Mind if i yap and rant? I joined scratch a few years ago when my friend said, "Hey, you should rejoin Scratch" while I was watching them. In my head I was questioning this, for my first few accounts were when i was really young and- and- WHEN SCRATCH WAS BLUE! Jokes aside, I was seriously rethinking this. Eventually, they forced me into joining, creating the account Huskiesareamazing25. Few of you know me by that name. I kept this account for months, quickly gaining followers due to my bubbly personality and love for warrior cats. (My obsession with warrior cats has dwindled) Back then, it was simple, with few safety issues and little bots, plus no offensive content. I was happy, yet guilty. I had hidden Scratch from my parents that whole time knowing they would be suspicious and not approve. Eventually, I remember it was July, I shut down my accounts. Towards the end of that summer, I rebooted my account to this one, HuskiesandKats. Then, I realized how many problems Scratch has. The moderation is horrid, with offensive content and bots at large. What really surprises me is that ST themselves are using AI to help. It's terrible. A few weeks before I "left" this became extremely apparent. All the false bot attacks were at large. I couldn't believe this. At the time, Scratch was interfering with my life, leaving less and less time for me to enjoy the things I loved. Then I "left", leaving the chaos unstable enough to develop into something terrible. Seriously Scratch? You make me talk about my timeline on scratch to prove a point. Children under 10, despite not really being reccomended, are joining under these conditions. If we want to create a safe and stable community for kids to code and have fun safely, STOP using ai, make moderation better. I am guilty of using AI for certain things, but never to write my stories or do school projects for me. That's going too far. Now ST uses AI to assist them with this fun website. SERIOUSLY? Back to the AI for school thing, Scratch was initially a project by a few MIT students, correct me if I'm wrong. Isn't MIT one of the best colleges in America? We can't have a new generation of scratchers growing to love a community like this. Even though I'm saying this, I'm too far in to quit. Quitting would be cowardly at this point. Once I gain enough evidence to deem this a lost cause, I will quit. For good. I'm not giving up on something I put effort into. AI is at large here, and I'm looking to stop it. By using AI to assist them, they're abandoning this and slowly taking away any ounce of human moderation away.
I know posting this project won't do much, I just want a handful of people to know. Also, when I was writing this, I used vivid verbs to describe the situation we're in. The "bad word detector" went off multiple times. I did not write anything bad I'll have you know.
