I know a message you guys have is equality. A thing that happened to me a while ago that I still find ridiculous is the fact that this website is mainly a one view site type of deal from my experience. A few years ago I remixed a Back the Blue post. It got taken down because it wasn't “equal” and offensive? I think that if people can share all their pride stuff and be mean to others who dont support them then others should get to have an opposing view as long as no one is cyber-bulling or that kind of thing. This experience kind of ruined it for me. If someone doesn't agree with pride it is seen as homophobic. I think that you can not agree with something and not given that title. It should be okay to express our opinion equally. My opinions have changed over the last year or so I have been on this site. But I think that we should have a voice in our opinion without being reported or banned or such because of it. I also think some opinions are being pushed. I was still figuring out who I was and made some bad choices because of an opinion that was shared and was basically everywhere. So I joined the idea to fit in. Almost left home because of it just to fit in to an online platform. Please take this seriously and thank you for your time.

They are a large group of moderators, so they all have personal biases they may have when they review reports.

This is exactly one of the concerns I have about Scratch. The whole Scratch Team is politically biased, and that's not a good thing when you're running a kids community. They're conscious of this and choose to remain so anyway:

TOLORS wrote:

7.5 Scratchers and Scratch Team members should not promote political views
According to the Community Guidelines, “Scratch welcomes people of all ages, races, ethnicities, religions, abilities, sexual orientations, and gender identities.” As long as someone's beliefs and statements are respectful and welcoming towards all groups of people, they are allowed to express them on the Scratch website. This includes Scratchers, as well as members of the Scratch Team; in particular, the Scratch Team will continue to feature projects and studios that they believe promote the core values of Scratch and its community.

More detailed explanations in the case of LGBTQ+ ideas can be found in this post and this post.

rdococ wrote:

This is exactly one of the concerns I have about Scratch. The whole Scratch Team is politically biased, and that's not a good thing when you're running a kids community. They're conscious of this and choose to remain so anyway:

TOLORS wrote:

7.5 Scratchers and Scratch Team members should not promote political views
According to the Community Guidelines, “Scratch welcomes people of all ages, races, ethnicities, religions, abilities, sexual orientations, and gender identities.” As long as someone's beliefs and statements are respectful and welcoming towards all groups of people, they are allowed to express them on the Scratch website. This includes Scratchers, as well as members of the Scratch Team; in particular, the Scratch Team will continue to feature projects and studios that they believe promote the core values of Scratch and its community.

More detailed explanations in the case of LGBTQ+ ideas can be found in this post and this post.

if you're trying to keep children safe from potentially harmful and discriminatory ideals, you probably should be biased against some things

arogix342 wrote:

rdococ wrote:

This is exactly one of the concerns I have about Scratch. The whole Scratch Team is politically biased, and that's not a good thing when you're running a kids community. They're conscious of this and choose to remain so anyway:

TOLORS wrote:

7.5 Scratchers and Scratch Team members should not promote political views
According to the Community Guidelines, “Scratch welcomes people of all ages, races, ethnicities, religions, abilities, sexual orientations, and gender identities.” As long as someone's beliefs and statements are respectful and welcoming towards all groups of people, they are allowed to express them on the Scratch website. This includes Scratchers, as well as members of the Scratch Team; in particular, the Scratch Team will continue to feature projects and studios that they believe promote the core values of Scratch and its community.

More detailed explanations in the case of LGBTQ+ ideas can be found in this post and this post.

if you're trying to keep children safe from potentially harmful and discriminatory ideals, you probably should be biased against some things

That's pretty much how we end up where we are. The Scratch Team tries very hard to make sure that Scratch is a welcoming place to all Scratchers - especially those from traditionally marginalized groups. This becomes difficult if some views that Scratchers have been taught (and then express on Scratch) can be considered unfriendly to another group. It often leads to conflict and confusion.

If you ever have a question about a moderation action that you feel is unfair, please feel free to use the Contact Us link at the bottom of every page to ask for clarification.