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dinomaster26 said: By the way, I'm not a new scratcher. I have a full page of projects, have been on for over a year, and have loads of galleries + I have over 900 comments. You may want to change how you do that.

Yeah, he's right. He's not new. But about the "Sorry, you have posted a similar message recently", that is VERY annoying. It would be much appreciated to have it removed.

supersonicfan0 said: yeah. they should have it part of "flag as inappropriate" or add a "flag as spam" to the comments.

What is that supposed to mean? Not to be mean, but they should just plain out delete it. Though flag as spam would be very useful...

But the problem is that the person could have already reached 1000 projects, and there wouldn't be enough people to flag as spam.

Just put a smiley at the end.

"Here's your points!  "

"Here's your points!                "

Here's your points!                                                "

It should work.

No, each person's name is only one word.

It's not enough.

I agree. when I am answering people on my rpgs I like being fast. when that pops up i have to think of something else to say. I also have limited computer time and that takes up alot of it.

supersonicfan0 wrote:

yeah. they should have it part of "flag as inappropriate" or add a "flag as spam" to the comments.

YES!!!

okay I'm back on and alot has happened. let me see...

kayybee wrote:

No, each person's name is only one word.

It's not enough.

Ah. Thank you. I will once again try that. So add a new word or symbol each time? That might help until its removed.

kirsten19 wrote:

I agree. when I am answering people on my rpgs I like being fast. when that pops up i have to think of something else to say. I also have limited computer time and that takes up alot of it.

Very helpful. You are exactly correct. Please consider all these, Scratch Team.

Boltbait and yoshidude56 both commented on flag as spam. Although that is useful, ITS NOT WHAT THIS FORUM'S ABOUT! lol, sorry about it, but im kinda worn out 2day...

Scimonster, that tutorial is very helpful. However, it would be best to simply have it removed.

Hello Scratch team,


i say this on behalf of all my friends on scratch,that you take off the "Sorry, you have posted a similar message recently".i can't get all the latest news from my friends and so can't my friend's friend's.




Yours truly,

fellow scratcher

p.s.:

i don't care much for the message system

I do agree with this, as sometimes repeated posts are required to broadcast a message, thanks to the lack of a "shout" option.

If you keep on having to say thanks, you can change it a little, thats how I do it anyways.  Here are some examples. Thanks!, thanx, thank you, etc. Also, if you add different emoticons to it each time, it counts as a completely different message. The reason they do this in the first place is to control the amount of spam on the Scratch website, I think.

Okay, I'm back on. I will quote a few people here, but there's been too many posts to do all of them. I'll just select some at the bottom. Thanks for the support everyone!

CloneCommando1 wrote:

If you keep on having to say thanks, you can change it a little, thats how I do it anyways.  Here are some examples. Thanks!, thanx, thank you, etc. Also, if you add different emoticons to it each time, it counts as a completely different message. The reason they do this in the first place is to control the amount of spam on the Scratch website, I think.

Very true. Spamming is a problem, but not being able to post links also is.

@ Cheddargirl: You are right it is strange; I think the link has to do with it. I think that by posting the same link, it thinks its the same message. You wanted an example of it. Here's the un-altered thing in a word document that i copy then paste and then add the points and user:
THIS IS AN AUTOMATED MESSAGE: Greetings, _ I am here to inform you that I have started a point system known as “Dino Points”. You can earn them by performing certain tasks and they award you points. You currently have _ Dino Points. Please go to this gallery for more info: http://scratch.mit.edu/galleries/view/119273

Where the _s are is were i put the username and points. I then recieve the "Sorry, you have posted a similar message recently" thing, and i tried it today. First time I do it, it says that message. However, I just tried typing in JUST the link but that worked. It makes not sense.


Anyhow, although we all know how to prevent simple ones (with the exception of my problem), it should simply be deleted (if possible). Many people agree with me. Thanks for your support!
-dinomaster26

Ps. I appreciate becoming a full scale scratcher! Thanks scratch team, if you did something to fix this or i added enough stuff. Now I'm stuck on another problem: how do you create the picture and motto? I clicked on the link under this, and it didn't work. Sorry if I'm making too much work! 

How about making it go away once you get scratcher status?

dinomaster26 wrote:

@ Cheddargirl: You are right it is strange; I think the link has to do with it. I think that by posting the same link, it thinks its the same message. You wanted an example of it. Here's the un-altered thing in a word document that i copy then paste and then add the points and user:
THIS IS AN AUTOMATED MESSAGE: Greetings, _ I am here to inform you that I have started a point system known as “Dino Points”. You can earn them by performing certain tasks and they award you points. You currently have _ Dino Points. Please go to this gallery for more info: http://scratch.mit.edu/galleries/view/119273

Where the _s are is were i put the username and points. I then recieve the "Sorry, you have posted a similar message recently" thing, and i tried it today. First time I do it, it says that message. However, I just tried typing in JUST the link but that worked. It makes not sense.

Ah, you're tying to post a large amount of similar text and a link over and over again, so even if the messages are not exactly the same, the similarity causes the error message to be triggered. If you make a small message about the points without the link, you might encounter the problem less.

Even if it error message is annoying (I get it all the time when trying to thank people), it probably not going to be removed anytime soon because it's one of the only few measures that help prevent excessive spam (chain mails, SEO link spam, etc.).

However, there has been many calls to have the filter improved (I see some suggestions for it in this thread already). Feel free to suggest ways for the filter to be improved. 

Regarding the question about a "picture and a motto"; if you mean by a signature, here's a thread that might help.