Custom Profile/Studio comment emojis

kccuber

DISCLAIMER:
This suggestion is not asking to add a new emoji of X.

What I'm suggesting:
I am suggesting custom emojis for profile and studio comments.

How this would work:
Basically, this would add a box which contains a set of custom emojis to profiles/studio comments. It would allow you to add emojis like this:

thank you my alt account airplanedodge for the screenshots

It would only work on the studio/profile they are added. For example the Firefox Club emojis would only work on the firefox club studio comments.
You would be able to add these emojis through a new upload panel on the profile page or studio. Mockup: TBA.

Why I want this:
It would add a nice touch to some fanclub studios (Like firefox club so we can use firefox emojis) and it would solve the issue for people wanting an X emoji… kinda.

Requirements:
Images should be less than or equal to 64x64px to prevent inappropriate emojis. The studio owner or the profile owner must be a Scratcher status, to further prevent inappropriate emojis (just like the forums)

Last edited by kccuber (Aug. 10, 2021 22:05:52)

Chiroyce

So it's like YouTube membership — but you don't have to join, it's free, right?

kccuber wrote:
to further prevent inappropriate emojis

So just reporting the comment with an inappropriate emoji would be enough right?

Last edited by Chiroyce (Aug. 11, 2021 02:32:04)

kccuber

Chiroyce wrote:
So just reporting the comment with an inappropriate emoji would be enough right?

no. since these would be set by the profile/studio owner there would be a new option in studio and profile reporting “Inappropriate custom emojis”

kccuber

bump!

-SoudaCan-

I support! I want to use Emojis of my oc in my talk studio Instead of scratch cat.

ScolderCreations

What would happen on the messages screen, if someone used a custom emoji? Would it load all of the emojis for the place the comment was from, to display them? What would happen if you received comments from many different places with different costum emojis?

ForumHelperNanoPiex

ScolderCreations wrote:
What would happen on the messages screen, if someone used a custom emoji? Would it load all of the emojis for the place the comment was from, to display them? What would happen if you received comments from many different places with different costum emojis?

I'm guessing that Scratch would store the images uploaded in a sort of database that can make it easier to display the images.

kccuber

bump

KangaCoder

Nice idea! Although I see a few issues with this.

How would it work to prevent people from spamming emojis?

kccuber wrote:
It would only work on the studio/profile they are added. For example the Firefox Club emojis would only work on the firefox club studio comments.

It would add a nice touch to some fanclub studios (Like firefox club so we can use firefox emojis) and it would solve the issue for people wanting an X emoji… kinda.

What’s the code that would allow, say, a Firefox Fan Club studio to be marked as a Firefox Fan Club?

People could basically just write in the studio description:

This is a fan club.
A Firefox fan club.
A Chrome fan club.
A griffpatch fan club.
An eggplant fan club.

See?

And with this, you could upload innapropriately uses banned emojis, like the eggplant one, or just inappropriate. A Scratcher status may/won’t stop that.

And take into consideration what the Scratch Team would have to do to ban emojis. Like the eggplant example, they could ban one certain image, but there are millions of eggplant images that could be used inappropriately on the Internet.

All in all, this is a very nice idea, but it would be very spammy, easy to upload inappropriate images, hard to handle/moderate, and tricky to implement, so therefore, I’m going with no support.

Chiroyce

wangat wrote:
easy to upload inappropriate images

Already exists

Yellowsheep43

There are a few problems with this idea:

-May take up a lot of server space
-Would be hard to moderate because lots of scratchers could easily upload inappropriate emojis.
-May cause lower-end devices to lag if there are lots of emojis

If this does get added, I want a limit on the amount of custom emjois. I think 10 is good.

dertermenter

Yellowsheep43 wrote:
There are a few problems with this idea:

-May take up a lot of server space
-Would be hard to moderate because lots of scratchers could easily upload inappropriate emojis.
-May cause lower-end devices to lag if there are lots of emojis

If this does get added, I want a limit on the amount of custom emjois. I think 10 is good.

Whilst I’m pretty sure emojis take little to none space, I agree that it seems to pile more work on the slim amount of scratch moderators which are already struggling with the pandemic. I just don’t see scratch adding a feature like this for now.

290Scratcher

dertermenter wrote:
Yellowsheep43 wrote:
There are a few problems with this idea:

-May take up a lot of server space
-Would be hard to moderate because lots of scratchers could easily upload inappropriate emojis.
-May cause lower-end devices to lag if there are lots of emojis

If this does get added, I want a limit on the amount of custom emjois. I think 10 is good.
Whilst I’m pretty sure emojis take little to none space

Yes, since OP is suggesting they are 64x64 at most.

wangat wrote:
What’s the code that would allow, say, a Firefox Fan Club studio to be marked as a Firefox Fan Club?

I believe it would have to be manual.

Queer_Royalty

kccuber wrote:
Chiroyce wrote:
So just reporting the comment with an inappropriate emoji would be enough right?
no. since these would be set by the profile/studio owner there would be a new option in studio and profile reporting “Inappropriate custom emojis”

This might make more work for moderators. What if there were an option to see a user's custom emojis, and then one could select one to report or copy?

Although, this would be pretty superfluous. I think I'm leaning toward thinking this would just create more work for the devs? Why not focus on bug fixes and site performance instead of custom emojis? In the long run, though, it could be fun.

Edit: Grammarmother Google

Last edited by Queer_Royalty (Aug. 25, 2021 22:48:36)

kccuber

Yellowsheep43 wrote:
-Would be hard to moderate because lots of scratchers could easily upload inappropriate emojis.

Scratchers only, okay?

wangat wrote:
What’s the code that would allow, say, a Firefox Fan Club studio to be marked as a Firefox Fan Club?

Umm, Firefox club is the name of a studio. what i was saying you can't for example use one studio's emojis on another studio.

Queer_Royalty wrote:
This might make more work for moderators. What if there were an option to see a user's custom emojis, and then one could select one to report or copy?

yup, sounds correct

kccuber

bump

mumu245

PLEASE DO NOT DO BROWSER DISCRIMINATION!
Seriously, you made me depressed.

Chiroyce

mumu245 wrote:
PLEASE DO NOT DO BROWSER DISCRIMINATION!

Where? He just gave an example for this studio

mumu245

Chiroyce wrote:
mumu245 wrote:
PLEASE DO NOT DO BROWSER DISCRIMINATION!
Where? He just gave an example for this studio

But he added the no chrome emoji.

Chiroyce

mumu245 wrote:
But he added the no chrome emoji.

I support it - Google Chrome sucks.

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