PackersRuleGoPack wrote:

Lol that doesn't work.

PackersRuleGoPack wrote:

I am currently making one, although I won't be able to mention it on Scratch so, it's pretty much useless.

GDcool500 wrote:

hi

littlebene wrote:

One question: Is Email or YouTube allowed to be posted on Scratch? If so we can use those methods to opt particular users into a program: Maybe something like Forumotion.com

Econinja wrote:

i r8 8/8 /s

pinkieofthepies wrote:

I have to agree, I wake up this morning and see the alert I got for having an certain extension that tells people of an online status *cough cough* linked in my about me. All I could really say was “well, darn.”

JGames101 wrote:

pinkieofthepies wrote:

I have to agree, I wake up this morning and see the alert I got for having an certain extension that tells people of an online status *cough cough* linked in my about me. All I could really say was “well, darn.”

I got an alert for my posts about an extension I made. It's sad, because it was such a natural way to branch out from Scratch into HTML/JS and Extensions and stuff. I was going to make a second extension, and that one would have had even more learning about extensions with passing messages from background/popup scripts to the content scripts, and I'll learn that other ways, but it was the best way to do it, to naturally branch out from scratch to extensions.

AmazingMech2418 wrote:

JGames101 wrote:

pinkieofthepies wrote:

I have to agree, I wake up this morning and see the alert I got for having an certain extension that tells people of an online status *cough cough* linked in my about me. All I could really say was “well, darn.”

I got an alert for my posts about an extension I made. It's sad, because it was such a natural way to branch out from Scratch into HTML/JS and Extensions and stuff. I was going to make a second extension, and that one would have had even more learning about extensions with passing messages from background/popup scripts to the content scripts, and I'll learn that other ways, but it was the best way to do it, to naturally branch out from scratch to extensions.

You can use Scratch extensions still! You also just can't advertise extensions. I also have a question. Are bookmark-based codes allowed? I made one intended for Scratch that brings back the discuss button. Just wondering if it's allowed. So far, it adds the discuss button and makes a JS console for computers that have the console blocked and soon, it will have many Scratch extensions and custom features.

World_Languages wrote:

This makes me wonder why there is a forum topic dedicated to tell people which websites are okay or not for Scratch. There are way less extensions people would like to mention than websites.

• Makes very clear what extensions can or cannot be advertised.
  
• The process is easy enough for most people to understand.
  

• This is very difficult to moderate. The Scratch Team would have to deal with even more reports - no matter if the reports were frivolous, or falsified, or simply misguided, or even valid.
  
• Besides that, moderating extensions with a backend is extremely unreliable - the backend could change with no one the wiser. The only way to solve that is to have an ST member with access to the extension's backend, but that requires even more moderator work.
  

jromagnoli wrote:

AmazingMech2418 wrote:

JGames101 wrote:

pinkieofthepies wrote:

I have to agree, I wake up this morning and see the alert I got for having an certain extension that tells people of an online status *cough cough* linked in my about me. All I could really say was “well, darn.”

I got an alert for my posts about an extension I made. It's sad, because it was such a natural way to branch out from Scratch into HTML/JS and Extensions and stuff. I was going to make a second extension, and that one would have had even more learning about extensions with passing messages from background/popup scripts to the content scripts, and I'll learn that other ways, but it was the best way to do it, to naturally branch out from scratch to extensions.

You can use Scratch extensions still! You also just can't advertise extensions. I also have a question. Are bookmark-based codes allowed? I made one intended for Scratch that brings back the discuss button. Just wondering if it's allowed. So far, it adds the discuss button and makes a JS console for computers that have the console blocked and soon, it will have many Scratch extensions and custom features.

Yes, but because you can't tell anyone, no-one can get it.

World_Languages wrote:

…

A proposition

• Nothing with autoupdate would be allowed, at least at first. Userscripts can easily be set to not autoupdate, and are much easier to moderate.
  
• Userscripts that are being advertised that collect information need to fill out a form that explains how it works and what information it collects, and send this to the ST. The creator of the userscript also must mandate that users read this before it collects any information (preferably in layman's terms), as well as sending this to the ST.
  
• Userscripts without a backend can be advertised freely, as long as they are open source, and the information above is sent to the ST in some way. If they are visibly malicious, Scratchers can report them, and all you need to do is alert them and ban said or extension in it’s noncompliant state. Scripts cannot be invisibly malicious because of the lack of outward requests.
  
• Userscripts with a backend or any requests to other sources require acceptance by the ST or an appointed trusted user in order to be advertised, and a reason must be stated in a form for each data point collected. Obviously, not following this can warrant whatever you want (although I don’t think having your head in the sand is punishable here).
  
• Userscripts can’t require permissions that they don’t use or aren’t actually necessary in the current release. This is so that the user also knows why they’re granting something when they do it.
  

That's it. What do you think?