Scratch

Thanks a lot for your comments.

Mayhem, I hadn't thought about that. I am adding it as feature request.

xyxzergames, thanks a lot for your offer to be a moderator! That is really cool. We will definitely think of you when we have the ability to involve members of the community as moderators.

would a project that has been re-uploaded or plagiarised by someone be considered inappropriate.  i mean could a project be flagged for being an exact copy of another project with no changes.

Thank you for the report of the inappropriate comment. It has been taken down. We are currently working on better filtering mechanisms so that this type of content does not appear online. Thank you for your continuing support of the Scratch community.

Paulmedwal (for the Scratch Team)

On a daily basis (as much as possible), moderators do look at flagged project's as well as their title, notes, and comments.  In the future we are adding the ability to specify more specifically what you are flagging, which should clarify this issue.

As pointed out, a subset of the community push at the boundaries of what is and what is not acceptable.  It has been great, seeing many in the community self-regulating, often in the context of thoughtful discussion and respectful social pressure.  Of course social pressure also can lead to name calling, and this is also subject to flagging/censoring.

Underlying the idea of Scratch  - as a sandbox to explore creative media production/programming, is an interest in providing opportunities for proactive participation in a community.  I agree with  Roberth (about the benefits of clearly listing unacceptable behavior), but also want to ask if people find value in vagueness?   This is to ask...if everything regarding appropriateness is not spelled out, will it promote more users to think about and decide for themselves what is and isn't fair?

iwikepie wrote:

There are some VERY inappropriate words in a comment left in the gallery 'friendly room, welcome!'. And the user davidchen wrote them.

i have been earned by my parents if i see bad language i can NEVER go back onto scratch and i have had 2 delete my bad words on many of my projects

I've noticed a series of projects called "Push the Button," it has no explicit content but It's definitely not suitable for children. It instucts you to push a buttton and when you do a startling face suddenly pops up. These are often known as "screamers" or "sabatoges" on the internet. If anyone sees anything like this, PLEASE flag it. They can terrify young children and mentally scar them for life. That actually happened to me when I was young and I'm still not over it to this day.

Yakkers wrote:

I've noticed a series of projects called "Push the Button," it has no explicit content but It's definitely not suitable for children. It instucts you to push a buttton and when you do a startling face suddenly pops up. These are often known as "screamers" or "sabatoges" on the internet. If anyone sees anything like this, PLEASE flag it. They can terrify young children and mentally scar them for life. That actually happened to me when I was young and I'm still not over it to this day.

Gee whiz those scare me too! It get spam emails like that all the time

iwikepie wrote:

There are some VERY inappropriate words in a comment left in the gallery 'friendly room, welcome!'. And the user davidchen wrote them.

Exactly and i would not join untill da gallery pic was changes

http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/SonicPops/19918 can u get rid of the comment by wazup91150 at this url plz

I promise I won't swear on scratch! I'll also report any foul langue. I love scratch!! ;]

1 day swearing got so bad that I made a project agenst it.>=O

hippymule's projects were all violant and scary.Please ban him.<:0

jessy just left a comment on 2 of my games! My mom and I looked up the word on Wikipedia, and it said it was an insult! It meant that I was new on Scratch, but I've been on here for months! I deleted both comments but I thought I should tell you incase they have done anything else disturbing. 

jessy wrote:

noob