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Scratch has a rating of 2.0 stars from 101 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about Scratch most frequently mention new account, year olds, and ban people problems. Scratch ranks 154th among Kids Educational Resources sites.

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Thumbnail of user graeme.parks
Texas
4 reviews
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October 17th, 2024

So I made an account that was used for ban speed runs, it never registered in my main email, and its a different username, then after 3 F̶̡̭̯͈̼͐̌͛̌̉̈́͗͑̂̌̕͝͝͝U̸͖̙̲̽̈C̵̦̓̀͠K̸̖̝̟̩͍̓̂̎̇̏̃̂̾̍͑̈́̚͠͠ͅI̷̺͔͎̲̟͉͉̽͐͗͐͑͊̓̚̕Ņ̵̱̰͙̤̱̜̘̱̉̌̄̄̇͆G̶͕̤̫͒ͅ MONTHS, they decided to ban MY MAIN ACCOUNT, WOW JUST F̶̡̭̯͈̼͐̌͛̌̉̈́͗͑̂̌̕͝͝͝U̸͖̙̲̽̈C̵̦̓̀͠K̸̖̝̟̩͍̓̂̎̇̏̃̂̾̍͑̈́̚͠͠ͅI̷̺͔͎̲̟͉͉̽͐͗͐͑͊̓̚̕Ņ̵̱̰͙̤̱̜̘̱̉̌̄̄̇͆G̶͕̤̫͒ͅ WOW

Date of experience: October 17, 2024

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GB
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July 7th, 2024

I spent 2 hours making a game then scratch says sorry we could not save and deletes my game.I have not used scratch after that and I don't intend to again.

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Date of experience: July 7, 2024

Thumbnail of user 01234ihateu
California
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May 20th, 2024

On January of 2019, my 9-year-old son made his Scratch Account, he liked the kind "Griffpatchers" that had a little chatroom on a profile page of "griffpatch". But then, 5 years later, he got really uncomfortable and I asked him about why he was feeling so stressed out, it was because one of his best friends posted a picture of a penis on the website. We decided to delete his account for safety, and we reported and contacted about the account to Scratch, they did nothing about it. I checked the other accounts that he claims to be his "friends" and saw a horrible video of a fight and even some people sharing homophobic and incessive content, do not use Scratch, the community is a terrible place to be.

Date of experience: May 20, 2024

Thumbnail of user alexliboon578
North Carolina
1 review
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June 12th, 2023

This site is very bad because the Scratch Team is too strict at us. Like... everything else is fine, but starting in 2019, the moderation was growing more and more strict. It is so strict that not only are there
4-6 year olds that shouldn't be on this site, but more innocent projects are getting removed for bad reasons, or not even for a single reason and the results lead to more innocent scratchers banned than the number of toxic users and projects banned. All I want is peace such as less toxic projects and users, but fewer innocent projects and users that get banned for no reason just like how it was back before 2019.

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Tip: Not recommended for children 8-16, but is recommended for children 4-7 due to strict moderation.

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Date of experience: June 12, 2023

Thumbnail of user adamclar
New York
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May 23rd, 2023

Scratch is very good, but the worst part about it is that it is poorly moderated and it is common for innocent projects to get removed by mass reporting, and it is also common for innocent scratchers to get banned for barley any reason.

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Date of experience: May 22, 2023

Thumbnail of user 29bt0001
Pennsylvania
1 review
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October 24th, 2023

Scratch is a fun site, however it's mostly for younger kids. Anything including horror projects, advertising, and jumpscares will get your project blocked. You will also get banned just for having a collab account, which doesn't make any sense. If you make large projects, I don't reccomend Scratch. It's very slow.

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Date of experience: October 24, 2023

Thumbnail of user katthrinp
Mississippi
2 reviews
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February 9th, 2022

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.

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Don't swear, some seven year old will get mad and report you.

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Date of experience: February 8, 2022

Thumbnail of user concernedp15
Washington
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February 7th, 2024

If parents paid attention to what their children were "posting" in chats, maybe the site could be focused on what it was actually intended for like coding

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Date of experience: February 7, 2024

Thumbnail of user heikanl
Hong Kong
1 review
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February 3rd, 2023

I got block for trying talking about meeting in real life or on a chat site and all I did is add "am (time am)" but I only said the time in my place. It doesn't cares as long as it find something in your comment "inappropriate" and don't look into what the comment actually meant. Also it block me twice for saying something bad in a comment and don't tell me which one or why.

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Date of experience: February 3, 2023

Thumbnail of user perryt42
North Carolina
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August 2nd, 2020

When I first joined Scratch in 2016, it was much better until 2018 when trolls and bullies started ganging up on me. 2020 is probably worse though, because the ST banned me, just because of the Crummy Scratchers Wiki, and they thought it was gossip and insults, but it was just valid criticism to help the Scratchers improve. I also got bullied a lot for following people, and why get mad at someone when they follow you? I've also been through a bunch of flame wars and all of that, and people who were in the flame wars even play the victim card.

Date of experience: August 2, 2020

Thumbnail of user codemanc
North Carolina
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December 10th, 2022

I really like the way of how Scratch is with creativity, but... its moderation is really awful, because it can give us warnings, blocks, or bans for no reason! As a result, Scratch needs to fix their moderation! I would not recommend this website for children.

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Date of experience: December 10, 2022

Thumbnail of user hackingf1
GB
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March 26th, 2024

Made my friend kill themself. Never use again. Don't recommend it to anyone. The moderation sucks so innoccent people get banned and the bullies don't.

