I know that scratch mods are paranoid about chatting since it gives people the ability to break the rules silently. This can be a huge problem, I could make a swear list which blocks a chat if it detects one of the words. But then again when people look at the code I would be breaking rule 1. Another idea is to make a safe word list, this way I don't break the rules. But then again, people won't be able to say words I didn't put in or they misspelled. Then I could also make a safe CHAT list where they can only pick one of the preset chats, but that would prevent the freedom of speech. Which is the right way to go? I don't want to break the rules but at the same time I want people to be happy. Ideas?

Many Scratchers who make a chat room on Scratch use a white list - a list of words allowed to be used in the chat. This is very safe, but if you don't add enough words, it would be difficult to communicate. You can get around this by asking users to suggest to more words in the comments. However, you will need to put the white list in a cloud variable, so that nobody can go into the project and add bad words to the white list.

Hopefully this will give you some ideas!
The_Grits

The_Grits wrote:

Many Scratchers who make a chat room on Scratch use a white list - a list of words allowed to be used in the chat. This is very safe, but if you don't add enough words, it would be difficult to communicate. You can get around this by asking users to suggest to more words in the comments. However, you will need to put the white list in a cloud variable, so that nobody can go into the project and add bad words to the white list.

Hopefully this will give you some ideas!
The_Grits

Thank you for your suggestion! You said white list which I thought meant a list of users who can access the room. The cloud data white list sounded promising so people can't edit it.

bashcommando wrote:

The_Grits wrote:

Many Scratchers who make a chat room on Scratch use a white list - a list of words allowed to be used in the chat. This is very safe, but if you don't add enough words, it would be difficult to communicate. You can get around this by asking users to suggest to more words in the comments. However, you will need to put the white list in a cloud variable, so that nobody can go into the project and add bad words to the white list.

Hopefully this will give you some ideas!
The_Grits

Thank you for your suggestion! You said white list which I thought meant a list of users who can access the room. The cloud data white list sounded promising so people can't edit it.

A white list is a list of allowed words and phrases.

TheHockeyist wrote:

bashcommando wrote:

The_Grits wrote:

Many Scratchers who make a chat room on Scratch use a white list - a list of words allowed to be used in the chat. This is very safe, but if you don't add enough words, it would be difficult to communicate. You can get around this by asking users to suggest to more words in the comments. However, you will need to put the white list in a cloud variable, so that nobody can go into the project and add bad words to the white list.

Hopefully this will give you some ideas!
The_Grits

Thank you for your suggestion! You said white list which I thought meant a list of users who can access the room. The cloud data white list sounded promising so people can't edit it.

A white list is a list of allowed words and phrases.

Well, I know that.

Be warned, this is quite complex.

ijohn007 wrote:

Be warned, this is quite complex.

That's because the staff made it hard.

do this for chat

you will need to do a huge script for pepole to see it…234 blocks is total!

Anas10 wrote:

do this for chat

you will need to do a huge script for pepole to see it…234 blocks is total!

Well how do you do that? (as in the 200 and something blockes)

mananddoor wrote:

OK guy I real sorry to break it to you but there is no chat room ALLOWED! The scratch team has all the right to ban you if you did. Sorry. Please follow me

yes but if you make a safe chat with a whitelist

Anas10 wrote:

do this for chat

you will need to do a huge script for pepole to see it…234 blocks is total!

1. Cloud Lists aren't out yet.
2. This script will give you an alert.

The_Grits wrote:

Many All Scratchers who make a chat room on Scratch use a white list - a list of words allowed to be used in the chat. This is very safe, but if you don't add enough words, it would be difficult to communicate. You can get around this by asking users to suggest to more words in the comments. However, you will need to put the white list in a cloud variable, so that nobody can go into the project and add bad words to the white list.

Hopefully this will give you some ideas!
The_Grits

I've edited it because you have to.

I don't see why the white list has to be a cloud variable. If someone tries to add words to your list they could only do so by remixing in which case it is the remix that would be banned, not the original.

Give them a list of words to say.

deck26 wrote:

I don't see why the white list has to be a cloud variable. If someone tries to add words to your list they could only do so by remixing in which case it is the remix that would be banned, not the original.

People can't edit cloud variables unless you allow them to in a certain way. If they use See Inside they can evade the filter by editing the safe word list.

bashcommando wrote:

deck26 wrote:

I don't see why the white list has to be a cloud variable. If someone tries to add words to your list they could only do so by remixing in which case it is the remix that would be banned, not the original.

People can't edit cloud variables unless you allow them to in a certain way. If they use See Inside they can evade the filter by editing the safe word list.

Not in my experience. It might look like you've done so but reloading the project will show you haven't changed the original.

bashcommando wrote:

deck26 wrote:

I don't see why the white list has to be a cloud variable. If someone tries to add words to your list they could only do so by remixing in which case it is the remix that would be banned, not the original.

People can't edit cloud variables unless you allow them to in a certain way. If they use See Inside they can evade the filter by editing the safe word list.

Please read the quote you made! Editing the list and using can only be done through a remix. No one else can edit the original project that'd be safe, instead, their (the editors) remixes would be banned. You can't simply edit projects and save it as the original one! It'll always be a remix
Edit: ninja'ed!

P444 wrote:

bashcommando wrote:

deck26 wrote:

I don't see why the white list has to be a cloud variable. If someone tries to add words to your list they could only do so by remixing in which case it is the remix that would be banned, not the original.

People can't edit cloud variables unless you allow them to in a certain way. If they use See Inside they can evade the filter by editing the safe word list.

Please read the quote you made! Editing the list and using can only be done through a remix. No one else can edit the original project that'd be safe, instead, their (the editors) remixes would be banned. You can't simply edit projects and save it as the original one! It'll always be a remix
Edit: ninja'ed!

I have done it before. Not exactly to evade the filter, but other things in games just to see what I can do.

bashcommando wrote:

P444 wrote:

bashcommando wrote:

deck26 wrote:

I don't see why the white list has to be a cloud variable. If someone tries to add words to your list they could only do so by remixing in which case it is the remix that would be banned, not the original.

People can't edit cloud variables unless you allow them to in a certain way. If they use See Inside they can evade the filter by editing the safe word list.

Please read the quote you made! Editing the list and using can only be done through a remix. No one else can edit the original project that'd be safe, instead, their (the editors) remixes would be banned. You can't simply edit projects and save it as the original one! It'll always be a remix
Edit: ninja'ed!

I have done it before. Not exactly to evade the filter, but other things in games just to see what I can do.

edit - Please do show us by changing something in one of my projects.

deck26 wrote:

bashcommando wrote:

P444 wrote:

bashcommando wrote:

deck26 wrote:

I don't see why the white list has to be a cloud variable. If someone tries to add words to your list they could only do so by remixing in which case it is the remix that would be banned, not the original.

People can't edit cloud variables unless you allow them to in a certain way. If they use See Inside they can evade the filter by editing the safe word list.

Please read the quote you made! Editing the list and using can only be done through a remix. No one else can edit the original project that'd be safe, instead, their (the editors) remixes would be banned. You can't simply edit projects and save it as the original one! It'll always be a remix
Edit: ninja'ed!

I have done it before. Not exactly to evade the filter, but other things in games just to see what I can do.

Go on then, add something other than a username to my cloud list project http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/22828152/ or add your name to the list more than once.

Huh, maybe they updated it, I used to be able to do that.