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CannibalChicken wrote:

[removed] sent me Death Threats. Please ban him immediately to stop the harrasment

All u has to do is Contact Scratch Team

CannibalChicken wrote:

[removed by moderator] sent me Death Threats. Please ban him immediately to stop the harrasment

You can also flag those comments as inappropriate...that will help the Scratch Team locate them.  Sorry you are having these problems 

Don't tell everyone I FLAGGED THIS!!!

andresmh wrote:

When you flag a project as inappropriate, you are now asked to type in a reason.

Your reason can be very brief. Even very short explanations can help us in evaluating whether to delete the project.

Your reasons are sent only to the MIT Scratch team, and they will not be viewed by anyone outside the team. In particular, the reasons will not be viewed by the creator of the project.

Please note that projects are automatically deleted when the number of flags passes a certain threshold. This automatic process is useful to prevent inappropriate projects being on the site for long periods of time while the Scratch team is not checking emails (for example, late at night). The Scratch team can later restore an automatically-deleted project if it finds that the project is appropriate for the site.

More work needs to be done on the flagging system, but we believe that this is a step forward.

We would like to thank AngelEyra for implementing this new feature.

Hey, I just flagged a comment that had a bad word in it.

andresmh wrote:

When you flag a project as inappropriate, you are now asked to type in a reason.

Your reason can be very brief. Even very short explanations can help us in evaluating whether to delete the project.

Your reasons are sent only to the MIT Scratch team, and they will not be viewed by anyone outside the team. In particular, the reasons will not be viewed by the creator of the project.

Please note that projects are automatically deleted when the number of flags passes a certain threshold. This automatic process is useful to prevent inappropriate projects being on the site for long periods of time while the Scratch team is not checking emails (for example, late at night). The Scratch team can later restore an automatically-deleted project if it finds that the project is appropriate for the site.

More work needs to be done on the flagging system, but we believe that this is a step forward.

We would like to thank AngelEyra for implementing this new feature.

andresmh, I  accaditly flagged a tag. The tag said ''nazi'' . You might have got it by now. Again,I'm sorry.

This topic is one of the most ironic ones I've seen:
There is a swear on the second page. I have a browser that blocks swears, so I'd know. 

whizz wrote:

All4one wrote:

Hi, Andresmh and the rest of the Scratch Team. I noticed someone with an innapropriate username. His username is "POOPSICKLE". What should I do?

- All4one

Oh my god. POOPsickle? LOL. It's not like POOP is the mother of all bad words.

Technicly, it's not even a bad word. It's just gross.

Hey, POOPSICKLE recently posted in the curator thread.

EmperorEvil wrote:

Toasty wrote:

Yeah but there's this person Dreameater and s/he has loads of innapropriate projects but no one seems to notice and I've just started anew gallery and s/he even added in a project that had been taken off the web

Well, I have been studying DREAMEATER since 2007 and since his last project: Burgandy, was much less violent than his others, I have assumed he went into theropy. Now, he deleted all of his projects (Most likely due to this) and changed his location to:

DEAD
SLUPPER (Excuse me if this is a bad word, I have never heard it used before)
United Kingdom.

It used to be

Perth
Kinthross
United Kingdom.

He had many projects including:
Mugging,
Lemon Soup (Knives)
The Facts! (Say no to Jam)
and Said the Crane to the Wooden Man.

He is gone now, and that must have helped the scratch community by his leaving. However, only two of his projects ever got flagged, and I feel responsible.

I am so sorry to tell you that I had no idea what flagging was back in '07 '08 times so I couldn't flag his stuff.


Yet again, I am sorry that he didn't leave sooner.

I think slupper (Sincerely  pardon me if it is a swear word) is probably a nonsense word, I think, but I'm not sure. Please don't report me if it's a bad word, cuz hey, I don't know! I'm only a kid! I don't know much!!!!!!

Lanie624 wrote:

WELL WHAT ABOUT PEOPLE WITH INAPPROPRIATE  SCRATCH NAMES CAN YOU FLAG THAT
THERE IS A PERSON WHO HAS A NAME CALLED F***SCRATCH THAT IS INAPPROPRIATE FOR YOUNG USERS>

I  have never heard of a Scratcher with that username. Whoever the Scratcher with the f word in his/her username has a problem. KIDS GO ON THIS WEBSITE FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!

icecreamandcake wrote:

This topic has GREAT info on knowing how to report projects and comments. I already knew how to flag ever since I joined Scratch in the middle of May. Recently, I flagged a project that had to do with testing gun movements on Scratch. It WAS violent, so I flagged it and it got deleted. Flagging innapropriete projects on Scratch is a GOOD thing.

Flagging is terrible! 

sanddude wrote:

I really do not like this.    I think its a bad idea to delete projects, just because some people think it's offensive. The internet is a big thing. If you use it, you're going to have be aware that there will be explicit content on there somewhere. I understand that they're our some people, who are more sensitive to this kind of stuff than others. What we should do instead, is have a search filter. While the filter is on, flagged projects will not come up in search results. While the filter is off, flagged projects are able to come up in search results. This way, scratch users have a decision, whether they can see explicit content or not. I feel that this is very important, so I hope the Scratch team thinks about this.

I totally diagree with you, sanddude. It isn't a bad idea to delete projects, because you never know what it could lead to. Parents don't want their kids to see stuff like cussing or pornography on the Internet. We know the Internet is big, but flagging projects prevents innaproprieteness-exposed children and teens. Flagging projects makes Scratch safer and more fun.

Last edited by icecreamandcake (2010-06-26 17:46:11)

I had to flag someone's remix of my project Take Me Out With More Options! because they didn't change the character to something else. It was okay for someone to beat me to a pulp on my remix, but the person remixed without changing the character. Don't ask who it was who did that.