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#1 2012-04-11 16:46:11
2 Additions There Should Be
#1: Hate It
If There's A Love It, Why Is There No Hate It? It Confuses Me! People Might Flag Projects Just Because Of Hatred Of The Project! And That's A Bad Thing
#2: Name Changer
I Hate My Scratch username. It's Not Creative At All And It Has 2 I's In "this"
I Want To Change My Name. Very Badly!
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#3 2012-04-11 17:16:57
- RedRocker227
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Re: 2 Additions There Should Be
What a great thing the all-caps filter is, eh?
Anyway, imagine you've uploaded your first project, and it gets 10 hates and 0 love-its. Not gonna be very pleased, are you?
And name-changing isn't gonna happen. I hate my name too, but I don't complain, since I know nothing can be done about it. It'd be too hard to program and it'd be really confusing.
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#4 2012-04-11 17:20:44
- ProgrammingFreak
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Re: 2 Additions There Should Be
Changing names would be very confusing to keep up with everybody. You would never know who was who! 
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#5 2012-04-12 17:35:09
Re: 2 Additions There Should Be
RedRocker227 wrote:
What a great thing the all-caps filter is, eh?
Anyway, imagine you've uploaded your first project, and it gets 10 hates and 0 love-its. Not gonna be very pleased, are you?
And name-changing isn't gonna happen. I hate my name too, but I don't complain, since I know nothing can be done about it. It'd be too hard to program and it'd be really confusing.
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I like your "pointless" sig.
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#6 2012-04-12 18:08:03
- RedRocker227
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Re: 2 Additions There Should Be
James07 wrote:
RedRocker227 wrote:
What a great thing the all-caps filter is, eh?
Anyway, imagine you've uploaded your first project, and it gets 10 hates and 0 love-its. Not gonna be very pleased, are you?
And name-changing isn't gonna happen. I hate my name too, but I don't complain, since I know nothing can be done about it. It'd be too hard to program and it'd be really confusing.[offtopic]
I like your "pointless" sig.
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Thanks. ^^
If you think about it though, all sigs are pointless. 
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#7 2012-04-12 19:00:45
Re: 2 Additions There Should Be
@1: The same reason there's no star rating thing yet... if someone uploads their first project and gets a low rating/hate it, it can easily kill their creativity.
@2: I can't remember where, but I think the ST said that because of how everything works they can't change names. I could be wrong in remembering though.
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#8 2012-04-12 19:18:46
- cheddargirl
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Re: 2 Additions There Should Be
Chrischb wrote:
@2: I can't remember where, but I think the ST said that because of how everything works they can't change names. I could be wrong in remembering though.
Nah, you're right. Someone posted a suggestion before, I wrote that with the way everything works on Scratch, changing names isn't doable. Luke121 hit it on the head when he said name changing isn't possible programming-wise.
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#9 2012-04-12 19:21:35
Re: 2 Additions There Should Be
cheddargirl wrote:
Chrischb wrote:
@2: I can't remember where, but I think the ST said that because of how everything works they can't change names. I could be wrong in remembering though.
Nah, you're right. Someone posted a suggestion before, I wrote that with the way everything works on Scratch, changing names isn't doable. Luke121 hit it on the head when he said name changing isn't possible programming-wise.
It might be possible to make aliases of the name, so two names could map to one username. Although that simplifies it programming wise (a little), it makes no difference to the other problems 
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