I was blocked, and after 3 days I checked back and I'm STILL blocked! I HATE Scratch, so PLEEEEAAAAAASSSSE do not "Scratch on" Tips: Use Snap! Link: snap.berkeley.edu
So I now can go to a different school with a different IP Address, which means I can use a different account (or make one). I got a chance to talk with the guys. There were 3 of them, one of which were on a different project. They called it a "Disappointment".
I used this new Scratch account, obviously concealing my identity so I don't get banned again, to reason with him.
He replied back, saying something like "JK lol" which made me a bit happier. I mean, it still wasn't enough to compensate for the mean comments, but you do gotta understand that you can't delete things other than Projects and Studios (And your account) on Scratch (AKA comments and such).
I reasoned with THREE of them but only got ONE reply back. This just all goes to show the lack of witnesses and the protection that bullies get from other people. Like, if I had enough witnesses, I could easily win my case. But, no, I had no witnesses except for myself. I didn't even have any screenshots as proof up until 2 FREAKING YEARS after I got banned.
Sadly, I didn't have any supporters, which meant that I was easily outnumbered on a ratio of Infinity to One. I didn't win my case. I died soon after (Online, NOT REAL LIFE. DON'T TELL YOUR FRIENDS THAT I'M A GHOST EVEN THOUGH IT COULD MAKE FOR GOOD SLEEPOVER HORROR STORIES) and I quit Scratch.
Long story short: No matter how many statistics you have or facts and other whatnot, you'll still get outnumbered by the sheer amount of fans your bully has. So use Snap! By Berkeley instead.
After I posted my first review, I decided to go back to Scratch to see comments about my old projects because I wanted to see what the community thought about them.
I thought Scratch would only be about mean people, but, oh ho, it gets WORSE!
See the picture below. I'll let you be the judge. This is one of my old projects.
Here are my unbiased opinions on Scratch. I've been on Scratch for at least 2 years, and I am NOT some 8-year old boy who listens to what everyone says and copies off of them. Trust me.
I will split this up into a few parts as Scratch is full of a lot of things. The community, the actual coding side of things, and the moderators.
To start off on a high note, I'll talk about the coding side of things. The coding is amazing. It has vibrant colors and a white background that looks kid-friendly! The syntax is really easy to understand. Once you started using and coding with Scratch you have understood Scratch's syntax.
Now, let's go onto the dark side of Scratch. Firstly, I'll talk about the community. The community actually listens to you and gives you feedback, only that it isn't kind feedback. Think of the community as itch.io perhaps. People on the website only have mean, unfriendly, and harsh criticism for you. If you made a game, you'd expect people to say "Wow! What a nice start!". But instead, people say "Wow, what an AWFUL project!". This can start a fight.
One time, I got into a fight with someone because they were mean to me and calling my projects awful and bad quality. So I said "Stop it" or something like that. This interpolated back and fourth until finally, this critic told his followers to report me and ban me. And suddenly, I was mass-reported. Even the admins of the website, Scratch Team, didn't listen to what I had to say. They just heard the critic's side of things. So they didn't think twice before banning me. This made me mad, and to add salt to the wound, they blocked my IP Address. Great. Now I couldn't even message them.
To sum this category all up, all I can say is that the community is just negative. Negative this, Negative that. They only think about negative thoughts and negative feedback. They are boastful.
Next, I'll talk about Scratch Team. Scratch Team is kind of useless. They don't resolve issues between people. I don't know if it's because of a lot of traffic lately due to the COVID-19 Pandemic and everybody going Virtual, but, they are just lazy. Like I said up above, they didn't listen to me, and banned me just because I got mass-reported. And also, they go about banning people without reason. Come on. When I got banned, they put the reason "Mass-reported" and I thought to myself "How is this a valid reason as to I got banned? You can do better than this!"
Also, not to mention, Scratch Team are hypocrites. Seriously! They go about telling everyone that Scratch is not a popularity contest or whatnot. And then there is the "Featured" category, the "What the community is remixing" category, and the "What the community is loving" category. Don't you think that they are hypocrites? They are hypocrites just by saying "Scratch is not a popularity contest" and then saying "Go check out this project! It's very popular and #1 trending on the website!". The community isn't helping either. When people get featured, they say in the description of the project and everywhere they go "I GOT FEATURED! MY PROJECT IS #1 TRENDING!". It's basically like they are saying "Haha, in your FACE! I got #1 trending! You won't be as popular as me and will never!". That is basically boasting, and like I said, the community is full of boastful people.
So to sum these 2 categories up, all I can say is that the community is getting more boastful, more mean, and more toxic every day, and that Scratch Team makes up excuses for (1) The community getting toxic and that they can't do anything (2) They banned you and tell you a fake reason, an excuse, of why they banned you.
Pls unblock my second account, hingcshan. Scratch has unblocked hingcs... (At least) but hingcshan has a top loved project! PLS PLS PLS PLS PLS PLS PLS PLS unblock.
