Okay, my Scratch experience started out pretty safe. I think me, and a lot of other people can all agree that Scratch is a really great coding website for kids and teenagers to learn and use.
I think it's a really great website, but there's some problems. Well, obviously; everything has problems; but here's the problems... Actually, I can't even compose myself right now, let me just say this. Here's the problems of Scratch: THE FEATURED PAGE IS ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE, THERE'S TOO MANY KIDS CREATING CONTENT NOT FOR SCRATCH, THE SCRATCH "TEAM" (LIST OF OVER 1,000 AI MODERATORS DOING ALL OF THE WORK) REPLACED ALL OF THE HUMAN MODERATORS AND THEN STARTED TO MAKE A LOT OF BIASED, FAKE REVIEWS OF MODERATION THAT SHOULD BE OKAY BUT IS INSTEAD REALLY HORRIBLE AT THE JOB, THEY BAN A LOT OF PEOPLE FOR STUPID REASONS, SUCH AS TRYING TO STOP A DRAMA- NONE OF THE INSTIGATORS GET BANNED- JUST THE DRAMA-STOPPERS, AND THEN THERE'S THE KIDS THAT DO FNAF CONTENT, THERE'S THE FACT THAT NEARLY 70% OF ALL SCRATCH PROJECTS NOW ARE ABSOLUTE SLOP, THE LIMITATIONS WERE SO EXTREME YOU HAVE TO USE MULTIPLE EXTENTIONS TO GET IT TO WORK RIGHT, YOU'RE JUST MUCH BETTER OFF USING PENGUINMOD OR TURBOWARP OR FORKPHORUS, YOU'RE A LOT BETTER OFF MAKING A BAD PROJECT THAN A GOOD PROJECT BECAUSE THE SCRATCH AI IS LIKE "OOH! A PROJECT THAT HAS ACTUAL FRICKING EFFORT TO IT? GONE!" THE MODERATION IS ABSOLUTE SLOP, PEOPLE CAN GET BLACKMAILED AND MANIPULATED AND NOT GET BANNED, THE PEOPLE CAN DO GENUIENLY HORRIBLE STUFF ON SCRATCH AND NOT GET PUNISHMENT, AND DID I MENTION THE MODERATION?!?!... Sorry, that's kind of a rant. Yeah, I've actually been banned on Scratch. Why? For trying to end a drama. I didn't break any guideline rules or TOS rules, Scratch just banned me. And if there was a reason, it's probably heavily biased. I have been banned for 3 months, it's my 2nd time (the 1st time was for an actual reason, but I have not hit the 4th-ban-blacklist unspoken rule yet) and the Scratch "Team" still hasn't responded to my emails. I have to resort to using a school account just to say "hi" to anyone on the site now. Tldr: Scratch has horrible moderation, and you need to use outside extensions just so you can get more advanced projects than a textureless, not-even-SuperFX-level 3D game with a few levels.

IT ALWAYS KICKS ME OUT FOR NO REASON AND WHEN I FORGET MY PASSWORD I SEND THE REESET TO MY PARENTS PHONE BUT THEY SAY THE DIDNT GET AND YOUR BEING SO MEAN SCRATCH WHEN I TYPE IN RANDOM WORD IT JUST SHOWS FURRYSVGBHRRNHJUIHUBGCTFYBGHNJKML

I thought scratch was a safe program for my child because it was on her school computer. I decided to look more into it. I found that anyone can create a scratch account, no matter their age. I spent hours and hours looking at different pages and projects. What I discovered is that many people use the site as chat rooms and for role-play and as a chat room. It was not uncommon to see users state that they had just been blocked and this is their new account over and over and over again I found many situations where this had occurred. The trouble with that is that all those scratch has safeguards that flagged them when inappropriate content is displayed, people can simply create a new account and continue where they left off. Inside of scratch projects, there are sections for commenting. I noticed that these sections are commonly used for role-playing and chatting. Recently, in a project, I scrolled down to eight months ago on a certain project and found three users engaging in $exu@| role play. This role-play conversation is still posted on scratch and did not get flagged. This is because children have learned how to change the way words are displayed as I did above. The users know that they are in danger of being blocked because they state that while they're doing the role-play, but they continue anyways, because they know they can just simply create a new account if they get blocked. Scratch can also be a gateway to other programs and sites where people can chat more privately. I noticed many times where users would say that they wanted to get on roblox, magna.com, or other sites with private chat features. They change the names to not get flagged such as: Rblx, Mag, etc. They offer up their user names by cleverly typing them, so that the information doesn't get flagged. Once in this private chat room, many things can occur, such as personal information being given out, photos or videos can be sent, and it's easier for a predator to victimize a child. Just this week I brought this information to my child's school and they instantly blocked it from their school computers. I showed them the evidence of the inappropriate chat that is still posted on scratch today. I understand that if scratch is used for what its intention is, that it is a very useful program. However, given that the safeguards that they have in place are simply a Band-Aid, and that users can continue to make accounts and hide inappropriate content through changing the way words are written and that it's easy to meet up on scratch in order to meet in other, less protected programs and games, I have learned that scratch is completely unsafe for children, especially because the reviews of scratch are so positive. I believe that many parents trust this site because they have the safeguards in place that they do. I trusted the reviews for over a year until I looked more into the site and spent hours in it. I don't think a lot of people have the time to do that the lesson that I have learned is that when it comes to technology, as parents we need to safeguard our children by looking at everything. This is not snooping or invading privacy. The Internet world is a scary place and is constantly changing. His parents need to be deeply involved in helping them navigate. Unfortunately, I realize this too late. Please do not allow your child to be victimized through scratch, or any other game app or website.

