I notice a lot of reviews that have been made and write by people after viewing so many flashes and audio submissions. There seems to be a pattern to these reviews, a idiotic pattern at that.. It seems as though a large clump of people is either in two dispositions when they write a review.
These are the following traits of the two and names of the types of the reviews they give:
1) -The first being the simple-minded or easily swayed by game cliches. These people 10/10 and 5/5 every little peice of work and offer few words... these people offer nothing more that high scores and fans.. that's it.
2) -The second is the overly negative and possibly the hate-the-world-type. These people drop scores of those putting actual artistic creativity and talent into their work. Often times these people give average scores to pieces of work that take time, skill, and effort to put together. These people are the ones that strangle the artist's works and just makes everyone a little irritated.
I'm going to try to be a somewhat serious voter and review writer taking into consideration everything a good flash should have. Creativity and originally will get more reviews and rewards than talentless and inventive submissions.
Not like what I say here matters.. or that I'll make any bit of a difference, but this is wear I stand, my opinions, and my choice on the matter.
Offended? Tough.. grow up. Impressed? Message me, I'll eventually check my messages. I'll answer every bit of mail, so send away because I'll try to answer you back.
JonathanAntillies
And here I am, glad to say that I do not fit into either of those groups!
I review based on content, complexity, and entertainment value. I agree, some of the stuff on here that hits front page doesn't deserve to be there; however, I often find gems show up on the front page, and I still find fantastic submissions completely on accident. Thus is my life on Newgrounds.
Perhaps, however, I give out high scores a little too often. I'll have to rethink my voting from now on. Thank you for the insight of your observations.
BTW: you'd be surprised how many people read the stuff you think nobody will ever even see. ;)
-Jonathan
ArkasIcewind
Well, I'm not the most well know member of the community in Newgrounds so I hardly expect any reactions to anything I do, but thanks for taking the time to actually leave something.
Nice to know I'm not the only one trying to write reviews rather than comments. I know my stuff isn't going to be perfect or awesome right away, but eventually I hope to learn to make more interesting reviews.