cheddargirl* wrote:

As others have put it, if you have to hide something, you can use a block stack to hide another, but that's about as far as we allow in terms of block hiding. The entirety of the code otherwise has to be accessible and within the bounds of the vanilla Scratch editor.

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So block stacking is fine, but what about comment stacking? Placing a bunch of comments over code to stop users from seeing it?

I would guess that that would also be allowed, considering that comments tend to be somewhat easier to move and remove without breaking the project.

Still, that's not really the purpose of comments.

You might be able to… If you think someone stole your project… Get some variable IDs from your project Json and compare them with the project you think copied you. AFAIK those are random, but they'll be the same if you copy the project.

Geez, why do I keep quoting the OP? I'm out of practice foruming!

50_scratch_tabs wrote:

You might be able to… If you think someone stole your project… Get some variable IDs from your project Json and compare them with the project you think copied you. AFAIK those are random, but they'll be the same if you copy the project.

Wouldn’t looking at the JSON of the project be breaking Section 4.4?

hotcrystal wrote:

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50_scratch_tabs wrote:

You might be able to… If you think someone stole your project… Get some variable IDs from your project Json and compare them with the project you think copied you. AFAIK those are random, but they'll be the same if you copy the project.

Wouldn’t looking at the JSON of the project be breaking Section 4.4?

Not looking at the JSON. Just editing it. Plus, they can't prove you looked at it. And even if you edited the JSON, it'd only break the ToU if you uploaded it back up Scratch. Edit the JSON and upload to Turbowarp to your heart's content. And reading it is definitely fine.

You can cover them in comments. There are actually games where you find stuff hidden under comments or layers of blocks.

no idea

its_real1 wrote:

no idea

Please don’t reply to posts if you don’t know the answer.
I believe that if hiding with code is allowed, hiding with comments should be fine.

Yes.

The Scratch Team has actually done this before.

SidewaysCoder wrote:

Yes.

The Scratch Team has actually done this before.

This is true, although there is an important difference.
This is just one comment, whereas comment stacking insinuates a very large amount of comments actively making it more difficult to see the code.

To attempt to answer OP's question, I'd say that I'm not sure if this is allowed or not but I wouldn't do it.

Looks like the general consensus is that it's allowed

Thanks people