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Iowa
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Fun coding and game website
September 12, 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

Date of experience: December 6, 2023
North Carolina
1 review
5 helpful votes
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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.

Date of experience: June 12, 2023
New York
1 review
5 helpful votes
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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.

Date of experience: May 22, 2023
Pennsylvania
1 review
2 helpful votes
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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.

Date of experience: October 24, 2023
California
1 review
4 helpful votes
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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
GB
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Really anoying
July 7, 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.

Date of experience: July 7, 2024
Washington
2 reviews
6 helpful votes
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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

Date of experience: February 7, 2024
Hong Kong
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Scratch moderation sucks
February 3, 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.

Date of experience: February 3, 2023
North Carolina
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Why?
August 2, 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
North Carolina
1 review
11 helpful votes
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Modernation is horrible!
December 10, 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.

Date of experience: December 10, 2022
Alabama
1 review
6 helpful votes
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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.

Date of experience: January 5, 2021
Canada
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Scratch ruined my life
December 13, 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
Australia
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Scratch sucks!
April 28, 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
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I got IP Banned…
August 18, 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.

Date of experience: August 18, 2023
Maine
1 review
3 helpful votes
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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
Maine
1 review
10 helpful votes
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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.

Date of experience: October 22, 2022
GB
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Don't use
March 26, 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
Indiana
1 review
4 helpful votes
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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
Belgium
1 review
0 helpful votes
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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...

My Acc got deleted
Date of experience: February 18, 2024
Illinois
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Literal piece of crap
February 16, 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.

Can't do this. Ugh.
Date of experience: February 16, 2023

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 155th among Kids Educational Resources sites.

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value
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shipping
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returns
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quality
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