Erm, what the sigma! No! This wouldn't help anything and would just confuse the vast majority of the people who use this platform! This is not skibidi!

Mikael99109 wrote:

Erm, what the sigma! No! This wouldn't help anything and would just confuse the vast majority of the people who use this platform! This is not skibidi!

Ah yes, the formal brain rot of English that is today.

Please be constructive and state why you support or don't support this suggestion. If you aren't sure of what to say or explain, then don't post anything at all.

Mikael99109 wrote:

Erm, what the sigma! No! This wouldn't help anything and would just confuse the vast majority of the people who use this platform! This is not skibidi!

Actually skibidi means Evil or Bad so it is very skibidi

PaperMarioFan2022 wrote:

Mikael99109 wrote:

Erm, what the sigma! No! This wouldn't help anything and would just confuse the vast majority of the people who use this platform! This is not skibidi!

Ah yes, the formal brain rot of English that is today.

Please be constructive and state why you support or don't support this suggestion. If you aren't sure of what to say or explain, then don't post anything at all.

I did! This would confuse people a lot! The sigmas of Scratch would be wondering “hey, where is that follow button? now i can't show my w rizz!” and that's bad! It's like Duke Dennis removing his nonchalant dreads! Another reason it would be bad is that it would take away many functionalities! I like to follow people to show that I like their projects, or to show that I want to be their friend! Fanum taxing the follow button would lead to a myriad of issues which would be very skibidi!

-Cosmic--- wrote:

Mikael99109 wrote:

Erm, what the sigma! No! This wouldn't help anything and would just confuse the vast majority of the people who use this platform! This is not skibidi!

Actually skibidi means Evil or Bad so it is very skibidi

Oof, sorry! You are a gigachad for that! Thanks, sigma!

PaperMarioFan2022 wrote:

Mikael99109 wrote:

Erm, what the sigma! No! This wouldn't help anything and would just confuse the vast majority of the people who use this platform! This is not skibidi!

Ah yes, the formal brain rot of English that is today.

Please be constructive and state why you support or don't support this suggestion. If you aren't sure of what to say or explain, then don't post anything at all.

are u from ohio or someting

Mikael99109 wrote:

PaperMarioFan2022 wrote:

Mikael99109 wrote:

Erm, what the sigma! No! This wouldn't help anything and would just confuse the vast majority of the people who use this platform! This is not skibidi!

Ah yes, the formal brain rot of English that is today.

Please be constructive and state why you support or don't support this suggestion. If you aren't sure of what to say or explain, then don't post anything at all.

I did! This would confuse people a lot! The sigmas of Scratch would be wondering “hey, where is that follow button? now i can't show my w rizz!” and that's bad! It's like Duke Dennis removing his nonchalant dreads! Another reason it would be bad is that it would take away many functionalities! I like to follow people to show that I like their projects, or to show that I want to be their friend! Fanum taxing the follow button would lead to a myriad of issues which would be very skibidi!

-Cosmic--- wrote:

Mikael99109 wrote:

Erm, what the sigma! No! This wouldn't help anything and would just confuse the vast majority of the people who use this platform! This is not skibidi!

Actually skibidi means Evil or Bad so it is very skibidi

Oof, sorry! You are a gigachad for that! Thanks, sigma!

It's a beautiful day outside. Birds are singing, flowers are blooming…on days like these, kids like you. S H O U L D B E B U R N I N G I N T H E A P R I L F O O L S F O R U M




But, I don't support. LIke the guy above said, this would only confuse people, and probably cause a worse outrage than the purple update.

DangerPuppy10 wrote:

Mikael99109 wrote:

PaperMarioFan2022 wrote:

Mikael99109 wrote:

Erm, what the sigma! No! This wouldn't help anything and would just confuse the vast majority of the people who use this platform! This is not skibidi!

Ah yes, the formal brain rot of English that is today.

Please be constructive and state why you support or don't support this suggestion. If you aren't sure of what to say or explain, then don't post anything at all.

I did! This would confuse people a lot! The sigmas of Scratch would be wondering “hey, where is that follow button? now i can't show my w rizz!” and that's bad! It's like Duke Dennis removing his nonchalant dreads! Another reason it would be bad is that it would take away many functionalities! I like to follow people to show that I like their projects, or to show that I want to be their friend! Fanum taxing the follow button would lead to a myriad of issues which would be very skibidi!

-Cosmic--- wrote:

Mikael99109 wrote:

Erm, what the sigma! No! This wouldn't help anything and would just confuse the vast majority of the people who use this platform! This is not skibidi!

Actually skibidi means Evil or Bad so it is very skibidi

Oof, sorry! You are a gigachad for that! Thanks, sigma!

