The List of Policies/Rules & Essays · v1.6.4 (beta 2)

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Scratch Changelog v3 by @unconstructable13
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✏️ Policies/Rules

• You can't talk about your moderation actions on the Scratch Forums · October 9, 2025
  Brief Summary: It isn't allowed to talk about moderator actions on the forums. The Help Center should be used instead. · Tags: #safety
  
• You can't post ‘What If..’ questions or polls on the Questions About Scratch Forum · October 6, 2025
  Brief Summary: It isn't allowed to post ‘What If..’ questions or polls on the Questions About Scratch forum. Studios or Projects should be used instead. · Tags: #spam
  
• Things like tasers and tranquilizers are allowed on Scratch · October 3, 2025
  Brief Summary: You can use tasers and tranquilizers in your projects as long it's friendly. · Tags: #exceptions · Submitted By : @ILoveRoblox003
  
• Spamming or/and using incorrect tags is disallowed · October 2, 2025
  Brief Summary: You cannot use incorrect tags and/or spam them. · Tags: #safety · Submitted By : @MagicCoder330
  
• You can't talk about the recent botting issue on the Scratch Forums · September 30, 2025
  Brief Summary: It isn't allowed to talk about the recent botting issue on the forums as it could feed the trolls. · Tags: #safety
  
• Contests which reward social actions (likes, faves, etc) are disallowed · May 7, 2025
  Brief Summary: You cannot make a project contest which rewards likes, favorites, etc. · Tags: #safety · Submitted By : @MagicCoder330
  
• Parental Permissions for Scratch Accounts · November 6, 2024
  Brief Summary: Anyone who makes a new account under 16 needs to use their parents email with parent permissions. · Tags: #safety
  
• April Fools Day in the Forums · March 29, 2024
  Brief Summary: April Fools for forums 2024 wasn't happening (I put it here due to the fact it may be a policy from now on). · Tags: #safety #aprilfools
  
• Roblox usernames are not allowed to be mentioned · July 15, 2023
  Brief Summary: You cannot say your Roblox username. This also extends to other sites. · Tags: #safety · Submitted By : @unconstructable13
  
• Duplicate topics on the Scratch Forums aren't allowed · December 21, 2022
  Brief Summary: You cannot make a duplicate topic on the forums as the ST will close it. · Tags: #safety
  
• Social action detectors that give advantages aren't allowed · December 13, 2022
  Brief Summary: You cannot make a project which rewards ingame advantages to people who love, favorite, or perform any other social actions. · Tags: #safety · Submitted By : @MagicCoder330
  
• Fact Checking Tips and Strategies · November 12, 2020
  Brief Summary: Some fact checking tips on what you think to post online before you do. · Tags: #onlinesafety
  
• US Election Community Guidelines Reminder · November 3, 2020
  Brief Summary: You cannot discuss elections or other political things on Scratch. This includes argumental & attacking political discussions. · Tags: #safety
  
• “Art theft” and our remixing policy · June 26, 2020
  Brief Summary: A policy about “Art theft” and a brief recap on their remixing policy. · Tags: #safety
  
• Black Lives Matter · June 10, 2020
  Brief Summary: A policy about how we should all treat everyone on Scratch equally no matter their race, gender, etc. · Tags: #safety
  
• Advertising and Follow-for-Follow (f4f) · April 16, 2020
  Brief Summary: Where it is okay to do f4f or to advertise and where it is not okay. · Tags: #safety
  
• Cloud chat projects · July 11, 2019
  Brief Summary: This policy is about the banning of cloud chat projects. · Tags: #safety
  
• Shops, Points, and Pretend Currency Systems · February 11, 2019
  Brief Summary: This policy is about how currency on Scratch should be pretend money. · Tags: #shops #points #money #pretendcurrency
  
• Browser Extension/Userscript Policy · November 30, 2017
  Brief Summary: This policy is about the banning the mention of extensions/userscripts. · Tags: #safety #browser #extension
  
• You can't publicly call out people by name on the Scratch Forums · July 18, 2017
  Brief Summary: It isn't allowed to talk about people's names on the forums as it could lead to naming and shaming. The Help Center should be used instead. · Tags: #safety · Submitted By: @gem1001
  
• “Music Sharing” Projects · June 8, 2017
  Brief Summary: This policy is about the banning of music sharing projects. Making projects with the primary focus of sharing other people's music is not allowed. · Tags: #safety
  
• “Face Reveal” Projects · May 2, 2017
  Brief Summary: This policy is about the banning of face reveal projects. · Tags: #safety
  
• Collaboration and Shared Accounts · February 14, 2016
  Brief Summary: This policy is about the banning of people sharing one account. · Tags: #safety
  
• Five Nights at Freddy's · November 16, 2015
  Brief Summary: This policy is about the banning of the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise. This also extends to Sprunki and others. · Tags: #safety
  
• Updates to Following and Followers · September 24, 2014
  Brief Summary: This policy is about the removal of the following and follower count on the Profile Page because Scratch isn't all about fame. “View All” page still has the count. · Tags: #safety
  
• Add Everything & Displaying Number of Projects in Studios · July 23, 2014
  Brief Summary: This policy is about the banning of “Add Everything” studios to the front page. · Tags: #safety
  
