Scratch

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...

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.

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."

This website is the worst. I've been on this website for more than 2 years, and never have I never seen such horrible admins in this website. There's people bullying others on the website, not "agreeing" with the rules and it's just toxic. I got banned a few days ago for defending myself from a Bully on the website, and instead of them banning the other person they decided to ban me for defending myself. Not only that, but there's death threats being thrown around the website from other users and nobody is doing anything to stop it. My friends wanted to use scratch, but I told them not to for this reason. This is one of the worst websites I've ever been on and it's the Last.

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

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

Everytime i get on scratch it blocked my network for no reason i really like scratch but please fix it

So yes I advertised on alternative accounts but it's literally the only way to get views on your projects that you work for hours on I broke no rules on my main account it says I 'tried to get around a block' Also I put in a request to unblock my main I contacted them on one of my oldest accounts (because you literally can't do anything when they block you) it's been over a week and all I got is an automated message like I know they're a big company but still other stuff that I've contacted with problems have responded within a 3 day period also they blocked every account with my email because I broke ONE rule which is no spamming but other than all of that it's a good start for young coders and stuff

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.

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.

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!

I was ArtistMatt on scratch, I had a few games with over 100,000 views. Guess what? I was rude to someone because their project was TRASH, I told them this and they got me a 3 day ban. Next, I told some loser I was arguing with to shut up or I bot you. This loser told a few people that I blackmailed him. Brat. Scratch banned me for spamming on my own game without any context finally.

So, the good and bad.

The good: the code is easy to understand and MOST of the community is nice. Good for beginning coders.

Now the BAD. There are constantly those haters/copiers of the community or hate on your projects and profile bc they are jealous and copy your projects with no credit. Not to mention you can get muted for saying 'skype' or commenting on your own project, 'I took these screenshots on the projector so the quality is bad'. Still, mean comments go through. So, basically, scratch is used as a social media and it is good in that sense. I use it as a social media to talk during covid. BUT if you are not comfortable with a social media then don't go on.

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.

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.

First the bad way: who would ban a account thats close to 100 followers? And why would they ban someone who did nothing (IP ban 3rd day) what the! He ST sucks its the worst ST ever they need to replace them
Good way: i got lot of followers and it a good community and some of my friends have it too

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!