Rejected Suggestions wrote:

6.1 Private messaging
Scratch currently has public messaging, meaning anyone is able to see the comments that you write. As a result, people are more likely to be respectful since anyone can see the comment. However, with private messaging, people know that only the intended recipient can see the message, so users may not think before posting. This could lead to many more disrespectful or inappropriate comments.

The Scratch Team also simply does not have the resources to moderate a private messaging system, precisely because there would be a lot of disrespectful or inappropriate comments. In addition, it is a huge Internet safety concern, and is not really the purpose of using Scratch anyway.

This suggestion extends to allowing users to post links to other private messaging websites, such as Discord. Many such messaging websites are not as well-moderated as Scratch is. If such links were allowed, Scratch may be held responsible if anything bad happens to someone.
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Za-Chary wrote:

In addition to private messaging concerns, is there anything that such a chat block would do that couldn't be accomplished in, say, the comments of the project?

ThePowerUser wrote:

Za-Chary wrote:

In addition to private messaging concerns, is there anything that such a chat block would do that couldn't be accomplished in, say, the comments of the project?

yes it would make it nice so you could talk and play the game at the same time. With out it you have to go to your messages to see what they said and then come back to the game. I want to make a multiplayer player game and would like players to be able to ask or tell other people things like lay a block there, what's up,want to play together?, just a variety of things. And it would cut down the amount of message's i would get so i could answer the real questions and not have to sort through people chatting about what they want to do in the game next. Thanks for taking the time to read this if you do.

Za-Chary wrote:

ThePowerUser wrote:

Za-Chary wrote:

In addition to private messaging concerns, is there anything that such a chat block would do that couldn't be accomplished in, say, the comments of the project?

yes it would make it nice so you could talk and play the game at the same time. With out it you have to go to your messages to see what they said and then come back to the game. I want to make a multiplayer player game and would like players to be able to ask or tell other people things like lay a block there, what's up,want to play together?, just a variety of things. And it would cut down the amount of message's i would get so i could answer the real questions and not have to sort through people chatting about what they want to do in the game next. Thanks for taking the time to read this if you do.

I still don't see how your suggestion would prevent private messaging — but I'm sure there are ways to prevent it.

ThePowerUser wrote:

what do you mean prevent

Sheep_maker wrote:

Projects with any kind of chat (filtered or not) aren't allowed anymore anyways, so people wouldn't be able to use this feature.

ThePowerUser wrote:

Sheep_maker wrote:

Projects with any kind of chat (filtered or not) aren't allowed anymore anyways, so people wouldn't be able to use this feature.

did you read the title it says Filtered chat it would be filtered my the scratch team and would be a block so you couldn't change it

dietbacon wrote:

What if my cloud chat uses a whitelist of acceptable words?

We will be removing all projects we see with cloud-chat functionality, even if they have whitelists.

Sheep_maker wrote:

ThePowerUser wrote:

Sheep_maker wrote:

Projects with any kind of chat (filtered or not) aren't allowed anymore anyways, so people wouldn't be able to use this feature.

did you read the title it says Filtered chat it would be filtered my the scratch team and would be a block so you couldn't change it

Per my previous post I stated that even filtered chats aren't allowed anymore. From the linked post:

dietbacon wrote:

What if my cloud chat uses a whitelist of acceptable words?

We will be removing all projects we see with cloud-chat functionality, even if they have whitelists.

Their rationale for banning cloud chats would also apply to a built-in filtered chat.

BTSbxj77 wrote:

this is true that private chat can also have problems but what if you want to say something that you do not want to share?

YES