I like it. Gj.

I don't like the ‘be in good standing’ part.
The standard for getting in trouble on scratch is really high, and I don't get how

Actually read the post

is being mean any more than

Actually read the letter

is.

dave4681 wrote:

I don't like the ‘be in good standing’ part.
The standard for getting in trouble on scratch is really high…

When you put it in perspective with moderator requirements, though, it becomes a big deal. You can get alerts or banned if you provoke several users (i.e, through namecalling or starting flamewars), and those users wouldn't be very friendly as a CM.

Bumping for attention.

I personally think this suggestion is pretty solid. Do you guys have any thoughts or concerns?

Tymewalk wrote:

I personally think this suggestion is pretty solid. Do you guys have any thoughts or concerns?

Not really atm, only ones I haven't fully thought about. XD

awsome_guy_360 wrote:

Tymewalk wrote:

I personally think this suggestion is pretty solid. Do you guys have any thoughts or concerns?

Not really atm, only ones I haven't fully thought about. XD

Go ahead and list them. Before I report this to the ST to get their opinion I wanna make sure everything's addressed.

I was thinking about adding another rank, such as ForumCM or something like that

It's not really necessary or a good idea in my opinion. Plus it's barely thought out… That plus it was just a fun idea, wasn't really thinking about adding it.

awsome_guy_360 wrote:

I was thinking about adding another rank, such as ForumCM or something like that

It's not really necessary or a good idea in my opinion. Plus it's barely thought out… That plus it was just a fun idea, wasn't really thinking about adding it.

Ah.

CMs should have power over the entire site though, to prevent confusion between Forum and Site CMs.

Tymewalk wrote:

CMs should have power over the entire site though, to prevent confusion between Forum and Site CMs.

Yeah, it's not quite that necessary.

This is a topic that has come up a number of times over the past few years. It would be awesome to be able to leverage the power of the growing community to help address some of the issues that that growth brings on - such as more issues being reported.

There are a number of significant issues however. It would require significant redesign of our moderation tools to allow this to work without giving out personal information or features that shouldn't be delegated. Another issue is that access to the report queues, exposes the viewer to some very unpleasant material - something that we have not been comfortable delegating outside of the Scratch Team. We would perhaps need a new process of dividing the reports into different categories - some to be handled by the Scratch Team, some to be delegated. While this would not be impossible to implement, it is not currently present in either our moderation tools or our management practices.

So, while I don't see this happening in the short term, it's certainly something we should give some more thought to for further out. Thanks for your suggestion - keep thinking of ways to make Scratch more awesome.

Paddle2See wrote:

This is a topic that has come up a number of times over the past few years. It would be awesome to be able to leverage the power of the growing community to help address some of the issues that that growth brings on - such as more issues being reported.

There are a number of significant issues however. It would require significant redesign of our moderation tools to allow this to work without giving out personal information or features that shouldn't be delegated. Another issue is that access to the report queues, exposes the viewer to some very unpleasant material - something that we have not been comfortable delegating outside of the Scratch Team. We would perhaps need a new process of dividing the reports into different categories - some to be handled by the Scratch Team, some to be delegated. While this would not be impossible to implement, it is not currently present in either our moderation tools or our management practices.

So, while I don't see this happening in the short term, it's certainly something we should give some more thought to for further out. Thanks for your suggestion - keep thinking of ways to make Scratch more awesome.

Thank you for considering this, Paddle.

Paddle2See wrote:

This is a topic that has come up a number of times over the past few years. It would be awesome to be able to leverage the power of the growing community to help address some of the issues that that growth brings on - such as more issues being reported.

There are a number of significant issues however. It would require significant redesign of our moderation tools to allow this to work without giving out personal information or features that shouldn't be delegated. Another issue is that access to the report queues, exposes the viewer to some very unpleasant material - something that we have not been comfortable delegating outside of the Scratch Team. We would perhaps need a new process of dividing the reports into different categories - some to be handled by the Scratch Team, some to be delegated. While this would not be impossible to implement, it is not currently present in either our moderation tools or our management practices.

