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majormax · 2012-11-07 15:59:58

I know that there are many minecraft players here, myself included. A while ago, some people on reddit did a thing called "Ask Mojang Anything". The idea of it was that you ask the people in Mojang (the people who made minecraft) whatever you want to ask them.

I was thinking it would be cool to do something like this with the Scratch Team. You will be able to ask specific members of the team (or the moderators) questions. The questions can not be about bans or similar, confidential matters. Some good questions would be like this:
"How much time do you spend on the scratch website each day?"
"How big of a role do you play with the development of the software?"
"What is your cat's name?" (I believe Paddle2See has a cat)

Each member of the team will have a day where there ASTA session takes place. (more on this later) The day before, I will post a topic where you start asking questions. When the ASTA day starts, the member of the team will start answering the questions. When the day is over, the topic will be closed and discussion of the answers will take place on this topic.

If you are a member of the scratch team (or a moderator), choose 3 dates you can do the session and 1 backup date after all 3 of them. I will start an offsite poll and the community will vote for one of the 3 dates. The voted date will then become the date of the ASTA session.

Here's an example of how it might work:
-Paddle2See posts 3 dates
-Vote takes place
-Date B is chosen
-The day before date B comes and I post topic for questions
-Questions start flooding in
-Date B comes
-Paddle2See begins answering questions. (people can still post questions)
-Date B ends.
-Topic is closed
-Discussion continues on this topic

Please post any ideas, suggestions, dates (if you are ST or mod), or anything about this subject on this thread.

bananaman114 · 2012-11-07 16:07:05

actually reddit has a whole subreddit for things like that
/r/AmA or whatever

anyway
this could be cool

majormax · 2012-11-07 16:21:14

I emailed the scratch team about it. smile

@banana wow i never knew that

FistofDeath · 2012-11-07 16:33:48

Cool

scratchisthebest · 2012-11-07 17:31:57

FistofDeath wrote:
Cool

bananaman114 · 2012-11-07 21:34:42

majormax wrote:
I emailed the scratch team about it.

@banana wow i never knew that

It's actually one of the default subs now so
hmm

if this gets approved i think it might be cool!

majormax · 2012-11-08 06:43:45

Yeah the mods have been a bit active on this forum but haven't posted yet.
might need to ask the "Head Scratch Team" guy for permission...

bananaman114 · 2012-11-08 18:00:52

majormax wrote:
Yeah the mods have been a bit active on this forum but haven't posted yet.
might need to ask the "Head Scratch Team" guy for permission...

There isn't really a 'head scratch team guy' afaik
but hmm
if you ask one they might pass the word along?

majormax · 2012-11-08 18:08:15

Got this email back

Hey Majormax,

That's a cool idea! However, we're pretty tied up with 2.0 stuff, and a bunch of us are traveling to conferences right now.

Do you think it would work if maybe a couple of us ST folks got together sometime, and made a thread where people could ask questions, maybe for a couple hours or an afternoon? That might be a little simpler.

Is your goal to find out more about us, or is it mostly Scratch 2.0 type of questions, or is it both? And btw, your idea inspired us to make a blog post introducing ourselves - so look for that in the next month or so. smile

-Amos

Maybe some mods will be interested, but seems like the ST is pretty busy
2.0 soon?

CheeseMunchy · 2012-11-08 20:48:08

The blog post sounds cool.

shiguy101 · 2012-11-08 21:39:40

BLOG POST!!!!!!
aneyway that would be cool.

carmui · 2012-11-18 10:17:55

i have a project that i have to pre-set 3 questions , each of the questions will provide 4 choices. When player play, the re-set questions should be randonly selected to ask player with choices until the player can answer all correctly, otherwise, questions will be asked randomly again. The problem is
1. How can I randomly select the pre-set question with 4 choices?
2. How can I count the number of correct answer?

TheCatAndTheBanana · 2012-11-18 12:25:59

carmui wrote:
i have a project that i have to pre-set 3 questions , each of the questions will provide 4 choices. When player play, the re-set questions should be randonly selected to ask player with choices until the player can answer all correctly, otherwise, questions will be asked randomly again. The problem is
1. How can I randomly select the pre-set question with 4 choices?
2. How can I count the number of correct answer?

1. Put the questions in the list, (pick random 1-(numberofquestions)
2. Make a varible go up if they get this
3. Wrong section.

[ontopic] Nice idea [/ontopic]

Curt2000 · 2012-11-30 10:58:54

It sounds good but will it work?

BLU_Spy · 2012-11-30 14:23:47

Genius! big_smile

werdna123 · 2012-11-30 14:32:25

not quite genius, more a exact copy of something done thousands of times before.

i'm not saying it's a bad idea, it could be quite cool. although it most likely would have people asking for the sake of asking, even if they don't give a frick what the answer is.

sparks · 2012-12-07 07:33:45

Thanks for suggesting this, Majormax, after a lot of discussion we've developed on your idea a little and created an "Ask The Scratch Team" project smile You can see it here: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/sparks/2963690

jji7skyline · 2012-12-07 18:59:20

It's actually a really cool idea smile

ProgrammingPro01 · 2012-12-07 19:12:38

scratchisthebest wrote:
FistofDeath wrote:
Cool

This. This also seems interesting. smile

curiouscrab · 2012-12-13 20:20:49

Wait. I found the forum. I suggested this December 1, 2012 on Lightnin's project Gobo Gets Phished, but credit is given to majormax. I even made a project like it around the same time.

majormax · 2012-12-17 19:36:12

curiouscrab wrote:
Wait. I found the forum. I suggested this December 1, 2012 on Lightnin's project Gobo Gets Phished, but credit is given to majormax. I even made a project like it around the same time.

I posted this november 7th

Arceus-Rock999 · 2013-01-06 00:29:48

Hey, Chedarrgirl,
How do i make games or animations on scratch i have been on scratch for a while now, but i dont know how to make animations and games. Can you please give me advice?

From: Arceus-Rock999.
smile

Zeusking19 · 2013-01-06 04:52:19

Arceus-Rock999 wrote:
Hey, Chedarrgirl,
How do i make games or animations on scratch i have been on scratch for a while now, but i dont know how to make animations and games. Can you please give me advice?

From: Arceus-Rock999.

ASTA has already ended, and here was not the place to post it.

Paddle2See · 2013-01-06 05:28:23

We're actually thinking about making this an ongoing process with periodic projects answering questions but we're still working out the details smile

SJRCS_011 · 2013-01-06 08:42:14

Paddle2See wrote:
We're actually thinking about making this an ongoing process with periodic projects answering questions but we're still working out the details

that'd be cool. Maybe have a sidebar thingy on the front page for ASTA when there's a project out for it or something.

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