Horsekatto wrote:

(#1)
It's that some people make new scratch accounts just to spam and hate on random people. You can delete these comments sure but the emotional damage doesn't go away. Imagine an eight year olds face when they have a hate comment calling them stupid or something when they haven't even done anything.

Community Guidelines wrote:

Treat everyone with respect.
Scratchers have diverse backgrounds, interests, identities, and experiences. Everyone on Scratch is encouraged to share things that excite them and are important to them—we hope that you find ways to celebrate your own identity on Scratch, and allow others to do the same. It’s never OK to attack a person or group’s identity or to be unkind to someone about their background or interests.

Zydrolic wrote:

This'll confuse new users if they wanna know how on earth to become a scratcher

Horsekatto wrote:

(#1)
It's that some people make new scratch accounts just to spam and hate on random people. You can delete these comments sure but the emotional damage doesn't go away. Imagine an eight year olds face when they have a hate comment calling them stupid or something when they haven't even done anything.

Deleting helps nobody, exact reason why blocking was rejected. The report option exists for a reason, and so does the first part of the guidelines.

Community Guidelines wrote:

Treat everyone with respect.
Scratchers have diverse backgrounds, interests, identities, and experiences. Everyone on Scratch is encouraged to share things that excite them and are important to them—we hope that you find ways to celebrate your own identity on Scratch, and allow others to do the same. It’s never OK to attack a person or group’s identity or to be unkind to someone about their background or interests.

Anyways, this suggestion is not gonna end up well. I mean, that'd require an edit of a lotta garbage.

If you outright forbid commenting for New Scratchers, it might confuse them.
Sure, new scratchers are more often troublemakers than Scratchers are, but that ain't the point.
No matter what, it'll confuse people, and the forums might just have a few billion off-topic chat topics afterwards.

I am not really good at explaining and I don't have any other points, so that ends my thoughts.

-Expo wrote:

(#3)
This is assuming that EVERY new scratcher is a spammer. (smol snip)

Zydrolic wrote:

This'll confuse new users if they wanna know how on earth to become a scratcher

waitwhat2288 wrote:

(#6)

Zydrolic wrote:

This'll confuse new users if they wanna know how on earth to become a scratcher

How so? Pretty sure all they'd have to do is provide information on how to become one.

Zydrolic wrote:

waitwhat2288 wrote:

(#6)

Zydrolic wrote:

This'll confuse new users if they wanna know how on earth to become a scratcher

How so? Pretty sure all they'd have to do is provide information on how to become one.

they'd get told about commenting
but they literally cant
and as aforementioned in the rest of the post, for example a lot of things would need a change:

Horsekatto wrote:

(#8)
Sometimes change is good.

Zydrolic wrote:

Horsekatto wrote:

(#8)
Sometimes change is good.

Not always.
Then again not allowing them to comment feels overblow.
Maybe just a wait 10 minutes before you can comment, but even then this still feels insanely futile.

amogus1123 wrote:

(#10)
there's a point of commenting for new scratchers - helps them engage with the community. it would be a terrible idea to remove it cuz then new scratchers that have just turned into scratchers would not know how to engage

Zydrolic wrote:

amogus1123 wrote:

(#10)
there's a point of commenting for new scratchers - helps them engage with the community. it would be a terrible idea to remove it cuz then new scratchers that have just turned into scratchers would not know how to engage

I should've said superfluous instead of futile, but either way I'm not saying I like the suggestion.

Zydrolic wrote:

waitwhat2288 wrote:

(#6)

Zydrolic wrote:

This'll confuse new users if they wanna know how on earth to become a scratcher

How so? Pretty sure all they'd have to do is provide information on how to become one.

they'd get told about commenting
but they literally cant

Horsekatto wrote:

Well we need a way to stop new scratchers from just spaming hate and emotionally scarring children. Any ideas?

Horsekatto wrote:

(#14)
Well we need a way to stop new scratchers from just spaming hate and emotionally scarring children. Any ideas?

Horsekatto wrote:

Well we need a way to stop new scratchers from just spaming hate and emotionally scarring children.

amogus1123 wrote:

Horsekatto wrote:

Well we need a way to stop new scratchers from just spaming hate and emotionally scarring children. Any ideas?

not being rude but….

have a stricter filter for them. use your common sense.

ajskateboarder wrote:

Horsekatto wrote:

Well we need a way to stop new scratchers from just spaming hate and emotionally scarring children.

It's really easy to become a Scratcher as is, people can still emotionally scar children (albeit not as much as any other site)

Horsekatto wrote:

(#19)

ajskateboarder wrote:

Horsekatto wrote:

Well we need a way to stop new scratchers from just spaming hate and emotionally scarring children.

It's really easy to become a Scratcher as is, people can still emotionally scar children (albeit not as much as any other site)

It's more likely to be new scratchers though. Most spammers and bullies are too impatient to become a scratcher.