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natalie wrote:

I just deleted the account with the inappropriate name you mentioned. It's a good idea for us to filter names too. In the meantime, please use the Contact Us form (click link below) or "Flag as inappropriate" if you see anything inappropriate. Thank you!

If there was a filter for names when you're creating an account most people would get away with typing the "s" word in capitals but replacing the "i" with an "l". Just thought I should mention.

This is a great forum!

GEEKORAMA wrote:

It makes very much sense to provide a reason for flagging a project.  Otherwise, the results could be catastrophic.   

GEEKORAMA is wright.    My freind thedude2233 flagged a project that was about racisim becuase it had a kid call a someone who was jewish a "jew" witch my freind deemed rude. so he flagged the project and everybody got mad (the user who posted it was jewish) 

Some projects can be harder to flag than others.  Let's say there's a 100-level game that could take hours to beat, and when it's completed, a lot of bad words come up.  To find this out, would the Scratch Team have to complete the game to validate the reason for flagging, or just download the program?  Also, a single sprite could be a letter and stamp bad words on the screen at the end of a game, and anyone who downloads it would never know!

cpumaster930 wrote:

Some projects can be harder to flag than others.  Let's say there's a 100-level game that could take hours to beat, and when it's completed, a lot of bad words come up.  To find this out, would the Scratch Team have to complete the game to validate the reason for flagging, or just download the program?  Also, a single sprite could be a letter and stamp bad words on the screen at the end of a game, and anyone who downloads it would never know!

  You're right! Totally right! TOTALLY RIGHT TO THE MAX

kevin_karplus wrote:

Toasty,

Have you flagged Dreameater's projects as inappropriate?  There are over 57,000 projects on the web site, and no one has time to look at them all.  That is why there is the 'flag" option—so that users who do stumble across one of the (luckily rare) inappropriate projects can let the ScratchR team know to look at the project and remove it if necessary.

Note: as a forum moderator, I can remove inappropriate messages from the forum (and I do), but I can't do anything about projects or comments: only the ScratchR team and the project originator can remove projects and only the ScratchR team or the project or gallery owner can remove comments.

OVER HALF A MILLION NOW!!!!

cpumaster930 wrote:

Some projects can be harder to flag than others.  Let's say there's a 100-level game that could take hours to beat, and when it's completed, a lot of bad words come up.  To find this out, would the Scratch Team have to complete the game to validate the reason for flagging, or just download the program?  Also, a single sprite could be a letter and stamp bad words on the screen at the end of a game, and anyone who downloads it would never know!

Actualy, All the scratch team would have to do is download the project and look at the scripts to find the bad words.

can i be unbanned.... thats right i am able to use forums XD i will only give up the secret if you unban me.... click my eggs!!!

Hi. I found several people who have been abusing their ability to flag others, by using it on anyone they don't like. When my friend tried to get them to stop, they insulted my friend, saying that it was ok since they were part of the "scratch police". I think you should ban these people, and desband the and make sure that something like this doesn't happen again. Thank you. The people who did this are [names removed by moderator]. What should I do?

Last edited by cheddargirl (2009-10-01 16:42:08)

I know this is old, but where better to post the following?

You might be interested in these two suggestions, Andrés.

Add to the filter.
Entering in a description of a comment that you flag.

Last edited by Jonathanpb (2009-09-28 00:39:10)

MegaGamer wrote:

Hi. I found several people who have been abusing their ability to flag others, by using it on anyone they don't like. When my friend tried to get them to stop, they insulted my friend, saying that it was ok since they were part of the "scratch police". I think you should ban these people, and desband the and make sure that something like this doesn't happen again. Thank you. The people who did this are [names removed by moderator]. What should I do?

Hey MegaGamer, please do not post the user names of people on the Scratch forums if you feel that they are a bother. It is best to use the 'Contact Us' link at the bottom of every Scratch web page and tell the Scratch Team about it, so that they may make the proper decision and action.

Thanks, and Scratch On! 

I posted this in another topic about flagging but I feel it might as well be posted here too.

06dknibbs wrote:

I think the flag feature needs more work still  hmm

Maybe instead of automatically deleting it goes away for a little while for the Scratch team to truly decide whether or not it is bad.

Eg: A project receives 100 flags

It goes away to be 'Reviewed' bye a member of the Scratch team. While this is happening no member can see the project maybe because a message is there saying 'this project is being reviewed'
If it was a useless flag it gets replaced and the member/members that flagged it inappropiately get some sort of warning etc: or reminded what to flag a project for.

If it is correctly flagged it gets deleted fully.

Last edited by 06dknibbs (2009-10-02 16:35:20)