A way to help discourage Scratchblock spam.

Deerleg

AonymousGuy wrote:
People! The problem with this suggestion isn't whether Scratchblocks is good to do.

It's that a filter like this would falsely tell hundreds of users that their posts where Scratchblock spam.

Read that post again.

Scratchblock spam is a problem but it's not so big that it needs to be argued over.
Use that report button.

OmnipotentPotato

Deerleg wrote:
AonymousGuy wrote:
People! The problem with this suggestion isn't whether Scratchblocks is good to do.

It's that a filter like this would falsely tell hundreds of users that their posts where Scratchblock spam.
Read that post again.

Scratchblock spam is a problem but it's not so big that it needs to be argued over.
Use that report button.

Wait, Scratchblock spam is something that's reportable?

TheHockeyist

OmnipotentPotato wrote:
Deerleg wrote:
AonymousGuy wrote:
People! The problem with this suggestion isn't whether Scratchblocks is good to do.

It's that a filter like this would falsely tell hundreds of users that their posts where Scratchblock spam.
Read that post again.

Scratchblock spam is a problem but it's not so big that it needs to be argued over.
Use that report button.
Wait, Scratchblock spam is something that's reportable?

Yep.

Blaze349

cheeseeater wrote:
Blaze349 wrote:
(This is the ST's website,  scratchers accept their term of use. Not our term of use.)
 ( I think that you guys are just whining a lot about something that does not matter.(
(Also you purposely made it hard by having one word per line.)
Like this.
I
am
Blaze349
I
am
Blaze349
Firstly I intended to make it like that. Because nearly all the scratch-block spam posts I have seen were structured like that.

Secondly where in the terms of use does it say, “You are not allowed to moan about people misusing the scratch blocks?”. Answer: Nowhere.
I stress this point again: Just because ‘Paddle2See’ does not remove the spammy spamblock posts, it does not reflect the views of the REST OF SCRATCH. Put it this way, say Bill Gates like waffles. That would not reflect the view of his employees at Microsoft. Just because Paddle2See does not necessary mind scratch-block spam, it does not mean the rest of us scratchers don't either. When it comes down to it, the SCRATCHERS are the most important people on scratch, so if we find the scratch block spam annoying it should be removed.

I don't even like Bill Gates…

Blaze349

TheHockeyist wrote:
OmnipotentPotato wrote:
Deerleg wrote:
AonymousGuy wrote:
People! The problem with this suggestion isn't whether Scratchblocks is good to do.

It's that a filter like this would falsely tell hundreds of users that their posts where Scratchblock spam.
Read that post again.

Scratchblock spam is a problem but it's not so big that it needs to be argued over.
Use that report button.
Wait, Scratchblock spam is something that's reportable?
Yep.

no, it breaks no guidelines

Zro716

Blaze349 wrote:
TheHockeyist wrote:
OmnipotentPotato wrote:
Deerleg wrote:
AonymousGuy wrote:
People! The problem with this suggestion isn't whether Scratchblocks is good to do.

It's that a filter like this would falsely tell hundreds of users that their posts where Scratchblock spam.
Read that post again.

Scratchblock spam is a problem but it's not so big that it needs to be argued over.
Use that report button.
Wait, Scratchblock spam is something that's reportable?
Yep.
no, it breaks no guidelines

as long as it's relevant and easy to read.

things like

say [a dkfas4234236dia b4aelf sf352d] for () secs
john :cool::D:/:/:lol::P:o
I LOVE PIE

should be reported as they are just like normal spam you would find but in [scratchblocks]

Last edited by Zro716 (Sept. 21, 2014 02:39:39)

TheHockeyist

Zro716 wrote:
Blaze349 wrote:
TheHockeyist wrote:
OmnipotentPotato wrote:
Deerleg wrote:
AonymousGuy wrote:
People! The problem with this suggestion isn't whether Scratchblocks is good to do.

It's that a filter like this would falsely tell hundreds of users that their posts where Scratchblock spam.
Read that post again.

Scratchblock spam is a problem but it's not so big that it needs to be argued over.
Use that report button.
Wait, Scratchblock spam is something that's reportable?
Yep.
no, it breaks no guidelines
as long as it's relevant and easy to read.

things like
say [a dkfas4234236dia b4aelf sf352d] for () secs
john :cool::D:/:/:lol::P:o
I LOVE PIE
should be reported as they are just like normal spam you would find but in [scratchblocks]

What I mostly see is users testing out with Scratchblocks.

