When I wanted to make an account so I can follow random people, It said it is not allowed. Please update it ST! And also, I am the one following. I never ask for followers.

when green flag clicked
forever
say [IM NOT THE ONE ASKING FOR FOLLOWERS] for (1000000000) secs
end

This is to prevent follow all accounts, which are not allowed as accounts with the sole purpose of following people falls under Manipulating site statistics I believe spam, and thats against the guidelines,

ThatOneWeirdDude wrote:

This is to prevent follow all accounts, which are not allowed as accounts with the sole purpose of following people falls under Manipulating site statistics I believe, and thats against the ToS

Ohhh. Thanks!

They are NOT manipulating the site statistics, but they are spam. I report each one of follow all accounts

to prevent manipulative follow-me schemes.

Scratch doesn't allow follow accounts. It must think that “follow account” may mean that you go and get 999999999999999 followers, not it's an account.

Here:

when a member of the scratch team :: events :: hat
if <sees "follow account" :: looks > then
think [that's an account to get a bunch of followers]
end

Scratch isn't for fame, but when a username has the word follow in it, it's normally for fame. I think that's why the word follow isn't allowed in usernames.

to prevent some certain types of scamming.

[Removed - please keep it all-ages]

This is to prevent “follow all” accounts, which can manipulate Scratch's statistics. It is said in the Term Of Use, which everyone agreed when one made accounts.

Term Of Use 3.5.5 wrote:

You agree not to use Scratch in any way intended to disrupt the service, gain unauthorized access to the service, or interfere with any other user's ability to use the service. Prohibited activities include, but are not limited to:
-snip-
Using alternate accounts or organizing voting groups to manipulate site statistics, such as purposely trying to get on the “What the Community is Loving/Remixing” rows of the front page.

Byron_Inc wrote:

This is to prevent “follow all” accounts, which can manipulate Scratch's statistics. It is said in the Term Of Use, which everyone agreed when one made accounts.

Term Of Use 3.5.5 wrote:

You agree not to use Scratch in any way intended to disrupt the service, gain unauthorized access to the service, or interfere with any other user's ability to use the service. Prohibited activities include, but are not limited to:
-snip-
Using alternate accounts or organizing voting groups to manipulate site statistics, such as purposely trying to get on the “What the Community is Loving/Remixing” rows of the front page.

They're not banned because of Manipulating Site Statistics, they're banned because they're considered spam.
They're still banned though, nonetheless.

Wait I'm confused about how this is manipulating the site statistics… There isn't any section for “most followed” so follows don't actually affect the stats!

willowmint- wrote:

Wait I'm confused about how this is manipulating the site statistics… There isn't any section for “most followed” so follows don't actually affect the stats!

Much agree. I doesn't think it many manipulate site statistics, but rather just really spam. also annoying.

willowmint- wrote:

Wait I'm confused about how this is manipulating the site statistics… There isn't any section for “most followed” so follows don't actually affect the stats!

That's correct. The “free follow” accounts are banned because they're just plain spam. We don't really want to encourage that Scratch and followers are all about the numbers.

Za-Chary wrote:

willowmint- wrote:

Wait I'm confused about how this is manipulating the site statistics… There isn't any section for “most followed” so follows don't actually affect the stats!

That's correct. The “free follow” accounts are banned because they're just plain spam. We don't really want to encourage that Scratch and followers are all about the numbers.

Oh okay, thank you!

It is not allowed for multiple reasons:

• To stop free follow accounts
  
• So that people cannot ask others to follow their main through their username
  
• To prevent people from using a username that asks others to unfollow someone else (also why new usernames cannot contain ‘hate’)
  

well i think its cause you can just put f4f pleez

CodeLearnerSai wrote:

It is not allowed for multiple reasons:

• To stop free follow accounts
  
• So that people cannot ask others to follow their main through their username
  
• To prevent people from using a username that asks others to unfollow someone else (also why new usernames cannot contain ‘hate’)
  

dragoanimator111 wrote:

well i think its cause you can just put f4f pleez

Don't necropost, necroposting is posting on old, abandoned topics. As you can see this topic is from 2020.

CodeLearnerSai wrote:

It is not allowed for multiple reasons:

• To stop free follow accounts
  
• So that people cannot ask others to follow their main through their username
  
• To prevent people from using a username that asks others to unfollow someone else (also why new usernames cannot contain ‘hate’)
  

Please don't necropost! Thank in advance!