Okay, my Scratch experience started out pretty safe. I think me, and a lot of other people can all agree that Scratch is a really great coding website for kids and teenagers to learn and use.
I think it's a really great website, but there's some problems. Well, obviously; everything has problems; but here's the problems... Actually, I can't even compose myself right now, let me just say this. Here's the problems of Scratch: THE FEATURED PAGE IS ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE, THERE'S TOO MANY KIDS CREATING CONTENT NOT FOR SCRATCH, THE SCRATCH "TEAM" (LIST OF OVER 1,000 AI MODERATORS DOING ALL OF THE WORK) REPLACED ALL OF THE HUMAN MODERATORS AND THEN STARTED TO MAKE A LOT OF BIASED, FAKE REVIEWS OF MODERATION THAT SHOULD BE OKAY BUT IS INSTEAD REALLY HORRIBLE AT THE JOB, THEY BAN A LOT OF PEOPLE FOR STUPID REASONS, SUCH AS TRYING TO STOP A DRAMA- NONE OF THE INSTIGATORS GET BANNED- JUST THE DRAMA-STOPPERS, AND THEN THERE'S THE KIDS THAT DO FNAF CONTENT, THERE'S THE FACT THAT NEARLY 70% OF ALL SCRATCH PROJECTS NOW ARE ABSOLUTE SLOP, THE LIMITATIONS WERE SO EXTREME YOU HAVE TO USE MULTIPLE EXTENTIONS TO GET IT TO WORK RIGHT, YOU'RE JUST MUCH BETTER OFF USING PENGUINMOD OR TURBOWARP OR FORKPHORUS, YOU'RE A LOT BETTER OFF MAKING A BAD PROJECT THAN A GOOD PROJECT BECAUSE THE SCRATCH AI IS LIKE "OOH! A PROJECT THAT HAS ACTUAL FRICKING EFFORT TO IT? GONE!" THE MODERATION IS ABSOLUTE SLOP, PEOPLE CAN GET BLACKMAILED AND MANIPULATED AND NOT GET BANNED, THE PEOPLE CAN DO GENUIENLY HORRIBLE STUFF ON SCRATCH AND NOT GET PUNISHMENT, AND DID I MENTION THE MODERATION?!?!... Sorry, that's kind of a rant. Yeah, I've actually been banned on Scratch. Why? For trying to end a drama. I didn't break any guideline rules or TOS rules, Scratch just banned me. And if there was a reason, it's probably heavily biased. I have been banned for 3 months, it's my 2nd time (the 1st time was for an actual reason, but I have not hit the 4th-ban-blacklist unspoken rule yet) and the Scratch "Team" still hasn't responded to my emails. I have to resort to using a school account just to say "hi" to anyone on the site now. Tldr: Scratch has horrible moderation, and you need to use outside extensions just so you can get more advanced projects than a textureless, not-even-SuperFX-level 3D game with a few levels.