Editing Newgrounds (section)

==Content==
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[[User-generated content]] can be uploaded and categorized into either one of the site's four web portals: Games, Movies, Audio, and Art. A Movie or Games submission entered undergoes the process termed "judgment", where it can be rated by all users (from 0 to 5 stars) and reviewed by other users. The average score calculated at various points during judgment determines if whether the content will be "saved" (added onto the database) or "blammed" (deleted with only its reviews saved in the "Obituaries" section).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Paolillo |first1=John C. |last2=Warren |first2=Jonathan |last3=Kunz |first3=Breanne |chapter=Genre Emergence in Amateur Flash |title=Genres on the Web |series=Text, Speech and Language Technology |date=2010 |volume=42 |pages=277–302 |doi=10.1007/978-90-481-9178-9_13|isbn=978-90-481-9177-2 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Warren |first1=Jonathan |last2=Stoerger |first2=Sharon |last3=Kelley |first3=Ken |title=Longitudinal gender and age bias in a prominent amateur new media community |journal=New Media & Society |date=February 2012 |volume=14 |issue=1 |pages=7–27 |doi=10.1177/1461444811410390|s2cid=28962153 }}</ref>

Since [[Adobe Flash Player]] was shut down on most browsers by late 2020, Newgrounds uses the [[Ruffle (software)|Ruffle emulator]], an Adobe Flash emulator written in [[Rust (programming language)|Rust]] and sponsored by Newgrounds along with other popular sites like [[Cool Math Games]] and [[Armor Games]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Diamond Sponsors |url=https://ruffle.rs/ |website=ruffle.rs |access-date=March 27, 2022}}</ref> In 2022, Ruffle supported most Flash content written in [[ActionScript]] 1.0 and 2.0, and only a select few Flashes written in 3.0,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Fulp |first=Tom |date=August 28, 2022 |title=Ruffle AS3 Update |url=https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1508946 |access-date=September 15, 2022 |publisher=Newgrounds}}</ref> which meant to play then unsupported content, users had to use the "Newgrounds Player", the site's previous downloadable Flash end-of-life solution which it used prior to Ruffle for playing content.

Art and Audio are processed using a different method called "scouting", which the site describes as "a way to vet users and weed out spam, stolen works, low quality submissions, etc." All users can put art and audio onto their own page, but only those that are "scouted" will appear in the public area. Like the judgment system, it stops stolen content, spam, or prohibited material reaching the public area, relying on users and site moderators. Once an individual is scouted, they are given the privilege to scout others, though users caught scouting other users who regularly break the site's [[terms of service]] and/or guidelines ("abusing the system") get unscouted themselves.<ref>{{Cite web |date= |title=Newgrounds Wiki - Frequently Asked Questions |url=https://www.newgrounds.com/wiki/frequently-asked-questions |access-date=September 15, 2022 |publisher=Newgrounds}}</ref>

Content and context are liable to be reported for review to the moderators and staff members by flagging it for violations to the site's guidelines.{{Sfn | Van Buren | 2010 | p = 548}} A weighted system recognizes experienced users and gives their flag more voice.{{Sfn | Luther |Caine |Zigler |Bruckman | 2010 | pp = 3-5}} Newgrounds' homepage includes featured submissions from each category, as well as awards and honors to users whose submission that fall under the site's requirements to earn them.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.retrojunk.com/community/post/index/45064|title=The History Of Newgrounds|website=Retro Junk|access-date=April 21, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210116084836/http://www.retrojunk.com/community/post/index/45064|archive-date=January 16, 2021|url-status=live}}</ref> Members of Newgrounds also organize animations called "collabs" through the discussion forum on the site.<ref>{{cite conference |url=https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/1640233.1640316 |title=Predicting successful completion of online collaborative animation projects |first1=Luther |last1=Kurt |last2=Zielger |first2=Kevin |last3=Caine |first3=Kelly E. |last4=Bruckman |first4=Amy |date=October 2009 |conference=C&C '09: Creativity and Cognition 2009 |conference-url=https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/1640233 |editor=Nick Bryan-Kinns |others=Mark D. Gross, Hilary Johnson, Jack Ox, Ron Wakkary  |volume= |edition= |book-title=C&C '09: Proceedings of the seventh ACM conference on Creativity and cognition |publisher=Association for Computing Machinery |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200628155536/https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/1640233.1640316 |archive-date=June 28, 2020 |location=New York |pages=391 |isbn=978-1-60558-865-0 |doi= 10.1145/1640233.1640316|access-date=April 30, 2021 |url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Bruckman |first1=Amy |last2=Luther |first2=Kurt |last3=Fiesler |first3=Casey |date=2015 |chapter=When Should We Use Real Names in Published Accounts of Internet Research? |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d1c1CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA243 |editor1-last=Hargittai |editor1-first=Eszter |editor2-last=Sandvig |editor2-first=Christian |title=Digital Research Confidential: The Secrets of Studying Behavior Online |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d1c1CwAAQBAJ |url-status=live |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |isbn=9780262029889 |publisher=[[MIT Press]] |pages=243, 250 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210430162901/https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=d1c1CwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA243 |archive-date=April 30, 2021 |access-date=April 30, 2021 }}</ref> Some scholars noted that while hundreds of these "collabs" are produced every year, only 20% are completed due to stress on those making the animations, while other scholars said that animators maintain a "strong sense" of authorship and ownership of what they produce, especially solo animators.<ref>{{cite conference |url=https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/2441776.2441891 |title=Redistributing leadership in online creative collaboration |first1=Luther |last1=Kurt |last2=Zielger |first2=Kevin |last3=Bruckman |first3=Amy |date=February 2013 |conference=CSCW '13: Computer Supported Cooperative Work |conference-url=https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/1640233 |editor=Amy Bruckman and Scott Counts |others=Cliff Lampe and Loren Terveen (Less) |book-title=CSCW '13: Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work |publisher=Association for Computing Machinery |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200628155536/https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/1640233.1640316 |archive-date=June 28, 2020 |location=New York |pages=1007, 1010–1011, 1013–1018, 1020–1021 |isbn=978-1-4503-1331-5 |bibcode= |oclc= |doi= 10.1145/2441776.2441891|access-date=April 30, 2021|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref name="yardi2008" />{{Sfn | Luther | Bruckman | 2008 | pp = 345, 347, 349}}