Please tell me? I don’t know what mass reporting is and I want to know so I can help stop it

It's when lots of people report a project for no reason, and it gets taken down.

Hi! Mass reporting is when lots of Scratchers report a project that is now actually against the guidelines. Then because so many people report it it will end up being taken down.
To help stop it

→ Don't report projects that are fine and not being against the guidelines
→ Don't encorage it and act like it a good thing

Lots of Scratchers are getting projects taken down for no reason. (¬_¬")

edit: lol somebody just posted before me on this thread, oopsy

Wow that’s bad l thanks

Kaychiwolf

Edit: it’s ok you both helped me

KayChiWolf wrote:

Please tell me? I don’t know what mass reporting is and I want to know so I can help stop it

When people report a project for no reason and then it gets taken down it can get really annoying and its happening more often now because of covid

Ok thank you

_ReykjaviK_ wrote:

Hi! Mass reporting is when lots of Scratchers report a project that is now actually against the guidelines. Then because so many people report it it will end up being taken down.
To help stop it

→ Don't report projects that are fine and not being against the guidelines
→ Don't encorage it and act like it a good thing

Lots of Scratchers are getting projects taken down for no reason. (¬_¬")

edit: lol somebody just posted before me on this thread, oopsy

I think that's the first time it's happened with me! >w<

People are bored so they're reporting projects and they're getting taken down.

Wow was I just Rick rolled? XD

It's when lots of people report a project that is fine and has nothing wrong with it But they make it look like there is something wrong
So help stop it! I hoped this helped.

Ok thank you. And I will check out the music player

What they all forgot to mention is that the project gets reviewed by the Scratch Team. If it fits the Community Guidelines, it is reshared to the public, and the mass reporters get alerts to only report things that break the Community Guidelines. If it breaks them, then the project is locked, so you can't reshare it. Usually, mass reported projects get taken back up.

Mass reporting is often used as an excuse by popular Scratchers when their projects get taken down by the Scratch Team. They have edited their alerts from the Scratch Team to make it look like the Scratch Team took it down for no reason. However, although the Scratch Team taking down projects is manual, their messages that they send are automated. We've found evidence of “changed messages from the Scratch Team”, so they clearly made edits.



(Thanks to @BearSlothCoding for the picture.)

The Scratch Team's messages don't have these grammatical errors; as I said, they are automated. So, some users have created mockups to easily get followers. Do not listen to them without clear evidence.

For further information, visit this topic.

Thanks!