Welp, the Scratch Team have ended it.
They somehow interpreted my comment of “I only did 1 interview and that was on an external site, not on Scratch” to “I was inviting people to go onto external sites”. They used this reasoning to deny my appeal. Wow.
I’m currently considering suing Scratch.
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I think suing scratch is over the top. As a children's coding platform, they do a lot of good (and they have the right to withhold services from anyone they want to afaik, as long as they are not discriminating against you bc of your nationality/race/sexuality/etc.). But bad moderation isn’t illegal, and you would definitely spend more money on legal fees/lawyers then the value that this time would be worth/the value you’ve lost from being banned.
i feel like the value you’d get from being on the Scratch community certainly isn’t worth the stress, trouble, time, and cost of litigation. if you're committed in learning to code/joining a community online, there are plenty of other ones. I don't mean to be rude/blunt, but a lawsuit would almost certainly fail, and I think you should instead get over this and move on (if you really want to use Scratch, you can still download the offline editor). :)
Tbf they are discriminating obesityoftheold’s old age so could have a case and the ST deserve it
it’s not illegal to have a kids only platform and there are plenty of other adults on scratch. A lawsuit would never work.
Then why did they ban obesityoftheold for claiming to be an adult?
it’s not illegal for them to do that (you can have a kids only site and they don't ban most adults, so you wouldn't be able to win a court case)
You? You mean them? I know and agree that this wouldn’t get far for a court case but still, scratch team were disgraceful here
they are a disgrace of an organisation who will hopefully collapse, but yeah looking into it I couldn’t sue
you don’t think that millions of kids learning to code and igniting their interests/careers in STEM/tech outweighs below optimal moderation.
i was joking :P i agree but still not acceptable how i’ve been treated