It's a beautiful day outside. Birds are singing, flowers are blooming…on days like these, kids like you. S H O U L D B E B U R N I N G I N T H E A P R I L F O O L S F O R U M




But, I don't support. LIke the guy above said, this would only confuse people, and probably cause a worse outrage than the purple update.

Oh man, that was not sigma! In fact, it was very skibidi!

Mikael99109 wrote:

Oh man, that was not sigma! In fact, it was very skibidi!

w h a t

Mikael99109 wrote:

(#107)
Oh man, that was not sigma! In fact, it was very skibidi!

Guys, we're getting off-topic.

MikeFalls wrote:

PaperMarioFan2022 wrote:

Mikael99109 wrote:

Erm, what the sigma! No! This wouldn't help anything and would just confuse the vast majority of the people who use this platform! This is not skibidi!

Ah yes, the formal brain rot of English that is today.

Please be constructive and state why you support or don't support this suggestion. If you aren't sure of what to say or explain, then don't post anything at all.

are u from ohio or someting

Wdym?

Me wrote:

I think that they SHOULD remove follows, by maybe just renaming it to friends.


Pros:
it could seperate it from following studios
it could be used as a way to tell somebody they want to be friends
It wouldn't cause that much “drama” from people angry they removed followers
cons:
it would kinda change a lot of scratch as a whole
it would still be used as a following/fame system

GamesReinvented wrote:

friends ≠ followers

If i follow @Za-Chary for example because I like their projects, that doesn't necessarily mean we're friends with each other.

bringupmypost wrote:

no, because if somebody unfriends me i will have deep distrust in them.

Also I read all of page 1 but nothing else so sorry if this makes no sense.

Support.

I now detract some of my statement.
( i created som mockups too. Check em out)
I tink that it should be called friending, but nowhere in the site is it called friending, to remove the thought (costume one on the mockups).
I also thought what if you could PIN someones what I've been doing pages, so it works how followers work now, without any of that following stuff. (costume 2)


Opinions?

Three points I want to make.

1. The assumption here is that following is mainly for fame or F4F - It isn't. The main purpose of it is showing appreciation for a Scratcher you like - just like loves/favs on a project.
   
2. Yes, people try to work the system in their favor with F4F and such - but the same sort of thing can happen for every aspect of Scratch (comments = advertising, studios = unrelated project spam, etc). Just because something can lead to those actions doesn't mean it shouldn't exist.
   
3. If following is taken out, there will be another Scratch War. There isn't any good workaround or such to keeping track of which users you want to see the projects of - and it's been established that bookmarks won't work
   

I do kind of see your points, but removing following entirely isn't the solution - we shouldn't use a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
(Sorry for the 7 edits, couldn't figure out how list formatting was supposed to work )

-JAM58- wrote:

Three points I want to make.

• The assumption here is that following is mainly for fame or F4F - It isn't. The main purpose of it is showing appreciation for a Scratcher you like - just like loves/favs on a project.
  

• Yes, people try to work the system in their favor with F4F and such - but the same sort of thing can happen for every aspect of Scratch (comments = advertising, studios = unrelated project, etc). Just because something can lead to those actions doesn't mean it shouldn't exist.
  

• If following is taken out, there will be another Scratch War. There isn't any good workaround or such to keeping track of which users you want to see the projects of - and it's been established that bookmarks won't work
  

I do kind of see your points, but removing following entirely isn't the solution - we shouldn't use a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

Can you tell me what you think of my “Pin” Idea?

-Cosmic--- wrote:

-JAM58- wrote:

Three points I want to make.

• The assumption here is that following is mainly for fame or F4F - It isn't. The main purpose of it is showing appreciation for a Scratcher you like - just like loves/favs on a project.
  

• Yes, people try to work the system in their favor with F4F and such - but the same sort of thing can happen for every aspect of Scratch (comments = advertising, studios = unrelated project, etc). Just because something can lead to those actions doesn't mean it shouldn't exist.
  

• If following is taken out, there will be another Scratch War. There isn't any good workaround or such to keeping track of which users you want to see the projects of - and it's been established that bookmarks won't work
  

I do kind of see your points, but removing following entirely isn't the solution - we shouldn't use a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

Can you tell me what you think of my “Pin” Idea?

I do kinda agree with how it'd work - but I also think it'd be kinda complicated to use.
I don't think the problem is following/followers itself, but more the fact that people have interpreted it as strictly for fame.

-JAM58- wrote:

-Cosmic--- wrote:

-JAM58- wrote:

Three points I want to make.

• The assumption here is that following is mainly for fame or F4F - It isn't. The main purpose of it is showing appreciation for a Scratcher you like - just like loves/favs on a project.
  

• Yes, people try to work the system in their favor with F4F and such - but the same sort of thing can happen for every aspect of Scratch (comments = advertising, studios = unrelated project, etc). Just because something can lead to those actions doesn't mean it shouldn't exist.
  

