My suggestion is that scratchers be able to have 1:1 chats, (note, the ST would still be able to comment anywhere and if they wished, change the commenting settings) everyone can still see your comments, but you can choose to only message one person if you want to.

edward78912(edited) wrote:

Allows people to have a publicly visible and safe conversation without having random people chime in and make it harder to read and see the replies the comment gets. The implementation would be a drop-down menu under the text box, where you can multi-select from “Everybody, {Project} creator, person whose profile page I'm commenting on, and so on depending on where you are commenting.

when scratch removed the option to block users the reason is because they wanted to fix the problem not just hide it and people would probably use this for the same purpose as the block button

XV5C wrote:

when scratch removed the option to block users the reason is because they wanted to fix the problem not just hide it and people would probably use this for the same purpose as the block button

The idea here is that you can have uninterrupted conversations with a user.

Dagriffpatchfan wrote:

The idea here is that you can have uninterrupted conversations with a user.

the guy you responded to understood the suggestion and was explaining the issue with how it could be potentially used to “block” people.
speaking of which, yeah, that could be an unlikely issue.

LaughabIe wrote:

Dagriffpatchfan wrote:

The idea here is that you can have uninterrupted conversations with a user.

the guy you responded to understood the suggestion and was explaining the issue with how it could be potentially used to “block” people.
speaking of which, yeah, that could be an unlikely issue.

That's kinda the idea, to block people from replying except the ones you want to hear from.. ex. Griffpatch wants to have a conversation with Crystal keeper7, it would be impossible because everyone would comment on his post - like thousands of people would see it and comment.

Dagriffpatchfan wrote:

LaughabIe wrote:

Dagriffpatchfan wrote:

The idea here is that you can have uninterrupted conversations with a user.

the guy you responded to understood the suggestion and was explaining the issue with how it could be potentially used to “block” people.
speaking of which, yeah, that could be an unlikely issue.

That's kinda the idea, to block people from replying except the ones you want to hear from.. ex. Griffpatch wants to have a conversation with Crystal keeper7, it would be impossible because everyone would comment on his post - like thousands of people would see it and comment.

Then they should probably use some other platform.

There is t really a good solution otherwise imo.

ok but


in what case do you need to have a conversation on scratch thats uninterrupted.

SpyCoderX wrote:

Dagriffpatchfan wrote:

LaughabIe wrote:

Dagriffpatchfan wrote:

The idea here is that you can have uninterrupted conversations with a user.

the guy you responded to understood the suggestion and was explaining the issue with how it could be potentially used to “block” people.
speaking of which, yeah, that could be an unlikely issue.

That's kinda the idea, to block people from replying except the ones you want to hear from.. ex. Griffpatch wants to have a conversation with Crystal keeper7, it would be impossible because everyone would comment on his post - like thousands of people would see it and comment.

Then they should probably use some other platform.

There is t really a good solution otherwise imo.

But the only way to do that is to know the scratcher in real life or break the CG and post your contact info.

han614698 wrote:

ok but


in what case do you need to have a conversation on scratch thats uninterrupted.

Most obvious one is collabs I think.

SpyCoderX wrote:

han614698 wrote:

ok but


in what case do you need to have a conversation on scratch thats uninterrupted.

Most obvious one is collabs I think.

Yeah, this would be a perfect fit for collaboration.

I think technically this would be more like a publicly visible version of Direct Messaging than Private Messaging, since it isn't private at all, just direct.

Support. All of the reasonable reasons to want private messaging are solved with this.

I would add a reason to the post, like “Allows people to have a publicly visible and safe conversation without having random people chime in and make it harder to read and see the replies the comment or wants.”

Maybe they could make it a drop-down menu under the text box, where you can multi-select from “Everybody, User i'm replying to, {Project} creator, People I follow, Followers, {Studio} Managers, {Studio} Curator, Nobody”

edward789121 wrote:

I think technically this would be more like a publicly visible version of Direct Messaging than Private Messaging, since it isn't private at all, just direct.

Support. All of the reasonable reasons to want private messaging are solved with this.

I would add a reason to the post, like “Allows people to have a publicly visible and safe conversation without having random people chime in and make it harder to read and see the replies the comment or wants.”

