Some portal submissions get a lot of "what? huh? I dun get it!" responses -- like Peanut. Yeah, in the link you can see it's "number 317" in the entire flash portal.

Take into account that this was riiiight after the portal became automated. Before that, everything was manual -- a concept which some people now don't even really understand. So once the portal was automated, the manual "poo filter" of Tom and Wade (et al) weren't as ever-present.

So people would get away with putting a few frames of garbage or a 5-second sequence of someone turning. Generic stuff that now probably wouldn't last two minutes in the portal without a blam. But everything was new and all the kinks weren't entirely worked out yet. So a lot of shit would just sit in the portal without getting blammed.

So little things like Peanut have a special place in my heart, because it harkens back to a time when the portal was new and (most) people weren't constantly trying to spam as a bad joke, prank, or for financial gain. No, most spammers would spam shitty movies that they thought were the bomb. :D Which is just funnier. ^_^ I'd rather watch someone's effort that wasn't very good than see someone's poor attempt to induce seizures.

The idiotic "joke" or prank spamming is the biggest reason why I stay away from stuff under judgment in the portal. A solid third is joke submissions, pranks, or the occasional crappy movie.

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At some point several years ago, I was able to view the flash portal ranked by current score, and there was a ton of shit that was there with less than 1.0. I mean dozens of pages of it. Most of those were throwbacks to 00-01.

No, wait there it is.

Some people never get above a 1.0, and yet some continue to submit things. GenderlessHooker has the lowest non-blammed flash portal score with a 0.45 as of yesterday. Is it like a contest or something? Biggest turd wins? IMO, anything below a 1.0 should get a retroactive blam :-D