• If following is taken out, there will be another Scratch War. There isn't any good workaround or such to keeping track of which users you want to see the projects of - and it's been established that bookmarks won't work
  

I do kind of see your points, but removing following entirely isn't the solution - we shouldn't use a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

Can you tell me what you think of my “Pin” Idea?

I do kinda agree with how it'd work - but I also think it'd be kinda complicated to use.
I don't think the problem is following/followers itself, but more the fact that people have interpreted it as strictly for fame.

My idea just goes like this:

You press pin
it works how follows work now
unpin when you don't want it in your home page anymore

and you can't see who pinned you.

edward789121 wrote:

Not every browser has bookmarks, and bookmarks go away sometimes. you also wouldn't be able to look through a list of the scratcher's you follow recent posts.

Even if your browser does have bookmarks, they are terribly inconvenient for saving followers. I shouldn't have to explain why

Also, following a person alerts you when that person shares, favorites, or stars a project. How else would you know about this stuff if followers didn't exist? And if followers were made private, it would make it harder to report inappropriate activity between users

-Cosmic--- wrote:

-JAM58- wrote:

-Cosmic--- wrote:

-JAM58- wrote:

Three points I want to make.

• The assumption here is that following is mainly for fame or F4F - It isn't. The main purpose of it is showing appreciation for a Scratcher you like - just like loves/favs on a project.
  

• Yes, people try to work the system in their favor with F4F and such - but the same sort of thing can happen for every aspect of Scratch (comments = advertising, studios = unrelated project, etc). Just because something can lead to those actions doesn't mean it shouldn't exist.
  

• If following is taken out, there will be another Scratch War. There isn't any good workaround or such to keeping track of which users you want to see the projects of - and it's been established that bookmarks won't work
  

I do kind of see your points, but removing following entirely isn't the solution - we shouldn't use a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

Can you tell me what you think of my “Pin” Idea?

I do kinda agree with how it'd work - but I also think it'd be kinda complicated to use.
I don't think the problem is following/followers itself, but more the fact that people have interpreted it as strictly for fame.

My idea just goes like this:

You press pin
it works how follows work now
unpin when you don't want it in your home page anymore

and you can't see who pinned you.

I do kinda like that idea - but it'd probably also get really cluttered depending on how many people you choose to pin
And I'm pretty sure there'd also end up being a stat for how many people pinned you - and it would become the equivalent of followers

-JAM58- wrote:

-Cosmic--- wrote:

-JAM58- wrote:

-Cosmic--- wrote:

-JAM58- wrote:

Three points I want to make.

• The assumption here is that following is mainly for fame or F4F - It isn't. The main purpose of it is showing appreciation for a Scratcher you like - just like loves/favs on a project.
  

• Yes, people try to work the system in their favor with F4F and such - but the same sort of thing can happen for every aspect of Scratch (comments = advertising, studios = unrelated project, etc). Just because something can lead to those actions doesn't mean it shouldn't exist.
  

• If following is taken out, there will be another Scratch War. There isn't any good workaround or such to keeping track of which users you want to see the projects of - and it's been established that bookmarks won't work
  

I do kind of see your points, but removing following entirely isn't the solution - we shouldn't use a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

Can you tell me what you think of my “Pin” Idea?

I do kinda agree with how it'd work - but I also think it'd be kinda complicated to use.
I don't think the problem is following/followers itself, but more the fact that people have interpreted it as strictly for fame.

My idea just goes like this:

You press pin
it works how follows work now
unpin when you don't want it in your home page anymore

and you can't see who pinned you.

I do kinda like that idea - but it'd probably also get really cluttered depending on how many people you choose to pin
And I'm pretty sure there'd also end up being a stat for how many people pinned you - and it would become the equivalent of followers

i doubt it, but maybe..

But it's the almost exact thing as following- if you follow a lot of people it could get cluttered in the same way.

PaperMarioFan2022 wrote:

(#102)

Mikael99109 wrote:

Erm, what the sigma! No! This wouldn't help anything and would just confuse the vast majority of the people who use this platform! This is not skibidi!

Ah yes, the formal brain rot of English that is today.

Please be constructive and state why you support or don't support this suggestion. If you aren't sure of what to say or explain, then don't post anything at all.

“This wouldn't help anything and would just confuse the vast majority of the people who use this platform!” = reason


I think it would be fun to do a community poll - here's what I think the results would be

99.879% - keep follows
0.121% - get rid of follows


I typically see people say to remove follows because they're salty they don't have enough to their standards. I'm not saying that's what's happening here, but I don't think this is really beneficial. Plus we all know this never will happen. You can reply to this and say “but it might” but it won't. You know it, I know it. This is just useless discussion. Of course everyone wants to continue because of the illusion that it's possible. But what it comes down to is that Scratch isn't going to completely reform their website because of a random suggestion with virtually no community support.