Scratch Community-
I have some friends who were ip banned recently and I've been keeping in touch with them. I think that at least those who have been ip banned should be allowed to use the program! Even though they were banned from the site, it wouldn't be fair to them. Scratch is for everyone. Some users who have been banned love the program, and would like to continue using it although they are not allowed on the site. Would you all be willing to sign a petition to put download links on the ip ban page?

I support. The offline editor should definitely be available, but it should throw an error if they try to share a project.

I'm surprised it doesn't already do that. Support!

Are you saying that you can't download the editor, or use it, because it seems that even if you're banned, you can use the offline editor any way.

Sonickyle wrote:

Are you saying that you can't download the editor, or use it, because it seems that even if you're banned, you can use the offline editor any way.

You can use it if you already had it before you were banned. If you didn't have it before you were banned, then you'll have to get Adobe Air, then get the Scratch.air file from somewhere else, then move it over to your computer and install.

angelthekitkat wrote:

Scratch Community-
I have some friends who were ip banned recently ( (removed by moderator - please don't discuss specific Scratchers)) and I've been keeping in touch with them. I think that at least those who have been ip banned should be allowed to use the program! Even though they were banned from the site, it wouldn't be fair to them. Scratch is for everyone. Some users who have been banned love the program, and would like to continue using it although they are not allowed on the site. Would you all be willing to sign a petition to put download links on the ip ban page?

Some users were IP banned because of something they never should have posted on the site– or anywhere, for that matter; I highly doubt ST would like to provide services for such users. Unless ST can easily differentiate between the major offenses and relatively minor ones (which I don't think it would be so unless they decide right when they're banning the user), I don't support.

StarscreamClone wrote:

angelthekitkat wrote:

Scratch Community-
I have some friends who were ip banned recently ( (removed by moderator - please don't discuss specific Scratchers)) and I've been keeping in touch with them. I think that at least those who have been ip banned should be allowed to use the program! Even though they were banned from the site, it wouldn't be fair to them. Scratch is for everyone. Some users who have been banned love the program, and would like to continue using it although they are not allowed on the site. Would you all be willing to sign a petition to put download links on the ip ban page?

Some users were IP banned because of something they never should have posted on the site– or anywhere, for that matter; I highly doubt ST would like to provide services for such users. Unless ST can easily differentiate between the major offenses and relatively minor ones (which I don't think it would be so unless they decide right when they're banning the user), I don't support.

^Yep, pretty much this. The exception would be for cases where IP being blocked is a school IP (which requires a special IP block designed to provide partial function of the Scratch website), but other than that, it doesn't make sense to provide a {free and non-profit!} service who did something so bad that an IP block had to be put into place.

cobraguy wrote:

Sonickyle wrote:

Are you saying that you can't download the editor, or use it, because it seems that even if you're banned, you can use the offline editor any way.

You can use it if you already had it before you were banned. If you didn't have it before you were banned, then you'll have to get Adobe Air, then get the Scratch.air file from somewhere else, then move it over to your computer and install.

Then I support.

Maybe if you're disconnected from the Internet it works.

turkey3 wrote:

Maybe if you're disconnected from the Internet it works.

If you're disconnected, you can't access the site to download it.

scimonster wrote:

turkey3 wrote:

Maybe if you're disconnected from the Internet it works.

If you're disconnected, you can't access the site to download it.

Oh, I thought this discussion was about not being able to run an already downloaded offline editor when banned.

Support, just you can't upload a project when you're banned.

davidkt wrote:

Support, just you can't upload a project when you're banned.

See cheddargirl's post.

Well, someone I know was IP banned. I sent them scratch 2.0. don't kill me.

angelthekitkat wrote:

Scratch Community-
I have some friends who were ip banned recently ( (removed by moderator - please don't discuss specific Scratchers)) and I've been keeping in touch with them. I think that at least those who have been ip banned should be allowed to use the program! Even though they were banned from the site, it wouldn't be fair to them. Scratch is for everyone. Some users who have been banned love the program, and would like to continue using it although they are not allowed on the site. Would you all be willing to sign a petition to put download links on the ip ban page?

so forcing someone to get ip banned to access offline scratch?
no support.

seanbobe wrote:

so forcing someone to get ip banned to access offline scratch?
no support.

*Slight Facepalm*
No, allowing people who are IP banned to access offline Scratch. Right now, if someone is IP banned, they can't download the offline editor.

StarscreamClone wrote:

angelthekitkat wrote:

Scratch Community-
I have some friends who were ip banned recently and I've been keeping in touch with them. I think that at least those who have been ip banned should be allowed to use the program! Even though they were banned from the site, it wouldn't be fair to them. Scratch is for everyone. Some users who have been banned love the program, and would like to continue using it although they are not allowed on the site. Would you all be willing to sign a petition to put download links on the ip ban page?

Some users were IP banned because of something they never should have posted on the site– or anywhere, for that matter; I highly doubt ST would like to provide services for such users. Unless ST can easily differentiate between the major offenses and relatively minor ones (which I don't think it would be so unless they decide right when they're banning the user), I don't support.

I see your point… My only problem with this is that many of us feel that some of the ip banned users were banned unfairly.

StarscreamClone wrote:

Some users were IP banned because of something they never should have posted on the site– or anywhere, for that matter; I highly doubt ST would like to provide services for such users. Unless ST can easily differentiate between the major offenses and relatively minor ones (which I don't think it would be so unless they decide right when they're banning the user), I don't support.

So? It's not like they'll be allowed to share projects. It's possible to Scratch without sharing to the site.

Le Supported

Personalty, I am against IP bans altogether. What about public IPs?