Scratch

electrified123 wrote:

i think there should be a seperate place to view all banned games you know like a different section of scratch like kid game section teen section and so forth. we need a place to view banned stuff because some people find it offensive others funny please is there a way to do this. scratch team my game 1 normal 1 immortal was fun and it was on another computer i dont have now. i cant do it again and i put a lot of work into it. please we need a place to view banned stuff.

Banned material from the scratch website is banned for a reason. On the internet there is no way to tell who is who so you never know if a child may be a forty year old man. Also, this website is meant for children so showing the banned material wouldn't be the best thing to do.

All good points!  I think the clincher is that we have no way of telling how old anybody viewing the projects really is so we really need to make sure that all the projects on Scratch are viewable by all ages.

You always have the option of sharing your Scratch projects on other file sharing sites - or you could put together your own website 

electrified123 wrote:

Paddle2See wrote:

All good points!  I think the clincher is that we have no way of telling how old anybody viewing the projects really is so we really need to make sure that all the projects on Scratch are viewable by all ages.

You always have the option of sharing your Scratch projects on other file sharing sites - or you could put together your own website 

but one downside to that i dont think we should lock the download thing, it should like maybe have a warning like, say this game has been banned, because contents of so and so and when you read that if you agree than you can continue and download it if not you will just go back to the project like normal

Scratch is meant to be a kid-friendly site, and allowing banned games to be put onto the site completely changes that. They were banned for a reason. I'm sorry, but I don't think this is a very good idea.

This may be a good idea if you change some things, like if you view it, you can't flag it, and a bunch of other stuff, like you can't love it or favorite it.  But either way, the Scratch team will never do this... sry. 8(

Common_Sense wrote:

Make your own site that hosts them.

Good idea!

snakeo wrote:

a way around what all you peeps are saying about not knowing how old anybody is is to have them put in their birth date when they make a profile. which is what youtube has. if anyone thinks this is rude just tell me.

Oh, you're suggestion is not rude at all.    Unfortunately, in cases where content is blocked based on age, people often fake their ages to get around an age limit requirement, making the age requirement not very effective. 

As Paddle2See said before, the clincher is that Scratch was designed to be an all-ages website, so it needs to be viewable by all ages, including the very young ones who interact with the website.

cheddargirl wrote:

snakeo wrote:

a way around what all you peeps are saying about not knowing how old anybody is is to have them put in their birth date when they make a profile. which is what youtube has. if anyone thinks this is rude just tell me.

...in cases where content is blocked based on age, people often fake their ages to get around an age limit requirement, making the age requirement not very effective...

"I, sadly, confess that I lied about my age to get into YouTube." - waiting for shocked intake from crowd and the whoosh of heads - - lowering head - "But!" I am saying, in front of a million person wide audience, "My parents let me, so I have no reason to be treated guiltily." - raising head defiantly -

12three wrote:

This may be a good idea if you change some things, like if you view it, you can't flag it, and a bunch of other stuff, like you can't love it or favorite it.  But either way, the Scratch team will never do this... sry. 8(

of course you wont be able to fav and stuff only for you to download nothing else not even viewable online.

Yeah, I've seen a project that was banned later on and believe me, you do not want to see banned projects. Like TGutierrez said, projects are banned for a reason. 

Someone can totally screw it over with a couple of renames + uploads. 

Like user1 has some pictures of explicit content (stop using the p word please, call it "explicit content", it covers more for less.) and renames and uploads, then the system will be full of explicit content, and then we have an issue.

Maybe if mods could sort into "get out of here and never come back" and "put this in the pile located hidden so that only the people who are mature and can find it find it" pile.

Nah, Scratch should be as equal as possible, the separation of age groups wouldn't be fair. Not to mention, lets say a 6 year-old wants to see a Star Wars project. Now, Star Wars has violence in it, but even if its just a very basic game, and theres no violence whatsoever in it, the kid wouldn't be allowed to view it. Do you see my point? 

electrified123 wrote:

oohhh its been a while since this post has been active but i just got a great idea
What if... you can only view your own banned projects. Say user BLANK has a banned project created by BLANK or themself they could implement like if BLANK is the one viewing his project like the disable comments or the check for favoriters that only pops up if it is the users own project .. then you can download it for personal use that way no one else can get it or download it without it being the user who created it.

I don't see any point in seeing your own banned projects.
You won't get any comments, love-its, views, anything. Because of course, your banned.