AonymousGuy

Blaze349 wrote:
TheHockeyist wrote:
OmnipotentPotato wrote:
Wait, Scratchblock spam is something that's reportable?
Yep.
no, it breaks no guidelines

Well, unless it's actual spam, like this:

say [you should totally check out *spam link*]

OmnipotentPotato

So these are reportable:

move (gfhujfhuifhsuifhdfuifahdghifhdfishdfiafsdafasfd) steps
<key [kkk v] pressed?>

But something like this isn't?

say [I like] for (2) secs
set pen color to (your)
move (IDEA) steps
switch costume to [support!]

RPFluffy

TheHockeyist wrote:
play sound [You've probably seen enough of this on the forums, right? v]
say [It gets really annoying after a while. It's even discouraged.]
broadcast [I have a proposal to help stop this from happening. v]
*ahem*

If the majority of your post is Scratchblocks, a pop up will come up saying that Scratchblock spam is discouraged on the forums. It will then ask you if you want to post your message anyways, and will prompt you to click either yes or no (the no button being slightly larger in hopes to get more people to click on it… )

The message would not pop up in three circumstances:

On the Help with Scripts forum.
On the Scratchblocks testing topic.
When you are over 2 months old in terms of your Scratch age and you have more than 10 50 posts on the Scratch forums.

Any supporters?

How 'bout 100+ posts and Scratch Blocks should be allowed on ANY forum but you should give like a reason that you are posting those SBs, except on the Help with Scripts forum and SB testing topic.

Last edited by RPFluffy (Sept. 21, 2014 23:56:30)

MegaApuTurkUltra

RPFluffy wrote:
TheHockeyist wrote:
play sound [You've probably seen enough of this on the forums, right? v]
say [It gets really annoying after a while. It's even discouraged.]
broadcast [I have a proposal to help stop this from happening. v]
*ahem*

If the majority of your post is Scratchblocks, a pop up will come up saying that Scratchblock spam is discouraged on the forums. It will then ask you if you want to post your message anyways, and will prompt you to click either yes or no (the no button being slightly larger in hopes to get more people to click on it… )

The message would not pop up in three circumstances:

On the Help with Scripts forum.
On the Scratchblocks testing topic.
When you are over 2 months old in terms of your Scratch age and you have more than 10 50 posts on the Scratch forums.

Any supporters?
How 'bout 100+ posts and Scratch Blocks should be allowed on ANY forum but you should give like a reason that you are posting those SBs, except on the Help with Scripts forum and SB testing topic.

Then spammers could still be like Reason: “example code for person”
And they could still post

Spam
Spam
Spam
Spam
Spam
Spam
...

My point is there are too many posts for the ST to be able to filter through individually.

cheeseeater

Blaze349 wrote:
I don't even like Bill Gates…

It was an example.

abh206

TheHockeyist wrote:
play sound [You've probably seen enough of this on the forums, right? v]
say [It gets really annoying after a while. It's even discouraged.]
broadcast [I have a proposal to help stop this from happening. v]
*ahem*

If the majority of your post is Scratchblocks, a pop up will come up saying that Scratchblock spam is discouraged on the forums. It will then ask you if you want to post your message anyways, and will prompt you to click either yes or no (the no button being slightly larger in hopes to get more people to click on it… )

The message would not pop up in three circumstances:

On the Help with Scripts forum.
On the Scratchblocks testing topic.
When you are over 2 months old in terms of your Scratch age and you have more than 10 50 posts on the Scratch forums.

Any supporters?

No support.

abh206

MegaApuTurkUltra wrote:

no::sensing hat
support::operators
since::looks cstart
Paddle(2){See{Supports{It::variables}::sound}::motion}::pen
even though this can be annoying::cend
Some people like it::control cap

How'd you do that?

MegaApuTurkUltra

abh206 wrote:

MegaApuTurkUltra wrote:

no::sensing hat
support::operators
since::looks cstart
Paddle(2){See{Supports{It::variables}::sound}::motion}::pen
even though this can be annoying::cend
Some people like it::control cap

How'd you do that?

You did quote me… Read the code.

GyroscopeBill

when green flag clicked
say [hey, scratch blocks are cool!] for (2) secs
however :: control cstart
say [they can get out of hand if used excessively] for (2) secs
end

So I semi-support all the original suggestions. I'm not all that bothered either way.

TheHockeyist

Major bump.

OmnipotentPotato

TheHockeyist wrote:
Major bump.

After reading the thread over again, I support even more.

TimothyLawyer

Deerleg wrote:
Use that report button.

theonlygusti

I support, but it should be two months of Scratcher-age, so new Scratcher not included. Also, 100+ posts. If you need to make the majority of you're post consist of scratchblocks, you're probably in the help with scripts forum anyway.

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