In the my stuff place there is a request spot. And someones profile in it. What are requests?
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They are requests from people that want you to add them to the list of your friends.
If you want to add them, click on the link that says "friend". If not, click on the link that says "no thanks". It is interesting that you didn't find this intutive. Do you have any suggestions on how we could have made this understandable?
Thanks a lot for your interest and Scratch on!
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Well the reason I didn't understand is because when it said request it didn't really say it was a request for friend. I didn't know if mabye you could request something else like help on a project or so forth.
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The friends feature is very non-intuitive. It isn't even clear what it means to have someone on the "friends" list. You can't send them messages---all you can do is look at their projects, which does not need a reciprocal relationship, so why should you have to request that they be a "friend" before you can bookmark them as an interesting project creator?
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The name friend is perhaps not the most appropriate way of referring to (potentially) one way relationships. I was thinking about renaming them to "contacts". What do you think of that name?
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First make them one-way (no request or acknowledgment), then call them something like "scratchers whose work I watch".
"contacts" like "friends" implies that there is some contact other than having seen the programs.
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I am a flickr user and I kind of like the asymetric-then-symetric relationships. They call them contacts. I will think about it more. Thanks for the feedback kevin.
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You could leave it as friend and then make it so you can leave them messages. I would that a lot but I don't know how popular the demand is.
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If there is messaging capability, then the "friends" or "contacts" designation makes sense.
But if all it provides is quick access to their project lists, then there is no point to symmetrizing the list---in fact, it is counterproductive as there may be many people whose pages I want to look at who don't want to look at mine (and vice versa).
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The friends list hasn't accomplished anything for me yet except making me feel friendly. But I think that's just fine. I'd like to go on record in favor of friendliness.
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I agree with what someone else said in this thread - it's unclear what 'being a friend' means in the context of Scratch. Are you told when your 'friend' posts a new movie or are they told when you post something? It's a nice-soudning but very unclear facility.
AND (imagine big letters there) - if you click 'No thanks' - do they get a message suggesting that you've effectively done a Greta Garbo and said "Go away, I vont to be alone".
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What I would like is a swear word filter. I just found a comment under one of my games that had a swear word in it. I deleted it of course but it still kinda worries me because my little brothers like to use this site a lot and I don't want them to tell me that they learned some surprising new words that were on this site. So id really like you guys to make a word filter to make this site more kid friendly.
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