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Here is the place where you want to go to find abusive reviews easier, but remember that not everything here is abusive. More then half of it actually isn't. Use your head when marking things.

Please do not post there if you are not contributing by answering a question or by providing a link to abusive reviews. Do not post there to talk about how your whistle status changed. You can post without a link if you are staying on topic or you are asking a question.

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Also, when you write a review you get this little reminder.

If you are giving this submission a low score, please offer constructive criticism that will be useful to the artist. The review space is not a place for you to act like a total asshole. If your review is found to be mean, offensive, or generally not helpful, you will be banned and your account may be terminated. NOTE: Any attempt to promote an outside, unrelated website in this space will result in the deletion of your user account.

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Trust me and many other users if you completely follow these rules by the book you will have a garbage whistle in no time. You may say, "Why am I listening to this guy? He has a garbage whistle too!" I would like to say that I will probably always have a garbage whistle, because I am about 10,000 or more points in the hole. This was from when I first started marking reviews as abusive because they did break the rules. To come and find out almost none of these reviews were found abusive, only useless even though they break the rules. I'm making this to try and help some people before they get into a hole like mine.

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First off you need to know that when you get an abusive review right you get 1 whistle point. When you get one wrong you get negative 20 whistle points. When you mark a movie as abusive correctly you get about 10 whistle points and when you get one wrong you get about negative 100 or so. These estimates came from my endless questions from asking review mods.

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I have resorted to marking reviews that are like the following:

Blam this - This will always get deleted so mark it.

You suck, your gay, you're a fag, go die in a fire - Anything that attacks the author or calls him names will always get deleted.

This is stolen - The review space should never be used to say something is stolen, even if it really is stolen. This will always get deleted.

Chain Mail - Another thing that will get deleted 100 percent of the time.

Unrelated Website - Notice I said unrelated. This is usually really easy too tell though. But if somebody see's a movie and said " Oh, I once saw this on www.flasharcade.com " ( random example ) then that would be considered a related website, unless they are just posting the same website over and over.

Flooding - HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH AHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Only mark this if it takes up more than four lines and 90 percent of the review space. No less in either just to stay on the safe side.

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If you mark only what I said too then you will never get a garbage whistle. It may be a very slow process, but it's the surest way of doing it. Here are things that you should leave alone.

This sucks, this is gay, this fucking sucks - Even though it breaks the rules because it doesn't leave a constructive criticism I rarely ever see reviews like this get deleted. They are usually just considered useless.

Old reviews - People say reviews from 05 are alright to mark, but honestly just leave them alone. Leave to marking things that just happened recently. This is the real way to clean up newgrounds, not by marking old reviews nobody will ever see.

Spam Submissions - No whistle points from marking reviews on spam submissions, so just stay away.

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Now let's move onto marking movies. Be careful, because sometimes you have seen the game somewhere else, but that doesn't mean it is stolen. It could be the person that owns the website actually submitting it to newgrounds.

Another thing to be very careful about is when the author comes right out and says it stolen. This is rare, but an author might be saying they stole the movie just for people to mark it wrong and ruin their whistle. It has been done before. This information also came from a mod.

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I hope this helps.

Updated: 07/22/08 9:04 PM Comments disabled | Share this!