I'm making a game, and I'm wondering what like, the real boundaries are. On the wiki it says “Mean, insulting, too violent, or otherwise disruptive to the community”, and I'm confused about exactly how violent. I wont add blood to my game (Unless there's no rule against that, which I doubt) but there will be fighting. Me and my cousin (Who's programming it with me) will probably make it so the things that you defeat don't die, they just run away, but like, as I said before, what are the specific rules for those sorts of things.

Next, I'm wondering about the usage of language. Can there be insults in the game? No swearing or anything, but like, what about the word “Dumb” or anything similar? And what if I made up my own insults (Example: In Wings of Fire, the Sandwings call each other “Camel lickers” xD)? And also, I'm not sure what the “Mean” in the wiki article means. Like, what is considered mean? How is it mean?

And the final thing I want to ask is what happens if I unknowably cross one of those boundaries? Will the game be taken down, or un-shared or something? Will I get a notice about it? Because sometimes I worry that I'd be banned, and I know that I could easily fix the thing in the game.

Alright, well, if anybody read this, please respond Thanks you!

1. If the fighting isn’t really realistic, you should be fine.
2. Dumb is fine.
3. It may be marked NFE which means it can’t get tending or front paged and will rarely appear on search. If it’s really bad, it will get taken down. You always get an alert when a project gets taken down, with a reason.

BananaTemmie wrote:

I'm making a game, and I'm wondering what like, the real boundaries are. On the wiki it says “Mean, insulting, too violent, or otherwise disruptive to the community”, and I'm confused about exactly how violent. I wont add blood to my game (Unless there's no rule against that, which I doubt) but there will be fighting. Me and my cousin (Who's programming it with me) will probably make it so the things that you defeat don't die, they just run away, but like, as I said before, what are the specific rules for those sorts of things.

I would suggest not adding blood. Fighting is usually fine if done in a cartoon-ish sense, for instance, no open wounds and whatnot. If they run away and don't die, that sounds pretty good!

BananaTemmie wrote:

Next, I'm wondering about the usage of language. Can there be insults in the game? No swearing or anything, but like, what about the word “Dumb” or anything similar? And what if I made up my own insults (Example: In Wings of Fire, the Sandwings call each other “Camel lickers” xD)? And also, I'm not sure what the “Mean” in the wiki article means. Like, what is considered mean? How is it mean?

“Dumb” should be fine as an insult towards an opponent. “Mean” really refers to being disrespectful towards other Scratchers. For example, your project shouldn't say something like “Za-Chary is dumb.”

BananaTemmie wrote:

And the final thing I want to ask is what happens if I unknowably cross one of those boundaries? Will the game be taken down, or un-shared or something? Will I get a notice about it? Because sometimes I worry that I'd be banned, and I know that I could easily fix the thing in the game.

Your project would most likely get unshared and you would be notified about that. On the first offense, you wouldn't usually get banned. You may be given an opportunity to change the project and re-share it once you remove the inappropriate content.

dertermenter wrote:

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3. It may be marked NFE which means it can’t get tending or front paged and will rarely appear on search. If it’s really bad, it will get taken down. You always get an alert when a project gets taken down, with a reason.

No, NFE'd projects are still within the guidelines. If it violated the guidelines, then it'd get taken down.

Okay, thanks!

terms of use, you can see the other legal policies in the legal section of the bottom of every scratch page

BananaTemmie wrote:

I'm making a game, and I'm wondering what like, the real boundaries are. On the wiki it says “Mean, insulting, too violent, or otherwise disruptive to the community”, and I'm confused about exactly how violent. I wont add blood to my game (Unless there's no rule against that, which I doubt) but there will be fighting. Me and my cousin (Who's programming it with me) will probably make it so the things that you defeat don't die, they just run away, but like, as I said before, what are the specific rules for those sorts of things.

Next, I'm wondering about the usage of language. Can there be insults in the game? No swearing or anything, but like, what about the word “Dumb” or anything similar? And what if I made up my own insults (Example: In Wings of Fire, the Sandwings call each other “Camel lickers” xD)? And also, I'm not sure what the “Mean” in the wiki article means. Like, what is considered mean? How is it mean?

And the final thing I want to ask is what happens if I unknowably cross one of those boundaries? Will the game be taken down, or un-shared or something? Will I get a notice about it? Because sometimes I worry that I'd be banned, and I know that I could easily fix the thing in the game.

Alright, well, if anybody read this, please respond Thank you!

a little is fine if you add a disclaimer

check this

There's the Term of Use, but it's pretty long and you probably don't want to read the whole thing. (Although officially you're supposed to when you join.)

tnlatif wrote:

a little is fine if you add a disclaimer

I mean, it's fine to add a disclaimer, but that does not influence our decision on whether or not to remove a project. Any project which is inappropriate for Scratch will be removed, whether it has a warning or not.

samq64 wrote:

(Although officially you're supposed to when you join.)

All popups state that you're not obliged to read them just follow them. It's not STs fault if you don't read them and you're banned. You don't HAVE to read them. Just follow them, how? Well that's the whole point. But you can't force someone to read the ToU.