Scratch Community Guidelines wrote:

Scratch is a friendly and welcoming community for everyone, where people create, share, and learn together. We welcome people of all ages, races, ethnicities, religions, abilities, sexual orientations, and gender identities. Help keep Scratch a welcoming, supportive, and creative space for all by following these Community Guidelines:


Treat everyone with respect.
Scratchers have diverse backgrounds, interests, identities, and experiences. Everyone on Scratch is encouraged to share things that excite them and are important to them—we hope that you find ways to celebrate your own identity on Scratch, and allow others to do the same. It’s never OK to attack a person or group’s identity or to be unkind to someone about their background or interests.

- Don’t show any hate especially to a scratcher or a community
- Don’t give threats to any scratcher or a community
- No Harassment or Bullying
- Don’t a fight on someone’s opinion
- Swearing isn’t allowed
- Don’t bypass the filter

Be safe: keep personal and contact information private.
For safety reasons, don't give out any information that could be used for private communication, in person or online. This includes sharing real last names, phone numbers, addresses, hometowns, school names, email addresses, usernames or links to social media sites, video chatting applications, or websites with private chat functionality.


- Don’t give anyone your password
- Only share accounts with your family members
- Don’t do a meeting with a scratcher you don’t know
- Websites with private messaging or unfiltered chat aren’t allowed to be linked
- Mentioning browser extensions or userscripts isn’t allowed (More info here)
- Don’t give both your age or birthday, only give one of them
- Don’t give links to phishing websites

Give helpful feedback.
Everyone on Scratch is learning. When commenting on a project, remember to say something you like about it, offer suggestions, and be kind, not critical. Please keep comments respectful and avoid spamming or posting chain mail. We encourage you to try new things, experiment, and learn from others.


- Everyone has different levels of skills so be polite and positive
- Spamming isn’t allowed (Scratchers can be annoyed)
- Follow for follow is allowed but don’t do it if a scratcher doesn’t want to (this applies to ads too)

Embrace remix culture.
Remixing is when you build upon someone else’s projects, code, ideas, images, or anything else they share on Scratch to make your own unique creation.
Remixing is a great way to collaborate and connect with other Scratchers. You are encouraged to use anything you find on Scratch in your own creations, as long as you provide credit to everyone whose work you used and make a meaningful change to it. And when you share something on Scratch, you are giving permission to all Scratchers to use your work in their creations, too.


- Give credit to the original creator of a project
- Don’t say to not remix, everyone has rights to remix
- A remix must be different from the original
- The content you share is in CC BY-SA 2.0, Do not discourage remixing

Be honest.
It’s important to be honest and authentic when interacting with others on Scratch, and remember that there is a person behind every Scratch account. Spreading rumors, impersonating other Scratchers or celebrities, or pretending to be seriously ill is not respectful to the Scratch Community.


- Don’t spread rumors about a scratcher
- Don’t shame a scratcher publicly even if they broke the rules
- Using alts to do social actions on your main isn’t allowed
- Shared projects that are meant to crash the site isn’t allowed)
- Don’t unshare and reshare to get on trending

Help keep the site friendly.
It’s important to keep your creations and conversations friendly and appropriate for all ages. If you think something on Scratch is mean, insulting, too violent, or otherwise disruptive to the community, click “Report” to let us know about it. Please use the “Report” button rather than engaging in fights, spreading rumors about other people’s behavior, or otherwise responding to any inappropriate content. The Scratch Team will look at your report and take the appropriate action.


- Its your responsibility to report scratchers who break the rules
- Keep your reports to a scratch team member privately
- Don’t falsely report a project that doesn’t break the guidelines
- Any project must be appropriate for scratch (Warnings don’t do anything)
(this also means some sensitive content must be tuned down or removed)

Video sharing site rules:
- Your content on a video site must be appropriate
- Use the Discuss Scratch Forums video player instead of direcly linking a youtube video (https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/youtube/%videoid%) to prevent scratchers from using social actions as youtube has different policies (Discuss forums automatically change the youtube link)
- Do not give links to streams or mention when you’re streaming as to keep things safe

Legal documents (You must follow them too):
Terms of Use
DMCA

gdfsgdfsgdfg wrote:

(#261)

- Bullying is a big nono

No harassment or bullying.

