THIS AIN'T 7.17 NOR 4.2 NOR 8.2 ON TOLORS.

So basically the game awards but with scratch awards.

You might ask “Why are you suggesting this?”, that's because it highlights the best of the best Scratch projects. On september 1, there will be a new topic in the announcements forum, where there is a clickable google forms link. Clicking it will take you to a form that you need to sign.

Here are the awards:

Best Game
Best Animation
Best Artwork Project
Best Music Project
Best Multiplayer Project
Best Story
Overall Best Project


The Scratcher who gets any of the first 6 awards / places in the top 10 of the Overall Best Project award leaderboard will get a silver badge next to their name. Whoever places top 1 on the overall best project leaderboard will have a gold badge next to their name. Also, all Scratch Award sections have a leaderboard showing the top 25 projects of that award leaderboard.

I know, bragging and all that, but everyone knows how to report comments. So do I!

Scratch low-key doesnt have an excuse (meaning this in a neutral non-attacking way) for this anymore if they’re gonna have competitions with the main goal of being able to send a “thank you” letter to a scratch sponsor and forcing people to have member tags (that are already causing many people to become center of attentions)

Support, because why not and also this kinda would be cool (but please make the badge toggleable)

But question: HOW would this work? Theres so many scratch projects, and so many users, and possibly the easy ability to spam it.

Support. This would improve community interaction, and if they listen to the community about Scratch Membership's features, this could actually entice more people to buy it, fitting their goal of raising money to hire more workers.

Scratch_Cat_Coder8 wrote:

Scratch low-key doesnt have an excuse (meaning this in a neutral non-attacking way) for this anymore if they’re gonna have competitions with the main goal of being able to send a “thank you” letter to a scratch sponsor and forcing people to have member tags (that are already causing many people to become center of attentions)

Support, because why not and also this kinda would be cool (but please make the badge toggleable)

But question: HOW would this work? Theres so many scratch projects, and so many users, and possibly the easy ability to spam it.

After you click the google forms link, you will be sent to a form you will have to sign.
There are seven text fields. You cannot put the same project link on two or more text fields. The Scratch Team members will then review the submissions to check for “double links” and inappropriate projects.

0_009 wrote:

Scratch_Cat_Coder8 wrote:

Scratch low-key doesnt have an excuse (meaning this in a neutral non-attacking way) for this anymore if they’re gonna have competitions with the main goal of being able to send a “thank you” letter to a scratch sponsor and forcing people to have member tags (that are already causing many people to become center of attentions)

Support, because why not and also this kinda would be cool (but please make the badge toggleable)

But question: HOW would this work? Theres so many scratch projects, and so many users, and possibly the easy ability to spam it.

After you click the google forms link, you will be sent to a form you will have to sign.
There are seven text fields. You cannot put the same project link on two or more text fields. The Scratch Team members will then review the submissions to check for “double links” and inappropriate projects.

But how? Theres so many users and projects that could slow moderation down due to the members looking at the forms

Scratch_Cat_Coder8 wrote:

0_009 wrote:

Scratch_Cat_Coder8 wrote:

Scratch low-key doesnt have an excuse (meaning this in a neutral non-attacking way) for this anymore if they’re gonna have competitions with the main goal of being able to send a “thank you” letter to a scratch sponsor and forcing people to have member tags (that are already causing many people to become center of attentions)

Support, because why not and also this kinda would be cool (but please make the badge toggleable)

But question: HOW would this work? Theres so many scratch projects, and so many users, and possibly the easy ability to spam it.

After you click the google forms link, you will be sent to a form you will have to sign.
There are seven text fields. You cannot put the same project link on two or more text fields. The Scratch Team members will then review the submissions to check for “double links” and inappropriate projects.

But how? Theres so many users and projects that could slow moderation down due to the members looking at the forms

Two words: Automatic moderation.

