when I was reading about cloud variables, it said chatrooms aren't allowed on scratch, why though? i'm talking about chatrooms aren't allowed-anouncements and cloud data-FAQ.

saying rude things for example
but technically chatrooms are still allowed, as long it only has a set of words allowed

But I was reading about it on the scratch help website and it said chatrooms aren't allowed.

gardener100 wrote:

But I was reading about it on the scratch help website and it said chatrooms aren't allowed.

eh yes and no
chatrooms are allowed under very strict conditions
you are only allowed to have preset phrases like “hello!”, “thank you!”, “bye chat”
but if it has a blacklisted word list or no filter at all, then the chatroom isn’t allowed

Because they are unmoderated, and people can type anything.

It's pretty much impossible for Scratch to moderate chat rooms like that, so they're not allowed.
What you are are allowed to do is a chat room that only consists of specific phrases.

Because people could easily bypass the rules and the ST can't moderate it.
But, like other people said, you can have a chat with specific phrases you are allowed to say, like “Hello” “Bye” “This is fun”
If you don't understand what I mean, you can play some of Griffpatch's cloud multiplayer games which have the kind of chat I'm talking about.
I think another user said this already, but you can't have blacklisted words because someone could go in the code and see those words.

It's not allowed because for the fact that you could say rude and innappropriate words or sentences and the Scratch team doesn't have enough resources to moderate each chatroom

It also said cloud variables only handle numbers though, not letters.

gardener100 wrote:

It also said cloud variables only handle numbers though, not letters.

Still people can encode Letters to numbers…

gardener100 wrote:

It also said cloud variables only handle numbers though, not letters.

It's trivial to encode letters to numbers- it's essentially just base conversion, which can be done mathematically. Alternatively you can have a list of characters and use the indexes.

alpha_ape_13 wrote:

gardener100 wrote:

It also said cloud variables only handle numbers though, not letters.

Still people can encode Letters to numbers…

its a preventative feature. like the filters. It exists to make them harder to make

people use them for misuse

when I said

gardener100 wrote:

But I was reading about it on the scratch help website and it said chatrooms aren't allowed.

and

gardener100 wrote:

It also said cloud variables only handle numbers though, not letters.

, see it for yourself, cloud variables- scratch FAQ

gardener100 wrote:

It also said cloud variables only handle numbers though, not letters.

, see it for yourself, cloud variables-scratch FAQ

Using encoding and decoding, you can convert a number to text. Let's say you said “hello.” The encoder is going to turn into numbers by letter placement.

H is the 8th letter of the alphabet
E is the 5th letter of the alphabet
L is the 12th letter of the alphabet
L is the 12th letter of the alphabet
O is the 15th letter of the alphabet

Now here is the encoded string. 8 5 12 12 15


now you send this to a different user and using this, you convert it back to letters

THEIMPORTANT wrote:

gardener100 wrote:

It also said cloud variables only handle numbers though, not letters.

, see it for yourself, cloud variables-scratch FAQ

Using encoding and decoding, you can convert a number to text. Let's say you said “hello.” The encoder is going to turn into numbers by letter placement.

H is the 8th letter of the alphabet
E is the 5th letter of the alphabet
L is the 12th letter of the alphabet
L is the 12th letter of the alphabet
O is the 15th letter of the alphabet

Now here is the encoded string. 8 5 12 12 15


now you send this to a different user and using this, you convert it back to letters

tried it. didn't go well. can you decode this? 33451245212049058010 (a= 1, b=2, c=3, d=4, e=5, so on and so on and 1=27, 2=28, 3=29, 4=30, 5=31 and on and on (zero=37)

encoded numbers from dancing Donald Trump

THEIMPORTANT wrote:

gardener100 wrote:

It also said cloud variables only handle numbers though, not letters.

, see it for yourself, cloud variables-scratch FAQ

Using encoding and decoding, you can convert a number to text. Let's say you said “hello.” The encoder is going to turn into numbers by letter placement.

H is the 8th letter of the alphabet
E is the 5th letter of the alphabet
L is the 12th letter of the alphabet
L is the 12th letter of the alphabet
O is the 15th letter of the alphabet

Now here is the encoded string. 8 5 12 12 15


now you send this to a different user and using this, you convert it back to letters

It isn't simple though, thats a very simple explaination. You still need more code.

plantskym2 wrote:

THEIMPORTANT wrote:

gardener100 wrote:

It also said cloud variables only handle numbers though, not letters.

, see it for yourself, cloud variables-scratch FAQ

Using encoding and decoding, you can convert a number to text. Let's say you said “hello.” The encoder is going to turn into numbers by letter placement.

H is the 8th letter of the alphabet
E is the 5th letter of the alphabet
L is the 12th letter of the alphabet
L is the 12th letter of the alphabet
O is the 15th letter of the alphabet

Now here is the encoded string. 8 5 12 12 15


now you send this to a different user and using this, you convert it back to letters

It isn't simple though, thats a very simple explaination. You still need more code.

i think you need to add 10 to each number to prevent issues

Because even if you blacklist words, people can see inside your project and find them. Chatrooms with preset phrases are allowed, however.

TheAutocorrectingCat wrote:

(#19)
Because even if you blacklist words, people can see inside your project and find them.
Whitelist chatrooms are allowed, however.

For the record, whitelist chatrooms are not allowed, but chatrooms with preset phrases are.