is put on the front page. But the rules simply do not state that blam is a forbidden word, which is the point BlueHippo was trying to make. If it is, it needs to be filtered out like other words that aren't allowed on the site, like the n-bomb.

"Blam this" vs "why wasn't this blammed" isn't the same thing.

Do not use reviews to express your feelings that the entry should be BLAMMED. If you post "BLAM this" or something similar you will be banned.

While implying why isn't it blammed might be borderline, the word itself isn't a reason to flag every last review with B L A M in succession. There is a lot in context to look at. Hell, I can't tell you how many times I've cleared reviews with blam used in a positive way, without referring to voting low on the entry.

At least that's what I gathered from his (BlueHippo) post, since I share the same sentiments.
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Some interesting link

http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/58 7742
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2) B/P POINT EATER...

Under Construction...!!!
But.. this part will be Great... Praporshchik aldlv tolds you...
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3) BE AN EXPERT ON THE BBS...

http://zerok.newgrounds.com/news/post/
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Under Construction...!!!
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4) the NG STUFF...

So you want to know about NG...
you still need a lot of Info...
You have some not-FAQ...
well.. Pm Tom...
just kidding...

I have found this... where you can get some info about NG...
Cheekyvincent's page...
And it's not that he answer some Questions to you...
He has the Entire NG FAQs explained there... AMAZING isn't it..? XD

some very cool link
see Cheekyvincent post
http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/81 0145

also... widerstand page is really useful, and have a lot of link
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