- The content you share is in CC BY-SA 2.0 so don’t say its not free to use

- The content you share is automatically licensed under CC-BY-SA 2.0, it is not allowed to disencourage remixes. Read more about CC Licenses here.

ManOfCaps wrote:

gdfsgdfsgdfg wrote:

(#261)

- Bullying is a big nono

You should reword this to like:

No harassment or bullying.

EDIT: Fixed quote…

gdfsgdfsgdfg wrote:

(#263)
I did that to make it original

gdfsgdfsgdfg wrote:

king of the page (should I change to craps of the page?)

alwayspaytaxes wrote:

gdfsgdfsgdfg wrote:

king of the page (should I change to craps of the page?)

Dang you have a super strong obsession for the word crap

alwayspaytaxes wrote:

Also pls add my video sharing site guideline

Sliverus wrote:

Maybe include something about realistic weapons? Maybe even make a new Community Guidelines section for it.

Rules on weapons:
- Try to use replacements for actual guns, such as water/laser ones
- If this isn't possible or doesn't apply, please make the weapons unrealistic

alwayspaytaxes wrote:

Sliverus wrote:

Maybe include something about realistic weapons? Maybe even make a new Community Guidelines section for it.

That might be fine under Help keep the site friendly.

Here's a starter, ig

Rules on weapons:
- Try to use replacements for actual guns, such as water/laser ones
- If this isn't possible or doesn't apply, please make the weapons unrealistic

alwayspaytaxes wrote:

Sliverus wrote:

Maybe include something about realistic weapons? Maybe even make a new Community Guidelines section for it.

That might be fine under Help keep the site friendly.

Here's a starter, ig

Rules on weapons:
- Try to use replacements for actual guns, such as water/laser ones
- If this isn't possible or doesn't apply, please make the weapons unrealistic

gdfsgdfsgdfg wrote:

Scratch Community Guidelines wrote:

Treat everyone with respect.
Scratchers have diverse backgrounds, interests, identities, and experiences. Everyone on Scratch is encouraged to share things that excite them and are important to them—we hope that you find ways to celebrate your own identity on Scratch, and allow others to do the same. It’s never okay to attack a person or group’s identity or to be unkind to someone about their background or interests.

- Don’t show any hate, especially to a Scratcher or a community.
- Don’t give threats to any Scratcher or a community
- No harassment or bullying.
- Don’t start a fight just because you disagree with someone else's opinion.
- Don’t bypass the filter-it's there for a reason.

Be safe: keep personal and contact information private.
For safety reasons, don't give out any information that could be used for private communication, in person or online. This includes sharing real last names, phone numbers, addresses, hometowns, school names, email addresses, usernames or links to social media sites, video chatting applications, or websites with private chat functionality.


- Don’t give anyone your password.
- Only share accounts with your family members.
- Don't meet anyone who you only know online in person.
- Websites with private messaging, voice/video chat, or unfiltered chat aren’t allowed to be linked.
- Mentioning browser extensions or userscripts isn’t allowed.
- Don’t give out both your age or birthday. Only give out one of them.

- Your content on any video site that you link to Scratch must be appropriate.
- Use the Discuss Scratch video player instead of direcly linking a YouTube video (https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/youtube/%videoid%) to prevent Scratchers from using social actions, as YouTube has different policies.
- Do not give links to livestreams or mention when you’re streaming as stated earlier (private messaging)

Give helpful feedback.
Everyone on Scratch is learning. When commenting on a project, remember to say something you like about it, offer suggestions, and be kind, not critical. Please keep comments respectful and avoid spamming or posting chain mail. We encourage you to try new things, experiment, and learn from others.


