Prevent Advertising In Projects

TechEpic

I'm sure this issue has been addressed before, but I'm going to bring it up again. Many featured/curated projects have disabled comments due to an excess in advertising. This is seriously annoying to those who wish to share their thoughts. I believe a feature similar to disabling comments, which just prevented comments with links in them from being posted on a project would help tremendously. In the meantime, we should just report any unwanted advertisements on our projects.

EDIT: Because I see this conversation is still going on and it has been quite unclear: This would be OFF BY DEFAULT. If someone wants to show the project creator something, they can quite easily give them the link on the project, or at their profile. The project creator would have to act to disable comments with links in them, and would only do so if he/she got annoyed by the amount of spam in his/her project's comment section.

EDIT 2: Since I see this discussion is still active, I'd like to clarify a few points:
1. There's no way to fully prevent spam while allowing discussions, however this would vastly reduce it.
2. This feature might also give someone typing a comment a small notification letting them know that the creator of the project has disabled links, and that discussing your project(s) in that specific project's comments section is unadvised.

EDIT 3: The grammar in this post is horrible, but I wrote it 4 years ago so I'm not going to bother fixing it. Someone necro-posted, so if you're seeing this post, that's why.

Last edited by TechEpic (May 21, 2020 05:19:11)

alexphan

Eh, semi-support, because people can still say “CHECK OUT MY FEATURED PROJECT” or “VIEW MY PROJECTS PLZZZZZZZZ”

TechEpic

alexphan wrote:
Eh, semi-support, because people can still say “CHECK OUT MY FEATURED PROJECT” or “VIEW MY PROJECTS PLZZZZZZZZ”

Those comments can be easily reported. Also, the odds of someone actually going to a person's profile and checking out their projects because they said that are much lower than people posting links to their projects.

PrincessPanda_test_

No support, what if someone wants to show the owner a project for them?

Deerleg

Semi-support, because people may need to post links to other sites rather than Scratch. And

alexphan wrote:
Eh, semi-support, because people can still say “CHECK OUT MY FEATURED PROJECT” or “VIEW MY PROJECTS PLZZZZZZZZ”

pvz_pro

no support, people could say GO TO MY FEATURED PROJECT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TechEpic

Deerleg wrote:
Semi-support, because people may need to post links to other sites rather than Scratch. And
alexphan wrote:
Eh, semi-support, because people can still say “CHECK OUT MY FEATURED PROJECT” or “VIEW MY PROJECTS PLZZZZZZZZ”

The option would be off by default, and if advertising became a problem in a project, the person who made it could turn it on. Also, links to other websites never work anyway.

Deerleg

TechEpic wrote:
Deerleg wrote:
Semi-support, because people may need to post links to other sites rather than Scratch. And
alexphan wrote:
Eh, semi-support, because people can still say “CHECK OUT MY FEATURED PROJECT” or “VIEW MY PROJECTS PLZZZZZZZZ”
The option would be off by default, and if advertising became a problem in a project, the person who made it could turn it on. Also, links to other websites never work anyway.

True, but if the main purpose of your suggestion is to let people share their thoughts more effectively, then people can still just advertise without giving a link and it would be equally annoying to the project owner.

dude341

No support, because some people (including me), like other people advertising. It makes us discover new projects.

Sheep_maker

dude341 wrote:
No support, because some people (including me), like other people advertising. It makes us discover new projects.

Heard of this post up there?

TechEpic wrote:
Deerleg wrote:
Semi-support, because people may need to post links to other sites rather than Scratch. And
alexphan wrote:
Eh, semi-support, because people can still say “CHECK OUT MY FEATURED PROJECT” or “VIEW MY PROJECTS PLZZZZZZZZ”
The option would be off by default, and if advertising became a problem in a project, the person who made it could turn it on. Also, links to other websites never work anyway.

boundforthestars

The option would be off by default, and if advertising became a problem in a project, the person who made it could turn it on. Also, links to other websites never work anyway.

Support. and to links to other websites not working… I've seen it work

DaSpudLord

Deerleg wrote:
Semi-support, because people may need to post links to other sites rather than Scratch. And
alexphan wrote:
Eh, semi-support, because people can still say “CHECK OUT MY FEATURED PROJECT” or “VIEW MY PROJECTS PLZZZZZZZZ”

JonathanSchaffer

alexphan wrote:
Eh, semi-support, because people can still say “CHECK OUT MY FEATURED PROJECT” or “VIEW MY PROJECTS PLZZZZZZZZ”

this is for minimizing spam not preventing it

PrincessPanda_test_ wrote:
No support, what if someone wants to show the owner a project for them?

^^^^^
I support.

TechEpic

dude341 wrote:
No support, because some people (including me), like other people advertising. It makes us discover new projects.

You should visit the “Show and Tell” section of the forums. It's a place for people to talk about their projects, and by the sounds of it, you'd love it!

Techno-CAT

no support

reporting it takes like 2 seconds.

Sometimes, you need links too for various reasons

TechEpic

Techno-CAT wrote:
no support

reporting it takes like 2 seconds.

Sometimes, you need links too for various reasons

And it requires a member of the ST to review each individual case of advertising, which isn't feasible.

ipushpeople

TechEpic wrote:
alexphan wrote:
Eh, semi-support, because people can still say “CHECK OUT MY FEATURED PROJECT” or “VIEW MY PROJECTS PLZZZZZZZZ”
Those comments can be easily reported.

so are the others..?

this suggestion wouldn't really work that well as banning links is easy to circumvent

scratch.mit.edu/projects/105928197/
scratch(dot)mit(dot)edu/projects/105928197/
scratch. mit. edu / projects /10 59 28 19 7/
VIEW MY FEATURED PROJECT
view my project!! ID: 105928197

also banning links would just be annoying and probably confuse people. especially since some projects would ban links and others wouldn't.

TechEpic

le necrobump

24691357

What about captcha for adding links, like in Wikipedia?

ipushpeople

24691357 wrote:
What about captcha for adding links, like in Wikipedia?

the problem isn't about bots, it's about users spamming

-D

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