So, while I don't see this happening in the short term, it's certainly something we should give some more thought to for further out. Thanks for your suggestion - keep thinking of ways to make Scratch more awesome.

Cool! An official response!
sixty seconds rules my life ;-;

Paddle2See wrote:

This is a topic that has come up a number of times over the past few years. It would be awesome to be able to leverage the power of the growing community to help address some of the issues that that growth brings on - such as more issues being reported.

There are a number of significant issues however. It would require significant redesign of our moderation tools to allow this to work without giving out personal information or features that shouldn't be delegated. Another issue is that access to the report queues, exposes the viewer to some very unpleasant material - something that we have not been comfortable delegating outside of the Scratch Team. We would perhaps need a new process of dividing the reports into different categories - some to be handled by the Scratch Team, some to be delegated. While this would not be impossible to implement, it is not currently present in either our moderation tools or our management practices.

So, while I don't see this happening in the short term, it's certainly something we should give some more thought to for further out. Thanks for your suggestion - keep thinking of ways to make Scratch more awesome.

Unpleasant material? If these posts were made by kids, then I think that more mature Scratchers SHOULD be able to handle it.

-Just my opinion!

awesome5185 wrote:

Paddle2See wrote:

This is a topic that has come up a number of times over the past few years. It would be awesome to be able to leverage the power of the growing community to help address some of the issues that that growth brings on - such as more issues being reported.

There are a number of significant issues however. It would require significant redesign of our moderation tools to allow this to work without giving out personal information or features that shouldn't be delegated. Another issue is that access to the report queues, exposes the viewer to some very unpleasant material - something that we have not been comfortable delegating outside of the Scratch Team. We would perhaps need a new process of dividing the reports into different categories - some to be handled by the Scratch Team, some to be delegated. While this would not be impossible to implement, it is not currently present in either our moderation tools or our management practices.

So, while I don't see this happening in the short term, it's certainly something we should give some more thought to for further out. Thanks for your suggestion - keep thinking of ways to make Scratch more awesome.

Unpleasant material? If these posts were made by kids, then I think that more mature Scratchers SHOULD be able to handle it.

-Just my opinion!

I second paddle2see's opinion! Although I disagree about splitting the duties between the CM's and the ST. The St has done a perfectly good job so far!

Digital_Gaming wrote:

awesome5185 wrote:

Paddle2See wrote:

This is a topic that has come up a number of times over the past few years. It would be awesome to be able to leverage the power of the growing community to help address some of the issues that that growth brings on - such as more issues being reported.

There are a number of significant issues however. It would require significant redesign of our moderation tools to allow this to work without giving out personal information or features that shouldn't be delegated. Another issue is that access to the report queues, exposes the viewer to some very unpleasant material - something that we have not been comfortable delegating outside of the Scratch Team. We would perhaps need a new process of dividing the reports into different categories - some to be handled by the Scratch Team, some to be delegated. While this would not be impossible to implement, it is not currently present in either our moderation tools or our management practices.

So, while I don't see this happening in the short term, it's certainly something we should give some more thought to for further out. Thanks for your suggestion - keep thinking of ways to make Scratch more awesome.

Unpleasant material? If these posts were made by kids, then I think that more mature Scratchers SHOULD be able to handle it.

-Just my opinion!

I second paddle2see's opinion! Although I disagree about splitting the duties between the CM's and the ST. The St has done a perfectly good job so far!

Timezones mean that problems caused during the time that I'm awake often have to be ignored until the morning.

jji10 wrote:

Digital_Gaming wrote:

awesome5185 wrote:

Paddle2See wrote:

This is a topic that has come up a number of times over the past few years. It would be awesome to be able to leverage the power of the growing community to help address some of the issues that that growth brings on - such as more issues being reported.

There are a number of significant issues however. It would require significant redesign of our moderation tools to allow this to work without giving out personal information or features that shouldn't be delegated. Another issue is that access to the report queues, exposes the viewer to some very unpleasant material - something that we have not been comfortable delegating outside of the Scratch Team. We would perhaps need a new process of dividing the reports into different categories - some to be handled by the Scratch Team, some to be delegated. While this would not be impossible to implement, it is not currently present in either our moderation tools or our management practices.