Every five seconds the screen freezes for a couple seconds. The mechanics are janky, the website is bad, AND IT SUCKS!

In a summarry: Scratch has become an extremely Politically Correct site, shoving LGBT stuff in your face, banning accounts for no reason, toxic community, no longer a coding site and just social media, stuffed with furries and some explicit content, bad words including online slang swear words, reporting any inappropriate comments is like talking to a wall, it is up to the scratch moderators to decide wether your account should still exist and they only care if you hurt someone's feelings, and, though, it may contradict the toxic community, it doesn't, it only bans you if you hurt the feelings of an LGBT+ person, if you are a straight man, your value of opinion declines lower than the moderators IQ.
Full details: Ok everything written above will not be restated and this is pretty much just examples, let's begin through this journey...
1: My friend was banned for using alternate accounts just because three accounts had similar names when I was messing around with him, instead of the alts being banned he was. He was later unbanned after about 48 hours.
2. SPEAKING OF ALTS was being raided with comments saying that I was talking crap about some dude who I don't even know, it turns out I had the same username as him but with numbers at the end, reported the comments and tried to delete them but more showed up each day to the point where I was forced to turn off my comments to my account.
3. Told somebody to stop talking to a minor with explicit language, I wasn't the only one this time as a whole complaint by about 20 people arose over similar comments not being taken down. The account was banned but soon came back with similar comments only she put * in the middle though the word was still present in a way.
4. The LGBT+ studio (a studio is like a server with certain kinds of projects and it has its own comment section) is a disgust, the comments are weird and explicit, politic being discussed and arguments.
5. NO LONGER A CODING WEBSITE. THIS GETS ON MY NERVES. I loved this site for about two years, however, troll projects arosed and crappy ones, some meme ones were funny and although they were lowly worked on, they were funny. Soon though, it began to get annoying when billions of projects copying each other being unfunny and just spam.
6. Furries, pretty much like example 4, explicit, weird as heck, and arguments.
7. Good projects are being mass reported for no reason by bots and trolls to be taken down, only to reappear two days later then to be banned again for reposting, reposting is a bug in which when you unsure the project the likes are still saved to when you share it again the like/time ration skyrockets and gets put on the front page. Instead of scratch fixing this though, they make it a rule not to repost unless a bug is fixed, well things went downhill again and reposted projects from mass reported ones are banned again...

I hope scratch community gain stability and MIT fixes the moderators to stop being corrupted, at this time though... don't create an account and boycott scratch (I guess) thank you!

I have been a user on scratch for 6 years. Over that time I have seen scratch turn into a dumpster fire (mostly due to the moderation team consisting of left-ist lemmings who cant control a website).
Now, instead of writing a long explanation on why scratch is bad, Im just going to list all the problems with the site:
The moderators are sensitive as $#*!
Free speech practically doesn't exist
Porn projects! (Granted, most of these are just inflation/vore art, but its still on a kids site)
Constant removal of features. (Remix tree, random project button, camera, exc.)
Guidelines are contradicting to what MIT actually does. Despite the community guidelines EXPLICITLY STATING that constructive criticism is allowed, they ban any and all critizism.
Unfair bans that deal with website outside of scratch's jurisdiction. Examples? The CrummyScratchersWiki, which was a miraheze wiki intended on archiving bad scratchers, and helping them improve. Once scratch found out about it, everyone who contributed to it was banned.
$#*!ty UI.
Neglecting their user base
Taking a $#*! ton of time to respond to ban appeals, only to send a condescending letter to you.
Toxic user base
Site pandering to younger audiences, despite most of the users being 12-18
Featured projects are just the same $#*! over and over again
Popular scratchers are now "TRENDY EPIC LOL RANDOM XDDDD" 9 year olds, instead of talented artists who spend MONTHS into 5 second animations

Please, if ANY teacher is reading this, do not use scratch. Its an awful website, and it consists numerous pedophiles that scratch refuses to deal with. Just use the offline version.

Its Way Better Than Tynker, I Work Hard On Projects And I Got That From Ceebee And Her Friends. I Had Fun With This Website.

Love making games on it and stuff