Musicanna wrote:

Can you add parental controls to scratch? Some people were m ean to me on a old account so maybe parents can help stop their child?

Musicanna wrote:

Can you add parental controls to scratch? Some people were m ean to me on a old account so maybe parents can help stop their child?

wangat wrote:

Wiki Wednesday is back!

10goto10 wrote:

I’ve recently had a little experience with the difference between Spam and Spamming and since your Wiki was of no help, I’ve decided to come here.

Your Wiki starts off with “Spam is something that is posted irreverently and unneeded in the situation it was posted.” (Love that word “irreverently” since it and Spam make me think of Monty Python.)

Your paragraph closes with “Repeated spamming will lead to alerts.”

10goto10 wrote:

If it were me (and the crowd cheers that it is not) I’d replace “Spam” in your wiki with “disrespectful comments” because I think that is a closer match to what we find in the community guidelines and a more helpful follow up to those guidelines.

10goto10 wrote:

I also looked up ‘Respectful comments” because since it’s used the community guidelines seems like something that would be helpful to expand upon in the Wiki. Not a thing. Not even “Respectful comments are those reverently made and are needful” or even “Respectful comments, for the most part, are ones that are not spam as defined by this Wiki”.

10goto10 wrote:

So, your last sentence, on the Scratch Wiki, in the terms used by the Scratch Team, reads “Repeated Repeatedly posting the same material will lead to alerts”.

10goto10 wrote:

I guess I’d still expect you to follow the Scratch Team’s definition of Spamming (repeatedly posting the same material) which is different from yours (the act of posting spam).

10goto10 wrote:

I think that the problem they appear to want to solve is the situation where people sprinkle the same comment across multiple projects all over their web site.

10goto10 wrote:

I can’t find the post now (would it help if I could find it?) where spam is considered disrespectful by the Scratch Team because all comments must be relevant, supportive, and constructive. Anything else is reportable since it violates the community standards by being disrespectful.

10goto10 wrote:

If I say “Kindly checkout my Filterbot:Friend or Foe! Project because I think you might find it useful”. That is respectful by your definition but disrespectful (and reportable) by the Scratch Team’s need to tie it back to something in the community guidelines. That makes their message to me make sense when they say that I have violated the community guidelines.

jvvg wrote:

The definition I have given is a superset of the definition you have provided (and in terms of spam/spamming that's about nouns vs. verbs, not the underlying definition of what spam(ming) is). While the Scratch Team has identified spam as repeatedly posting the same comment in a lot of places, I doubt they intended that definition to be airtight and exclusive of anything else.

jvvg wrote:

10goto10 wrote:

I think that the problem they appear to want to solve is the situation where people sprinkle the same comment across multiple projects all over their web site.

Yes, but I think they also would like to avoid stuff like blockspam, even if it's considered to be a lower priority or if they didn't explicitly identify it in the same place they identified other kinds of spam.

10goto10 wrote:

I can’t find the post now (would it help if I could find it?) where spam is considered disrespectful by the Scratch Team because all comments must be relevant, supportive, and constructive. Anything else is reportable since it violates the community standards by being disrespectful.

As I said before, being respectful is only one requirement in the Community Guidelines. There are other ways to violate the Community Guidelines that are not disrespectful.

10goto10 wrote:

If I say “Kindly checkout my Filterbot:Friend or Foe! Project because I think you might find it useful”. That is respectful by your definition but disrespectful (and reportable) by the Scratch Team’s need to tie it back to something in the community guidelines. That makes their message to me make sense when they say that I have violated the community guidelines.

Yes, that is respectful by my definition, but that doesn't mean it's allowed. It is still spam, but not necessarily disrespectful. The exact wording of the Community Guidelines says “Please keep comments respectful and avoid spamming or posting chain mail,” which I read as implying spamming is a different thing as being disrespectful.

wangat wrote:

Would today's feature be a good fit added to the Featured Project # Controversial Featured Projects? Many people in the community reported it as an exact copy, and was taken down.

A few people are asking on my profile

jvvg wrote:

wangat wrote:

Would today's feature be a good fit added to the Featured Project # Controversial Featured Projects? Many people in the community reported it as an exact copy, and was taken down.

A few people are asking on my profile

I would say no, as it's an individual incident and not really a “topic”.

mybearworld wrote:

Should Comment thread limit be added to List of Controversial Topics, as it got merged, meaning it will be in (see the GitHub comments, it's controversial)

PUNNAMOODU wrote:

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mybearworld wrote:

Should Comment thread limit be added to List of Controversial Topics, as it got merged, meaning it will be in (see the GitHub comments, it's controversial)

It has been merged but not “released” on the main website.

mybearworld wrote:

Should Comment thread limit be added to List of Controversial Topics, as it got merged, meaning it will be in (see the GitHub comments, it's controversial)

mybearworld wrote:

Should Comment thread limit be added to List of Controversial Topics, as it got merged, meaning it will be in (see the GitHub comments, it's controversial)

cs1908416 wrote:

What is upload.scratch.mit.edu ? You can put users in the url but nothing else.