Concerns about Inappropriate Material

What we think: if you or any of your students families are concerned about sharing projects in Scratch there are
several things you can share with them.
General Information: https://scratch.mit.edu/about
This is the About Scratch page and the information is of a general nature.

Another source of information is the Parent page https://scratch.mit.edu/parents/

This page answers such questions as:
What is the age range for Scratch?
What resources are available for learning Scratch?
What are the guidelines for the Scratch online community?
What is your privacy policy?
There is a one page summary that might be useful to share with your school families
https://llk.media.mit.edu/scratch/Learning-with-Scratch.pdf

And finally this resource is a post on the Scratch Wiki that explains how the Scratch Team works to moderate
content.
https://wiki.scratch.mit.edu/wiki/Project_Review_Status
Here is part of the information regarding the review of Scratch projects. For the complete information go to the
link.
Statuses
There are four statuses a project can be in. The first is for before a project has been reviewed, and the other
three of them are only for after it has been reviewed.

Unreviewed
When a project is uploaded, it is automatically placed in the "unreviewed" category. A project is in this category
until it is reviewed by a member of the Scratch Team. The majority of projects are unreviewed due to the
immense amount of projects constantly being uploaded to the site.

For Everyone
If a project has been reviewed and deemed appropriate for the Scratch community, it is marked For Everyone
(FE). These projects have no restrictions placed on them.

Not For Everyone

If a project is deemed inappropriate for the community, but is not bad enough to be censored or removed, it is
marked Not For Everyone (NFE). These projects cannot get onto the Front Page and will appear rarely in the
search results. NFE projects may be marked as such because of any minor blood, harsh but not that brutal
violence, or similar reasons.

However, inappropriate content is not the only reason a project can get marked NFE. Projects using animated
thumbnails will also get marked NFE because they may lag the front page (though some users may not notice
it) and could be very annoying to some users. If someone uses other accounts to love and favorite a project
multiple times to get it Front Paged, it will be marked as Not for Everyone and that user will most likely get an
alert on their profile.

Removed
Sometimes the Scratch Team will remove a project from the publicly visible list of projects, generally if it
breaks the Community Guidelines (https://scratch.mit.edu/community_guidelines/ ) or
(https://wiki.scratch.mit.edu/wiki/Community_Guidelines ). If a non-Scratch Team member or someone who
didn't create the project tries to access the project, it will show a 404 not found page.

If the user gets their project removed, they can remove all of the offending content and reshare the project.
However in rare cases, the violating project can be permanently unshared, which means the user cannot reshare
the project.

Scratch is a project of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media lab. It is available free at
http://sctach.mit.edu