Holy shit! So what are we gonna do about this?
Oh and here he is again http://deathchanter.newgrounds.com/reviews/movie/1
Ugh,this is getting outta hand.
Affable misanthrope, common narcissist, incorruptibly amoral, aspiring arsonist, friendly neighborhood psychopath.
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Joined on 12/18/06
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Comments
Mark them for abuse like normal. The faster they're wiped off the better. It's also important to mark them up so as to alert the staff about the issue as timely as possible.
Whoever is doing it, they prepared these alts several months in advance, typically customizing them as much as possible to make them look legitimate, which implies there's only a limited number of them. It's entirely possible that he's nearing the end of his supply.
yeah, just who doesn't report it when you see it right away on latest movie, hope his stock depleted soon. (also maybe the staff can track him down by his device ID? *maybe*)
It's possible he's using proxies like Hide My Ass so he might not get caught through IP.
EDIT: Just got word from Tom & yes, he is using a bunch of proxies. It appears this user isn't as dumb as I thought.
Hey Psychopath here is some more http://sabinmaster.newgrounds.com/reviews/
He moved into the game section.
Good man, Chaingun. The faster we obliterate his reviews the faster he runs out of accounts.
Yeah,this asshole reminds me of Enagames1..no matter how much his games get deleted,he'll keep re-posting game which in this case is reviews.
Interesting, how long ago was this? It could be the same guy.
I doubt it's the same guy but here is Enagames 1 http://enagames1.newgrounds.com/
Everyday,he posts two stolen shovelware games,they always get reported at the EGB.
He is also an Anonymous user who doesn't post or say anything other then post stolen games.
Alright, thanks man. You've been a great help.
No problem.
Thanks for the bonus abusive reviews!
Hopefully I can finally get this silver whistle.
Hey, no problem!
I found this fine gentleman http://knockfourtimes.newgrounds.com/reviews/game/1
Are his reviews abusive?
Hard to say. He's not saying anything I can explicitly point to in the review guidelines nor anything I can recall getting removed from experience. Most of them are one word reviews but not particularly offensive.
Considering how he's been getting away with this since June, I'm going to assume that a lot of people ended up with garbage whistles over this guy. His reviews are useless, not abusive. I have noticed a handful of reviews, however, that might count as abuse, such as when he just calls something garbage. There are occasions where he calls for the mods to remove a submission, which falls under the "Blam this!" rule. I noticed the further back you go on this guy's account, the more prone to abuse he is. Things like "your parents don't love you" count as insults toward the author. I'm pretty sure the ones where he's just saying "go away!" count but I wouldn't put chips on it.
This guy is what we call a mine field, since marking his borderline abusive reviews could backfire on you. Be careful & as picky as possible with this guy.
I'm going to ask Tom about this one since I'm still in touch with him.
Oh by the way, unspoken rule; if someone explicitly states that they didn't watch the movie before reviewing, that's cause for removal. Beware though, most mods will abide by this but it's not a requirement.
He used to have a couple reviews that said "Absolute shit" "THIS IS A FUCK",etc but they got removed. He used to have 382 reviews but only a few got deleted.
I see, he dumps abusive reviews but covers his ass with borderline ones. Blurring the line between useless & abusive appears to be his strategy.
Seems like it but I'm not taking the risk flagging any of them.
Good call. I'll ask Tom about it when he's back online. For now, I'll wait.
Quite weird how he went from "Bad "Bad reviews and then recently returned this month and left an actual good review.
It is strange. Probably another attempt at covering his ass. He might be afraid the staff will wipe out the rest of his reviews if he doesn't leave something good or maybe he's hoping to turn people away by using that as a first impression.
Tom is currently online,have you shot him a PM yet?
Yes I have.
Great,let's see what he says.
Yes, I sent him the three current accounts and KnockFourTimes, asking if they count. Hopefully he won't log off before responding.
What three accounts?
SawedOffKiller, Launcher & SabinMaster. The first two had their reviews wiped but weren't deleted yet.
Damn,I wonder if this S.O.B will ever go on and leave a 100 abusive reviews.
So far his "High Score" is 67.
It's likely he'll break 100 eventually but we don't know if it'll happen yet.
Wow,that would be like a life record.
Just got the reply from Tom: "This one is a tough call because it seems like he is calling out a lot of genuinely bad stuff. We do want reviews to be more constructive than that but at the same time sometimes if something is crap and some people call it out as such, it's kinda reasonable."
It's a no-go.
Damn, that is some major commitment right there.
A guy who dedicates his life to sloppily defacing NG submissions with sloppy reviews deserves a medal of some sort.
There's not even an art to what he does, I mean, he doesn't even create interesting destructive criticism and just goes around like a rabid cat on crack. I'd love to see his permanent facepalm he devolps later in life… that is if he ever grows up.
I can only say, as my partner has done most of the talking, that farming for whistlepoints like this is genuinely pathetic considering that whistles are still broken. Of all the things to farm, this is what he chose.
@Keisok: Whistles are broken?! Since when?
I haven't been on
What he means is that you can't use whistles for their original purpose; reporting stolen movies and games. You can only use them to mark reviews for abuse.
BakayaroDaWickrayz
yea i just noticed this behavior a few days ago.
hope we can find a solution soon..
Psychopath
He's made his abusive reviews as high profile as possible to get them removed faster, which probably muddies the water on who's doing it since everyone is marking their reviews for abuse. I don't know if actually finding their identity is possible.