Date of experience: March 26, 2024

Thumbnail of user notn14
Alabama
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January 5th, 2021

Scratch is a good site to learn how to code, but you should probably use the offline version. Don't get me wrong, the community is a pretty cool place, but you can get banned for anything.

My account was IP banned on Christmas. The thing is, I wasn't muted, and I was warned 5 times - once for advertising a live-streaming event, once for expressing some self-stuff I was going to do because of 2020 and the stress. I even got a warning for making a Karen joke. Then, I was warned for asking for personal information, which I don't remember doing. The others, I can't remember.

An IP ban for minor things? That's kinda sus.

All-in-all, the site is great, but the moderators are pretty strict. If you really would like to code, stick to the offline version.

Tip for consumers:
Using the offline editor is safer. The community can get you banned for the simplest stuff. If you have a doubt about doing anything, even for a second, don't even do it. It might just get you banned.

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Date of experience: January 5, 2021

Thumbnail of user tornadocattys
Canada
1 review
2 helpful votes
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December 13th, 2020

At first, Scratch was a Very nice place but now I have been on It for 10 months and they blocked me because I used the word "Skype" Isn't that stupid? I'll be unblocked on December 15,2020
Here is the link to my profile anyways
https://scratch.mit.edu/users/tornadocatty/

Date of experience: December 13, 2020

Thumbnail of user subhans1
Australia
1 review
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April 28th, 2022

Ok let me start by saying that scratch was released in may 2007 and was one of the best coding and interactive site ever! :) Now when I made a account they thought that i was specifically dating which was fake and just being kind to a woman doesn't mean that I was dating!( The account was deleted and I made another account for the last time but unfortunately I got banned after 2 days and 13 hours because just being a block on my old account! :( This must be stopped otherwise this isn't tolerated! The scratch guidelines are too much and millions of scratchers are getting banned everyday! :( Im never using this freaking account ever again I rate this 1/5 Never use scratch! :( I'm freaking lost it! :(

Date of experience: April 28, 2022

Thumbnail of user gallerymedusanotfound404
GB
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August 18th, 2023

On August 4th 2023, For some reason, my main Scratch account: [Cosmibox] got banned because another account: [BttututDaRuulBraekur] is banned too. We didn't do anything wrong. After I appealed to the Scratch Team, it leads to a response saying that my account will not be unblocked. This is humilitating! And around 5pm, I got permanently IP banned due to the same reason.

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Not that much, but I only wish Cosmibox will be back from Scratch.

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Date of experience: August 18, 2023

Thumbnail of user kylaf18
Maine
1 review
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August 29th, 2022

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.

Date of experience: August 28, 2022

Thumbnail of user kylaf20
Maine
1 review
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October 22nd, 2022

Why scratch team, you are acting like a psychopath. Scratch, your moderation is worse then roblox right now. I do coding but now you banned me for no reason. Why? Why?! WHY!?!?!?!? I was doing right things until you permanently banned me from scratch. You didn't give me an appeal. And also, you deleted my account after 2 days of what my account got banned. Why scratch, why? I am never coming to scratch ever again.

Tip for consumers:
don't trust the false reporters.

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I was using scratch.

Date of experience: October 22, 2022

Thumbnail of user gcinau61
Belgium
1 review
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February 18th, 2024

They banned me for putting an emoji when it is appropiate and it's a number, how dare they have this moderation, AND they even IP banned me so I cannot login to scratch.

Here is a picture of me getting IP banned...

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Date of experience: February 18, 2024

Thumbnail of user hannahs306
Indiana
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January 6th, 2021

There are so many Gacha life protects like mine and mine got reported this is not the first time some one has tried to report my project but last time it was my pitcher but it was some one how bid not like the fact my prow foal pitcher was gay

Date of experience: January 6, 2021

Thumbnail of user jazr6
Illinois
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February 16th, 2023

I can't do this. I loved scratch so much, especially GWDFI [ a studio] but then i get banned for venting? Like, my comment wasn't that bad. I hate scratch so much. Never going back again. It's a waste of time, go use some nice website like code.org. If i could rate it 0 stars I would. Piece of crap. I hate the community so much.
I can't do this. Never using scratch again. Ruined my life.

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don't use it. piece of crap

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Date of experience: February 16, 2023

Thumbnail of user alexh1011
Illinois
1 review
3 helpful votes
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April 27th, 2022

Scratch is a pretty good website! I'm more an artist than a person that makes games, but I make animations and Scratch has helped me learn how to code in a few ways! I didn't really use the tutorials, I kind of figured it out myself, but I'm sure they're nice! The reason I gave it a 4 is because their filterbot is pretty much broken. Even if I say a simple word, like once I said egg, the filterbot muted me and I couldn't comment for 10 minutes. The other things are that the scratch team doesn't do anything about art theft, copyright, and those other things that might be illegal. They also ban users for no reason, such as posting a harmless project or saying a harmless word. The scratch team is fine, but I think they should know if a project is fine and a 3 year old with a karen mom reports it just to be "funny."

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Be careful of what you say as you might get in trouble with the team. :)

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Date of experience: April 26, 2022

Thumbnail of user jessep348
New York
1 review
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November 25th, 2022

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.

Date of experience: November 25, 2022

Thumbnail of user unknownp37
Virginia
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January 5th, 2024

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.

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Date of experience: January 5, 2024

Thumbnail of user emmettg31
Iowa
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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September 12th, 2024

Has blocks of code to use if you r a pro coder. It has games that you can remix and alter it I have altered a clicker game and it almost crashed my computer. I use when I'm bored at school. It helps my boredom leave

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Date of experience: December 6, 2023

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