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open letter to the Scratch community and team

Letter to the Scratch community

Hello all! This is A-E-, and I am writing in the hopes that the ST will not continue to ignore my emails. As you may know, I formerly had bots on the Scratch website. That situation was a bad judgment call on my part, and I attempted to delete them. I deleted all but one, which the ST banned before I could delete it. Since then, I have read over the ToS and community guidelines more carefully, and will not create any more bots that could produce any kind of spam. I'd like to say the ST and I settled our differences and everything was sunshine and rainbows, but that was not the case.

A while after the @_-_F4F_-_BOT_-_ fiasco, I noticed that @DenverCoder9 was available, and I signed up with it. (For those who don't know, that name is a reference to an xkcd comic.) I received the welcome email on March 4, 2020, at 4:46 p.m. eastern time. When I log in now, I get a page saying I was banned on March 3, 2020, at 10:31 p.m. I never had even the intent to put a bot on that account, but when I contacted Scratch, (My ticket number thing is 203355) the reply I got said that it was blocked as being a replacement bot account. They still haven't replied to my most recent email. My alt account, @aever, which I use for projects that I don't want to share publicly, like birthday cards, was also banned, despite having no activity for multiple years.

The full email thread between me and Scratch support is below.

Scratch On!

— @A-E-

Emails

They have addressed my initial emails, but I asked them a list of questions. There reply, and my reply to them are at https://easrng.github.io/noted/?import=analects-boiling-polarized-patio-geology

@BoomerScratch
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🙁:cry:

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ghost commented May 11, 2020

:(

@devxan
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devxan commented Jun 7, 2020

Thar's terrible!

@Mapletron
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;-;

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