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#1 2011-07-31 13:56:28

woofwoof301
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Registered: 2008-06-01
Posts: 100+

Unclearable lists / Surveys

I was thinking of a new block. It wouldn't be quite meet java standards, but what it would do is, you type your email into the block, and it sends you all the information from the lists or variables.

See, the other day I was thinking about doing a survey, and see how people do Scratch and other related topics. Then, I realized, it would be a great idea to be able to collect information from lists and then get it in your email. From that, you would then do the appropriate math to see what people are doing.

So? What do you think? If there are any ideas that you don't quite agree with on this, perhaps we could change the concept a bit to your standards.

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#2 2011-07-31 18:35:31

hmnwilson
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Registered: 2007-07-04
Posts: 1000+

Re: Unclearable lists / Surveys

I see how this would be useful for surveys, but there are 2 major problems:

1. This would make spamming someone very easy. You could put their email in the block, add it to a forever loop, and in a minute or two you've just sent them 60,000+ messages.

2. You're making your email freely available (and the Scratch Team always removes emails when they're posted, basically nullifying the whole idea).


I'm taking a break from Scratch until 2.0 comes out. Any messages sent between then and now probably won't be read - sorry.
(Oct. 20, 2011)

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