Scratch

Wha?

no there is a scratch police galllery, lookinf for people to report and talking about scratchers behind there back....

yea... they just call emselves that... they even have badges....

I don't know...
Here: http://scratch.mit.edu/galleries/view/51610

Last edited by The-Whiz (2009-07-28 12:09:08)

i say leave it to tah moderators..

but those scratch police think that they have authority over other people. They think they can bully other's sometimes, just because they think they are "scratch police".

All we (I've joined it) do is when we find an inaproppiate project, we flag it and tell the other Scratch Police about it then they flag it. Also, when someone starts bulling someone, we try to stop the bully.

BWOG wrote:

All we (I've joined it) do is when we find an inaproppiate project, we flag it and tell the other Scratch Police about it then they flag it. Also, when someone starts bulling someone, we try to stop the bully.

Posting about who you flag invites defamation, shame, and brings on the threat of unnecessary flame wars. I read over the Scratch Police gallery comments, and I found a conversation regarding one person in which she was flagged, but then a later comment saying that the person might be innocent. I do not know the whole story, whether or not the person is innocent or ought to be banned, so I am not picking sides here, but using the Contact Link to report a person would have been the wiser choice in this case: the Contact Us link is more direct and faster, you can fully explain the situation, give examples, and the Scratch Team can them fully assess the person's activities and determine if they ought to be banned or if they're innocent.

I am aware that a certain threshold of flags gets a project removed from the website, but, in my opinion, I would prefer to have few flags done in silence with full, logical reasons (or in more extreme cases, use the Contact Link to alert the Scratch Team of one's inappropriate projects altogether) and have its fate decided by a group of people with the tenacity to make such deductions, rather than a whole bunch of empty flags and cause one person's downfall without knowing the full story behind it.

If you guys honestly think that your method works better than silent flagging and using the Contact Us link, I am not stopping you. As for me, I'd rather keep with my silent flagging and Contact Us link, because I cannot live with a guilty conscience if I bring about false slander and vilification by exposing a person in public.

Last edited by cheddargirl (2009-07-28 16:02:01)

pinochio wrote:

agree completely with chddar girl!

That's the 2nd time in a row that you've spelled her name wrong

They're still jerks.
I commented on the gallery, and I havent checked my messages yet.

I'm not saying that all the Scratch Police are bad, some are nice, but apparently they harrassed some guy named Kaj so much for having one bad project that he actually turned bad and now he's like causing chaos on Scratch

hehe...