Stop the NG Spam

Today, we have found many NG users abusing the website.

These users who are abusing the website are mostly done by spamming. Look at every area of Newgrounds. It has been flooded by spam. The Flash Portal did a good job, but some of them violated the rules. Here are the 3 rules of submitting to the portal:

1.) Please make sure your work is very original. That means we wanted your work not stolen by others. If you found a submission stolen, you can flag it as Stolen.

2.) Make sure your Flash does not cause any computer problems. We have found some and they were automatically popping up pop-ups. There might be a virus into it. We want to stop viruses in our Flash Movies and Games.

3.) We want our Flash to be appropriate to Newgrounds. That means, do not ever submit any Flash that contains pornography, bestiality, pictures of people being killed, etc.

If we find any submission violating the 3 rules of Flash Submitting, we may considered them as Spam.

There were also problems to the Audio Portal, which in this case, people are stealing music from popular Flash music sites such as flashkit.com. We have AMs (Audio Mods) where they can delete stolen music from another website.

There were also Review Problems. We see sometimes reviews that doesn't criticize their Flash, but it criticizes the author instead. Also, we found mass spamming on some reviews, like "?!?!?!?!?" reviews. There were sometimes even reviews with ASCII art. We don't need them. The RMs (Review Mods) can delete reviews and ban users.

There are even some spam posts at the BBS. All we could see are something like "t4j83fck23", or some swearing. We have FMs (Forum Mods), which they can lock, delete, destroy, or even ban a user. Such spam threads include 4chan-related, or even Photoshop threads (especially photoshoping Josh).