Newgrounds.com — Everything, By Everyone.

The following pages will take you over the variety of areas in Newgrounds. This will show you the basics, And will eventually evolve into Advanced guides too. For now I have made a contents page and added the basics of the 4 most essential things occupied by a general Newgrounds user. This page will be constantly updated with more links, and information.

As another note to my guide. I will be updating this guide from time to time. It may take a while to become complete to its full potential, And bear with me in that time. I will be adding another page full of related links and guides throughout the Newgrounds empire. Anyway, If you wish for anything to be added, especially if you want it quickly, Leave a comment. But bare with me, This may take time. I am in no way complete with this project.

These guides are simply that, Guides. Follow them to a degree in order to reach your peak on Newgrounds. As stated above, I will be adding much more to this Guide and thing will become slightly more complex as it grows. For now I have covered the basics, and this is directed at new users more than anything. Regular users will not find much information too useful as of yet. That will change.

Here is a quick summary of the Guides so far. These have taken me a decent amount of times to put together with the latest, and best facts. Click the links to access the full Guide:

Guide: Voting. This section focuses on how to vote fairly, and correctly. It shows users how to look at things, and how to be smart enough to look past certain things. This is ideal for new users who have to upgrade their own Blam and Protection Points, But still be fair to the submissions owner. This will involve links to examples of instances that break regular thinking styles when voting.

Guide: Reviews. This reviews section will focus on how to review a submission in a good sense. This means being fair, and actually being helpful in your reviews. Being one of the few people on Newgrounds who actually gives ideas and tips during a review will be a big step for any new person to the site.

Guide: Forums. This section is a guide to the forums. It will tell new users only, How to become accepted into the forums, and gain respect and not be shunned within their first few days. This section will also show the users view on certain forum sections. In order to enter the forums as easily as possible.

Guide: Artist. This section of the guide will tell aspiring artists how to reach the full potential of their submissions. This is not done in the tutorial sense, But in another aspect. Tutorial style guides will be submitted to the Contents page at a later date. View this guide now, If your a new artist.

I hope these 'Beginner' style Guides will help you slightly if your new, or even regular, to Newgrounds. More will be added at a later date, But these should be enough to get you quite easily off the ground for now. There are things on the site you will obviously have to pick up yourself, And no guide in the world could help with such things. These are a push in that direction though.

Related guides to individual aspects of Newgrounds will be added at a later date, For a more thorough view of the more individual aspects of the website. If you want to subscribe to this Guide, please leave a comment below notifying me of this. Tell me what you think also. I'm doing this for you guys, So I'd like to see your opinions. Keep in mind, This is still in early stages.

- Jack.

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17 Comments

Aug. 8, 2009 | 5:17 AM UnreaK745 says:

I'm down with this shit. If you need anything, absolutely anything, contact me. I can help with the writing, with the everything.
PM me.
I can't wait to get this project running.

Aug. 14, 2009 | 5:45 PM iCurrie responds:

If the time ever comes. I'll keep that in mind.

Aug. 9, 2009 | 9:59 AM GodsBitch says:

What has brought all this on? You've put a lot of work into this. I hope people appreciate it.

Aug. 14, 2009 | 5:46 PM iCurrie responds:

Thankyou. I just had nothing to do, and thought to myself. Why don't I make a guide of some sort. I have no idea how my mind works.

Aug. 13, 2009 | 2:31 AM Greenfrost6 says:

Damn man, well done on the effort. I hope more people will take notice of this. Any other help with NG and shit, just pm me.

Aug. 14, 2009 | 5:46 PM iCurrie responds:

Thanks. I'll be keeping you in mind also. I'm currently making Update 2.0 of this.

Aug. 14, 2009 | 10:48 PM Sheizenhammer says:

You could do with a 'Guide: Whistle.' post to go with that. I have a kind of long-ass one on my userpage that you can shorten and use bits from if you like.

Aug. 14, 2009 | 11:25 PM iCurrie responds:

It would seem somewhat hypocritical to do that. I'm working on getting my whistle at least back to normal, But its extremely hard.

Aug. 19, 2009 | 2:36 PM LK412 says:

You wrote all of this an only 4 comments?

What a downer.

Aug. 19, 2009 | 5:20 PM iCurrie responds:

Haha, I'm the unpopular sort :)

Aug. 19, 2009 | 9:11 PM CelestOrion says:

If you need help getting your whistle back to normal, then check out one of the guides I have posted on my page, I'm sure it would help you out.

Aug. 20, 2009 | 1:14 AM iCurrie responds:

Your getting linked in affiliated pages because of this in Version 2.

Thank you muchly :)

Aug. 22, 2009 | 9:46 AM NGReviewEater says:

www.supermariobross.newgrounds.com/ne ws/post/287243

Goldmine here. 100+ comments linking to pages full of stupid crap (or what's left of it).

Flag whatever you can find in there and hope for the best. Most of the abuse should be gone, but you should be able to manage to bag about 60-100 (estimated) reviews that were created days after the comments were left.

