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Scratch is unfair

A topic by Pizza.co created Mar 31, 2024 Views: 977 Replies: 22
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I got banned by the ST for being a Christian and not agreeing with the sexual stuff they push on kids, can anyone help?

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If you have been banned from Scratch, that is an issue you will need to take up with Scratch and their TOS.

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If I do, I’ll get a perm ban, the ST is very cruel

I think you're misunderstanding something. According to the Scratch Wiki

On the Scratch Website, when a user is permanently banned, they must contact the Scratch Team to explain what they did and promise that they will behave properly in the future. Upon receiving the message, the Scratch Team may decide either to set the ban to expire (thus unbanning the user) or take no action. If the Scratch Team decides to take no action, then they will respond with a message saying why the user will not be unbanned.[3] In some cases, they will state that the banned user is not welcome back on Scratch and in that case is not allowed to submit any further appeals.[4]

You need to contact the Scratch Team to explain your situation. Here is a link to their contact form: https://scratch.mit.edu/contact-us/

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Nevermind, my account got deleted yesterday:(

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I honestly agree. Scratch is unfair. The only thing worth it on their website is the coding portion. Thats it. The social media part is just WAY too political. Just get the offline version of their platform.

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This is not our problem.

Really I have no understanding in why people complain about their problems with other websites on the ones they are currently on right in front of them. If you got banned from there then maybe the community is not the right one for you and you're better off going somewhere else.

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I just wanted advice

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Plus scratch is where I made my games

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Well I just gave you mine.

Move on.

Take it or leave it.

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Being a Christian, and, being someone concerned about there being sexual content on their platform, are not the same thing. You're saying these two things automatically go together, but, as a non-Christian, I definitely care about the topic you are concerned about. Just saying, you're sort of accusing them of two things, rather than one. That feels like more of a strategy rather than genuine. If  you want to get somewhere, be singular of purpose.

I didn’t say the 2 words mean the same thing, I said both factors lead to me being banned

But I understand where you are coming from

It takes time to remove bad biases from one's mind. And thinking that Christians necessarily have a good sexual-content-radar, (and the inverse, that non-christians do not have a good sexual-content-radar), is one of those biases

Ok I’m sorry 😔

being in the dark about the specifics, I only have abstract words to offer

so... What did you do?

I asked a question about a certain topic while being respectful and got banned

ah, well that explains it ^.^

Scratch is a platform for all ages, I would even guest that the users of Scratch don't want to see sexual stuff, like myself when I use it as a kid. In the rules they put that they don't allow stuff that "Contains sexually explicit or graphically violent material"

Is that what they have verbatim in their rules? Contains sexually explicit or graphically violent material

Because, well, that would allow sexually non-explicit and non-graphically violent material.

I assume this was about lgbt stuff, that op did not approve of and started a flame war over it. So let's not continue any flame wars here.

Btw I didn’t start a flame war, I asked a question and got banned for it, and I was respectful about it too but I still got banned

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so respectful that you can't repeat the question