Scratch has been dustbinning posts that discuss the comment shutdown yesterday, why is that?

HailStateDawgs wrote:

Scratch has been dustbinning posts that discuss the comment shutdown yesterday, why is that?

Perhaps because is it done with (at least i think)

Jbear_ wrote:

HailStateDawgs wrote:

Scratch has been dustbinning posts that discuss the comment shutdown yesterday, why is that?

Perhaps because is it done with (at least i think)

Yeah, but they also have been hiding replies to tweets on twitter.

Because they're ashamed of it?

Paddle2see wrote:

That's pretty much it, so far as I know.

As for why topics were removed - posting a security issue on a public forum is not a good idea as it encourages others to take advantage of it. Please use Contact Us or another private channel to let the Scratch Team know in the future.

See the original post here

Kiska-7275 wrote:

Paddle2see wrote:

ScolderCreations wrote:

If we consider the different things this could've disrupted, scratchers deserve to know what happened. Even if it is just something as simple as “the filter temporarily stopped working during a glitch, and we had to quickly close comments to get it back and working again.”

That's pretty much it, so far as I know.

As for why topics were removed - posting a security issue on a public forum is not a good idea as it encourages others to take advantage of it. Please use Contact Us or another private channel to let the Scratch Team know in the future.

See the original post here

I think it would’ve been better if you didn’t remove the context from that quote.

As said above, if they removed them while it was happening, it's to keep people from spreading the knowledge about the glitch. So, less damage would happen.

lolecksdeehaha wrote:

As said above, if they removed them while it was happening, it's to keep people from spreading the knowledge about the glitch. So, less damage would happen.

So they are trying to save their reputation?

HailStateDawgs wrote:

lolecksdeehaha wrote:

As said above, if they removed them while it was happening, it's to keep people from spreading the knowledge about the glitch. So, less damage would happen.

So they are trying to save their reputation?

No, I think it's more like “The more that people know about the filterbot being broken, the more people that will just try to ‘test’ out it being broken.” This leads to more chaos and trouble throughout the website.

Jbear_ wrote:

HailStateDawgs wrote:

Scratch has been dustbinning posts that discuss the comment shutdown yesterday, why is that?

Perhaps because is it done with (at least i think)

^That would be it.

People have created many posts about this topic, and the question has already been answered several times.

Jbear_ wrote:

HailStateDawgs wrote:

Scratch has been dustbinning posts that discuss the comment shutdown yesterday, why is that?

Perhaps because is it done with (at least i think)

If that's the reason (which I kind of doubt), that would be a bad idea. For one thing, it would completely break the Scratch Wiki article about it, and it would be harder to find reliable information about what happened in the future.
I know that's not a huge deal, but it seems pointless.

Za-Chary wrote:

HailStateDawgs wrote:

lolecksdeehaha wrote:

As said above, if they removed them while it was happening, it's to keep people from spreading the knowledge about the glitch. So, less damage would happen.

So they are trying to save their reputation?

No, I think it's more like “The more that people know about the filterbot being broken, the more people that will just try to ‘test’ out it being broken.” This leads to more chaos and trouble throughout the website.

^ This would be the better answer.