- Everyone has different levels of skills so be polite and positive.
- Spamming (repeatedly sending the same exact message over and over) isn’t allowed.
- Follow for follow is allowed, but don’t ask a person repeatedly if they don't want to.

Embrace remix culture.
Remixing is when you build upon someone else’s projects, code, ideas, images, or anything else they share on Scratch to make your own unique creation.
Remixing is a great way to collaborate and connect with other Scratchers. You are encouraged to use anything you find on Scratch in your own creations, as long as you provide credit to everyone whose work you used and make a meaningful change to it. When you share something on Scratch, you are giving permission to all Scratchers to use your work in their creations, too.


- Give credit to the original creator of a project.
- You cannot ask others not to remix your project.
- A remix must be different from the original. It can be a minor change, but there has to be at least one change.
- The content you share is in CC BY-SA 2.0, so anyone can use it for free.

Be honest.
It’s important to be honest and authentic when interacting with others on Scratch, and remember that there is a person behind every Scratch account. Spreading rumors, impersonating other Scratchers or celebrities, or pretending to be seriously ill is not respectful to the Scratch Community.


- Don’t spread rumors about a Scratcher.
- Don’t shame anyone publicly, even if they broke the rules.
- Using alts to do social actions on your main isn’t allowed.
- Sharing projects that are meant to crash the site aren't allowed.
- Don’t unshare and reshare projects to get on trending.

Help keep the site friendly.
It’s important to keep your creations and conversations friendly and appropriate for all ages. If you think something on Scratch is mean, insulting, too violent, or otherwise disruptive to the community, click “Report” to let us know about it. Please use the “Report” button rather than engaging in fights, spreading rumors about other people’s behavior, or otherwise responding to any inappropriate content. The Scratch Team will look at your report and take the appropriate action.


- It's your responsibility to report Scratchers who break the rules.
- Keep your reports to a Scratch Team member private: don't tell anyone that you reported it.
-Don't report things in public.
- Don’t falsely report a project that doesn’t break the guidelines.
- Any project must be appropriate for Scratch. Even if there is a warning, you can still report.
(This also means some sensitive content must be tuned down or removed.)

willowmint- wrote:

Byron_Inc wrote:

My suggestion: Add discord into the unmoderated chat examples. Many people are wondering why discord isn't allowed.
Support! I used to be very blur with the rules. More clarity is better.

Good idea, I'm just hesitant to do that because then kids who didn't know about Discord might search it up. Like personally, I didn't know about Discord until I heard people on Scratch talking about that it wasn't allowed
So I don't want to make like a big list of websites because there could be inappropriate stuff on them. I don't consider Discord or YT that bad, so that's why I put YT on the list, but I know Scratch will even censor the word Discord. So probably they consider it a very bad website.

Daisy_Kat wrote:

Maybe add, “Do not share links to phishing websites.”

Phishing links aren't that common, but they do exist. Maybe add it to prevent stealing Scratch passwords and even passwords from different websites.

gdfsgdfsgdfg wrote:

Scratch Community Guidelines wrote:

- It's your responsibility to report Scratchers who break the rules.
- Keep your reports to a Scratch Team member private: don't tell anyone that you reported it.
-Don't report things in public.
- Don’t report projects that don't break the guidelines purposefully. Check to see if the project breaks the guidelines before reporting it.
- Any project must be appropriate for Scratch. Even if there is a warning, you can still report.
(This also means some sensitive content must be tuned down or removed.)

Daisy_Kat wrote:

Discord should be censored in general tbh.

pasta_enjoyer7 wrote:

(#278)

Daisy_Kat wrote:

Maybe add, “Do not share links to phishing websites.”

Phishing links aren't that common, but they do exist. Maybe add it to prevent stealing Scratch passwords and even passwords from different websites.

I agree with this. It would be really bad if someone got hacked because of a phishing site. Here, I'll create a draft:

Be safe (the section):

Don't share links to phishing websites. Phishing websites are sites that collect personal information without letting the other user know. If you see a strange link, don't click on it! Report it or use Contact Us to let the Scratch Team know.