Hello my friend! I also wish you a belated Merry Christmas and New Year... it's been a long time since we last talked.
Well, I don't have Twitter anymore because I couldn't stand using that social network anymore (only hate speech and toxic people, and besides, it seems like the people there choose who will be famous or not). It's not worth continuing on Twitter anymore, I see some artists migrating to BlueSky or Threads, but for now, I'm not going to create an account on these social networks, I'm going to focus more on YouTube and TikTok (and Instagram too)
my Newgrounds situation is actually calmer, I've made some friends and fixed bugs in some of my games, but I'm also no longer being watched on the Art or Audio portals. But that's okay, at least I have other social networks to continue posting content.
I no longer post drawings on DeviantArt (I took a brief turn last year, but I stopped doing drawings, I'm just doing animations), I only post a journal when I release a new animation or when I watch a movie and from time to time I post some Polls to kill time.
If Newgrounds Moderation were nice and could solve our problems, Newgrounds would be a perfect place. But anyway, their elitism ruins the magic of the site.
that's all my friend. I hope this situation improves (both on your part and mine) and let's wish each other good luck so that these problems can be resolved.
Gekkotsuki
May I know how did you get descouted/pruned, and who told you that "it only lasts a few months"?
(I'm just asking this from my curiosity - as if it's not obvious enough already, I don't form part of the Newgrounds Moderation Team, so I can't help you with this case in any way, but I'm still interested into knowing what exactly happened.)
LiquidFreakStudios
Hi!
I first noticed I had seemingly been removed from the Art Portal in August 2023 when a strange error message started showing up when I clicked on my "Art Scouts": https://liquidfreakstudios.newgrounds.com/news/post/1381288
Never had I received any kind of notification from the staff or their bot that I had been descouted, so to this day I have no idea why (when I checked the page of the user who scouted me, his scouts were seemingly inaccessible too, so it is possible I was pruned for this reason). Later I noticed when submitting art that the system would tell me that my post wouldn't show up in the Art Portal because I was not scouted, confirming that I had in fact been descouted for whatever reason.
Things got even stranger when friends of mine told me that there was no longer even an option to scout me, meaning that not only was I descouted, but now totally unscoutable too. This really killed my motivation to share my art here, and has continued to affect my mental health while using this website ever since. Nonetheless, I tried to convince myself it was just a temporary problem, and I even read somewhere that it was just a form of temporary shadow ban, and that scoutability status would eventually be reset. I think it was this forum post here: https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1518520
When friends confirmed that my scoutability had not been restored when 2024 arrived, basically ruining my New Years optimism, I decided to continue posting to this site anyway, hoping that maybe I'd just have to wait a full year rather than a partial one. Alas, now that 2025 has come and I'm still unscoutable (as far as I'm aware), it seems that the scoutability resetting was misinformation, and that the only way I'm going to resolve this problem is by contacting someone from the staff. I'm not going to ask them to have me scouted again, but I just want to be scoutABLE again, because I didn't do anything wrong to deserve this!
(Ah, okay... yeah, I guess I'd better contact somebody from the moderation team pretty soon)