Automated Accounts

-gr

I'm working on a project using ScratchAttach, and I was wondering if it's against the rules to have bot accounts… I've logged into my test account before using ScratchAttach to run a script that monitors cloud variables. If I made an account that would be primarily used by a ScratchAttach script for monitoring cloud variables for one of my projects, like as a server, is that allowed?

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4.4 You may only submit user-generated projects that were created with (1) the Scratch website editor or (2) an unmodified copy of the Scratch editor compiled from the source code described in Section 5.3. You may not upload any projects that were created, by you or by anyone else, with a modified version of the Scratch editor.

oh shoot well i broke that rule (i use turbowarp sometimes)

Jeffalo

i think automating any social actions is strictly against the rules, and thus any account dedicated to automated things is probably not allowed and will get banned.

for something like monitoring variables, if you're not setting anything (just polling/staying connected to a websocket connection), why do you need a separate account?

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NIKI-KOLCHAGOV

As other people said

Jeffalo wrote:
i think automating any social actions is strictly against the rules, and thus any account dedicated to automated things is probably not allowed and will get banned.

And why would you need to use an account just to monitor scratch variables
You dont even need scratch attach you can just do it in scratch if all you want is just to monitor cloud variables and you can save the info in lists
Im not 100% sure if it will work but i have recently been testing stuff like these

Last edited by NIKI-KOLCHAGOV (May 25, 2024 21:20:37)

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Scratch is for humans, and we do not allow bot activity of any kind. Our Community Guidelines state, “It’s important to be honest and authentic when interacting with others on Scratch,” because we want everyone to have a safe, welcoming, and genuine experience on Scratch.

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cosmosaura wrote:
Scratch is for humans, and we do not allow bot activity of any kind. Our Community Guidelines state, “It’s important to be honest and authentic when interacting with others on Scratch,” because we want everyone to have a safe, welcoming, and genuine experience on Scratch.

Except search engine indexers. (Hence robots.txt)
Yeah, don't make a bot.

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