Scratch

colorfusion wrote:

Not going to try and name anyone, but there was a project ages ago with a really neat 3D engine in it with a 3D scratch cat.

Just a while ago someone stole it and used a certain glitch/trick (I know what he did) to remove the "Based on ____s project" and gave no credit.
He then got famous, and got all the love-its and took all the glory.

Not so long ago someone else took THAT project, made the movement more laggy, added a few non-working "enemies", gave no credit and now they have got on the front page THREE TIMES!


Although I understand scratch is about sharing and remixing, its also about making your own games and being creative, not robbing people of an invention and getting all the fame!

Actually, people hated his game, it only has around 10 love-its. The 3D engine didn't work, the enemies didn't work, and he had no idea how to program at all apparently. The quality of project on the front page are getting worse and worse.

"47 people love it"

But I agree, front page is getting worse.
A while ago a project with 2 swears in it got curated along with a project just containing a copyrighted song.

I agree with all.

It's sad to see all this happening, such  as the spamming on the forums. Things frontpaged are getting worser in quality now, and some curators (let's not say the names) are just selecting a bunch of junk.      

Locomule wrote:

I pay zero attention to the front page

Me too. It used to be full of good stuff, but actually, we wanted to give other people a chance, so now we've got all this junk.

colorfusion wrote:

Not going to try and name anyone, but there was a project ages ago with a really neat 3D engine.

Just a while ago someone stole it and used a certain glitch/trick (I know what he did) to remove the "Based on ____s project" and gave no credit.
He then got famous, and got all the love-its and took all the glory.

Not so long ago someone else took THAT project, made the movement more laggy, added a few non-working "enemies", gave no credit and now they have got on the front page THREE TIMES!


Although I understand scratch is about sharing and remixing, its also about making your own games and being creative, not robbing people of an invention and getting all the fame!

I guess Scratch should take away the "Import Project" button, because that way the "Based on ____'s project" will appear. But then iSyn, a project that many people love, will not be able to run...

MaxtheWeirdo wrote:

a1130 wrote:

colorfusion wrote:

Not going to try and name anyone, but there was a project ages ago with a really neat 3D engine.

Just a while ago someone stole it and used a certain glitch/trick (I know what he did) to remove the "Based on ____s project" and gave no credit.
He then got famous, and got all the love-its and took all the glory.

Not so long ago someone else took THAT project, made the movement more laggy, added a few non-working "enemies", gave no credit and now they have got on the front page THREE TIMES!


Although I understand scratch is about sharing and remixing, its also about making your own games and being creative, not robbing people of an invention and getting all the fame!

I guess Scratch should take away the "Import Project" button, because that way the "Based on ____'s project" will appear. But then iSyn, a project that many people love, will not be able to run...

Make it give credit if you import projects.

That's close to impossible, because the Scratch project's digital signature gets erased and reset.

KalinaStar wrote:

a1130 wrote:

I agree with all.

It's sad to see all this happening, such  as the spamming on the forums. Things frontpaged are getting worser in quality now, and some curators (let's not say the names) are just selecting a bunch of junk.      

Did I curate junk? Be honest.

Of course not! Each curator has their own preference and there's no real right answer. I always look forward to see what will be curated next    It's whatever the user prefers.

Chrischb wrote:

KalinaStar wrote:

a1130 wrote:

I agree with all.

It's sad to see all this happening, such  as the spamming on the forums. Things frontpaged are getting worser in quality now, and some curators (let's not say the names) are just selecting a bunch of junk.      

Did I curate junk? Be honest.

I think you were good. 

Did I curate junk? 

I hope not you curated one of my projects XD

The curator I was talking about curated a 4 second animation that had 2 swear words in it and the animation was just someone holding up a certain finger to the camera.

And another project that was just some google images along to some copyrighted music,

juststickman wrote:

KalinaStar wrote:

a1130 wrote:

I agree with all.

It's sad to see all this happening, such  as the spamming on the forums. Things frontpaged are getting worser in quality now, and some curators (let's not say the names) are just selecting a bunch of junk.      

Did I curate junk? Be honest.

IMO. Yes.

Apart from some funny stuff, yes.

...which shows us once again that you can't please everybody all the time.  That's the whole point behind the Curated section...to allow people with different interests to share them with the rest of the community.  Don't feel bad if your picks didn't please everybody - it's pretty much impossible 

Paddle2See wrote:

juststickman wrote:

KalinaStar wrote:

Did I curate junk? Be honest.

IMO. Yes.

Apart from some funny stuff, yes.

...which shows us once again that you can't please everybody all the time.  That's the whole point behind the Curated section...to allow people with different interests to share them with the rest of the community.  Don't feel bad if your picks didn't please everybody - it's pretty much impossible 

We were talking about the Top Viewed and Top Loved sections mainly.

KalinaStar wrote:

a1130 wrote:

I agree with all.

It's sad to see all this happening, such  as the spamming on the forums. Things frontpaged are getting worser in quality now, and some curators (let's not say the names) are just selecting a bunch of junk.      

Did I curate junk? Be honest.

No, none of the curators ever curated junk. I'm just saying that the selected projects themselves are pretty good, it's just that there was some copyrighted material or something that people didn't look closely at. Besides, curators are supposed to have something of their own to choose! If I don't like a curator's selections, it's probably I prefer something else.