• Trademark and the Scratch online community · March 14, 2014
  Brief Summary: Not really a policy but funny and a reminder that trademark law isn't fair sometimes! · Tags: #safety
  
• It is encouraged to report Necroposting · May 3, 2011
  Brief Summary: Not really a policy but a reminder that you should report Necroposting! · Tags: #spam
  
• Exploiting the backpack feature isn't allowed · May 5, 2010
  Brief Summary: Exploiting the backpack feature isn't allowed. · Tags: #copying
  

✍ Essays

• An essay about password security by @MagicCoder330
  
• An essay debunking misconceptions about false reporting by @jvvg
  
• What to do if your account is hacked by @ScratchWiki
  
• How to protect your account from being hacked by @ScratchWiki
  

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⏰ Username: WigglyJoey
♻️ Source: https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/topic/340012/
✏️ Policy/Rule: Pretend currencies are allowed as long as you follow some rules



⏰ Username: WigglyJoey
♻️ Source: https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/topic/284272/
✏️ Policy/Rule: Browser Extensions are not allowed to be mentioned on scratch

why does this always happen everytime somebody makes something that either talks about how to do ANYTHING that is considered “useful” or just make useful stuff like this then people always fall for it and report to be stickied. the weird part is that it will get stickied and by the time you're seeing this it's probably stickied

suswhopper123 wrote:

why does this always happen everytime somebody makes something that either talks about how to do or just make useful stuff like this then people always fall for it and report to be stickied. the weird part is that it will get stickied and by the time you're seeing this it's probably stickied

Because it’s true information and can (most likely will) help forumers in responding to posts with source links and can help people find out an answer before creating a topic.

Scratch_Cat_Coder8 wrote:

suswhopper123 wrote:

why does this always happen everytime somebody makes something that either talks about how to do (redacted, please don’t try to make curse word censors) or just make useful stuff like this then people always fall for it and report to be stickied. the weird part is that it will get stickied and by the time you're seeing this it's probably stickied

Because it’s true information and can (most likely will) help forumers in responding to posts with source links and can help people find out an answer before creating a topic.

huh? the little thingy was a place to write stuff. you know how when you make idk a math test and there's an empty space? i tried to recreate the empty space and now you're considering it a “curse word” bruhh

One thing, you made a typo in the add everything link by adding a extra /, can you fix it?

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Scratch_Cat_Coder8 wrote:

suswhopper123 wrote:

why does this always happen everytime somebody makes something that either talks about how to do (redacted, please don’t try to make curse word censors) or just make useful stuff like this then people always fall for it and report to be stickied. the weird part is that it will get stickied and by the time you're seeing this it's probably stickied

Because it’s true information and can (most likely will) help forumers in responding to posts with source links and can help people find out an answer before creating a topic.

huh? the little thingy was a place to write stuff. you know how when you make idk a math test and there's an empty space? i tried to recreate the empty space and now you're considering it a “curse word” bruhh

Thats what it was looking like, especially in subtitles that’s what is used to replace curse words. Also, its disappearing as you have brackets

Scratch_Cat_Coder8 wrote:

Reported to be stickied!
And also could the summary for the US elections reminder to be changed to include the fact it’s talking about argumental/attacking political discussions?

Hmm. I will do this right now.. (Done!)

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Scratch_Cat_Coder8 wrote:

Reported to be stickied!
And also could the summary for the US elections reminder to be changed to include the fact it’s talking about argumental/attacking political discussions?

Hmm. I will do this right now.. (Done!)

Thx!

WigglyJoey wrote:

⏰ Username: WigglyJoey
♻️ Source: https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/topic/340012/
✏️ Policy/Rule: Pretend currencies are allowed as long as you follow some rules



⏰ Username: WigglyJoey
♻️ Source: https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/topic/284272/
✏️ Policy/Rule: Browser Extensions are not allowed to be mentioned on scratch

I beat ya to it! I already added it
Just took a while to add all..

Very helpful! Reported to be stickied!

Pi_master31 wrote:

Very helpful! Reported to be stickied!

unconstructable13 wrote:

Reported to be stickied!
Hey you’ve got my changelog topic in there too!

Scratch_Cat_Coder8 wrote:

Reported to be stickied!
And also could the summary for the US elections reminder to be changed to include the fact it’s talking about argumental/attacking political discussions?

Thanks for the support! I thought people would just say there is enough stickies.

WigglyJoey wrote:

One thing, you made a typo in the add everything link by adding a extra /, can you fix it?

Done. I didn't notice this lol

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⏰ Username: MagicCoder330
♻️ Source: https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/topic/842299/?page=1#post-8749226
✏️ Policy/Rule: spamming tags or/and using incorrect tags is disallowed

⏰ Username: MagicCoder330
♻️ Source: https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/topic/820855/?page=1#post-8538462
✏️ Policy/Rule: Contests which reward social actions (likes, faves, etc) are disallowed

⏰ Username: MagicCoder330
♻️ Source: https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/topic/649077/?page=1#post-6821285
✏️ Policy/Rule: Social action detectors that give advantages aren't allowed