WHATS THE POINT OF THE FOLLOWING LIMIT
I f4f and the following limit can make it hard. Also free follow accounts are unable to do anything w/ it
Why do we need the following limit

Free follow accounts are banned, and mass f4f is not what Scratch is made for.

What about thiago_free_follows

wait, there's a following limit? what is it?

I don't see a world where a person who doesn't f4f or have a mass following account would need to follow ten thousand people. Besides, if we remove it, ddos attacks could occur.

No support.
- “Free follow” accounts are banned
- Scratch was not designed for mass f4f
- Removing the following limit could result in DDoS attacks (as many people can just continuously bot-spam follows if the limit is removed, putting strain on the servers)

RFV12347 wrote:

What about thiago_free_follows

Do not name names


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I never seen any account reaching the limit, so I don’t see why we should increase it

SkyCedar wrote:

what is it?

10,000

RFV12347 wrote:

10,000

If you're F4Fing 10,000 people, you may want to consider taking a step back and maybe not asking for more? I think 10,000 is a more-than-enough number for the average Scratcher. I doubt you'd meet that many people during the average time period spent on Scratch.

1. (said by multiple scratchers)
2. (said by multiple scratchers)
3. ddos attacks? more like spam follower accounts
no support.

everwinner64 wrote:

I never seen any account reaching the limit, so I don’t see why we should increase it

I think @Bri-ish- has reached the limit, or almost has.

minniesworld wrote:

everwinner64 wrote:

I never seen any account reaching the limit, so I don’t see why we should increase it

I think @Bri-ish- has reached the limit, or almost has.

1. Don't name Scratchers
2. I have a follower that hit the limit. proof=https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/961835014/

A limit is good so that folks don't “try to beat the high score”. Scratch is for learning and sharing and expressing your creativity - not for trying to beat some arbitrary number. We would prefer to see Scratchers working with Scratch projects than trying to get the most followers or become the biggest follower.

It's also better for the database if the number of relationships are limited. It takes processing power and storage space to maintain all the relationships in Scratch. It's a good idea to cap them at some number that works well for most Scratchers.