it has come to my attention that fickle users are refusing to vote justly on flash applications simply to give themselves better chances at recieving protection points. i find this insulting to the general community as it will cause worst of the videos to remain on the site and even mingle with the same or similar ratings as the truly great ones. this must stop immediately, if voters want additional points then we MUST for the sake of newgrounds, band together to BLAM all the worthless shit that arrives through the flash portal. we will still receive points, but they will be blam points, and these will be all the moar satisfying if we know we are keeping some of the horrible content from seeing the light of day for moar than a minute. if a video is crap, then blam it. if a video is garbage, blam it. if a video is ridiculous to the point that it has no redeeming qualities, do not give it a five in hopes that you will recieve another petty protection point... BLAM it!

i intend to write to the administrators regarding this issue, requesting that they impose higher standards for allowing a video or other flash content to remain here. this is the only way, i believe, that we can produce honest votes.