Scratch

My network has been banned from scratch and yeah, I can't use it at my house anymore
Although I can use it at school, I am very worried that my account won't be unlocked in the next few days because it can take up around to 3 days - forever ( that's what I searched up) and now it just fills up my anxiety which angers me. I may have broken the rules and made an alt which ALSO broke the rules, I understand what I did wrong, but bruh, I heard people that they don't even read what you appeal. And you can't really do anything to unblock your network which is sucky like garbage.

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.

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

I was just scrolling through my friends profile Glimmerbury. When all of a sudden I click on one of her friends profiles and it tells me my network was banned. I've sent several messages through their contact us and email over 10 WEEKS AGO AND STILL NO RESPONSE! I would not recommend this site.

Sooo a Numberblocks fan days ago commented on my profile ASKING for my age. (They broke the Scratch Community Guidelines) And said they were 9. They probably got blocked for asking AND sharing personal info. I don't like how people read and BROKE the Community Guidelines. Scratch blocks/bans exist y'know... (btw i used they/them since i don't know the gender)

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!

I love scratch since you can make, remix, share and lots more on it, including commenting and replying! Only thing is... Too many bullies and people are destroying this lovely site, and innocent people are being banned for no reason at all. Though, overall, it is the best site EVER. Btw follow me *******@TheManOfTheMan10 :) Usually I find coding with languages hard like C+++, Jave, Python... Scratch is the BEST AND EASIEST CODING LANGUAGE. Go now!
scratch.mit.edu GO MAKE YOUR ACCOUNT NOW. Until then, Scratch On!

By the way, I love coding in any language =-)

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

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.

Pros:
-The coding is the best thing about, it started the block coding type of coding, which that is good;)
-Some projects are actually good and even if some are overrated trash animators, There animations are sometimes really really well done.
Cons:
-The scratch team can be a little crazy with there ban reason, THEY CAN BAN YOU BECAUSE OF SOMETHING ON THE FORUMS! But there's no trouble there.
-they banned scratchers because of the crummy scratchers wiki, photos are the pros and cons!

Thanks!

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.

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.

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

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.

They ghost the new players by not allowing them to ask any questions, Respond to them, Or even share.It's basically like while you are struggling to try to get to the top and you finally make a good project you can't even share it to the world and you are back to playing by yourself.It's hard and I really hate this system because they also keep asking for email which annoys me because I have a school computer and I can't use their password because I don't know it.It says 404 CaN't PoSt BeCaUsE yOu ArEn'T aUtHeRiZeD tO sEe ThIs PaGe which annoys me SO MUCH even though I am only a kid I bet you would hate this also but it has good sides too! The worst part is that I can't message them back about this because new players are ghosts so cons outweight pros. I would ask for my mom to put her email but she'd never EVER say yes.It's 45/100.

I have had an account for nearly three years now and I loved the website. But recently it turned into a political dumpster fire! The ST spends all their time blocking Christians and conservatives and they let people who are ped0ph! Ler$ stay on along with people who curse (I. E. *******@mn and h3!) but they never get banned! I was banned because someone asked me my thoughts on if I think trans females should be allowed in cis female sports, and I said no because they would have a biological advantage. Then later BOOM one week IP ban! What's irritating is that my comment that got my perma banned was actually just me talking about the fact that in South Korea it's much more common to get plastic surgery, I never meant to offend people as I love Korea and I just thought it was cool that their plastic surgery actually works. I spent a long time writing an appeal and they didn't even read it! Now I am permanently banned!;-; the st needs a dose of reality since they think that telling kids to support BLM and LGBTQ is not political but kids saying they are Christian is! (I have nothing wrong with LGBTQ people, my best friend on there was one, I'm just saying that it's being hypocritical) Anyways please spread the message that I was banned. Also my first ban was literally just because I was trying to say Discord (I was talking about MLP not the app)