This is KingAjRocks speaking, AND YOU BETTER LISTEN TO ME STRAIGHT SCRATCH BECAUSE IM NOT HAPPY RIGHT NOW! Ever since in October, some hacker was named MichealBroms and said I'm a dog kicker! AND I HAD NEVER DONE ANYTHING TO KICK DOGS. First of all, THATS ANIMAL ABUSE! And guess what really happened, one of MichealBroms friends ( OnaFFan, LarsDan, ComputerError2398 and Brotherbee) were trying to bully me. Luckily i commented my friends ( TheoTSM, speedboy28, Jamiel314, and the others) tried to help me stop them from bullying me and it was finally over on October! BUT TODAY WAS NOT SO WELL! MICHEALBROMS AND HIS FRIENDS ARE BACK AND THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT SCRATCH! I USED TO LIKE IT HERE BUT NOW IM DONE WITH YOU! FIX YOUR WEBSITE AND STOP THEM FROM HACKING US!
So, when i join, they ban me and i have to join AGAIN! I have joined 3 whole times but they ban me every time and is sooooo annoying
My all of Accounts Got Banned For No Reason Because The Scratch Team Just Blocked The Account, AiaiandPikachuFan
It was great until 2014 now it's full of too many FNAF fan projects that are just ripp offs and it also became a home to many fanbases
100 FOLLOWER ACCOUNT BANNED WTF?
Ok, I have a bit of a long story so buckle in.
I really like the way the coding works. Coming from the point of view of someone who has basically no experience with code, it works pretty well. The tools are easy to learn and I'm a bit better at coding now.
The scratch moderator team sucks. Let me tell you my story on this website.
I started a religion as a joke. It was called "Clickstianity" and it was really funny. I was very clear that I was not discriminating against other religions, I was very nice to literally everyone, and I got permanently banned.
First, my original animation about the religion was taken down automatically because people mass-reported it. They said they would put it under review and that it should be back up soon. It never came back up. I made a new animation, same thing happened. The newest one I made did not actually taken down, which was good because I spent a lot of time on it. One user, was overly christian and was harassing me about my religion calling it "fake" and a "cult". I told someone else about this through scratch and was banned for a week for "spreading rumors". I waited out my week ban and got back. I made some more projects and eventually got 100 followers. There were always people who would be toxic and hate on me, but I dealt with it. A few days later I was banned AGAIN for "spreading rumors". Whenever you get banned, it shows an example of the message that got you banned. I got banned for the same message that I already got banned for! I wrote an appeal, it only took them a few days to respond. Their response:
Hi there,
The Scratch website is a website that serves as an educational resource for children and their parents, teachers and their students, and people new to programming to learn about programming skills. But when we see users who have been blocked and notified so many times, we start thinking that they're not really interested in Scratch anymore, and we can no longer trust them.
Based on your past history on the Scratch website, we don't think you'll be able to follow our Community Guidelines. Your account(s) will not be unblocked. Please do not use or make any Scratch accounts.
Why? They then proceeded to IP ban me, and any of my fans who were associated with the religion. Someone was literally accusing me of being a p*dophile, I reported him, and do you know how long he got banned? FOUR HOURS!
Most reviews about the Scratch website make the mistake of reviewing Scratch as both a programming language and a website. These two things should be kept separate. Parents need to decide whether to let their child create a Scratch userid and participate on the website.
Scratch is a social media website where children role play and chat about topics that include puberty and sexual orientation. They sometimes use the embedded software to make presentations about their lives and interests. This software has some minimal programming features and therefore also allows children to reproduce games by copying the instructions from books or videos.
Some members will figure out that getting front-page recognition is reserved mostly for people who learn to merchandise themselves and their projects. They have to work the community. They learn that they have to beg or trick others into liking their projects, constantly ask people to recommend their projects for front page slots, and find ways of tricking the algorithm to allow their projects to be displayed on the first page of trending projects. It might be true that learning to merchandise their work is a useful skill but is that what you expected when you let them use the Scratch website.
Parents should also be concerned with how easy it is for children to pirate copyrighted music. The Scratch team assumes that there exists a fair use defense for any project that includes copyrighted music. However, the Scratch website makes it very easy for your child to extract just the music into music format files on your home computers. This is piracy and the Scratch teams' reply to this is that every child needs to know the copyright laws in their local area. Parents and school administrators should be concerned about how easy it is for Scratch to allow illegal music in common music formatted files to be stored on their home or school computers.
If Scratch, the language, is used in school then it seems a bit of a waste. Scratch is free but school time is not. It would be better if school districts used a language that didn't run out of concepts to teach. The Scratch team does not want students to know about data structure so nothing about tables can be taught. They don't want students to know that procedures can be made once and used anywhere in a program. They don't want students to know about functions. They don't want students to know that arrays can be passed as arguments to a subroutine.
The Scratch team says that the language is specifically designed for the age range from 8 to 16 but every suggestion that would allow the language to have more educational value to the upper age range is countered with "but that would confuse our 8 year old users". That means that Scratch as an educational product is designed for 8 year olds. Parents and school administrators should keep that in mind before selecting Scratch as a tool for learning programming.
Overview
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.
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