Scratch

pinochio wrote:

Final speech (Promise, as I have already made 4,000,000 speeches...)

I am pinochio, I have been on Scratch for a decently longt time (Almost a year), and over the course of that year I have learned MANY new things. I started off not knowing how to program anything, that did not involve the glide, Wait secs, and Hide block. So, I started asking for advice in the forums, downloading projects, and asking other experienced Scratchers. All of them have helped, to program pretty advanced, and creative things. And they have really taught me to use Scratch to its fullest potential. Now, people ask me for help, and I always gladly answer their questions, or upload a demo project.

I really do not care if I am on the front page sometimes, because it does not affect what projects I like, therefor, I would be a fair curator. I would pick Projects with many views, or little. For me it does not matter, as I pick projects that I like. Everyone always states they would pick projects with little views, but isn't the whole point of curator to show off projects you enjoy? Of course, I would still feature some projects without many views. I am on Scratch a lot, and would update the projects daily, or 2 projects every 2 days (I am still figuring that out).

I enjoy extremely creative projects, and programming is not the MAIN part of what type of things I would choose. If I think the project is entertaining, (Even if it was simple) I would most certainly curate it. I also like Gadgets, tools, and OS' as they show what type of potential Scratch has, and all the cool things that can be made with it. Generally, I will do my best to curate all categories of projects, whether they are absolute uncanny, fun, happy, or tragic projects.

The Scratch team wants to pick Scratchers who have been nice and helpful on this website.... This is the one point where I do not achieve maximum points at. I love to help people, as stated above, but in all honesty, I may have said some rude things on the website. Sometimes I use mild insults, do not use appropriate language, or upload projects with some music on it that has bad words in it. For all this, I apologize. I believe though, that over the past 3 months I have stopped doing the occasional bad thing, and my overall Scratch'havior has improved. In this paragraph, it seems like all I do is bad things, well that is wrong. It is just occasional.

I hope you may consider me being a curator, and that perhaps that will happen someday. I will try not to post in this thread anymore (No promises...) and I will just see what happens.

Thanks, and Scratch on,

Pinochio

Well said! I hope you become curator at some point. 

illusionist wrote:

Hey! Its the Illusionist again.

Here is my story:

About almost two years ago, I was given an assigment in school to create a game with Scratch. I created an account by the name of "Prairie". At that time, I was the biggest noob ever to join, and in some ways I still am. I had no one to teach me. The only possible way to learn Scratch was to download and remix other people's work. I've learned MUCH more since then. Remixing, download, and carful examination of the way scripts are built has lead me to the place where I am now. It was hard, and I don't want others to have to learn the hard way like I did. So now I am offering to help newbies (new members) become as good of a Scratcher that they can be. I will often look on the "active members" page to find some projects that have not recieved comments. In looking at those pages I have discovered projects in different languages, Like Romanian, or Hebrew. It hurt me to see these lonely users without viewers, just because no-one could understand them. To solve this problem, I found a reliable online translator to translate their words into English, and my words into their own language. I really enjoyed teaching members from other countries how to program in Scratch. Every once in a while I will also explore the "other language" parts of the forums. While browsing through the "active members" page, I will find lots of excellent projects, many of which I would fail to duplicate. If I could show these works of art on the front page, I would. That is why I want to be Scratch's next curator.

Thank you all! and.... Scratch on!

-The Illusionist

That's a lot of meaning in that paragraph... I hope you become curator too! 

illusionist wrote:

Hey! Its the Illusionist again.

Here is my story:

About almost two years ago, I was given an assigment in school to create a game with Scratch. I created an account by the name of "Prairie". At that time, I was the biggest noob ever to join, and in some ways I still am. I had no one to teach me. The only possible way to learn Scratch was to download and remix other people's work. I've learned MUCH more since then. Remixing, download, and carful examination of the way scripts are built has lead me to the place where I am now. It was hard, and I don't want others to have to learn the hard way like I did. So now I am offering to help newbies (new members) become as good of a Scratcher that they can be. I will often look on the "active members" page to find some projects that have not recieved comments. In looking at those pages I have discovered projects in different languages, Like Romanian, or Hebrew. It hurt me to see these lonely users without viewers, just because no-one could understand them. To solve this problem, I found a reliable online translator to translate their words into English, and my words into their own language. I really enjoyed teaching members from other countries how to program in Scratch. Every once in a while I will also explore the "other language" parts of the forums. While browsing through the "active members" page, I will find lots of excellent projects, many of which I would fail to duplicate. If I could show these works of art on the front page, I would. That is why I want to be Scratch's next curator.

Thank you all! and.... Scratch on!

