The Scratch Moderate Team is Total Garbage. When I Got ip Banned permanently for first time when they didn't give no explanation why I'm violent their Guideline Which I didn't f$!%ing do nothing as I contract the Scratch Support they didn't responding in three days! Wow this is good starter as my half of important project Empty.
This website is the worst. I've been on this website for more than 2 years, and never have I never seen such horrible admins in this website. There's people bullying others on the website, not "agreeing" with the rules and it's just toxic. I got banned a few days ago for defending myself from a Bully on the website, and instead of them banning the other person they decided to ban me for defending myself. Not only that, but there's death threats being thrown around the website from other users and nobody is doing anything to stop it. My friends wanted to use scratch, but I told them not to for this reason. This is one of the worst websites I've ever been on and it's the Last.
I was ArtistMatt on scratch, I had a few games with over 100,000 views. Guess what? I was rude to someone because their project was TRASH, I told them this and they got me a 3 day ban. Next, I told some loser I was arguing with to shut up or I bot you. This loser told a few people that I blackmailed him. Brat. Scratch banned me for spamming on my own game without any context finally.
Never break the community guidelines or even go around them, the Scratch Team have already found out that there are many way to break their guidelines and terrorize innocent kids from learning how to do coding, the website is made for kids and will always be made for kids, be careful on their website as you could get banned or even blocked like me, so don't do it. Scratch is very unfair and not comfortable to use now that the moderation has been completely broken, thanks Scratch Team for blocking me.
I am PaperMarioFan2022 from Scratch leaving a review for you all, I love Paper Mario and a fan of Nintendo, I wanted to use Scratch for coding, and improving my social skills, and I wanted to make new friends too.
Scratch is a great way to start your coding career if you want to start fresh from the beginning, and for fun, but just be careful when you comment, and make sure that projects aren't breaking the guidelines and you'll be fine!:)
- Updated March 13th, 2023
The Scratch Team are a bunch of $#*!s. They don't even look over reported stuff, they're deleting audio in other peoples projects because they can't afford the space, and they're begging for money. I only still use it because I've made some good friends on it.
Scratch.Mit.Edu is a coding program for kids, but adults of any age may use it. It is free, has no ads and uses educational block coding. Not to mention, it is created by the MIT media lab, one of the best colleges in the USA, scratch has built in support and anti-inappropriate usage built in. Scratch allows any user to remix others projects with credit given, and create music, animations, games, and so much more! Scratch has partnered with Amazon, Lego, and other well known brands and services to create bonus, free to access blocks that have special features, like bluetooth, text to speech, and more! Scratch should be #1 in the whole world of educational games, not #70. I hope that the 97 MILLION scratch users who love it enough to make an account weren't wrong.
So i got unbanned on march 31,2022 and then i keep getting false reported. So i created a new account called PinkLemonBackup because my account was banned. Scratch's moderation stinks. Why do they ban people for no reason. I need my account back. Scratch, fix your moderation. I am sick and tired of this. Why did i continue to break their community guidelines. This is getting stupid. And they need to bring back my account and they sent me to jail. I did not do anything wrong.
This is the greatest creation ever. Kids love it! Made for literally everyone! Welcome people from different ages and backgrounds! Easy to use, and this really helps kids know what job they really want to have in the future!
So yes I advertised on alternative accounts but it's literally the only way to get views on your projects that you work for hours on I broke no rules on my main account it says I 'tried to get around a block' Also I put in a request to unblock my main I contacted them on one of my oldest accounts (because you literally can't do anything when they block you) it's been over a week and all I got is an automated message like I know they're a big company but still other stuff that I've contacted with problems have responded within a 3 day period also they blocked every account with my email because I broke ONE rule which is no spamming but other than all of that it's a good start for young coders and stuff
5 year olds report my account for a profile picture. My profile picture a bag of chips and they report me for just having their least favorite flavor of chips. Children should be kept away from this website and kill off their social life until they have a good amount of logic, intelligence and common sense within their minds.
Even with all the hate, scratch is a pretty good website. The community is friendly, you can make so much with it. And even Scratch itself is surprised by the creativity of the scratcher. Overall, Scratch is an underrated masterpiece.
The coding on scratch is fun and it is also a nice place to have friends(I have some Scratch friends). But the thing is, it's community guidelines have problems, most you cannot see until you get an unfair message from the Scratch Team. Even more, it's chatbot sometimes mutes you when you said nothing bad. EVEN more, it has some toxic users that never get banned. But no, I am not encouraging you to stay off. I am encouraging you to fight to change Scratch. Together, we can change it for the better!
So, the good and bad.
The good: the code is easy to understand and MOST of the community is nice. Good for beginning coders.
Now the BAD. There are constantly those haters/copiers of the community or hate on your projects and profile bc they are jealous and copy your projects with no credit. Not to mention you can get muted for saying 'skype' or commenting on your own project, 'I took these screenshots on the projector so the quality is bad'. Still, mean comments go through. So, basically, scratch is used as a social media and it is good in that sense. I use it as a social media to talk during covid. BUT if you are not comfortable with a social media then don't go on.
