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#1 2007-08-13 11:34:20
- relyt12101
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Please stop relating Scratch to YouTube!!
I have recently seen a lot of topics with people giving suggestions on the site that are on YouTube, Responses, 5 star rating, and a lot of other features. Also, there was this thread - http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewtopic.php?id=1076. Scratch is to help young kids get an idea with programing (to make programing easier) and with the idea of revision. Scratch does not aim to get popular. As andresmh says -
andresmh wrote:
I actually think that our goal is not so much to be famous but to be a useful community of learners. This is an educational project not a commercial endeavor.
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#2 2007-08-15 05:17:25
Re: Please stop relating Scratch to YouTube!!
Thanks for your comment rely12101. I think some of the features in other sites can be useful to the Scratch community but not all. We were inspired by other social media websites and picked the features we thought matched our educational philosophy. As you said we disfavored the 5-star ratings, however,I have wondered about about an equivalent to of the video responses. I am curious to know your opinion on that one. Why do you think it's not a good idea to have "Scratch responses"? Also, for everyone else, I am curious to know if there any other features from other sites we should or should not consider and why. Thank you and Scratch on!
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#3 2007-08-15 10:40:41
- relyt12101
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Re: Please stop relating Scratch to YouTube!!
I don't like scratch responses because it would make projects messy. I just dont agree.
Love its or favorites can already be an equivalent to 5star.
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#4 2007-08-15 13:13:35
Re: Please stop relating Scratch to YouTube!!
While I like the basic idea of responses, I have to agree with relyt12101 that the way they are typically implemented - say on YouTube - makes for messy web pages and detract from the original. Maybe a more subtle link to "responding" projects could be designed.
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#5 2007-08-15 17:48:04
- relyt12101
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Re: Please stop relating Scratch to YouTube!!
That would work.
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#6 2007-08-15 18:46:36
Re: Please stop relating Scratch to YouTube!!
Why do we even need to respond to projects? We're not thinking of starting project wars, right?
And won't this just make the "look at my completely unrelated project" problem worse?
eyra
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#7 2007-08-15 22:30:36
Re: Please stop relating Scratch to YouTube!!
When it works, you can get a true thread of projects going - say here is the first verse ...if you do xxx, you get this effect for the second verse, etc. - and you can see several peoples take on the same thing - which can be really interesting. I've seen some threads on the ConceptArts forum that have really done this effectively for some particular aspect (say just a facial expression) of a piece of digital art.
Of course there is always the "look at me" problem and then the site gets messy - that's why I have mixed feelings on this for this particular forum. ConceptArts avoids the problem with a strong (and rather arbitrary) moderator - don't know duplicating that would be appropriate here.
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