On an alt account, I commented the trans emoji on scratch and got banned from commenting for 5 minutes despite not commenting anything inappropriate, which is ironic because the mod was like “your comment appeared to have a bad word” Any ideas why the mod did this??? Cuz I'm starting to think it's a bit transphobic to ban that emoji despite it being harmless

I don't think the trans flag triggered the filter as Scratch is very welcoming to the LGBTQ+ community. Check the rest of the comment you wanted to post to make sure there's nothing else that possibly breaks the community guidelines. Also, unfortunately the trans flag emoji isn't supported on Scratch due to technical limitations, this has nothing to do with the flag itself but the way comments are formatted means there's not many supported emojis that will actually work and appear in comments. You can still type _pride_ in comments to show the trans inclusive LGBTQ+ pride flag

But all I typed was “do you mean this one?” And the trans emoji ask I didn't type anything bad and it still said I said a bad word, so idk why they banned me cuz they could've just said that they can't do that emoji cuz I have tried with other emojis tho they just disappear whereas this one gets me reported. Thanks for your help by the way