So I have a friend, Luna, and she used to make banners for people on scratch. If you don’t know what a banner is, it’s like a image that says “welcome to my profile” and people put it on their profile, and Luna decorated banners for people with effects and stuff. Luna was recently blocked though, but I have contacts with her from other sites because I knew her before she started scratch, and the site in which we have contact you can upload images, so me and Luna are wondering if it’s allowed for luna to send me banners she made for people, and me to upload them so people can see it. None of her banners are inappropriate or anything, btw.

I think the official answer is that it is not allowed to act as a “messenger” for a banned Scratcher; that is effectively circumventing their ban.

Za-Chary wrote:

I think the official answer is that it is not allowed to act as a “messenger” for a banned Scratcher; that is effectively circumventing their ban.

But I’m not delivering messages or anything, just banners that she made

starlightsparker wrote:

Za-Chary wrote:

I think the official answer is that it is not allowed to act as a “messenger” for a banned Scratcher; that is effectively circumventing their ban.

But I’m not delivering messages or anything, just banners that she made

You don't have to tell anyone that she made it though.

If you create a studio and call it like “Luna's Images” or something, then that's not allowed.

But if you create your own shop/studio and have her create banners for your studio, that's fine, as long as you don't say that they were made by a banned Scratcher.

starlightsparker wrote:

Za-Chary wrote:

I think the official answer is that it is not allowed to act as a “messenger” for a banned Scratcher; that is effectively circumventing their ban.

But I’m not delivering messages or anything, just banners that she made

Images/banners are a form of messages. The idea is that you would be using the website on behalf of a banned user, which I believe is not allowed.

Za-Chary wrote:

starlightsparker wrote:

Za-Chary wrote:

I think the official answer is that it is not allowed to act as a “messenger” for a banned Scratcher; that is effectively circumventing their ban.

But I’m not delivering messages or anything, just banners that she made

Images/banners are a form of messages. The idea is that you would be using the website on behalf of a banned user, which I believe is not allowed.

But it's not really “on behalf”. See my above post, but you could just say that another person is helping you make banners. No one knows if it's a Scratch user or not.

People talk about talking to banned Scratchers offsite all the time, as long as they're not using the site on behalf of them.

Za-Chary wrote:

starlightsparker wrote:

Za-Chary wrote:

I think the official answer is that it is not allowed to act as a “messenger” for a banned Scratcher; that is effectively circumventing their ban.

But I’m not delivering messages or anything, just banners that she made

Images/banners are a form of messages. The idea is that you would be using the website on behalf of a banned user, which I believe is not allowed.

Alright, thanks for the answer. I guess Luna can just make banners for people outside of scratch, like people on the image site which shall not be named.

han614698 wrote:

But it's not really “on behalf”. See my above post, but you could just say that another person is helping you make banners. No one knows if it's a Scratch user or not.

Hence why I said “the official answer” in my earlier post. Of course nothing is illegal unless you get caught.

han614698 wrote:

People talk about talking to banned Scratchers offsite all the time, as long as they're not using the site on behalf of them.

Talking about talking to banned Scratchers is fine (e.g. "I can still talk to [banned Scratcher] on another platform“). It's specifically when Scratchers are doing things like sending messages on behalf of this banned Scratcher (e.g. ”[Banned Scratcher] told me to tell you …") that is crossing the line — particularly when done repeatedly.

Za-Chary wrote:

Of course nothing is illegal unless you get caught.

Right but how would they ever catch you for this?

The communicating on behalf of banned Scratchers is only banned because it starts unneeded drama - if no one knows it's on behalf of a banned Scratcher, then it won't cause issues.

han614698 wrote:

Right but how would they ever catch you for this?

Of course if you say that a message is from a banned Scratcher, that would reveal it. But that's going in circles here, of course. Perhaps there is something to be said about the desire not to go around the rules like this.

han614698 wrote:

The communicating on behalf of banned Scratchers is only banned because it starts unneeded drama

I wouldn't say that it necessarily causes drama. It's not allowed to communicate extensively on behalf of a banned Scratcher, even if the content of such messages does not cause drama.

I think this is resolved, reporting to be closed