-The Illusionist

claps claps if my vote is cared i vote for illusionist

I would like to become a curator on the Scratch website. I would choose particularly interesting games that I like. There are many of these games, and I would like to broadcast them to the Scratch community. Sometimes I notice unusual projects that are new but interesting. I comment on projects a lot.

I want to be a curator, sounds fun. 

It would be fun to become a curator.     

I would like to be a curator for a while - I've noticed a few projects nobody has seen yet that are very interesting and showcase brilliant programming standards on scratch. The projects I would select would be innovative games, simulations and creative projects that have fun concepts.

Pretty good FMT

Chrischb wrote:

pinochio wrote:

Final speech (Promise, as I have already made 4,000,000 speeches...)

I am pinochio, I have been on Scratch for a decently longt time (Almost a year), and over the course of that year I have learned MANY new things. I started off not knowing how to program anything, that did not involve the glide, Wait secs, and Hide block. So, I started asking for advice in the forums, downloading projects, and asking other experienced Scratchers. All of them have helped, to program pretty advanced, and creative things. And they have really taught me to use Scratch to its fullest potential. Now, people ask me for help, and I always gladly answer their questions, or upload a demo project.

I really do not care if I am on the front page sometimes, because it does not affect what projects I like, therefor, I would be a fair curator. I would pick Projects with many views, or little. For me it does not matter, as I pick projects that I like. Everyone always states they would pick projects with little views, but isn't the whole point of curator to show off projects you enjoy? Of course, I would still feature some projects without many views. I am on Scratch a lot, and would update the projects daily, or 2 projects every 2 days (I am still figuring that out).

I enjoy extremely creative projects, and programming is not the MAIN part of what type of things I would choose. If I think the project is entertaining, (Even if it was simple) I would most certainly curate it. I also like Gadgets, tools, and OS' as they show what type of potential Scratch has, and all the cool things that can be made with it. Generally, I will do my best to curate all categories of projects, whether they are absolute uncanny, fun, happy, or tragic projects.

The Scratch team wants to pick Scratchers who have been nice and helpful on this website.... This is the one point where I do not achieve maximum points at. I love to help people, as stated above, but in all honesty, I may have said some rude things on the website. Sometimes I use mild insults, do not use appropriate language, or upload projects with some music on it that has bad words in it. For all this, I apologize. I believe though, that over the past 3 months I have stopped doing the occasional bad thing, and my overall Scratch'havior has improved. In this paragraph, it seems like all I do is bad things, well that is wrong. It is just occasional.

I hope you may consider me being a curator, and that perhaps that will happen someday. I will try not to post in this thread anymore (No promises...) and I will just see what happens.

Thanks, and Scratch on,

Pinochio

Well said! I hope you become curator at some point. 

illusionist wrote:

Hey! Its the Illusionist again.

Here is my story:

About almost two years ago, I was given an assigment in school to create a game with Scratch. I created an account by the name of "Prairie". At that time, I was the biggest noob ever to join, and in some ways I still am. I had no one to teach me. The only possible way to learn Scratch was to download and remix other people's work. I've learned MUCH more since then. Remixing, download, and carful examination of the way scripts are built has lead me to the place where I am now. It was hard, and I don't want others to have to learn the hard way like I did. So now I am offering to help newbies (new members) become as good of a Scratcher that they can be. I will often look on the "active members" page to find some projects that have not recieved comments. In looking at those pages I have discovered projects in different languages, Like Romanian, or Hebrew. It hurt me to see these lonely users without viewers, just because no-one could understand them. To solve this problem, I found a reliable online translator to translate their words into English, and my words into their own language. I really enjoyed teaching members from other countries how to program in Scratch. Every once in a while I will also explore the "other language" parts of the forums. While browsing through the "active members" page, I will find lots of excellent projects, many of which I would fail to duplicate. If I could show these works of art on the front page, I would. That is why I want to be Scratch's next curator.

Thank you all! and.... Scratch on!

-The Illusionist

That's a lot of meaning in that paragraph... I hope you become curator too! 

Thansk Chrischb! That means a lot... Even though it seems like only me, Vista[random numbers] and Wikimen are helping with the 2010 plan. 

Chrischb wrote:

illusionist wrote:

In looking at those pages I have discovered projects in different languages, Like Romanian, or Hebrew. It hurt me to see these lonely users without viewers, just because no-one could understand them. To solve this problem, I found a reliable online translator to translate their words into English, and my words into their own language.

I got insulted in Korean once. XD

That happens... The 2010 idea was started to prevent users like that. 

fanofcena wrote:

illusionist wrote:

Hey! Its the Illusionist again.

