Scratch

BWOG wrote:

I never knew you were banned.

Duh. 'Cuz I was banned from the forums AND the main website.

However, I made a small unnoticed post on the TBGs, where I was not banned.

floatingmagictree wrote:

You were...... BANNED?!

Since when were you ever disrespectful?! You onever did anything!



That's it. The Scratch Team has officially gone overboard.

No. I deserved it... sort of...

I disguised /contact/us_banned as just http://scratch.mit.edu , which when you are banned, you are redirected to if you try and go to http://scratch.mit.edu .

So, a bunch of users thought they were banned.

And so, I was blocked until I agreed to follow the Terms of Use (Amos is very nice, he lets you off the hook easy  , actually ban was almost over anyway...)

But I was blocked from all except TBG, so most probably I assumed I was on vacation.

gershmer wrote:

Don't you want to offer a rebuttal, FMT?

Meh, not really. You pretty much covered everything.

Jonathanpb wrote:

Hey... when the Scratch Team gives a full ban, they need to cover the Text-Based Games too! Blade-Edge has been on the TBG recently, actually... 

Blade-Edge was banned before the new Text-Based Games were created, so that might not be too unexpected... but after the TBG was created, people that get a full ban should be banned in the TBG as well. 

What's the point?

juststickman wrote:

You were banned too? What happened?

Go a few posts up.

Sneaky move... but your back anyway,

Didn't know you were banned...

Glad you're back though!

Lightnin wrote:

rdococ wrote:

floatingmagictree wrote:

The Scratch Team has officially gone overboard.

Same with you.
It's not fair.

And is it fair if I banned andresmh? No.

Yes, it has gone overboard.

Sorry you feel that way.
Basically, we've chosen to be quicker to block these days not because we like it - we don't. It's more or less a time saving measure. It takes a lot of time to explain to various Scratchers what happened, that they weren't really banned after they clicked the link, etc. It also takes a long time to clean up threads with disrespectful or mean posts (especially when everyone quotes the disrespectful post). So now we are much quicker to block the Scratchers involved, clean stuff up, and then sort it out when the poster contacts us.

I think the banning is the problem of both of us.

The Scratch Team has been unfair, because they have been more stricter.

The users though, mainly on the forums and such, have been unfair, because we feel like 'Oh, the mods know us. They know we're just users who they've known for a long time, so they won't do anything bad to us :P' but we really shouldn't. We have just the same rights as every other user.

So yeah...

somelia wrote:

Lucario621 wrote:

Lightnin wrote:

Sorry you feel that way.
Basically, we've chosen to be quicker to block these days not because we like it - we don't. It's more or less a time saving measure. It takes a lot of time to explain to various Scratchers what happened, that they weren't really banned after they clicked the link, etc. It also takes a long time to clean up threads with disrespectful or mean posts (especially when everyone quotes the disrespectful post). So now we are much quicker to block the Scratchers involved, clean stuff up, and then sort it out when the poster contacts us.

I think the banning is the problem of both of us.

The Scratch Team has been unfair, because they have been more stricter.

The users though, mainly on the forums and such, have been unfair, because we feel like 'Oh, the mods know us. They know we're just users who they've known for a long time, so they won't do anything bad to us  ' but we really shouldn't. We have just the same rights as every other user.

So yeah...

Hands down, I agree.

Same.

Lucario621 wrote:

Lightnin wrote:

rdococ wrote:

Same with you.
It's not fair.

And is it fair if I banned andresmh? No.

Yes, it has gone overboard.

Sorry you feel that way.
Basically, we've chosen to be quicker to block these days not because we like it - we don't. It's more or less a time saving measure. It takes a lot of time to explain to various Scratchers what happened, that they weren't really banned after they clicked the link, etc. It also takes a long time to clean up threads with disrespectful or mean posts (especially when everyone quotes the disrespectful post). So now we are much quicker to block the Scratchers involved, clean stuff up, and then sort it out when the poster contacts us.

I think the banning is the problem of both of us.

The Scratch Team has been unfair, because they have been more stricter.

The users though, mainly on the forums and such, have been unfair, because we feel like 'Oh, the mods know us. They know we're just users who they've known for a long time, so they won't do anything bad to us  ' but we really shouldn't. We have just the same rights as every other user.

So yeah...

The scratch community is meant to be a safe place for younger scratchers to go.
I remember that when I was introduced to the F word (coincidentally on an online forum), and I didn't know that it was bad (as it was used as if it was common English on said forum topic), I got into trouble for using it... we don't want to have scratch blamed for this sort of thing, as much as we don't want to pollute the minds of our younger users.

So I support the stricter measures.

Lightnin wrote:

rdococ wrote:

floatingmagictree wrote:

The Scratch Team has officially gone overboard.

Same with you.
It's not fair.

And is it fair if I banned andresmh? No.

Yes, it has gone overboard.

Sorry you feel that way.
Basically, we've chosen to be quicker to block these days not because we like it - we don't. It's more or less a time saving measure. It takes a lot of time to explain to various Scratchers what happened, that they weren't really banned after they clicked the link, etc. It also takes a long time to clean up threads with disrespectful or mean posts (especially when everyone quotes the disrespectful post). So now we are much quicker to block the Scratchers involved, clean stuff up, and then sort it out when the poster contacts us.

Thanks for the explanation, Lightnin! 

I like you. 

Jonathanpb wrote:

Thanks for the explanation, Lightnin! 

I like you. 

And you're on my friend list now - the twelth one!