ScratchReviews 102

They ban people that don't even do anything wrong and we got ip banned. > :( we want a refund its just so bad

Exactly as the title says; don't even bother.

The moderation team doesn't care a single bit about the website or people on it. Instead, they target the innocent people, while completely ignoring the others who have actually gone as far as to tell others to kill themselves.
The automoderation system is even worse, targeting people on false reports and being completely faulty; the most random words can't be said, you can't link any other websites, you can't say what timezone you're in.
Bans almost never make sense, and have the most random reason, and as said before, bans always target the wrong people.

All new features added to this website have always gone against what the people wanted; they're slowly but surely removing ways people can cooperate with one another, or just chat, or whatever they want to do.
So many of these features are never announced ahead of time, or asked if they would be good, they're just added and never removed as the owners don't care.

False bans don't even get looked into by the moderator team; they just don't care. They don't care about the children on the website. People can just create a new account to get around the ban too, and do it time and time again.
False reports don't get looked into; yet again, the moderation team don't care. Meanwhile, the important things such as sexual projects or roleplays are completely ignored.

Overall, the moderation team just don't care.
This website is not safe for people of any ages, especially not younger ones. Look for different coding websites, and look into the moderation and community before you join them.

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.

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

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.

Scratch's guidelines say they allow everyone, no matter what you believe or where you're from. I made a project about Christianity, for Christians. And I get permanently banned for trying to "promote a religious agenda" It's absolutely HORRIBLE how BIAS they are. You can find many projects trying to promote, atheism, satanism, LGBTQ, and many other things that are controversial. I'm not saying anything bad about these, but it angers me when the SCRATCH TEAM LITERLY MAKES A PROJECT PROMOTING LGBTQ, which GOES AGAINST THEIR GUIDELINES. Its sad how they try and pick and choose what projects you get to make, they are trying to promote things to get kids to believe what they believe, and ban people that get in the way of doing that. Someone made a post trying to get Scratch's attention, but they replied saying "We CoNtInUe tO PrOmOtE Scratch and CoDiNg" Which is ABSOLUTELY A LIE! Scratch tries to promote these topics and bans topics they don't like. Someone calls them out for it and they can't even make a proper excuse. Please don't promote them. I'm sad I got banned, had a lot of fun until I noticed the truth. Don't use Scratch.

This website is a pile of garbage they is this horrible person *******@iamqueenjam who ruined my life this user say horrible things and made horrible things about me and they also made fedish art of my roblox avatar and false reported me and GOT AWAY WITH IT please don't use scratch

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.

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 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!

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!

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.

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

Scratch f#cking sucks! They ban people for garbage reasons! The community is mean and very naughty! Scratch team likes to ban people for fun and don't give a f#cking crap if they made a mistake! People cyberbully on scratch! People report projects and start a war! It doesn't let people use their real names in usernames! People of all race are not welcomed because people are making racist stuff about an asian name and mocking it and scratch doesn't see it as a problem! Scratch allows the use of private parts such as a peach or an eggplant which is very naughty and inappropriate! I hope scratch gets canceled cuz it does not teach anyone about coding! Instead it encourages people to cyberbully others, make fun of their culture or race, and start a war against each other and lets people gang up on someone! Hope this review helps us to get rid of scratch!

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.

I've been doing scratch for a few years now and I'm still satisfied! I can be social and make projects and do other stuff!

It's free, so I don't hurt a wallet. It's safe, so I can get banned for making inappropriate comments. But, the moderation. It's not a big deal, 4 stars.

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, on Scratch. The moderation honestly compares to that of Roblox moderation. If you say "Hell" a toxic 7 year old will spam report your comment on 18 different profiles and then will mass report everything on your profile and all your projects get taken down. If you set your profile picture to a certain flavor of doritos and that happens to be a 5 year olds least favorite flavor they will report your profile picture and copy and paste a fake reason off of google and the scratch team will ban you a day for it just because its long. If your profile picture is Sans then 9 year olds will start calling you a "toxic sans stan" even if you're not. And wont even let you explain why your profile is Sans. They will just invite their friends and lie about you and "the things you have done" and then they will all mass report you and you get banned for a week. Trust me, these situations aren't too specific. At least one of these three happens every day or week. But trust me once more: These are like mild on the Scoville Scale.