cheddargirl wrote:

Don't do it. We don't want a repeat of last year where a lot of users were denied help because the forums got flooded and mods spent a lot of time cleaning up instead of other reports. You're better off making an April Fools project instead of a joke forum topic.

sharkode wrote:

We forumers worked like free customer support to ST

LegoManiac04 wrote:

As fun as it is, I honestly see cheddargirl's point.
There always is people who try to actually use the forums, though their post gets burried in minutes. Not to mention that the usual reports won't be any different than any other day, this is a lot of cleanup for them.

As much of a bummer this is for us, I think we need to recognize how hard the ST does work, and how overwhelmed they probably are. I think we need to sympathize, or at least try to understand, the ST and their decisions, rather than just calling them evil dictators who hate us all when they make a decision we dislike.


Also, this may just be cheddargirl's opinion, and it may not reflect the thoughts of the entire ST.

D-ScratchNinja wrote:

Yeah, but there's also a lot of activity on the website right now, so that might be making it even harder to clean it up.

Secondly, 5.3 on the TOU says, "You agree not to use Scratch in any way intended to […] interfere with any other user's ability to use the service." Ideally, that includes the moderators.

Thirdly, the forums can become a LOT more cluttered than the main site from joke forum topics.

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k0d3rrr wrote:

I know you can just report these things, but what if there were ‘joke’ topics like this:

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sharkode wrote:

That's just one day per year, they aren't gonna die if they just wait another day, plus April fool's topics ≠ spamming.

LegoManiac04 wrote:

sharkode wrote:

That's just one day per year, they aren't gonna die if they just wait another day, plus April fool's topics ≠ spamming.

We aren't them and we cannot speak for them. Scratch has remained extremely active in the last couple years, and there's plenty of things they have to deal with, such as mass reporting, spam bots, the growing toxicity, and just the overall things they take care of on a day to day baises.
And yes, the April Fool's topics are spam. They're unconstructive, they hold no purpose, and they just fill up the forums.

LegoManiac04 wrote:

sharkode wrote:

That's just one day per year, they aren't gonna die if they just wait another day, plus April fool's topics ≠ spamming.

We aren't them and we cannot speak for them. Scratch has remained extremely active in the last couple years, and there's plenty of things they have to deal with, such as mass reporting, spam bots, the growing toxicity, and just the overall things they take care of on a day to day baises.
I mean, cheddargirl literally said "mods spent a lot of time cleaning up instead of other reports."


And yes, the April Fool's topics are spam. They're unconstructive, they hold no purpose, and they just fill up the forums.

hi875230163394 wrote:

LegoManiac04 wrote:

sharkode wrote:

That's just one day per year, they aren't gonna die if they just wait another day, plus April fool's topics ≠ spamming.

We aren't them and we cannot speak for them. Scratch has remained extremely active in the last couple years, and there's plenty of things they have to deal with, such as mass reporting, spam bots, the growing toxicity, and just the overall things they take care of on a day to day baises.
And yes, the April Fool's topics are spam. They're unconstructive, they hold no purpose, and they just fill up the forums.

I'd beg to disagree, ST themselves have made joke topics in the past, and I doubt they are against them, just against spam

LegoManiac04 wrote:

And yes, the April Fool's topics are spam. They're unconstructive, they hold no purpose, and they just fill up the forums.

LegoManiac04 wrote:

hi875230163394 wrote:

LegoManiac04 wrote:

sharkode wrote:

That's just one day per year, they aren't gonna die if they just wait another day, plus April fool's topics ≠ spamming.

We aren't them and we cannot speak for them. Scratch has remained extremely active in the last couple years, and there's plenty of things they have to deal with, such as mass reporting, spam bots, the growing toxicity, and just the overall things they take care of on a day to day baises.
And yes, the April Fool's topics are spam. They're unconstructive, they hold no purpose, and they just fill up the forums.

I'd beg to disagree, ST themselves have made joke topics in the past, and I doubt they are against them, just against spam

The reality is there is a very fine line between the two; how can they prevent the jokes from turning to spam? There is no way other than delete the spam, which is just that extra work for them, so, wouldn't it be logical to discourage what leads to the spam?

jackson49 wrote:

LegoManiac04 wrote:

And yes, the April Fool's topics are spam. They're unconstructive, they hold no purpose, and they just fill up the forums.

So you're calling Za-Chary, a former Scratch Team member (and a person who was one at the time), a spammer?

hi875230163394 wrote:

LegoManiac04 wrote:

hi875230163394 wrote:

LegoManiac04 wrote:

sharkode wrote:

That's just one day per year, they aren't gonna die if they just wait another day, plus April fool's topics ≠ spamming.

We aren't them and we cannot speak for them. Scratch has remained extremely active in the last couple years, and there's plenty of things they have to deal with, such as mass reporting, spam bots, the growing toxicity, and just the overall things they take care of on a day to day baises.
And yes, the April Fool's topics are spam. They're unconstructive, they hold no purpose, and they just fill up the forums.

I'd beg to disagree, ST themselves have made joke topics in the past, and I doubt they are against them, just against spam

The reality is there is a very fine line between the two; how can they prevent the jokes from turning to spam? There is no way other than delete the spam, which is just that extra work for them, so, wouldn't it be logical to discourage what leads to the spam?

I don't believe you understand what spam is, spam isnt clutter, spam isn't useless topics, spam is posting tons of clutter and useless topics very fast, without stop

Having useless topics on a day dedicated to trickery should be fine, as long as people aren't spamming like last year

LegoManiac04 wrote:

hi875230163394 wrote:

LegoManiac04 wrote:

sharkode wrote:

That's just one day per year, they aren't gonna die if they just wait another day, plus April fool's topics ≠ spamming.

We aren't them and we cannot speak for them. Scratch has remained extremely active in the last couple years, and there's plenty of things they have to deal with, such as mass reporting, spam bots, the growing toxicity, and just the overall things they take care of on a day to day baises.
And yes, the April Fool's topics are spam. They're unconstructive, they hold no purpose, and they just fill up the forums.

I'd beg to disagree, ST themselves have made joke topics in the past, and I doubt they are against them, just against spam

The reality is there is a very fine line between the two; how can they prevent the jokes from turning to spam? There is no way other than delete the spam, which is just that extra work for them, so, wouldn't it be logical to discourage what leads to the spam?

sharkode wrote:

April fools topics is beneficial to the community because the community would learn that ST and the forumers are relatable people like them and not just some boring people without a sense of humour that are always formal, this could help to ease the tensions between ST and the community (there are some hostilities against ST in some parts of the community) and could make the community more favourable of ST.

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