Paddle2See wrote:

Scratch is a big community and it is important that everyone follow the Community Guidelines, including being respectful and friendly. There are several topics that we would like to address to continue to keep the site friendly.

Advertising

We understand that you want other people to see your projects.. However, misplaced advertising or spamming links is not friendly or respectful to other users.

Where is it okay to advertise?

There are many ways that you can share your projects with others that we don’t consider to violate the Community Guidelines, including:

• The ‘About Me’ and ‘What I'm Working’ on fields of your profile
  
• Changing the Featured Project on your profile
  
• Leaving a comment on your own profile
  
• Your forum signature in the Discussion Forums
  
• In the Show and Tell area of the Discussion Forums (make a new topic for your project)
  
• In Studios that are designed for advertising
  
• In Studios that have a theme similar to your project (to ask that your project be added to the Studio)
  
  

Where is it not okay to advertise?

Any place where your ad would be considered “off-topic”, such as:

• Comments on someone else's project
  
• Comments on someone else's profile (possible exception - maybe your followers profiles would be okay - but you might want to check with them first)
  
• On areas of the Discussion Forums other than Show and Tell
  
• In Studios that are not relevant to the project you are advertising
  

Note that “asking for feedback” (with no specifics) for one of your projects could still be considered advertising. However, inviting somebody to enjoy one of your projects that is similar to one of theirs might be considered okay, since you are sharing an interest. We ask that you do not post more than one such comment, and avoid doing this at all on projects which are featured on the Scratch homepage.

Follow-for-Follow (f4f)

Follow-for-Follow, also called f4f, is when a Scratcher invites another Scratcher to become a follower by promising to do the same for them. It is allowed on Scratch. However, it can also be considered spamming or misplaced advertising if you repeatedly post this type of request. We ask that you be respectful of other Scratchers and do not spam Follow-for-follow (f4f) comments.

Following is intended to make it easy to see what another Scratcher is doing. It's a great way to build friendships through shared interests. Just getting more followers should not be your goal - what's important is building strong relationships with other Scratchers and having fun through sharing with them.

That being said, there is no denying that more followers often leads to more views for projects and perhaps more incentive to continue making projects. So it's understandable that some Scratchers try to increase the number of followers they have by offering f4f. However, choosing to follow someone is always a voluntary choice. If you are not interested in following somebody when they ask you (whether it's through an f4f request or any kind of request), just politely decline.

Cool!

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-ABIC- wrote:

thank you very much for making us all understand, maybe we also have to find a way for more scratchers to notice, but it's ok for the moment, and I have a question, make a studio for a specific project is spam?

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maya201910 wrote:

I think people should respect other profiles.
If is say no f4f, do not f4f.
If is say no ads, do not adverse.

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DragonAero wrote:

Thank you for posting this! I hope this at least calms down the debate on whether advertising is beneficial or not.
(yes i know it's against the community guidelines, so i'm against advertising)

FelipeFinder wrote:

EVERYONE:


I think you might of noticed, but there's a chain message going all around scratch. This is relating kind of to advertising. You might know that a scratch has been telling people to spread this message;

SPREAD THE MESSAGE: We have a problem here, that underrated scratchers never get famous because anyone hardly visits them, due to people visiting famous scratchers. But Scratch can solve this by adding a bar to the left which shows non-popular scratcher's projects. Or we can visit underrated scratchers studio's and check out projects there. ORIGINAL BY: @IzzyandRyan kindly copy paste to everywhere!

This is clearly disturbing general talk, and I feel like something has to be done to stop this.