Recently I have been working on trying to clean up the portal to reach the next B/P rank, but I'm at the point where they're over a thousand movies apart. It takes a while to go through that many movies, and during that time you'll see so much abominable dreck. Worse yet, too much of it is getting through. The problem is simple, the old delete if under score upon leaving judgement is simply too low in these modern times on Newgrounds.
The score itself wasn't necessarily chosen in error back in the day, but one must remember that Newgrounds used to be a far harsher place voting wise than it is now. It used to be that getting a movie with a score above 3 was a honor akin to getting a score above 4 today, and the highest scoring movie in the top 50 was an ephemeral 3.99. Just okay movies would often rank in the mid 2's, and sometimes people earnestly trying wouldn't quite manage to get a 2 even. Also, there used to be an army of bots that people had runnning voting a zero on every single movie on the portal every single day... thankfully that was stopped many years ago.
But these days aren't those times anymore, thanks to the elimination of many old institutions that glorifed blamming a little too much as well as the fixing of bot voting exploits. Most decent flashes will almost always score over 3 today, and truly great stuff over 4 with ease. The fact is that during my last 700 B/P points towards my next rank I have not seen even one thing of any value whatsoever come even close to being under a 2, but I have seen so much utter dreck that would have been blammed back in the day squeak by under 2 these days. The problem is that while bad down-voting has been removed, we now have people with bad upvoting trying to spam Newgrounds with shit for the lulz.
It no longer matters if you're total shit, so long as you're affiliated with one of the Negrounds Disrespect groups (I won't be naming names) you'll get enough wholly undeserved 5 to make sure your filth is never in danger of being blammed anymore. These days the only way to get blammed is to both be filth, and not part of one of these groups that making disrespecting Newgrounds an official mission statement. If the minimum protection score required were raised to 2 there would not be a single thing of value lost, but it would hamper much of the lulz-bombing I have sadly been seeing way too much of lately.
LewToons
yeah man - it's way harder to get blammed these days - when i was starting up on my first user name i had a hard time getting anything even through haha - -now even the crappiest stuff will make it through with around a 2