Scratch

Yeah, lots of age groups go on Scratch, if a very young child clicked on a front paged game/movie and it was violent then I don't think the parents would be happy.

Is your project suitable for younger children?

If you post something like cupcakes, you're gonna feel the ban hammer. :p

MarioGuy134 wrote:

weegeeissparta wrote:

If you post something like cupcakes, you're gonna feel the ban hammer. :p

Cupcakes are not violent! They're delicious! 

i think he means the fanfiction cupcakes. its actually really gorey; dont read it.

On topic, i think that you would need not one, not two, but like, a lot of super-violent games to get yourself banned.

Wes64 wrote:

cheddargirl wrote:

if the level of violence might be something that one might find in a show or game geared at kids, then the project will likely get marked as NFE

Generally, what tv rating would you mean, like Y,  Y7, or PG? People of many different ages can be classified as "kids" 

Come now, be reasonable. Why would something with a Y rating (geared for kids 2 to 6 and not expected to frighten children) be something that would get marked as NFE? 

Generally "not for everyone" is applied to cases when the project show mild violence or suggestive topics that are considered okay in the cultural context of the US media, but that the Scratch Team would rather not emphasize.

Bokonon (now Lightnin) explained this before when I was a newbie:

Bokonon wrote:

Projects are marked as "Not for everyone" when they contain violence of the kind you might see in Naruto, Tom and Jerry, or my personal favorite, Samurai Jack.  Projects are only reviewed once they are flagged, and the classification is up to the moderators who are monitoring the site that day. Projects that are not for everyone may have violence that is cartoonish, not overly explicit, and not suggestive.  Crossing over this line or depicting realistic violence in detail will result in a project being censored.

It's important to understand why we came up with this system. We want Scratch to be a way for kids with many different interests to express themselves. A lot of kids really like cartoon shows that have some violence, and we didn't want to exclude them or their projects from the site. At the same time, some parents feel that cartoon violence may not be appropriate for their children to see, and we didn't want to exclude them or their kids either. So as a compromise we made it so projects that contain a certain amount of cartoonish violence can still be viewed on Scratch, just not on the front page.  And we are in the process of developing a portal to the Scratch site that contains only projects that are marked "For Everyone."

You're quite free to check out the topic about violent projects on the Scratch website for more information.