I had an idea. It's based off of the new Scratcher comment popup that reminds you to be friendly and respectful while commenting. Here's a picture:




The comment addition would be an editable, optional, text popup that appears right next to the comment box while you type your comment. By editable, I mean that the owner of the profile, project, or studio that it is enabled on can type different messages into it whenever they feel like changing the message. They can also get rid of it at any time by just leaving it blank, and it won't show at all.

The first addition is an example of a comment addition on a project.

The “Feel free to request” one is an example of a comment addition on a profile.

And the “Go away” one is an example of what would happen if you reported the project owner's commenting addition for being mean. It would sent a text file of the current comment addition to a moderator. (Mod note: If implemented, make sure that it's not inspect element hackable! Considering that I made all of these with inspect element, I don't want false alerts from trolls reporting an inspect elemented mean addition. )

Anyway, hope you like!

Hmm, I like the concept a lot, but not the messages you suggested.

I think too many people post their scores in the comments, and it is a useful way of presenting challenges to others, who might accept and develop new relationships. I think that the current message is actually perfect (I think it says to be nice because the person might not have much programming experience).

I do like the idea for profiles though, maybe the profile owner can choose a message for it to display to someone.

And the “go away” one just seems to defy all community guidelines, it's just outright mean and disrespectful. I don't think that Scratch would be able to tell when someone was being mean, but I'm sure that if they could they would just stop the user from commenting altogether.

theonlygusti wrote:

Hmm, I like the concept a lot, but not the messages you suggested.

I think too many people post their scores in the comments, and it is a useful way of presenting challenges to others, who might accept and develop new relationships. I think that the current message is actually perfect (I think it says to be nice because the person might not have much programming experience).

I do like the idea for profiles though, maybe the profile owner can choose a message for it to display to someone.

And the “go away” one just seems to defy all community guidelines, it's just outright mean and disrespectful. I don't think that Scratch would be able to tell when someone was being mean, but I'm sure that if they could they would just stop the user from commenting altogether.

The messages would be messages that the owner of the project/profile types in as a note to viewers. It would be completely optional, and the go away message is an example of why there would need to also be a report button on the comment additions.

I just edited my first post to clear things up.

Support.

VoltageGames wrote:

Support.

YAY!

Support.

DemCupcakesYo wrote:

Support.

Thanks!

Neat idea! Support!

Thepuzzlegame wrote:

Neat idea! Support!

Thanks! And thanks!

Hmm… no support. I think it would just be annoying to have one of those boxes pop-up for every comment you wanted to make.

Centrifugal wrote:

Hmm… no support. I think it would just be annoying to have one of those boxes pop-up for every comment you wanted to make.

Okay! It would be an optional feature though, so I doubt many people would use it (Although I could be mistaken!)… it would just be for when a large number of people are commenting something that you don't want them to comment.

I don't really get it. It seems pretty confusing, no support.

OmnipotentPotato wrote:

I don't really get it. It seems pretty confusing, no support.

So you don't support something because you don't understand it?
If you didn't understand it, why did you post here? Are you trying for 1000 posts or something? xP

No support; it can be confusing for New Scratchers and you can just do it in the Notes/Credits.

Also, what's with those paragraph markers around the title? xD

Firedrake969 wrote:

No support; it can be confusing for New Scratchers and you can just do it in the Notes/Credits.

Also, what's with those paragraph markers around the title? xD

Nobody reads the notes and credits. xD

Or at least almost nobody. Unless the game has confusing controls, you don't read them. xD

Superdoggy wrote:

OmnipotentPotato wrote:

I don't really get it. It seems pretty confusing, no support.

So you don't support something because you don't understand it?
If you didn't understand it, why did you post here? Are you trying for 1000 posts or something? xP

I don't support it because if I don't understand it, someone new to the site most likely won't understand it either. Maybe I'm just stupid though.


EDIT: I always read the notes and instructions. Don't speak for everyone.

OmnipotentPotato wrote:

Superdoggy wrote:

OmnipotentPotato wrote:

I don't really get it. It seems pretty confusing, no support.

So you don't support something because you don't understand it?
If you didn't understand it, why did you post here? Are you trying for 1000 posts or something? xP

I don't support it because if I don't understand it, someone new to the site most likely won't understand it either. Maybe I'm just stupid though.


EDIT: I always read the notes and instructions. Don't speak for everyone.

Lol I didn't, but if you've ever had a super-famous project before with something saying “Please don't post your score” in the notes and credits, you'll notice that 90% of the population doesn't read the notes.

See my project here: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/16128758/
The notes used to ask people not to post their scores. It was so ineffective that I just took it out. xDDD

Support! However, I think the flag should be changed to the standard “report” link.

$(".box-head")[0].textContent = "committing AT crimes since $whenever"

OmnipotentPotato wrote:

Superdoggy wrote:

OmnipotentPotato wrote:

I don't really get it. It seems pretty confusing, no support.

So you don't support something because you don't understand it?
If you didn't understand it, why did you post here? Are you trying for 1000 posts or something? xP

I don't support it because if I don't understand it, someone new to the site most likely won't understand it either. Maybe I'm just stupid though.


EDIT: I always read the notes and instructions. Don't speak for everyone.

I should probably make my original post a bit more clear. It's sort of disjointed, sorry about that. Edit! Fixed!

Basically, it's a few words that you can attach to the comments bar so that everybody will get a popup when they go to comment. For example, take Crystollo's color wars project, and her studios to. If she could put a popup saying “Please don't request to join! A sign ups project will be released shortly!” next to the comments, so many people wouldn't be commenting uselessly "Can I join ?"

MegaApuTurkUltra wrote:

Support! However, I think the flag should be changed to the standard “report” link.

Oh, I was thinking that the flag would be good like this because putting words really close to words is really not a good design idea.

However, thanks for the advice! I'm going to put a feature then (explained in my first post) on how it says “report this addition” if you hover over it.