Scratch

The thing is with warnings, they don't do much. If someone wants to watch something, a warning's not going to stop them.

Just think, when you make a project, "is this project suitable for someone of any age, and does it follow the Terms of Use?"

I think drugs are a no-go, however getting injected with a mysterious vial of liquid could imply a sleeping potion, or kind of fictional chemical that causes something, I'd say that is fine.

Last edited by WeirdF (2011-02-04 14:10:13)

Your list is a good start.  Sexism and racism are also not ok on Scratch, so I'd add them to it.  Realistic violence is never ok either.  As to the blood / mild violence - some is ok, but too much isn't. This is hard to clearly define, and some of our mods are more sensitive to this than others. We try to be consistent, but since viewing projects is always subjective, the decisions will vary somewhat. But even a little blood / violence can result in a project being marked "Not for everyone."

One reason we don't have a hard and fast list of dos and donts is because a lot of things depend on context.  The Terms of Use are the main guidelines we use when judging projects. For example, cartoon violence is usually ok, but of course if it's done in a way that doesn't "Help keep the site friendly," (i.e. is disrespectful of a community member) then the project will be removed.

Sometimes I think we should find a picture of a cute 8 year old kid, let's call him "Joey," and put it on the Terms of Use.  Then we could say "Don't share any projects or comments that you wouldn't want little Joey to see!"  But I'm not sure that would deter those who love the lulz.

The challenge with Scratch is that we welcome people of so many different ages. So the parents of 8 year olds get upset when their kid sees something violent or bloody made by a 15 year old. So far the only practical solution to this problem we've seen is to judge things submitted to the site by the 8 year old standard, but that's clearly upsetting to a lot of older Scratchers. To them we apologize, but eventually end up saying that if they feel like the community is too immature, they should consider finding one with standards they feel are a better fit.  There's a lot of internets out there.

Last edited by Lightnin (2011-02-04 17:18:38)

SAT3-H wrote:

Shouldn't we already know this

Some of it    The rest varies by sensitivity, right?


There should be a stickied reminder, in my opinion 

Last edited by Chrischb (2011-02-04 17:09:04)

Blade-Edge wrote:

Okay so just to tell you this was only my understanding of what could be put on Scratch, and I wanted it verified. Anyway, I have one more thing to add. People getting run over by cars. As in uh... a game where you drive around running down people. As long as the people don't like split in half or their heads pop off in a blood volcano type situation, it should be okay, right?

It's hard to say without seeing the project. From what you describe, I can say that it's possible it would be removed, but more likely it would only get the "Not for everyone" designation.