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I'm not entirely sure what Tails Doll is, but I think as long as it's quite mild it should be okay. But don't take my word for it.

As I understand it, some violence is okay, but not too much. If this horror will give people nightmares, keep away from it - actually, I would stay away from horror altogether.

Oh, okay. Btw, it will give people nightmares. If you do not believe me, search tails doll on images google. *shudders*

Lol, if the "Tails Doll" is that thing from Sonic, that makes this topic slightly hilarious!?!

If there is eccentric blood and gore, you might be reported, but If it's just kind of scary and has mild cartoon violence, you're good. 

tom3_code wrote:

JeanTheFox wrote:

If there is eccentric blood and gore, you might be reported, but If it's just kind of scary and has mild cartoon violence, you're good. 

Maybe you should add a sort of rating to the description of your project. Something that will warn younger users not to view it. Something like This project contains graphic violence and horror, not intended for younger users.

You still might get reported though.
I think they should add rating system on scratch. 

If it's violent enough to warrant a warning, then you should avoid posting it on the Scratch website. Young users could still view it too easily.

A rating system (like YouTube's flag system) wouldn't be a bad idea.
"Rate project for age group: Anyone 10+ 13+"
If you're too young for the rated maturity content, you would be blocked from viewing. (All ratings would be reviewed my a mod.)

Of course, Scratch is supposed to be a kid-friendly site. All the projects should be appropriate for all ages, so maybe a rating system should be avoided.

Last edited by Harakou (2010-07-18 14:10:21)

tom3_code wrote:

Maybe you should add a sort of rating to the description of your project. Something that will warn younger users not to view it. Something like This project contains graphic violence and horror, not intended for younger users.

You still might get reported though.
I think they should add rating system on scratch. 

I think a warning like that would make younger children want to watch/play the project even more. If something is forbidden to a group of people, wouldn't that make them want to know about it?

Locomule wrote:

If the children are being given unsupervised access to the internet and pcs, it is not Scratch's fault. Frankly, they could be finding worse stuff out there than most Scratch projects in my opinion.

A mandatory manual self-rating system is the answer. People who fail to mark their own projects accordingly get flagged, warned, then banned. Would work quickly and effectively with mods getting final say.

Just because they have access to the Internet doesn't mean they will find that sort of thing. I want Scratch to remain safe for young kids.

The problem with having the poster of a project rate it in regards to mature content and then letting the mods review that rating is that there simply aren't enough people to review all the projects coming in daily.

Locomule wrote:

No, the mods don't review the ratings, only reported projects. This system is being used at other sites very nicely. Technically there would be very little different workload for the mods between that and what they do now, I think.

Well, the forum moderators don't review projects, so I'm just going to sum up your ideas in a hopefully correct manner: what you're suggesting is that when moderators review a flagged project, they simply give it a rating? That makes plenty of sense, and though I really have no frame of reference it doesn't seem like it would add a ridiculous amount of work to moderation. I like it!

The only issue I can see is that different moderators have different views of what is appropriate for which ages, as will the parents and kids who will end up viewing the project. So I think designating a particular age group may be somewhat difficult. In addition to that, Scratch is meant to be a completely open site to just about everyone - so barring off some areas of the site already visible by a substantial number of people may go against that philosophy.

There already is something of a rating system - of a project is deemed to not be appropriate for everyone it gets barred from the front page, but not actually deleted.

In reality, no sort of rating system is really necessary. The system we have now works just fine.

And thus concludes the longest post ever written on an iPod. That took me ten minutes at least!

No, mods would do nothing different. It would be just like handling flagged projects.

oh no no ipod typing, this issue never dies?!?!?!?! lol

Last edited by Locomule (2010-07-18 23:42:54)

I just think he Scratch team will be opposed to any rating-type system that would, and will, ever be suggested or implemented, for reasons I mentioned before. The simple fact that kids can still view the project remains.

It's like with movie ratings. The company says "don't see the movie unless you're over 14, but 10-year-olds will continue pleading with their parents to let them see it. On a website, parents have much less control over ther kids' actions. Unless the projects are actually restricted for people under the appropriate age (such as R-rated movies) it won't be very effective. Restricting the projects is against Scratch's philosophy which has much to do with equality. Which really puts this proposal in a paradox.