This post gets enabled again at September 2nd or 3rd and that's when more reviews are poured in that post (daily).

It's the same thing CelestOrion mentioned (except he got permission to put it on his user page) in his comment. Utilize it to get to deity. I suggest you use his post meanwhile until the actual post gets enabled again (and more abuse gets reported there at a much faster rate).

Good luck getting out of garbage.

Aug. 24, 2009 | 4:49 AM UnreaK745 says:

Dude, can you give me a date or... I don't know, but how much is it going to take till we get to 2.0? I mean, we can then make 2.1 and 2.2, so we don't really have to incorporate every new guide in 2.0, you get me?

Aug. 26, 2009 | 6:04 AM iCurrie responds:

I'll PM you.

Aug. 26, 2009 | 4:35 AM NGReviewEater says:

CelestOrion now has a gold whistle. Proof that the link I gave works when upgrading your whistle.

Aug. 26, 2009 | 5:50 AM SuperMarioBrosS says:

What type of user that wants to make a complete Newgrounds guide with help from other people ignores responding comments by them but posts useless crap on the BBS that nobody really gives a rats ass about? Right now 1 user is asking a question and I have seen you in the BBS user base several times posting garbage but not even respond to that comment.

You fucking disgust me iCurrie; the respect you're giving to your helpers for your Newgrounds Guide is disgraceful. You're not going to make the "best" guide on Newgrounds if you treat other users (especially your helpers) like trash. Nobody will like you or your guide.

Clean up your act dude and show a bit of respect to your helpers.

Aug. 26, 2009 | 6:08 AM iCurrie responds:

Haha, Dude you have to be kidding me. What type of loser are you? I don't check this post every minute I'm on Newgrounds. And when I do I respond to the comments posted.

But as for you, Not knowing much. I am in constant PM contact with UnreaK. But you wouldn't know that considering you only have limited view. I guess its safe to say that anyone who takes such offense over someone else's news blog should likely leave their house from time to time. Socialize man, Friends are pretty cool to have.

I never said this was going to be the best guide on Newgrounds. Its just another guide because there's not much else to do with my time on Newgrounds. But seriously, Get a life man.

I've never seen someone get so worked up over this website. You've definitely set the bar for other cyber-losers.

Aug. 26, 2009 | 6:38 AM NGReviewEater says:

All I hear from that response is "BAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW".

Haha, you fell for a fucking troll. You're so easily trolled iCurrie; it's so hilarious. Learn to see if someone is trolling you idiot. Your best response would have been to delete the comment or ignore it.

Best Newgrounds Guide on Newgrounds my ass.

Good day to you iCurrie and I hope you WOW me with your Version 2.0 and prove the crap I said in that thread was wrong.

Aug. 26, 2009 | 7:34 AM iCurrie responds:

Haha, But whats wrong with giving a troll a piece of my mind? At this time at night, I have nothing better to do with my time. But still take the whole 'world outside your front door' thing into consideration.

Aug. 26, 2009 | 12:14 PM NGReviewEater says:

I would go outside, if it wasn't fucking hot here...

Anyway, forgive me iCurrie for being an ass here. And now, I shall leave you and your guide alone. Peace.

(You still should think about joining the abusive review post to get rid of that garbage whistle and not look like a hypocritical idiot in your guides. The post resumes at September 3rd.)

Aug. 26, 2009 | 8:26 PM iCurrie responds:

Thankyou (:

Its that easy.

Aug. 28, 2009 | 8:42 PM jakenator85 says:

You has garbage, you no help.

Sep. 3, 2009 | 7:51 PM iCurrie responds:

Shaddup.

Sep. 2, 2009 | 9:48 AM Lizzardis says:

Keep it up iCurrie. Your doing well my friend. Ignore NGReview Eater....He is just SuperMarioBrosS's alt. He's trying to put you off and lower your motivation.

Just ignore him and move on. If you ever need any help buddy, you know where I am! ;)

Sep. 11, 2009 | 5:50 PM chillbro says:

Why are you stealing?

Sep. 21, 2009 | 2:46 PM TurtleKirby101 says:

stop taking good ideas and turning them into bland turd, your guide is fucking worthless and doesn't actually say anything useful, go and take your shit guide elsewhere, like the trash.

Sep. 22, 2009 | 11:27 AM TurtleKirby101 says:

besides you have a fucking garbage whistle, and you're saying that the links people are giving you are helpful, so why make a guide when you have to use other people's stuff for yourself, you may as well just link to them, especially the one you fucking stole the guide idea off. Just fuck off and stop boring us to death with stuff we can see in other people's better guides.

http://supermariobross.newgrounds.com /news/post/377194 If you want a decent guide instead of lame trash, look at that, My good friend supermariobrosS is launching a much better guide. It's not quite done yet, but if you want to know something, there'll be a much better guide tthan this one, plus an author that doesn't spend all his time posting shit on the BBS no one cares about and finds good time to answer.