Asandir's interviews with Newgrounds forum users

This week's interview features the user NekoMika. You will read about her activity as Interviewer, former member of the Elite Guard Barracks and what she thinks about awful reviews.

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When did you find Newgrounds and why did you join? Why did you choose the username SCTE3?

NekoMika:

"I was almost 13 at the time and thought a site called Flowgo was funny (mostly just a few and I checked almost everyday after school was out along with some other website I have forgotten the name of). I got really bored one night and went to Google and looked up Dr. Mario, not sure why I did but just felt like looking it up. I came across Dr. Mario's Secret and my father thought it was funny as well when he saw it. After a couple of weeks of watching stuff here on Newgrounds I decided to sign up wanting to be able to favorite and try to review things too.

I went with the name of shadowchaotailsevil3 (at the age of 13, I thought it was nice at the time) but after a couple of years it was more annoying than anything else to type out so I asked Tom Fulp to shorten it down to SCTE3 which he did so the later that day or the next day. I see a lot of people just kind of spell out as letters, I just either pronounce it as Stee or Skitty. As for it being SCTE3, it's been that way since later 2008 if I remember correctly and I am most content with this username."

Changed her name to NekoMika in November 2014

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

NekoMika:

"Changed over time on here? Yes I have over time. I have to say I have gone a long way from being a newbie who was rather naive and idiotic to being a reviewer and beginning musician. Over time in real life Newgrounds has not changed it much aside from talking with a person or two on occasion about a flash move or game from here that they enjoyed playing/watching."

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

NekoMika:

"Users that I like? Pretty much everyone in the Review Request Club. Them along with: Asandir, Step, SpaceWhale, Murray, The-Great-One, SevenSeize, and a few others. As for how they affect me? They help motivate me to be a better user.

Outside of forums I would say some other users that I do like are TheShadling, supersexybeast, coleknows, RogerregoRRoger, and quite a few audio artists."

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Are there any users that you would consider enemies or that you just don't like?

NekoMika:

"For users I don't like I don't really know of any users I would consider to be enemies. Might be some that I just don't like though for one reason or another.

However when I first came and was posting on the forums I viewed a lot of users as enemies since they were different from me and I was rather naive at the time too and just got into stupid arguments that I would wind up getting myself into and kept acting like an idiot."

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What is your opinion about the forums? Is there one forum that you prefer? And is there another forum user that you want to see getting interviewed by me?

NekoMika:

"The forums are a good way to socialize on this website and quite nice too. As for forums I prefer, I like the General, Where Is/How To, Clubs & Crews, and Audio forums. A forum user that I would like to see you getting interviewed: Travis, Knuckstrike, PrincessLuna, RacistBassist, or Manly-Chicken would be interesting to see what their interviews would be like."

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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?

NekoMika:

"I think the moderators of Newgrounds do a fair job of what they do in their respective parts of the site. Although from time to time it feels like they could do better since it feels like they are ignoring your PM but go back to what you PMed you about later and see that the problem is fixed by them or another mod. With the redesign getting things fixed it's a lot quicker since you can see which ones are online when viewing posts on the forums.

However when I first started on the forums I would get angry at some mods like bigbadron or Malachy for banning me a lot over dumb things I did on the forums but they have helped though since I eventually began to make a lot better posting habits over time."

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

NekoMika:

"I would not mind being one in the future if a new one is needed. Being a review mod would be great since I could remove rule breaking reviews and help out users more with answering questions about reviews. Possibly an audio moderator maybe once I become more experienced with music and the DAW (Digital Audio Workstations) so I can help out more there too. Lastly, possibly a forum moderator but seeing the ones we have I have to say we have enough forum moderators for now."

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The redesign is finally here. Tell me what you think about it. What do you like and what is not so good?

NekoMika:

"I like it! As for good things it is nice to see the audio portal got a few new things such as a lot of new visuals and now like the flash portal all users who helped partake in making a song can be credited too rather than simply being mentioned in Author Comments. The online/offline thing for the forums is nice too. The project system is a large help since testing content may be placed there and allow other users partaking in said project to be able to help modify and update it. However while we still have Dumping grounds and now a new Project Manager I still see people uploading test material to the flash portal sadly even though the submit page lets them know that test material should either be uploaded to Dumping grounds or the Project Manager. The tags are very helpful too for under judgment or finding a submission altogether.

Another thing I like is the notification system, gets rid of the old way of having to go right to the user's profile to see if they did anything new and just lets you know they have done something new instead there which is quite helpful in letting you know if they are still active or just stopping for the moment."

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You are a member of TheInterviewer. Please tell our readers how you became a part of it.

NekoMika:

"I just asked The-Great-One if he would let me be an interviewer and he said yes. Ironically I'm the least active interviewer since I do reviews and that kind of stuff."

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Is there a user that you would like to interview? From the interviews that you made, which one is your favourite?

NekoMika:

"There are quite a few members of this site I plan to interview when I can. From my favorite of the three I have interviewed thus far? I would have to say FurryNG (otherwise known as OfficialOmnivore on youtube now). When he first came he was a great friend and still is and hearing his first couple of songs, I really liked them a lot. I look forward to seeing what kind of new songs he creates in the future. He also happens to be one of the reasons why I wish to do music too."

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You are also a member of the Review Request Club. How important are good reviews for you? What do you think about users who leave youtube-like comments?

NekoMika:

"How important is a good review? I find them rather important since they are a whole lot more helpful than one line youtube comments that just seem to be well... comments... A good review tends to stand out a whole lot since they are larger and usually try to help the author as much as possible in letting them know what they can do to improve their game/movie/audio/art style.

Whereas a one line youtube comment style comment just seems to be a quote from the submission itself or just "Cool", "Awesome", "Radical", "Could use more work", etc. Then some are anecdotes somehow related every now and then. I do not mind them much though considering most seem to be from newcomers who have just recently began to come to the website. That or they have been coming for awhile and don't find as much time to write out a full review."

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I think that you were once a member of the Elite Guard Barracks. What is the reason for your departure?

NekoMika:

"That is correct, I once was a member. I still post in the thread. My reason for departure.... there were two issues. One was that my much older computer (Windows XP Edition) got wrecked by a nasty trojan that my big idiotic "know-it-all" brother downloaded. Needless to say that computer was completely unusable after a couple of weeks. He hardly gets on computers now though. Other part of the problem was who my father was dating at the time, after a couple of months he was no longer able to pay for the internet so I was offline for awhile. Finally had it back up around the end of the year (November, was gone since April of that year). I was pretty happy to get back internet though, really needed it for finishing up some school work and senior project for my last year of high school."

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Every person has secrets. Can you tell one of yours or something else that we didn't know about you yet?

NekoMika:

"Secrets? Hmm.. or know about me? I guess I'm kind of weird in real life."

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

NekoMika:

"Hmm, more reviews of course!! That and some interviews and the such. Maybe a few songs too."

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Now you are filled with more knowledge about NekoMika, dear reader.Feel free to leave a comment here, saying what you think about the interview, requesting users to get interviews is also appreciated. Tune in next week :3

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