User Created Websites

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User-created websites are websites that are created by the Scratch Community and are not run, monitored, or managed by the Scratch Team. These sites are usually discussion forums about Scratch related topics, personal pages made by Scratch project creators made to showcase their projects, "Scratch News" sites or blogs/sites made to inform others on what is going on in the Scratch community.

Rules

According to the Scratch Team, links to user-created websites are allowed on the Scratch website if they follow a set of guidelines. These guidelines are stated in a forum post by Scratch Team member Paddle2See:

“

Hi Folks! You no longer need to register your personal websites here prior to linking to them from Scratch. Please be sure that any links you post follow the Scratch Community Guidelines, the Scratch Terms of Use, and the Policies in our Announcements area. Some common problem areas people tend to overlook:

All content on your site must be appropriate for Scratchers of all ages.
Your site should not be giving out any of your personal information - in the website name, in the “Contact Us” area, in links to social media sites, and so on. Remember that what you post on the internet is very hard to remove.
Your site should not be asking for email addresses - this often happens in the “Contact Us” area.
Your site should not be providing unmoderated communication.
Make sure your site is not downloading anything potentially malicious.
Your site should not be selling anything.

If you see a site that seems to be violating any of these conditions, please use the usual Report buttons on Scratch. Thanks and Scratch On!

”

― Paddle2See^[1]

Prior to June 2020, sites were submitted for review through a forum topic,^[1] until being discontinued in June 2020 as the Scratch Team felt it was ineffective at enforcing the Community Guidelines.^[2]

Types of Sites

Generally, user-created sites are of the following types:

Unofficial discussion forums for Scratchers
Unofficial social media pages, on sites like YouTube, etc.
Blogs or sites about "Scratch News", or sites that keep up with events happening on the Scratch website, or in the Scratch Community
Personal websites about the Scratcher, or a group they are part of
Scratch Tutorials
Statistics Pages
Scratch Modifications

References

↑ ^a ^b topic:4421
↑ Paddle2See. (09/20/2020). "Well, it was a very inefficient and ineffective system. The list was difficult to maintain and the suitability of the site was only evaluated once - it could easily change later and become unsuitable. Only forum users seemed to know about the registration process and many sites were linked on other parts of the site that were never reviewed. The issue with sharing personal information goes well beyond homemade sites - community reporting is our most effective defense." projects:409249020/#comments-157382301

[guidelines-topic-1] topic:4421

[2] Paddle2See. (09/20/2020). "Well, it was a very inefficient and ineffective system. The list was difficult to maintain and the suitability of the site was only evaluated once - it could easily change later and become unsuitable. Only forum users seemed to know about the registration process and many sites were linked on other parts of the site that were never reviewed. The issue with sharing personal information goes well beyond homemade sites - community reporting is our most effective defense." projects:409249020/#comments-157382301

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