Asandir's interviews with Newgrounds forum users

This week's interview features the user hecticjon.

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

hecticjon:

"I think I found Newgrounds around 2004 or 2005, when I saw that "Decline of Video Gaming" series on one of those websites that rips material from NG. I initially joined to have more "voting power", but I also decided to post some terrible reviews which should be deleted but most of them aren't. I'm not sure if I did it on purpose or not. As for my username, I didn't actually start with this name. I've told many people this, but I guess I'll tell it again now: my original username was "t3h_d3m0n" because I guess I was thinking of the dumbest name possible. I went through a few name changes before I chose hecticjon, and I honestly don't remember the origin of my name changes too much. This was before the username lock in March of 2007, so I guess I was mainly thinking "i'm gonna change mah username hurr durr". I most notably had the name HecticCircleCrap for about three years, but I after that I started to like this name better so I got it changed back."

* Changed his name to shitposter some weeks after the interview *

* Changed his name from shitposter to hecticjon later *

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

hecticjon:

"Oh, yes, definitely. I've graduated from high school, and I recently got married (yeah, I know 21 is a little young, but I have my reasons). I've also learned that it isn't funny to act like a massive idiot on the internet, no matter how anonymous you may be. I think I've also become much more of a calm person IRL, but if you've seen my posts I don't think you'd agree, haha."

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

hecticjon:

"Back in the "Transformice era", the summer of 2010, there was this spinoff forum for the "pros" of our Transformice room. And for some reason, that community still exists! So the main users I still keep in touch very often with happen to be part of that small, tight-knit community, including Tateos, Tetris (rip), level1isbest, and a few others whose NG names I don't remember, so sorry if I forgot you! I used to IM a few people too that are worth mentioning, including Luke and CapnCrunchDaPimp, who are both great people to talk to."

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

hecticjon:

"Not really. I like to shake off stupidity so I don't go insane. I might have said Xenomit a while ago but I don't really mind him that much, to be honest. I know that Insanctuary guy's motives for those dumb psuedopsychology threads, so he doesn't bother me either since I know what he's doing, but I don't respect him for it or anything. Not even the MLP fans really bother me until they starting bringing it in to random place where it doesn't fit in the context at all, but that happens on YouTube more than Newgrounds."

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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?

hecticjon:

"I HATE THEM Seriously though, they're a great way to kill time, even if some threads do bother me. The only forum I really post in anymore is General, which might be pretty unhealthy for my well-being but I usually have nothing interesting to say so I stay there. I'm not exactly sure why, but I think an interview with Tateos would be interesting."

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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?

hecticjon:

"I think they haven't been checking the General forum too much lately. I mean, I guess it's understandable if I spent time in their shoes, but the lack of moderation also made the quality of General decline more than just a bit, at least in my opinion I don't go outside that tiny slice of Newgrounds too much to know what the other mods do, which is pretty shameful."

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

hecticjon:

"Taking what I said for the last question into account, I'd be okay with being a forum moderator unless we hit a point where mods are almost always on the General forum again. I would never express interest in being a mod unless something like this happens."

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You were a member before the redesign 2007. Tell me how you experienced Newgrounds back then and what changes you liked about the redesign.

hecticjon:

"I really liked the old 2005 design for Newgrounds, and it's still my favorite one. The only two things I really didn't miss when the 07 design rolled around were manual depositing and those level icons that were ugly in comparison to the ones we had for 5 years."

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The redesign 2012 has arrived earlier this year. Tell me what you think about it. What do you like and what is not so good?

hecticjon:

"I don't have too many complaints for the new design, other than that it's lame that they took out the secrets. Now I don't have any incentive to deposit anymore because I can't get any of those naked Tom pics! Those weird pixel art level icons aren't so good but having a little avatar makes up for that. Newgrounds was pretty overdue for a redesign anyway. Besides, upgading entirely once every few years or so is better than the "make random changes every few months and don't tell anyone" route that more popular sites like YouTube and Facebook are taking."

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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?

hecticjon:

"I have astigmatism. It's really lame. I also have a shift key, despite many posts that tend to make people think otherwise."

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

hecticjon:

"Thousands of posts lacking in uppercase letters, because I have nothing else to contribute, honestly."

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Now you are filled with more knowledge about hecticjon, 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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