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Scratch Reviews Summary
Scratch has a rating of 1.8 stars from 102 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 156th among Kids Educational Resources sites.
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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.
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.
So im part of military rp and re talk about "napalming insurgents" and "biological warfare" all the time. I said the name of a HANDGun. The.44 magnum and got banned. LIKE WHATTTTTTT? I appealed an its been about 5 months and nothing. They are cruel, sociopathic, and HAVE ZERO REMORSE.
I like how it allows youthful figures to code, but it also adds a social media aspect to it. I suggest that only teens should be able to use it...
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.
I said that a project was amazing ant the complete opposite of terrible and for some stupid reason it only sensed the word terrible and I got banned for 18 months and said that another project was good but not your best project ever but I got banned for 5 weeks and when you try to put your account in it just makes you put it back over and over and over AGAIN. Then it tells you to look in your spam folder aka useless folder that doesn't help you with anything and that someone said I was cyber bully just because I corrected someones spelling and also for correcting someones spelling I got banned for a week and said that one project could be a bit better and I got banned for a day. TOTALLY UNFAIR!
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.
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.
Everytime i get on scratch it blocked my network for no reason i really like scratch but please fix it
As a scratcher named LarryMcCuteFace i enjoy scratch as amazing community coding for both children and adults. Many of my friends enjoy scratch not even realising they where learning. It is great.
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.
Overall, this is a good coding site, but it's the MODERATION that messes things up. When I started, I was basically ADDICTED to scratch, but then the next year I got IP BANNED. FOR NO REASON. I would recommend it for beginners, but when you reach a certain point scratch is pretty much useless
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! :(
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."
Hey guys! I am a scratch user who loves to program. If you are familiar with "Studios", Great! But for those who aren't, it is basically a group that you follow and share projects in. One of the studios that I host is pretty important to me, so I created a project that would allow people to come in and check the studio rules and requirements. With all things, people find a way to abuse it. People started copying my project and posting it in other studios which it was not intended for, and so with that, I made a password for the project. This is not a personal password, this is one that only my studio members would know and be able to bypass. Scratch doesn't take the time to realize what they are doing so they stick a robot to supervise everything you are doing. In my case, the robot picked up on the word "Password/Code" and then suspended my account. Every time I go to my account, I'm not able to contact scratch for the misunderstanding, and I can't do anything. So basically if their robot is as stupid as it is, it will ban you for whatever it thinks it can. This is highly upsetting and now I can't use my account for school thanks to it. Thanks for nothing "Scratch cat" -- Pick a better name.
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.
Nothing more then just a unsupportive site mass project reporting to very young children Zero Value to Kids
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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