(to those who have not seen it, this is the policy: https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/topic/168506 )

There should be a new one that brings up the Sprunki issue, and says it is not allowed. It should also be put somewhere on a banner in the main page so people don't have an excuse to ignore it. It is not OK for pretty much anyone in the intended Scratch's age rating and it has already been stated it is not allowed, but people still create the projects. I asked someone to remove the gore from a sprunki project, and three or four people, including the creator of the project called me a “snitch” and repeatedly told me to shut up while not doing anything. The project got taken down about a day later, but it already had a couple thousand views by then.

If there was an announcement directly adressing Sprunki, people would have no excuse to have it.

thoughts?

rejected, they don't ban a franchise just because its inappropriate for little children

i feel like at this point its starting to become an issue, support (i almost accidently typed report lol)

AvidOsirianGuy wrote:

rejected, they don't ban a franchise just because its inappropriate for little children

Hazbin Hotel.

Yep, I support this.

AvidOsirianGuy wrote:

rejected, they don't ban a franchise just because its inappropriate for little children

Please, read the announcement I linked in the top of my post.

MagicCoder330 wrote:

There should be a new one that brings up the Sprunki issue, and says it is not allowed.

Currently I am not aware of any policies against Sprunki. Is part of your suggestion to disallow any use of Sprunki in projects?

MagicCoder330 wrote:

It should also be put somewhere on a banner in the main page so people don't have an excuse to ignore it.

I don't think the Scratch Team would want to prominently advertise potentially-inappropriate content on the front page.

MagicCoder330 wrote:

It is not OK for pretty much anyone in the intended Scratch's age rating and it has already been stated it is not allowed,

It has been stated that inappropriate Sprunki projects are not allowed. Appropriate Sprunki projects are still allowed, as far as I know. For the inappropriate ones, you can already use the Report buttton.

MagicCoder330 wrote:

I asked someone to remove the gore from a sprunki project, and three or four people, including the creator of the project called me a “snitch” and repeatedly told me to shut up while not doing anything.

Make sure to just silently use the Report button on any inappropriate content instead, to avoid such situations.

Za-Chary wrote:

MagicCoder330 wrote:

There should be a new one that brings up the Sprunki issue, and says it is not allowed.

Currently I am not aware of any policies against Sprunki. Is part of your suggestion to disallow any use of Sprunki in projects?

This is already encompassed by the existing horror project policy, but a lot of people haven't seen it. My suggestion is to modify the scary projects policy a bit to specifically mention Sprunki, while also moving it to a more acccessible place (starting as a sitewide banner, then maybe linked in an accesible place on the main page.

Za-Chary wrote:

MagicCoder330 wrote:

It should also be put somewhere on a banner in the main page so people don't have an excuse to ignore it.

I don't think the Scratch Team would want to prominently advertise potentially-inappropriate content on the front page.

They have already done this with the FNAF announcement I linked, because they mentioned FNAF. Although Sprunki is definitely worse than FNAF, as long as the ST is not actually linking sprunki projects it is probably fine.

Za-Chary wrote:

MagicCoder330 wrote:

It is not OK for pretty much anyone in the intended Scratch's age rating and it has already been stated it is not allowed,

It has been stated that inappropriate Sprunki projects are not allowed. Appropriate Sprunki projects are still allowed, as far as I know. For the inappropriate ones, you can already use the Report buttton.

1. 90% of projects involving Sprunki are innapropriate (citation: click on one and look around for a bit, most of them are bad)
2. This would just specify it in the announcement while putting it somewhere more visible. It would probably get the same treatment as FNAF (exactly what you said, appropriate projects are OK if there is nothing scary in them)

Za-Chary wrote:

MagicCoder330 wrote:

I asked someone to remove the gore from a sprunki project, and three or four people, including the creator of the project called me a “snitch” and repeatedly told me to shut up while not doing anything.

Make sure to just silently use the Report button on any inappropriate content instead, to avoid such situations.

I admit I was wrong here, although I have found that if projects are just reported and taken down people can sometimes misunderstand/excuse future projects by claiming that they were taken down for no reason. I thought if I explained it was bad, they might listen, although I guess that was clearly wrong in hindsight xd

Thanks - but we don't see a need for this at this time.

Please use the Report button on any projects or comments that go against the Community Guidelines. That sends a link right to the Scratch Team moderators so they can look at the issue directly and take any necessary action.

You can also use the Contact Us link (at the bottom of every page) for more complicated situations.