Scratch

midnightleopard wrote:

can people go around flagging projects to get them deleted our does the scratch team view them before terminating them?

Hey midnightleopard, all projects that have been flagged get reviewed by the Scratch Team; even if a project receives many flags and is automatically censored, they do not become permanently deleted right away. Here is a more detailed description of what happens during the flagging process:

andresmh wrote:

When people flag projects as inappropriate there are two things that could happen:
1. If the project receives one or just a few flags, the Scratch Team reviews the project and makes one of the following decisions:
a) censors the project, this sends a notification to the creator asking him or her not to post that kind of project
b) marks it as "for everyone" when we think it's something we would show to any person. For example, an animation of a ball or a scientific simulation.
c) marks it as "not for everyone" when the project show mild violence, are OK in the cultural context of the US media, but that we would rather not emphasize. Projects like this cannot make it to  the front page.

2. If certain content is flagged by many people it is automatically censored. Then the Scratch Team reviews it and makes a decision (see #1). This is useful because we don't have the resources to be checking the site 24 hrs a day and it has been successful mechanism at removing pornography and other kind of very inappropriate content very quickly. Unfortunately, this system is also abused by some members who sometimes organize with others to take down projects as a way to annoy their creator. That's why we always review community-censored project and sometimes un-censor them if they doesn't deserve to be censored. We also block accounts when people are abusing the flagging system.

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