0_009 wrote:

Scratch_Cat_Coder8 wrote:

0_009 wrote:

Scratch_Cat_Coder8 wrote:

Scratch low-key doesnt have an excuse (meaning this in a neutral non-attacking way) for this anymore if they’re gonna have competitions with the main goal of being able to send a “thank you” letter to a scratch sponsor and forcing people to have member tags (that are already causing many people to become center of attentions)

Support, because why not and also this kinda would be cool (but please make the badge toggleable)

But question: HOW would this work? Theres so many scratch projects, and so many users, and possibly the easy ability to spam it.

After you click the google forms link, you will be sent to a form you will have to sign.
There are seven text fields. You cannot put the same project link on two or more text fields. The Scratch Team members will then review the submissions to check for “double links” and inappropriate projects.

But how? Theres so many users and projects that could slow moderation down due to the members looking at the forms

Two words: Automatic moderation.

oh no

0_009 wrote:

Scratch_Cat_Coder8 wrote:

0_009 wrote:

Scratch_Cat_Coder8 wrote:

Scratch low-key doesnt have an excuse (meaning this in a neutral non-attacking way) for this anymore if they’re gonna have competitions with the main goal of being able to send a “thank you” letter to a scratch sponsor and forcing people to have member tags (that are already causing many people to become center of attentions)

Support, because why not and also this kinda would be cool (but please make the badge toggleable)

But question: HOW would this work? Theres so many scratch projects, and so many users, and possibly the easy ability to spam it.

After you click the google forms link, you will be sent to a form you will have to sign.
There are seven text fields. You cannot put the same project link on two or more text fields. The Scratch Team members will then review the submissions to check for “double links” and inappropriate projects.

But how? Theres so many users and projects that could slow moderation down due to the members looking at the forms

Two words: Automatic moderation.

“Sorry, we will not add that project to The Scratch Awards because we do not know what it is. As an AI assistant, we are required to keep others ‘safe’ and validate Scratch Award entries, and if we do not know what the project is, we will not add it.”

_Paymer wrote:

0_009 wrote:

Scratch_Cat_Coder8 wrote:

0_009 wrote:

Scratch_Cat_Coder8 wrote:

Scratch low-key doesnt have an excuse (meaning this in a neutral non-attacking way) for this anymore if they’re gonna have competitions with the main goal of being able to send a “thank you” letter to a scratch sponsor and forcing people to have member tags (that are already causing many people to become center of attentions)

Support, because why not and also this kinda would be cool (but please make the badge toggleable)

But question: HOW would this work? Theres so many scratch projects, and so many users, and possibly the easy ability to spam it.

After you click the google forms link, you will be sent to a form you will have to sign.
There are seven text fields. You cannot put the same project link on two or more text fields. The Scratch Team members will then review the submissions to check for “double links” and inappropriate projects.

But how? Theres so many users and projects that could slow moderation down due to the members looking at the forms

Two words: Automatic moderation.

“Sorry, we will not add that project to The Scratch Awards because we do not know what it is. As an AI assistant, we are required to keep others ‘safe’ and validate Scratch Award entries, and if we do not know what the project is, we will not add it.”

Didn't Za-Chary say something under the lines of

I regret to inform you that there is no “AI moderation” on the website. There are a couple of forms of automated moderation, but I would not consider either one to be AI:

* The filterbot that prevents you from typing bad words in comments is an automated moderation system.

* Sometimes if projects get enough reports, they are automatically removed until a Scratch Team member looks at it. In this case, the project creator receives an alert clearly stating that the project was automatically removed and will be re-shared pending Scratch Team review.

Support, maybe use a system similar to {a certain scratch mod related to penguins} where you can ‘vote’ for projects to be featured?

Also, rather than making that one griffpatch project always win, maybe it should be something like ‘Best Underrated’ or something so that less popular people actually have a chance to ‘win’ this thing

0_009 wrote:

THIS AIN'T 7.17 NOR 4.2 NOR 8.2 ON TOLORS.

So basically the game awards but with scratch awards.

You might ask “Why are you suggesting this?”, that's because it highlights the best of the best Scratch projects. On september 1, there will be a new topic in the announcements forum, where there is a clickable google forms link. Clicking it will take you to a form that you need to sign.

