Scratch Community Guidelines
We need everyone’s help to keep Scratch a friendly and creative community where people with different backgrounds and interests feel welcome.
Treat everyone with respect.
Scratchers have diverse backgrounds, interests, identities, and experiences. Everyone on Scratch is encouraged to share things that excite them and are important to them—there is never an excuse for being mean or disrespectful.
Be safe: keep personal and contact information private.
For safety reasons, don’t give out any information that could be used for private communication, in person or online. This includes sharing real last names, phone numbers, addresses, hometowns, school names, email addresses, usernames or links to social media sites, video chatting applications, or websites with private chat functionality.
Give helpful feedback.
Everyone on Scratch is learning! When commenting on a project, remember to say something you like about it, offer suggestions, and be kind, not critical.
Embrace remix culture.
Remixing is when you build upon someone else’s projects, code, ideas, images, or anything else they share on Scratch to make your own unique creation. Remixing is a great way to collaborate and connect with other Scratchers. You are encouraged to use anything you find on Scratch in your own creations, as long as you provide credit to everyone whose work you used and make a meaningful change to it.
Be honest.
It’s important to be honest and authentic when interacting with others on Scratch, and remember that there is a person behind every Scratch account. Spreading rumors, impersonating other Scratchers or celebrities, or pretending to be seriously ill is not respectful to the Scratch Community.
Help keep the site friendly.
It’s important to make sure that your creations and conversations are friendly and appropriate for all ages. If you think something on Scratch is mean, insulting, too violent, or otherwise disruptive to the community, click “Report” to let us know about it.