I've noticed that saying stuff like ‘get (this is filler so that I can post it just to raise the question) wrecked’ will get you muted for the same amount of time as saying a curse word. But then you can say ‘dam (with an n at the end)’ and not get a mute at all. Maybe there could be a list of very bad words and a list of not so bad words. I know the discussion about making ‘dam (with an n at the end)’ mutable is closed, but maybe unmute ‘get (filler) wrecked’ and things like that to make it more consistent. Maybe if you say a very bad word, you'd get banned for 10 extra minutes instead of 5. Just to further discourage hateful and offensive language.

Well, damn isn't considered a bad word on Scratch. I believe this already exists, but only for certain types of phrases, not words.

I believe the Scratch Team has a censor for words like dam(n), cra(p) etc where the comment is still posted but then the Scratch Team is alerted of the comment and put in a report queue for the Scratch Team to review.

Accidents happen
Mutes are bad enough

dertermenter wrote:

I believe the Scratch Team has a censor for words like dam(n), cra(p) etc where the comment is still posted but then the Scratch Team is alerted of the comment and put in a report queue for the Scratch Team to review.

I do know that they have this for mutes and I have heard that they have a silent filter.

han614698 wrote:

dertermenter wrote:

I believe the Scratch Team has a censor for words like dam(n), cra(p) etc where the comment is still posted but then the Scratch Team is alerted of the comment and put in a report queue for the Scratch Team to review.

I do know that they have this for mutes and I have heard that they have a silent filter.

I don't know for sure what the “silent filter” is but I've heard from… questionable but trustworthy sources that certain words are auto reported to the ST.