Here is my story:

About almost two years ago, I was given an assigment in school to create a game with Scratch. I created an account by the name of "Prairie". At that time, I was the biggest noob ever to join, and in some ways I still am. I had no one to teach me. The only possible way to learn Scratch was to download and remix other people's work. I've learned MUCH more since then. Remixing, download, and carful examination of the way scripts are built has lead me to the place where I am now. It was hard, and I don't want others to have to learn the hard way like I did. So now I am offering to help newbies (new members) become as good of a Scratcher that they can be. I will often look on the "active members" page to find some projects that have not recieved comments. In looking at those pages I have discovered projects in different languages, Like Romanian, or Hebrew. It hurt me to see these lonely users without viewers, just because no-one could understand them. To solve this problem, I found a reliable online translator to translate their words into English, and my words into their own language. I really enjoyed teaching members from other countries how to program in Scratch. Every once in a while I will also explore the "other language" parts of the forums. While browsing through the "active members" page, I will find lots of excellent projects, many of which I would fail to duplicate. If I could show these works of art on the front page, I would. That is why I want to be Scratch's next curator.

Thank you all! and.... Scratch on!

-The Illusionist

claps claps if my vote is cared i vote for illusionist

I would like to thank you too Fanofcena. 

Last edited by illusionist (2009-12-31 17:14:05)

I would like to be a Scratch Curator. here are the reasons you should pick me:
1. I am online a lot.
2. I am always surfing the website to find really good games nobody knows about.
3. I have been featured before.
4. I will have been in Scratch 2 years towmorrow.

I would love to be a curator! I would pick the best and coolest games and animations to show all of the fellow scratchers! I like games that are built nicely and those that are bold. Scratch is a place to show off work, right?

Now it's MY EPIC speech

About 5 years ago, a line of sleepy eyed second-graders enter the computer lab of their elementary school. As they sat at their seats in front of the large computer screen, they noticed something different on the large screen, instead of the usual desktop, there was a program open. After everyone was seated and had stopped talking, he started. I can't remember his exact words, but he introduced a new programing language for kids, called scratch. They needed people to test it, and we were chosen. I didn't think about it much after that day.

Two years later, our teacher incorporated our school assignments with scratch, encouraging us to make interactive animations and games that are educational. I got pretty good with it, and even better the following summer. thats when I made my first account "ellielli." When I got better at scratch, I decided to get a fresh start, and make a name for myself. A year or 2 later here I am.

The projects I like are games and animations that have good graphics, but not an overly fancy presentation, like really fancy menus, unless they are matched in the game. I don't like art, because scratch is a programing/animation language, and that is not the best expressed by art, or still images.

I have posted here a bit, I don't hang around this thread alot because I want to give the scratch team time to think about my posts here. I've decided to try again.
I've been on scratch a long time. But not since early 2009 did I really get into scratch.
aybe it was because I played more videogames than I made them. It could be a long list of things. That dosen't really matter though. But scratch taught me how to program. As of me writing this, it has taught approximately 96,729 people how to, including me. I recently started a gallery called "Projects worthy of the front page". I find projects that I belive people spent a lot of time at, and deserve more than what they got. I may be very accurate, too. I put the game Inkball Power Play in my gallery. It was on the front page in a matter of days. I only put games from people who have a very low fame rate. I started the gallery because I wanted to try curtating. The gallery hasn't gotten much fame yet, but maybe it will as time goes on. If I get picked as curtator, I will try to find projects, (As every curtator has,) like the ones that I have put in Projects worthy of the front page None of the projects will have gotten on the front page before. They will all be deserving.
Please, please, please, consider me for a curtator. I know that you all are very busy, and some people should be in front of me in the line, but if this is what makes you decide on me as the curtator in 20 years, I'll be happy.

pinochio wrote:

coolperson wrote:

I have posted here a bit, I don't hang around this thread alot because I want to give the scratch team time to think about my posts here. I've decided to try again.
I've been on scratch a long time. But not since early 2009 did I really get into scratch.
aybe it was because I played more videogames than I made them. It could be a long list of things. That dosen't really matter though. But scratch taught me how to program. As of me writing this, it has taught approximately 96,729 people how to, including me. I recently started a gallery called "Projects worthy of the front page". I find projects that I belive people spent a lot of time at, and deserve more than what they got. I may be very accurate, too. I put the game Inkball Power Play in my gallery. It was on the front page in a matter of days. I only put games from people who have a very low fame rate. I started the gallery because I wanted to try curtating. The gallery hasn't gotten much fame yet, but maybe it will as time goes on. If I get picked as curtator, I will try to find projects, (As every curtator has,) like the ones that I have put in Projects worthy of the front page None of the projects will have gotten on the front page before. They will all be deserving.
Please, please, please, consider me for a curtator. I know that you all are very busy, and some people should be in front of me in the line, but if this is what makes you decide on me as the curtator in 20 years, I'll be happy.

Werent you curator before?

Naw, that was CoolStuff.