chocolatepenguin wrote:

Want to know what the ranks mean?
What the difference between a ‘New Scratcher’ and ‘Forum Moderator’ is?
Here you go!
New Scratchers:

• They have the 120 second rule; this means they have to wait 120 seconds (2 minutes) between posts.
  
• They have to wait 30 seconds between comments.
  
• They are the only rank that cannot use Cloud Data.
  
• They cannot post the same comment three times in a row.
  
• They can only edit posts after the initial page load.
  
• They can't post links to non-scratch sites.
  
• For more info, look here.

Scratchers:
Post lots of comments and projects to get promoted to Scratcher!

• They have the 60 second rule; this means they have to wait 60 seconds (1 minute) between posts.
  
• They cannot post the same comment three times in a row.
  
• They can freely edit their own posts.
  
• They can close their own topics IF it has been up for more than 24 hours.
  
• They can use Cloud Data.
  

Scratch Wiki Editors:

• Have all the Scratcher's permissions
  
• Can edit the Scratch Wiki
  

Retired Community Moderators:
Note: This rank does not exist in 2.0, so all RCMs are Scratchers. The RCMs are:

Dazachi
illusionist
KajTheModerator
Wolfie1996
fullmoon
demosthenes

• They have the 0 second rule.
  
• They also have all the stuff relating to being Scratchers, except the 60 second rule.
  

Community Moderators:

• They can receive reports from the forums, not the main website.
  
• They can move, close, delete and edit topics, even if they are not their own.
  
• They have the 0 second rule, which means no rule relating to the time between posts.
  
• They can access the Moderator forums.
  

Scratch Team:

• They can receive reports from the main website and forums.
  
• They can move, close, delete and edit topics, even if they are not their own.
  
• They have the 0 second rule, which means no rule relating to the time between posts.
  
• They can post new topics in Announcements.
  
• They can remove projects from the website if it is inappropriate.
  
• They can ban users.
  

If I have missed anything, please tell me!
Strangely, mods used to be able to ban themselves and other mods!

jluong20 wrote:

New Scratchers have to wait 600 seconds (10 minutes) between posts, not just two minutes.

New Scratchers have the 120-second rule instead of the sixty-second rule.

NoxSpooth wrote:

Who told you that? It's 120 seconds.

joshuaho wrote:

NoxSpooth wrote:

Who told you that? It's 120 seconds.

That was before spam-bot activity intensified. Before the 600 second rule, there were as many as 7 spam topics that I found in the Help with Scripts forum by the same spam-bot. Now…. the 600 rule is just in place to prevent the spam-bots from posting too many spam topics at a time.

joshuaho wrote:

chocolatepenguin wrote:

gregory9 wrote:

How can you become part of the scratch team?

As far as I know, you can't.

Sure you can. Chedargirl, a member of the Scratch Team was a regular scratcher, then a Moderator, and then a Scratch Team member.

EH7meow wrote:

I'm pretty sure that Moderators can ban as well, they just only usually do it with spammers. It says on the wiki here in the bottom paragraph. Congrats on sticky!