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Thy cannot make AFD posts, for it is against thy commandments!oh sorry. i didn't know we weren't doing april fools today lol.
If this is an AFD post, we're not doing those according to this annoucement.
Thy currency is rejected!8.7 Digital currency or money blocksOk, pretty much this entire post is rejected, i'm not getting all the quotes as there's too many. If someone else wants to go ahead, I'll only be getting the currency quote.
Some form of digital currency which allows you to “buy” Scratch features (with real or fake money) would not really benefit the educational value of Scratch; after all, there is not really anything that you can buy. While there could be features that are only unlockable via digital currency, this does not really contribute to Scratch's purpose of being a programming language available for everyone. However, you can make digital currency in your own projects, if you like, as long as it follows the policy on pretend currency systems.
This suggestion extends to Scratch blocks in the editor which can be used to exchange digital currency. The problem with such money blocks is that many users on the website are young and do not quite know how money works (and most do not even have a credit card account). Users could make projects which require others to pay a large amount of money to play the project. Overall, it adds further complexity to the website and would limit users' access, without any clear benefit towards the educational value.
A very good detailed analysis for why digital currency should not be on Scratch can be found on this post.