Asandir's interviews with Newgrounds forum users

When did you find Newgrounds and why did you join?

Light:

"I found Newgrounds sometime early in 2006. It was several months before I officially made an account. You see, when I was in the 7th grade, a friend told me about a dress-up hentai game on this site called "Newgrounds." I was interested because, well, 12 year old boys can be quite perverted, lol. I subsequently began to explore the other areas of Newgrounds and discovered great games like Alien Hominid, Domo-kun Angry Smashfest, and many great flash movies. I didn't know back then that people made flash movies, so I was especially entertained by it. A week before my 13th birthday, I decided to join. I've been visiting this place ever since."

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Do you think that you changed over the time you were here, as user, or also in real life?

Light:

"Both. I tried to be funny when I was a younger poster. I was never really serious and I probably sucked at debating and forming coherent arguments. But I improved substantially at doing what I do best. I matured and stopped trying to be funny. From that point on I just acted like myself on these forums."

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Are there any other users that you like, and how do they affect you?

Light:

"Oh, there is a bunch of people I like and love. Cootie, Dosensuppen, Ryanson, Lintire, and Space-Whale are my best friends on NG. And there are quite a few other people I like, such as Powerage, TheColourAwsome, SaltshakerClock, anauthor, you of course, Murray, IncendiaryProduction, WeHaveFreshCookies, CashClock, Addict, Yert, GiantDouche, Bees(Shocker, right?), Rummy0, Sevkat and probably a few more people whom I've forgotten."

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I guess that you have an opinion about the moderators of Newgrounds. Do you think that they do a great job or not?

Light:

"The vast majority do a fantastic job at what they do, but there are three of which I find myself regularly questioning their reasoning behind locking threads and banning people. Of course, I wouldn't want to name these mods, as I'm not so sure that they can take criticism very well."

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Would you like to become a moderator on Newgrounds? If so, what kind of moderator?

Light:

"Nope.

Although I did aspire to be a review moderator at one point. However, I concluded that the job would be thankless and too tedious for my liking. Since I have a deity whistle, I can flag reviews all by myself and the review mods would be notified immediately.

Yeah, they're not called deity whistles for nothing."

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The redesign is rumoured to happen within the next months, are you looking forward to it? What kind of changes do you want to see?

Light:

"Actually I don't care all that much about the redesign. Call me crazy, but I don't really care because NG is already nearly perfect in my opinion.

Of course, there are improvements that could be made, but I don't think it would warrant redesigning the entire website. With that being said, a redesign would be nice, but I wouldn't need it to keep coming back to this place."

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You very recently decided to leave the Newgrounds forums. Within a short time, you came thankfully back. So my question is: Why did you leave, did you watch the forums in that time and most importantly, why did you come back?

Light:

"I decided to leave for what I thought was forever because I actually had a day or two on the BBS where I really couldn't find any threads worth posting in, which has never happened before. The threads had seemed to have gotten so dull, repetitive, and borderline rule-breaking that I thought it would be best to leave. Not to mention that there were posts being made that inundated the BBS, posts that were simply awful.

After I left the BBS, I decided to lurk, which means watching posts and threads on the BBS without posting in them. I did this for more than a week, and conditions weren't really improving. I decided to come back for the one of the same reasons that I left: because there were so many stupid posts being made. I felt that I needed to do what I do best on these forums.

I needed to respectfully state my opinion and respectfully prove idiots on the BBS wrong."

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Judging from your username, you seem to be a huge fan of Star Wars. Are you still a fan of the franchise and do like your username? Or did you ever thought about requesting a namechange?

Light:

"I don't care for Star Wars very much. I just created my account with this username because I had seen Star Wars Episode 3 the year before and I was obsessed with the franchise. Now, I don't care very much about the franchise at all anymore. I still like it, but not as much as I used to.

Oh, and I have requested my name to be changed to both Tom and Wade, but to no avail. I wanted to change my name to "X" at first, because that's my favorite letter of the alphabet. Both Tom and Wade passively refused my requests by not granting my namechange. They didn't even respond back. lol.

I also wanted to change my name to "Light." No success there either."

* username change from Jedi-Master to Light took place in early December 2011 *

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You won the Most Underrated award for the NGBBS mid-year awards 2011. Do you think that you deserve this award and how did you feel winning it?

Light:

"Not really. I feel honored, but I don't think I deserved it. People think my posts are fantastic. I don't. People think I'm smart. I don't.

I just post how I feel about certain subjects and attempt to clarify things to the misinformed posters among us."

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I heard that you and Ryanson are good friends, Ryanson himself said that you both are "pm buddies". Can you tell our readers how this friendship developed?

Light:

"He sent me a PM one day about something I can't quite remember, lol. We sent PMs back and forth and now we're PM buddies.

Not that he's the only one, though. ;)"

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What can we expect from you in the future, Light?

Light:

"I actually want to improve my posting quality. I know most people think my posts are already great, but I think I can be even better. I mean, I do think my posts are just "OK."

And you can also expect me to post very frequently, as usual."

* Proofread and created with the help of Confucianism

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