JayMiles 2011-01-28 17:55:38

Why do you delete comments and rankings you don't agree with even if they're not offensive or un-constructive? I've found this practice to be pretty insulting.

Uzilover91 2011-01-31 10:52:27

Tom, TOM PICK ME!!! (yay!)

Erm, Im up for a total blam apocalypse of those shit ass duplicate games because these are the same games that clog up the flash portal week in and week out, They are pretty shafty like.

Anyway yeah man, totally behind you likes!!

Uzilover91 2011-01-31 10:53:21

Shit forgot to say.....

GET SOME MORE MODERATORS MAN!!!

SkullMage24 2011-02-04 23:25:48

I believe the cookie cutter Apocalypse is upon us.

TravelSizedLions 2011-02-10 20:35:32

hmmm...well i don't have all the facts, but here are my thoughts:

It's true, many people repetitively release games in order to A. get attention or B. annoy the crap out of legit NG users, but some of them are just teenagers trying to improve at programming or whatever other design skill, unintentionally spamming what they believe to be original games. i know i'm a little like that with animation, and i'd definitely be upset if my work was just deleted off the site in some mass game-pocalypse.

At the same time, i wouldn't want valuable space to be taken by some jerks who don't really care about the value of Newgrounds. And to continue allowing intentional repetitive publishing would only let the problem grow out of hand

hmm... my vote is for the Cookie Cutter Game Apocalypse.

PandaSausage 2011-02-20 01:12:18

in the first sentence of the last paragraph you used the wrong weary. it should have been spelled wary instead of weary. weary=tired. wary= on gaurd or aware of your suroundings.

P.S. Do the mass-blam now

CrazedRabbit 2011-02-23 02:09:03

apocalypse. i hate those stupid cookie cutter games...

d1996 2011-02-27 06:55:40

I've got to say, I'm not a big fan of "cookie cutter" games. They're all the same. I say keep the best ones and mass-blam the rest.

ArthuruhtrA 2011-02-27 11:39:45

I think a "Clean the Portal Day" might work, giving people another chance to blam things like this, or spam, or just crap that made it because it's creator had lots of voting power, or whatever. If a game/movie has a score below 1, should we really let it take up rom on the NewGrounds servers?

vultron-omega 2011-03-03 12:08:09

apocolypse? apocolypses are cool...
APOCOLYPSE THE WHOLE LOT!!!!!!!

and visit my account plz :3

Frazier23 2011-03-07 16:22:16

I like some of the games, but i havent been on NG very long so its hard for me to determine what is stolen or just a cheesy rip off. I usually go to the flash portal for movies and shorts not games so much. Maybe if there were a another option besides blamming it, or whistle blowing people would probabbly do it. Its hard to report a stolen game if u dont know for sure who made the original. But i say blam it for now... if it sucks.

J-A-R 2011-03-13 23:04:58

Apocalypse like, anything below a 2.00, that seems fair.

ArmouredGRIFFON 2011-03-31 14:29:40

Well the thing is Tom, there isn't an equal number of users blamming as there is spamming.

You'd need to really get the decent community into blamming in order to have some sort of continual success. But these subjective matters are not that easy to assess.

I have no problem with things getting through but not being so good. But I don't like it when really bad stuff gets onto the front page! Like stuff that doesn't "seem" to have had much effort put into it.

DiMono 2011-03-31 21:45:12

I agree with the need to get rid of the cookie-cutter games, but such measures will only work if the criteria for making it through the portal are raised as well. While there was a time when 1.6 was a reasonable score for having submissions pass judgment, with the disappearance of the mass blammers and the huge amount of people who randomly vote 5 on everything for the easy saves, the pendulum has swung back the other way.

In addition to getting rid of all the cookie cutter games and tutorial games, I'd recommend raising the judgment threshold to 2.0. That would bring it high enough that the shit doesn't pass, while keeping it low enough that the odds of the blam-kiddies returning should be satisfyingly low.

That's my two cents anyway.

Megasoja 2011-04-01 21:12:25

I think you need to get rid of the majority of them but leave some so we keep that genre of games alive because you are right and some people do enjoy that crap.

Luwano 2011-04-04 20:26:52

Well as much as I understand the problem, you should be careful with deleting peoples uploads. I mean so far you don't go and deleted spam that gets saved, so why should you delete "generic games" that make it through then? Shouldn't spam be the first in line IF anything gets deleted at all?

I don't like the idea of mass deleting games just because they are "unoriginal" to many users. That's like scratching on the keystones of Newgrounds.

I'm with PsychoGoldfish, if they pass judgement they pass judgement.

Coop 2011-04-09 08:39:24

I believe that it's just people uploading these to get free publicity for their sites. They reap rewards from advertising on their sites, because people click through from here, so I say pull the plug.

Gimmick 2011-04-09 13:26:54

I is mad.
Seriously, there has been a massive influx of dress-up games and other cookie cutter games, especially by the users 123peppy, games2dress and others, including the infamous Doli-doli stuff that allpremiumgames and sometimes other users submit.

I, for when I first saw that stuff, I blammed it, when I realized after a while that I didn't get a blam [point] even though I did, and there I was, being trolled by that flash, with a score of 2.86!

Now, I just vote 2 for the judgement stage and zero later on, for the save point, but I don't see why newgrounds should be a stage for cookie cutter games. It, overall brings down the quality of games online and lowers NG's e-rep and the users "123peppy" "games2dress" (oh god how I hate that one) and "dressupgames77" should either be deleted, or they should be prevented from making dress up games - just because the dressup games provide a relatively huge rev share (considering when you've got around two hundred and ninety dressup games on one account) as well as the website individual revenue, it doesn't mean that programmers have it easy -- they just swap palettes, sometimes with the aid of artists, mix, and then put up a half-baked attempt and call it a dressup game.

Some are particulary irking -- they have shitloads of advertisements just on the loading screen. And, if that was not enough, the logo always manages to make me angry in some sort of way that makes me want to destroy that user (i'm looking at you, dressupgames77) with a....whatever.

Still, I wish that the Blam club were around, they'd know how to deal with this kind of stuff - it would definitely remove the amount of "games for girls" on Newgrounds. Games for girls? Hah! That's a laugh! For starters, there are no girls on the internet, no chance of argument. Second of all, Newgrounds is mostly a majority of people above 13 or so (give or take 1) years old, which mean that at that age, they should've outgrown it.

Enough is enough. I call apocalypse. We, the users of newgrounds, have tolerated this bare crap for long enough, and will no longer tolerate substance which is not worthy of the break of dawn. For one, I'll start voting 0 on any and every, empahasis on any, dressup game there is, and I will spam the hell out of their accounts, and try to make their life on NG miserable.
Who's with me?
TL;DR: BLAM THESE CRAP GAMES NOW! AND I MEAN NOW!

Psychopath 2011-05-01 05:05:04

You just gotta love how everyone's voting for the apocalypse only because it sounds cool.

jonthomson 2011-05-02 11:30:45

all this shit needs to be nuked. that said, if people weren't such stat whores, they'd be nuked in the first place. that said, if said stat whores were all voting to blam them already, their stat whore nature would still get points, only blams, not saves.