When you write a bad word in a project title, instruction or note/credit, or in a comment, the bad word detector tells you there is an offensive element and doesn't let you change the project's description or title, and blocks you from commenting.
The thing is: Scratch has users from all around the world, and sometimes they might write something that can be offensive in another language, but they don't understand how, and they might not understand how their content was offensive.

My suggestion is: when the bad word detector detects something offensive, the word gets highlighted. In this case, the word could be in bold (like "bad word"), or underlined (like “bad word”). Or maybe even change the message that pops up whenever you type something offensive so it can tell you the offensive content. For example, to: "Hmm…the bad word detector thinks there is a problem with your text. Please change it and remember to be respectful. Offensive content: (bad word)"
It could help users to know where the text should be changed and not get confused. Because, as I said, some users might not see the offensive thing.

About comments, something similar can be said. For example, instead of blocking the user from commenting, the comment won't be sent and the user can just get a similar message and the offensive thing in the comment is highlighted as well.
My idea is a pop-up with a message that says what your offensive comment is and if the user tries to comment it anyways after receiving the pop-up and not changing the comment, then it would lead to a block.

Summarizing: the bad word detector could highlight the bad word. As for comments, instead of being blocked, the user receives a pop-up with the offensive content and a request to change it. The user will, then, be allowed to change, and if the user doesn't do so, then they get blocked from commenting. But only if the user tries to comment the offensive thing despite the warning and request to change it.

So, what do you think? I think it would be a good idea, because it would lead to less misunderstandings and less users being blocked without knowing why.

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There have been multiple times when me or a friend get muted and we literally don't see what's wrong with the message. This would help us to know what word triggered it so we don't use it in the future

dupe, it says about highlighting bad words here

AdaVesta_ wrote:

dupe, it says about highlighting bad words here

To be fair, I also added the comment thing