ScratchReviews 102

The website is good and can teach you a lot and I enjoy it, but the moderation will ban you for no reason and won't listen to you; you'll be fine if you never say a word anywhere, but even the slightest comment about nothing trivial can trigger them.

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.

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.

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.

This computer coding learning program deserves a ZERO. I got from my local library a book entitled "HELP YOUR KIDS WITH COMPUTER CODING" which is based on Scratch 2. I then signed up for an account with Scratch on my computer. But the instructions the book gives are terrible. The illustrations are very inconsistent. In addition, there are problems with the software --- like not being able to delete mistakes, choosing a new sprite only to find that my code has disappeared and I have to start all over again, and being unable to save projects in the offline version. In addition, the Scratch website provides me NO WAY to give feedback to the moderators in asking for help. They have a so-called "discussion forum", but it's junk because of my inability to contact the moderators and ask new questions on that sorry crap that passes for their discussion forum. So from the time I started with Scratch on the afternoon of Saturday, April 6,2024, I lasted only through the afternoon of Sunday, April 7, before finding out that Scratch is no good for the kind of learning I had hoped for. Goodbye, Scratch. You're a major disappointment. You're not worth the headaches.

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.

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...

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

My username was just not harmful. Really, Scratch Team? And Ban me for SIXTY YEARS. Why? YOU JUST HAD TO > :(

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.

As a former user of Scratch, I wanted to say that the engine of Scratch is pretty amazing, and stuff like Turbowarp that extends on scratch is also pretty neat. The fact that you can create games and such is always a cool thing.

However the moderation is absolutely terrible, I got banned from accidentally doing something and the Scratch Team hasn't responded to me in a YEAR, not to mention that they pretty much ignore the community's requests and they don't actually listen to them because "we know what's best for the site" but no, if they actually knew what was best, they would of changed the moderation and try to at least keep the site running decently. Aside from the moderation, there's times where the site will bug out with projects not loading properly or not even just working, or even the site completely blacking out. Even the fact that they prohibited addons is just really terrible.

Another thing is that the algorithm for the featured projects is also extremely biased, like there's rarely anything unique about the featured projects and only once in a while you'll get something unique, but regardless it's only just generic, low quality platformers and animations.

I mean I love the engine, but I don't really recommend anyone ever joining this site, downlaod Turbowarp instead.

Scratch bans and IP bans us for absolutely no reason, and constantly people hacking others and the community has gone to crap. Maybe if the Scratch Team made the moderation team better cuz one i got banned for saying "hi" and "good". Oh and i used the report button on some spam account and i got banned for mass reporting. It's like ST are harassing me. UPDATE: Scratch permanently banned our school, house, 2nd house, library, moms phone, dads phones(YES MULTIPLE PHONES BECAUSE WE HAVE HOTSPOTS), mcdonalds down street, taco bell down street, neighbors phones and wifi, teachers phones, hotel, apartment and diner dowstairs, my phone and VPN locked every single ip address in existence. We did absolutely nothing someone was impersonating me and they even tried to google ban and capcha ban us. We almost threatened to SUE them, I REPEAT, WE WERE VERY CLOSE TO SUEING THEM. THEY MAKE FUN OF US AND IP BAN MY FRIENDS BECAUSE THEY THINK ITS FUNNY. AAAA! I AM SO MAD AT THEM! WISH THEY DIED! AAAAAAAAA HATE THEM SO MUCH. UPDATE: ADDED A VIDEO AND MORE PROOF THAT SCRATCH BANS PEOPLE FOR NO REASON THEY HACKED ALL OF OUR ACCOUNTS AND THEY REPORTED OUR EMAIL TO GOOGLE AND WE LOST OUR GOOGLE ACCOUNT. WE ARE LITTERALY JUST TRYING TO USE THE SITE, DOES SCRATCH NOT LIKE HISPANICS, ARE THEY RACIST? I THINK THEY ARE RACIST THEY DON'T EVEN RESPOND TO OUR APPEALS!

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

I loved using this website to make projects and it's sad that they won't do anything about the moderation. I got banned on scratch for doing things that i guess were kind of bad but definitely weren't bad enough to offend anyone who saw them. I made another account so that i could remix my project and continue working on it. My new account was not verified and i have not shared any projects or commented anywhere, the sole purpose was to work on my project while i was banned. They banned my new account. I appealed saying that i have not and was not planning on breaking the guidelines. I decided i would just wait out the ban on my main account so that i could continue working on my project after i was banned. They deleted the new account. I had spent at least 10 hours in total over the span of 5 days working on my project. To rub salt in my open wound, they also extended my ban to one year and upgraded it to an ip ban. I have no idea what i did to provoke this. They deleted all of my hard work for nothing. I never shared the project or commented anyway so i couldn't of done anything to break the rules. I only use scratch to make projects and now i can't do anything.

Spent lots of my time on a project and the account got deleted and i didn't do anything wrong. I don't think i will ever use scratch again. By the time i'm unbanned i will have a job. Got a one year up ban for making a project where you punch a realistic looking dummy, but it was clearly stated it was a dummy. No blood or violence and the skin was red and made of rubber

I attached an image of the reason i was banned, take a look at them and decide whether this deserved a one year ip ban or not. Keep in mind the top three was literally me just reporting inappropriate projects, i was helping scratch. The person i was reporting kept on posting projects that contained pictures of decapitated heads and cannibalism. The bottom three i commented on my own profile, and then deleted right after. I was just testing the message filter. Nobody could of saw them other than me, and even if they did, they were hardly offensive.

Idk why but i was blocked just for being in a military rp for some reason and i made a new one and im still up

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.

Scratch will remove your project regardless of if it is inappropriate or not if the project gets reported enough times.

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.

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.

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.