New Option for Reports

Javax90

I think that the only 3-4 options we have when we are reporting is not okay. I think that there should be an option for other to let people have an additional way to report. This is because when I tried to report an account because they were not folllowing Community Guidelines, I couldn't find anything to help support my case. I was doing this because some scratchers found a couple pieces of code that allows them to block other scratchers from playing their game. This additional other option would help scratchers give them a chance that would help them explain their report even better.

Thank you and please add this option!

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MagicCoder330

Although I agree that this would be a good feature, I'm sure Za-Chary or paddle2see are going to say “Just use reports on the comments” or somehting like that.

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You should report whatever project or comment which they mentioned the method, if they didn't mention it in any way, theres no need to report, as theres no rule against knowing the method, only rules against using (or likely sharing) the method

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MagicCoder330 wrote:
I'm sure Za-Chary or paddle2see are going to say “Just use reports on the comments” or somehting like that.

Thats exactly what you should do.
Report it in context rather than through a link, as it saves mod time.
Don’t report the account, report the offending content, except for the 4 pre-existing exceptions.

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MagicCoder330 wrote:
Although I agree that this would be a good feature, I'm sure Za-Chary or paddle2see are going to say “Just use reports on the comments” or somehting like that.

Yes, you should if that's what is the offender here. However there is a glitch where you can feature unshared projects on your profile and you can make the thumbnail for the project something really bad, and, there is no way to report the project itself since its unshared but there isn't an option to report it for the featured project. I think an “other” option where you fill in a textbox as your reason for reporting profiles would be great also.

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randomguy3513 wrote:
MagicCoder330 wrote:
Although I agree that this would be a good feature, I'm sure Za-Chary or paddle2see are going to say “Just use reports on the comments” or somehting like that.
Yes, you should if that's what is the offender here. However there is a glitch where you can feature unshared projects on your profile and you can make the thumbnail for the project something really bad, and, there is no way to report the project itself since its unshared but there isn't an option to report it for the featured project. I think an “other” option where you fill in a textbox as your reason for reporting profiles would be great also.

In that case I think it would be better to fix the unshared featured projects glitch instead of making an official report option for it. Even if it was just an “other” option with a text box, people would just use that to report a profile for “breaking the community guidelines” or “being mean,” etc., when — as you correctly stated — they should be reporting the bad comments directly.

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Za-Chary wrote:
randomguy3513 wrote:
Yes, you should if that's what is the offender here. However there is a glitch where you can feature unshared projects on your profile and you can make the thumbnail for the project something really bad, and, there is no way to report the project itself since its unshared but there isn't an option to report it for the featured project. I think an “other” option where you fill in a textbox as your reason for reporting profiles would be great also.
In that case I think it would be better to fix the unshared featured projects glitch instead of making an official report option for it. Even if it was just an “other” option with a text box, people would just use that to report a profile for “breaking the community guidelines” or “being mean,” etc., when — as you correctly stated — they should be reporting the bad comments directly.

You know those fake report options like “I don't like this project.” It would be a good idea if they added those in as well so they know that they can report comments. Fixing the glitch also would help but it could also anger a few scratchers, you can also follow a bunch of studios with one large letter as the thumbnail to spell out something bad in your followed studios section as a workaround if this ever gets fixed.

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randomguy3513 wrote:
You know those fake report options like “I don't like this project.” It would be a good idea if they added those in as well so they know that they can report comments.

That's a good idea. I wonder if its usefulness would be limited, though, if an “other” option existed. But I suppose that's for the Scratch Team to decide.

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Fixing the glitch also would help but it could also anger a few scratchers,

At the end of the day, it's a glitch — fixing glitches to the anger of some other Scratchers has been done by the Scratch Team before.

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Javax90

GlitchedThrough wrote:
MagicCoder330 wrote:
I'm sure Za-Chary or paddle2see are going to say “Just use reports on the comments” or somehting like that.
Thats exactly what you should do.
Report it in context rather than through a link, as it saves mod time.
Don’t report the account, report the offending content, except for the 4 pre-existing exceptions.

I'm just sending the suggestion because this feels like one of the best possible ways to get rid of annoyingly having to make sure the report is in the right section. Because if it isn't you have to tell the reporter about it. And that can take days! So, with the other option (with a “Please Specify” message), it will make things SO much easier then anything else.

Thank you for reading this.

Sincerely,
Javax90

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Javax90 wrote:
I'm just sending the suggestion because this feels like one of the best possible ways to get rid of annoyingly having to make sure the report is in the right section. Because if it isn't you have to tell the reporter about it. And that can take days! So, with the other option (with a “Please Specify” message), it will make things SO much easier then anything else.

Thank you for reading this.

Sincerely,
Javax90

An other option is rejected:

TOLORS wrote:
7.15 “Other” option for reporting profiles
An “other” option for reporting profiles used to exist, but the Scratch Team found that Scratchers would often use it to report comments and projects. It is much easier for the Scratch Team to find inappropriate comments and projects if they were reported directly. To report something inappropriate about the profile that is not listed under the given options, contact the Scratch Team using Contact Us.

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Yeah, I think it's best to open a ticket to Contact Us for this suggestion. An “other” option for reports is rejected anyway (see the post above.)

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Yeah, I think it's best to open a ticket to Contact Us for this suggestion. An “other” option for reports is rejected anyway (see the post above.)

Agree. At least for now, the Contact Us link is the “all other” button until the reports structure is revamped sometime in the future.

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