So, while I don't see this happening in the short term, it's certainly something we should give some more thought to for further out. Thanks for your suggestion - keep thinking of ways to make Scratch more awesome.

Unpleasant material? If these posts were made by kids, then I think that more mature Scratchers SHOULD be able to handle it.

-Just my opinion!

I second paddle2see's opinion! Although I disagree about splitting the duties between the CM's and the ST. The St has done a perfectly good job so far!

Timezones mean that problems caused during the time that I'm awake often have to be ignored until the morning.

Same for me.

awesome5185 wrote:

jji10 wrote:

Digital_Gaming wrote:

awesome5185 wrote:

Paddle2See wrote:

This is a topic that has come up a number of times over the past few years. It would be awesome to be able to leverage the power of the growing community to help address some of the issues that that growth brings on - such as more issues being reported.

There are a number of significant issues however. It would require significant redesign of our moderation tools to allow this to work without giving out personal information or features that shouldn't be delegated. Another issue is that access to the report queues, exposes the viewer to some very unpleasant material - something that we have not been comfortable delegating outside of the Scratch Team. We would perhaps need a new process of dividing the reports into different categories - some to be handled by the Scratch Team, some to be delegated. While this would not be impossible to implement, it is not currently present in either our moderation tools or our management practices.

So, while I don't see this happening in the short term, it's certainly something we should give some more thought to for further out. Thanks for your suggestion - keep thinking of ways to make Scratch more awesome.

Unpleasant material? If these posts were made by kids, then I think that more mature Scratchers SHOULD be able to handle it.

-Just my opinion!

I second paddle2see's opinion! Although I disagree about splitting the duties between the CM's and the ST. The St has done a perfectly good job so far!

Timezones mean that problems caused during the time that I'm awake often have to be ignored until the morning.

Same for me.

So? The ST still is doing a good job keeping the Scratch fourms a good place.

Digital_Gaming wrote:

awesome5185 wrote:

jji10 wrote:

Digital_Gaming wrote:

awesome5185 wrote:

Paddle2See wrote:

This is a topic that has come up a number of times over the past few years. It would be awesome to be able to leverage the power of the growing community to help address some of the issues that that growth brings on - such as more issues being reported.

There are a number of significant issues however. It would require significant redesign of our moderation tools to allow this to work without giving out personal information or features that shouldn't be delegated. Another issue is that access to the report queues, exposes the viewer to some very unpleasant material - something that we have not been comfortable delegating outside of the Scratch Team. We would perhaps need a new process of dividing the reports into different categories - some to be handled by the Scratch Team, some to be delegated. While this would not be impossible to implement, it is not currently present in either our moderation tools or our management practices.

So, while I don't see this happening in the short term, it's certainly something we should give some more thought to for further out. Thanks for your suggestion - keep thinking of ways to make Scratch more awesome.

Unpleasant material? If these posts were made by kids, then I think that more mature Scratchers SHOULD be able to handle it.

-Just my opinion!

I second paddle2see's opinion! Although I disagree about splitting the duties between the CM's and the ST. The St has done a perfectly good job so far!

Timezones mean that problems caused during the time that I'm awake often have to be ignored until the morning.

Same for me.

So? The ST still is doing a good job keeping the Scratch fourms a good place.

We know, we're just here to improve that. We're aiming for “a better place” than a “good place”. Not listing other things that happen on the Scratch website.

Thx for considering btw Paddle! ^-^

I think we should build on what Paddle said, solving on the things he listed.

Although it's not going to be added tomorrow, let's try to improve it for next year (speaking metaphorically, not srsly saying that they were really going to add it tomorrow XD).

awsome_guy_360 wrote:

I think we should build on what Paddle said, solving on the things he listed.

Although it's not going to be added tomorrow, let's try to improve it for next year (speaking metaphorically, not srsly saying that they were really going to add it tomorrow XD).

I already had my say up the top ^