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FantasyTales wrote:

as you probably already know many people are angry about others remixing their projects making absolutely no changed and posting it again as their own, trying to hide the fact that they stole the project from somebody else.  nobody is ever going to remove remixing, and for good reason seeing as that is the whole point of scratch, share may also be implying that you share your projects with each other thats why its called share and not post.  so why not propose a simpler idea, why not just make the based on section have a little moee emphasis, like by placing it above the project notes section.  here is a project showing what it may look like, please take a look scratch team 
http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/FantasyTales/576165

If two projects contain the exact same content, the user who posted the second one could be notified.

big-bang wrote:

FantasyTales wrote:

as you probably already know many people are angry about others remixing their projects making absolutely no changed and posting it again as their own, trying to hide the fact that they stole the project from somebody else.  nobody is ever going to remove remixing, and for good reason seeing as that is the whole point of scratch, share may also be implying that you share your projects with each other thats why its called share and not post.  so why not propose a simpler idea, why not just make the based on section have a little moee emphasis, like by placing it above the project notes section.  here is a project showing what it may look like, please take a look scratch team 
http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/FantasyTales/576165

If two projects contain the exact same content, the user who posted the second one could be notified.

hmmm...
* takes project *
* adds <when green flag clicked>[/blocks] block *
* re-submits *

Last edited by bhz (2009-06-19 20:40:00)

Should just have notes stored into the project file, like metadata of the original creator. And if you should import a project into your own it should import the metadata too. I don't exactly know how it works at the moment but all I know is that remixing is a problem when you don't want others to 'steal' your project.

Or that lol. But I was thinking it would store data into the project file when uploaded, like notes but you can't see them. Such as metadata stored in a container in MP3 files. You would type in your name etc when you make a project and then it can't be editted. Or something along those lines. The above thing works too.

coolstuff wrote:

halogameaccount wrote:

Or that lol. But I was thinking it would store data into the project file when uploaded, like notes but you can't see them. Such as metadata stored in a container in MP3 files. You would type in your name etc when you make a project and then it can't be editted. Or something along those lines. The above thing works too.

Well, the thing is, things have got to be allowed to be edited. It's just that the license Scratch projects are shared under say that it has to be editable.

I like Paddle's idea, though.

yah i with coolstuff, and paddle2see's idea sounds cool too, i still think the original idea of display gives even more credit to the creator, check out the project link i posted it really emphasizes it.

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What happens if someone copys your project exactly but draws a couple lines and copys your description.