I was Banned because I was having a debate and somehow It even stated the comment which got me banned which said I do no want to sound offensive. I was banned for 3 days and they said that they warned me but didn't? They ban you for small things. Someone called me a Maggot but didn't get banned, mean people. And the Team aren't Kind. There were studios to do with LGBT but I said something and I was banned for being mean to 8 years olds and scared them? But 8 years olds don't want to know about changing gender and being depressed? Stupid Site, I was a Kind.
The website itself is very fun. I enjoy making projects in Scratch. I like when people see my projects and follow me. I use Scratch to share stuff with people (mostly projects and comments). However, I don't like the moderation. I was once blocked for 12 hours just for posting the same comment three times, each time on a different account. The Scratch Team will block a project even if it has a very unnoticeable innappropiate thing. I am lucky that I have never been banned, but I have heard stories of scratchers being banned for stupid reasons.
If you create an account to go around a ban, Scratch will track your IP address so that you can't create another Scratch account from your network. I once created a secret account called gy4tt just for fun. However, when I discovered that the Scratch Team can track your IP address, I immediately deleted the gy4tt account, which I created a few days before, because it had a slightly inappropriate name and I feared that the Scratch Team would ban my main account.
Overall, I kinda recommend Scratch, but be very careful.
First the bad way: who would ban a account thats close to 100 followers? And why would they ban someone who did nothing (IP ban 3rd day) what the! He ST sucks its the worst ST ever they need to replace them
Good way: i got lot of followers and it a good community and some of my friends have it too
It takes like 16 years for it to stop lagging and it deletes my account for no reason! And everything i search, if it has random things like running, (Do it and you will know what I mean) It just shows furrys!
Hello. I am TPRisesAgain.
So I was in Scratch for 7 years, and the old scratch in 2013-2014 is great. But then all those FNAF projects came and banned it. It's kinda troublesome, right? The UI is relatively easy to do, and it unleashed my creativity. But then MIT banned me for invalid reasons. I tried to do appeals but they ignored me for over a week.
So in my conclusion, this is an alright website, just that the moderators aren't very good.
Scratch is an online community made by MIT for children to not only learn about programming and animation, but to have fun and chat with friends. Basically, it's Facebook and Youtube combined, but techy.
You make little games, or videos, or whatever by snipping together these action and programming "Blocks" like Legos. You can do various things with these blocks, like move a character around, animate a character, or make a screen scroll. At first, it's kind of hard to understand, but you get a hang of it.
The Scratch Team and it's users are very welcoming, and their are a lot of fanbase-related things on Scratch. Anime, Gaming, Music, Art, whatever you're into, their are hundreds of thousands of people on Scratch into the same thing.
Bottom line, I highly, highly, HIGHLY recommend you give Scratch a try.
Scratch is a very nice site!
Its helps me code games, stories and contests!
The best part is you can remix projects others have made and share them.
I love scratch!
Answer: It's actually pretty easy. First of all, some people might be very mean to you and mass-report you (That's how I got banned) and then Scratch Team sees this. They don't take time to look at your history, they only see the mass-reporting problems. So then they ban you. Second of all, Scratch Team is super sensitive and kind of overprotective about their already decaying community. So whenever they see something that might harm people in a mental way or something that is "disturbing" to others, they'd ban you.
Answer: When it comes to server issues, Scratch is really trying it's best to keep up with it's servers, but there's way too many comments in their database, Scratch needs funding to resolve these issues to keep running.
Answer: Scratch's servers are trying to keep up, but they run with way too much information in their database. This could be fixed by getting rid of old data (not recommended) or rolling out the solutions they've done much to the hatred of users... Also not a good answer. Scratch just needs a lot more funding to solve this issue, so long answer short; not enough funding, and too much information in too small a database, leading to that in the servers.
Answer: It can vary. Sometimes it can take only one. Other times it can take more. It's not always good to mass report, though. It's more likely to be taken down if it actually breaks the guidelines.
Answer: Here's my list: If you got banned on the website ONCE, and you contact Scratch Team, you will MOST LIKELY get your account back if you agree to be nice again on the website. If you got banned on the website TWICE, and you contact Scratch Team, it's 50/50. It's a mix between MOST LIKELY and HIGHLY UNLIKELY to get your account back. If you got your IP Address banned, your siblings (If you have any) will get their accounts banned because they use your IP Address, and the chances of you getting you account back is BORDERLINE IMPOSSIBLE. You can't contact Scratch Team any way, whether using their contact email or just asking Scratch Team. You can't even comment on their Youtube Channel, because they disable comments on their videos. And, like getting your account back, contacting them is BORDERLINE IMPOSSIBLE. All this information was backed up by research. I've been on Scratch for 2 years, and was falsely banned, not once, not twice, but FOUR times! And I hate it.
Answer: Yup! You can make anything on scratch. Just make sure it is okay for younger children to see.
Scratch has a rating of 1.8 stars from 101 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Scratch most frequently mention new account, year olds and ban people. Scratch ranks 154th among Kids Educational Resources sites.