This is a bit of a quick, slightly rushed post, but it was today o' clock when I discovered that Monthly awards have been added to Newgrounds, and I felt that would be something big to talk about.

So a bit of history: The Monthly voting system was introduced in early 2005, they kept all the data and were able to retroactively add it to old monthly winners.

Examples:

What this means:

1- Monthly voting has spread to Audio, so it will also get the award, most likely.

However, Weekly trophies are hidden and currently only visible through an RSS feed or the author's Trophy page, so we might need that updated. (Tom? hello?)

2- The Art Portal also has monthly voting, so they'll probably be getting the award again. Monthlies were already on the Art Portal for a few months, so they're nothing new. I see it as a grand return that's more than welcome, even if it is partially curated due to the way monthly voting works (more on that in my last post).

3- The upper ceiling for awards is now 4 per movie/game.

This means the fabled Triple Crown is no more. Introducing the QUADRUPLE CROWN, aka.

Daily Feature, Weekly User's Choice, Review Crew Pick, Best of the Month.

4- Talented, well-deserved authors (mainly bigshots like SrPelo, Zeurel, JoelG, MarcoCardenas, and such) gain a slight boost on their trophy count, edging them just a bit higher and away from the low-effort hacks who could only go up to Daily.

5- If you've opted out of awards, yet still got voted in, you still win the award (eg. some of SrPelo's stuff).

IDK if the "Opt out of awards" function currently works for monthly voting, or if I'd have to contact Tom or co to remove it from the nominee list.

6- A possible suggestion: Make it so you can click the date on the monthly trophy and it'll redirect you to the "Best of [year]" thread that it was posted on.

I will close this post off with a Wikigrounds article I've written for the updated award.

https://newgrounds.miraheze.org/wiki/Monthly_Portal_Awards