Five Night At Freddy Scratch 2
Ingelore Clason
The Scratch Community often has issues which can range from simple complaints to mass controversies. Several practices, features, and events have shown controversy due to negative reactions from many Scratchers. The following is a list of the most notable.
Since the remix feature allows anybody to remix and do anything they want to do to the project, some Scratchers, especially users experienced in art projects, have protested this feature.[1] There have been many complaints of users "stealing art" and "recoloring".[2][3] There have been many suggestions suggesting a feature which allows the user to disable remixing.[4] However, this suggestion has been turned down many times mainly due to the motto and Creative Commons license. Any projects that threaten or do not allow remixes should be reported.[5]
However, this received more negative reputation than any other horror media in the past due to intense jumpscares and a gory backstory. People began to protest FNAF and even suggested banning it.[6][7][8][9]
It has been declared that FNAF will not be banned and will be still allowed since it is possible to create a FNAF project that still follows the Community Guidelines. However, the term "FNAF" has been subject to a search bar ban.
But step back a bit and evaluate what you are looking at before deciding. Is it really too scary? Or is it just scary because somebody told you that everything FNAF-related is super scary? Try to be objective.
On November 16, 2015, speakvisually announced that FNAF led to mass issues such as nightmares and some school districts banning Scratch, which means that restrictions will be laid out to these projects and projects with jumpscares and frightening content will be unshared.[11] However, this caused complaints from the fandom of FNAF,[12] which led to an exaggeration that FNAF was "banned" (more likely due to misunderstanding) and flaming in the announcement topic.
Some Scratchers have complained that some project removals were unfair, as the projects taken down were considered age appropriate by their creators. Common examples include projects with intense cartoon violence that can be mistaken for real violence and projects complaining about the community.
On July 29, 2010, the Scratch Team removed a project made by a user named 124scratch. The project was similar to Pac-Man, a popular arcade game. Namco Bandai Games, the company that owned the original game, requested the removal of the project, stating that it infringes their rights. The removal of the project gained significant opposition from both hundreds of Scratchers[14] and even members of the Scratch Team themselves, who agreed that the project followed copyright law, yet did not wish to begin a legal battle with Namco Bandai Games.[15]
On May 7, 2022, the creator of the fan-made Scratch modification TurboWarp announced that the Scratch Team was making some changes to Scratch's API, and that the bug which allowed users to view unshared projects using various software (such as TurboWarp, forkphorus, and even Scratch 3.0's development builds) would likely be removed on an unknown date. This caused a small amount of outcry from the community, with some forum posts made protesting some problems that would arise such as the fact that users won't be able to visit harmless unshared projects or projects by deleted accounts[16] and that making collaborations out of the public eye would be more difficult.[17]
The Scratch Team later confirmed that they would be removing the ability to view unshared projects via the API and that they were not willing to reconsider the idea due the fact that the Scratch Team has "got[ten] in trouble a lot" for incidents involving having unshared projects available.[18]
There have been reports of people stealing other Scratchers' work and claiming it as their own.[citation needed] It resulted in complaints about how the Scratch Team wouldn't do anything about "art thieves". People have resorted to making projects about the controversy.[20] The Scratch Team would not remove projects for that reason because it would break the Community Guidelines.[citation needed]
Many users have protested against Add Everything/Everyone studios since they have no exact theme, are extremely popular,[21] and seem to be a "waste of space."[22] Many suggestions to remove AE studios were created, many protest projects were shared, and some sabotages were practiced.[23] The Scratch Team has cooled down the opposition by removing and implementing a few features, such as allowing users to remove their own projects from studios.[24] However, some Scratchers are still unhappy about this. Despite the opposition, many believe that they can be very useful[25] because they can be helpful for Scratchers looking for projects to remix and can help projects and users gain attention.
The "Follow4Follow" (commonly abbreviated as F4F) practice, in which a user asks for a follow in return for a follow, has been strongly disapproved by a large part of the community.[27][28] It is allowed to do Follow4Follow, but it is frowned upon by many users as it is seen as an easy way to get more followers.[citation needed]
Follow on Request, generally abbreviated as F.O.R, is a practice, where a user asks someone to follow them on request. This practice is disapproved by many Scratchers, as few want something in return, but few others think they should earn their followers themselves. Follow on Request is common in Kindness Accounts. People think it is an easy way to earn followers, but it is looked down upon as Scratch is not all about being popular.