Here are the awards:

Best Game
Best Animation
Best Artwork Project
Best Music Project
Best Multiplayer Project
Best Story
Overall Best Project


The Scratcher who gets any of the first 6 awards / places in the top 10 of the Overall Best Project award leaderboard will get a silver badge next to their name. Whoever places top 1 on the overall best project leaderboard will have a gold badge next to their name. Also, all Scratch Award sections have a leaderboard showing the top 25 projects of that award leaderboard.

I know, bragging and all that, but everyone knows how to report comments. So do I!

I’m sorry, have you seen the toxicity on this platform? (sorry if that sounded rude.) Some young child will cry because they didn’t win. No support.

I fail to see how this is not 7.17 on TOLORS. Arguably it also falls under 8.8.

No support. This is definitely gonna upset some people (especially younger children). And as @Za-Chary said, this does fall under 7.17 imo

cookedasparagus8 wrote:

0_009 wrote:

-snip, please don’t quote the OP

I’m sorry, have you seen the toxicity on this platform? (sorry if that sounded rude.) Some young child will cry because they didn’t win. No support.

It’s funny (ironic) that when a school does stuff like this (raffles, etc), it’s completely OK, but when an online platform does it, all bets are off. And btw, scratch is literally already doing something similar for membership users.

FreshTheCat wrote:

Also, rather than making that one griffpatch project always win, maybe it should be something like ‘Best Underrated’ or something so that less popular people actually have a chance to ‘win’ this thing

Just flat out not allow creators who are already massive massive to win. It would be unfair to those who likely deserve it

Scratch_Cat_Coder8 wrote:

FreshTheCat wrote:

Also, rather than making that one griffpatch project always win, maybe it should be something like ‘Best Underrated’ or something so that less popular people actually have a chance to ‘win’ this thing

Just flat out not allow creators who are already massive massive to win. It would be unfair to those who likely deserve it

So? Are you saying that projects like a SCRATCH EMULATOR that probably took days to make wouldn't be able to win because Griffpatch made it?
That would be just as unfair, just having a separate entry for underrated creators would be the best solution

Scratch_Cat_Coder8 wrote:

cookedasparagus8 wrote:

0_009 wrote:

-snip, please don’t quote the OP

I’m sorry, have you seen the toxicity on this platform? (sorry if that sounded rude.) Some young child will cry because they didn’t win. No support.

It’s funny (ironic) that when a school does stuff like this (raffles, etc), it’s completely OK, but when an online platform does it, all bets are off. And btw, scratch is literally already doing something similar for membership users.

Scratch Membership is a smaller audience, so
Less people = Less toxicity
Plus they said they're gonna have contests, no way you'd scam them on the most popular coding community in the world.

Za-Chary wrote:

I fail to see how this is not 7.17 on TOLORS. Arguably it also falls under 8.8.

In fact, this suggestion would have to be an official contest, because if it wasn't an official contest, then it'd be a community suggestion and thus (in my opinion) does not belong on the forums. Especially considering that they could then organize the contest themselves. As for 8.8, if getting a game award is considered an achievement, I assume that getting a Scratch Award would also be considered an achievement.

While it is not clear what is and isn't still rejected by 7.17, you haven't elaborated how you think 7.17 and 8.8 don't apply here. You've merely stated that they don't, and I don't see how that is.

Hello! I saw this post from Paddle2See that sort of rejects this.

Paddle2See wrote:

Scratch has never been about competition - you don't see contests put on by the Scratch Team. The reason is that Scratch is primarily intended as a learning language to be used by programming beginners. The joy of creation and learning while having fun with your friends provides a lot of incentive to learn Scratch without formal competition. I suspect that this will continue.

There are so many other ways the community is brought together!

I'm assuming the reason you suggested this was because you wanted to contradict the member badges and borders with a cool contest for all. I agree something should be done about that, but this isn't the best idea . However members of the YAB, including myself are also chatting about this, and ways to not make members the whole focus. Such as claimable borders; and some learning-based ones.

Please let me know if I misread your idea!