Should there be Cash blocks in Scratch?

Prinseskat

No support, money-related things have no place in a free programming language for kids. This would cause no end of additional work for the ST, and there aren't any “benefits” other than “yay now i can tell four-year-olds to give me money!!!11!!”.

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CatsUnited

No Support, money shouldn't be in a free program. Many children don't have PayPal, and I could just ask for $10000000000000000000000. Even if you did have that much money, I could put it in a forever loop.

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Sonickyle

The Scratch team asked me to remove my bitcoin donation address from my signature a while ago, so I'm pretty sure the Scratch team doesn't like the idea of optional donations.

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I only check the forums every now and then, but other than that consider me retired.

RitaFreeman

This is a kids' site.
No.

Nether_before

No support, this system could be easily abused:
Someone tricks people into giving them money by saying it is for a good cause
Someone puts it in a forever loop
Someone does something like “If you don't pay $9999999999 you can't play my game!!”

Plus, scratch is a site for kids. Not to stereotype but children aren't very good with handling money and would probably not have their own pay-pal account.
Also, why would we need this? I don't see any use for it.

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GyroscopeBill

This is a kids' site and is designed to be free for everyone to use. No support.

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stickfiregames

Negative support, it should be obvious why.

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ChocolatePi

To respond to the title: No.

IronBit_Studios

stickfiregames wrote:
Negative support, it should be obvious why.

Zekrom01

No support because Scratch is for educational use, not for commerical use.
Also no support as per all the above posts.

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Probably doing college work

BookOwl

ChocolatePi wrote:
To respond to the title: No.

who needs signatures

TheHockeyist

NEGATIVE INFINITE SUPPORT.
You should know why.

Also, I'm not sure if this overlaps with

16. Digital currency
Digital currency might be cool for some Scratchers but can cause problems such as competition and not focusing on Scratch's purpose. Scratch itself is not a game.

or not.

Last edited by TheHockeyist (Aug. 20, 2015 13:59:54)

Zekrom01

TheHockeyist wrote:
NEGATIVE INFINITE SUPPORT.
You should know why.

Also, I'm not sure if this overlaps with
16. Digital currency
Digital currency might be cool for some Scratchers but can cause problems such as competition and not focusing on Scratch's purpose. Scratch itself is not a game.
or not.

That's fake currency. Not real money, like suggested.

20 something years old
Probably doing college work

TheHockeyist

Zekrom01 wrote:
TheHockeyist wrote:
NEGATIVE INFINITE SUPPORT.
You should know why.

Also, I'm not sure if this overlaps with
16. Digital currency
Digital currency might be cool for some Scratchers but can cause problems such as competition and not focusing on Scratch's purpose. Scratch itself is not a game.
or not.
That's fake currency. Not real money, like suggested.

Yeah… but where to draw the line?

rollercoasterfan

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!!!!!!!!!

Enough said.

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DaSpudLord

rollercoasterfan wrote:
NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!!!!!!!!!

Enough said.

I think we reached “enough said” a long time ago…
I think we should just let this die now.

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Zekrom01

I'm gonna report this to be closed.

20 something years old
Probably doing college work

DaSpudLord

Zekrom01 wrote:
I'm gonna report this to be closed.

I think only the topic owner can report for a thread to be closed (unless the idea has been rejected by the stickies or the ST).

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Cub56

No support.

If we had this, it would just turn Scratch into a money world of in-game-purchases. People don't want to pay to play a game. It would really ruin Scratch to fill it with monetization techniques. Plus, it could be abused. If people wanted to make IAPs, it would turn the entire Scratch into a money pit.

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Zekrom01

DaSpudLord wrote:
Zekrom01 wrote:
I'm gonna report this to be closed.
I think only the topic owner can report for a thread to be closed (unless the idea has been rejected by the stickies or the ST).

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