Some users have complained that, allegedly, the appeals system is broken and they never get a response to their appeals after months of waiting[31][32], although this has been confirmed to have happened a few times.[citation needed] The Scratch Team has also confirmed that as of July 2022, they are often taking several weeks to respond to appeals due to limit resources for handling them.[33]
Warriors, a fantasy book series by Erin Hunter, which is about a population of feral cats who live in clans and fight each other, has been very popular on Scratch. This has been criticized for overuse, not focusing on Scratch's main point (programming), and the possible cause of the popularity of cats, and possibly ruining the reputation of cats for some users.[34][35][36][37][38][39][40]
On November 30, 2017, the Scratch Team announced that advertising or naming third-party browser extensions (including userscripts) made for Scratch was disallowed due to the risk that some extensions can collect private data unknowingly.[41] The Scratch Team also mentioned that although users who had previously advertised such extensions would not be counted against, such advertisements would be silently removed, while moderator actions would be taken against further advertisements. On the Scratch Wiki, an article about an extension was deleted by the Scratch Team due to the new policy.[42] The Scratch Team has also said that using extensions are fine, however advertising/naming them on Scratch is not okay.[43] In less than a day, it started up many complaints about the new policy.[44]
Before and after Scratch 3.0's release, many users complained in the Scratch 3.0 Beta Forum about features in Scratch 3.0, including the block size and the stage being on the right of the editor.[45] Some Scratchers requested to the Scratch Team that they stop developing 3.0 and keep 2.0.[46] A sticky was later made in that forum mentioning that the Scratch Team will not stop 3.0, and that if 2.0 was kept, it would no longer work after 2020 (the year Adobe Flash, which the Scratch 2.0 online editor ran on, went obsolete).
On August 14th, 2020, the government of the People's Republic of China blocked scratch.mit.edu and all related subdomains from being viewed within China as part of its censorship program known as the Great Firewall.[49][50][51] The Scratch Wiki is not affected by this ban.[52] The Scratch Team is aware of the issue and they are currently looking into it. Some speculate that a video of a Chinese parent trying to "expose" Scratch's hidden dark side posted on Chinese video-sharing platform Bilibili caused this ban to occur.[53] The video brought up points like how Taiwan and Hong Kong are separate options from China in the Location Feature, and how there is "a lot of content that insults China, spreads rumors, and discredited China."[53] Many Scratchers (mostly Chinese) are against the ban, because they think the problem is Scratch's community, not Scratch itself.[54][55][56]
Toward early Feburary 2023, the Love and Favorite buttons were updated, with a thin line surrounding the buttons. Prior to this update, these buttons were solid gray. The Scratch Team stated that this was done to help users with vision challenges.[64] Over time, more features of the site began to change, such as the remix button and the donation tab on the front page, which were changed to a dark shade of green. Additionally, a new test feature on Scratch Lab was made, where the blocks were much lighter shades of their original colors, and the text was black.
Many Scratchers were opposed to these changes.[65][66][67] Many Scratchers complained, stating that they do not like the color scheme. Some users made suggestions to make the accessibility features optional.[68][69] The Scratch Team responded by stating that making the features optional would confuse users, and that they had put much scientific research into the colors they use.[70]
Users became more frustrated when learning that the header of the website would be changed to purple. Users complained that the website would look, "hideous."[71][72] Several users suggested an option to customize the color of the header[73][74][75] so that they could revert it back to the original blue, which led to the original suggestion being temporarily stickied to prevent users from creating duplicates of it.[76]
Many Scratchers complain about the 60 second rule[77][78] in the Scratch Forums. They often argue that it is annoying, and they can be trusted to not have the 60 second rule. However, the 60 second rule is an extremely effective shield against spam, and if a certain amount of posts was required to remove the 60 second rule, some spammers may be willing to go that far.[citation needed] The Scratch Team has confirmed that the 60 second rule is not getting removed and have made it part of the list of rejected suggestions.[79][80]
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