Maybe they could make it a drop-down menu under the text box, where you can multi-select from “Everybody, User i'm replying to, {Project} creator, People I follow, Followers, {Studio} Managers, {Studio} Curator, Nobody”

Great idea I've added it to the OP with credit and some edits.

On the surface this is a reasonable suggestion. I do have some nitpicks about the specific categories currently in the OP, though:

• “User i'm replying to”: I'm not sure how exactly this would work. If I make a forum post and set it to only have the “user I'm replying to” respond, who exactly would that be? Forum posts aren't replies to anything.
  
  
• “Followers”: This would just encourage people to make these private-ish threads and try to encourage others to follow them. This would be especially troublesome in, say, Project Save & Level Codes, where you might have a really long save code, and the project creator would make a topic, and say “You can post your save codes here but only if you follow me.” I don't think the Scratch Team would like to encourage social actions like that.
  

Is this suggestion only about forum posts, or is it also about project comments, studio comments, profile comments, etc.?

Za-Chary wrote:

On the surface this is a reasonable suggestion. I do have some nitpicks about the specific categories currently in the OP, though:

• “User i'm replying to”: I'm not sure how exactly this would work. If I make a forum post and set it to only have the “user I'm replying to” respond, who exactly would that be? Forum posts aren't replies to anything.
  
  
• “Followers”: This would just encourage people to make these private-ish threads and try to encourage others to follow them. This would be especially troublesome in, say, Project Save & Level Codes, where you might have a really long save code, and the project creator would make a topic, and say “You can post your save codes here but only if you follow me.” I don't think the Scratch Team would like to encourage social actions like that.
  

Is this suggestion only about forum posts, or is it also about project comments, studio comments, profile comments, etc.?

To address the second one there:

No “followers only” option

Also ST members should be able to post in any topic regardless of these settings (duh, otherwise moderation would be next to impossible on the forums), and moderators should be able to forcefully change these settings (override them).

Za-Chary wrote:

On the surface this is a reasonable suggestion. I do have some nitpicks about the specific categories currently in the OP, though:

• “User i'm replying to”: I'm not sure how exactly this would work. If I make a forum post and set it to only have the “user I'm replying to” respond, who exactly would that be? Forum posts aren't replies to anything.
  
  
• “Followers”: This would just encourage people to make these private-ish threads and try to encourage others to follow them. This would be especially troublesome in, say, Project Save & Level Codes, where you might have a really long save code, and the project creator would make a topic, and say “You can post your save codes here but only if you follow me.” I don't think the Scratch Team would like to encourage social actions like that.
  

Is this suggestion only about forum posts, or is it also about project comments, studio comments, profile comments, etc.?

Just comments

BigNate469 wrote:

Za-Chary wrote:

On the surface this is a reasonable suggestion. I do have some nitpicks about the specific categories currently in the OP, though:

• “User i'm replying to”: I'm not sure how exactly this would work. If I make a forum post and set it to only have the “user I'm replying to” respond, who exactly would that be? Forum posts aren't replies to anything.
  
  
• “Followers”: This would just encourage people to make these private-ish threads and try to encourage others to follow them. This would be especially troublesome in, say, Project Save & Level Codes, where you might have a really long save code, and the project creator would make a topic, and say “You can post your save codes here but only if you follow me.” I don't think the Scratch Team would like to encourage social actions like that.
  

Is this suggestion only about forum posts, or is it also about project comments, studio comments, profile comments, etc.?

To address the second one there:

No “followers only” option

Also ST members should be able to post in any topic regardless of these settings (duh, otherwise moderation would be next to impossible on the forums), and moderators should be able to forcefully change these settings (override them).

Yup.

I don't really have any complaints if this is only in comments, and it's only 1:1.

If you're allowed to have more than two people in one of these things, then it's where people start to get left out and making exclusive chats. And I don't think this is needed on the forums.

If you want to collab with someone, just make a thread, and do these two things:

A. Deal with one other person posting once - it's not that disruptive. You could add a polite message asking others to not post.

B. Report the spam posts. Usually when people post where they really shouldn't be they don't have much productive to say - report it as spam and it will likely be removed.

Bump

starlightsparker wrote:

I recall this is a duplicate of one of my own suggestions—May someone help find it?
Here it is.

Similar - but the one you linked includes group chats as well - a feature this one specifically does not include.