Controversies

AspectOS is the 2nd biggest collaboration on the Scratch forum. Because of this, it's bound to get attention. And because it gets attention, controversies might occur. There have been many controversies on Scratch that affected AspectOS and how they operate. Some helped the collaboration, but some didn't help at all and the AspectOS team had to revert their actions.

Some didn't affect the collaboration, but were instead just a few occasional arguments that got attention.

The Partner Controversy
The Partner Controversy occurred when when an ally of AspectOS decided to betray it and decided to think that AspectOS wasn't as good as them, which broke some guidelines of the AspectOS rules. This caused lots of drama between AspectOS and their partner.

Confusions

 * Some don't remember AspectOS having partners in the first place. They remembered having allies back then.
 * DevonOS was the cause of partners being closed. DevonOS was another operating system project.

The Impact
Due to this argument, AspectOS tried their best to top their ally to show that they are not doing terrible. But in doing so, they overachieved and failed to compete with their former ally

The Conclusion
Because of the betrayal, AIGamesDeveloper decided to close partners entirely and has not accepted partners as of right now.

The Meower Controversy
"This was not an official controversy between the owners of Meower and AspectOS. If you want to add more to this, please discuss in the Talk Page. Otherwise this page will be temporarily protected."

This was between the entire team and some Meower staff members who were watching the thread. In January of 2022, Meower staff members pointed out how we called contributors "employees" and how contributors aren't getting paid to do this. They also pointed out us saying "fire" like it's a real job. This caused a heated argument between many different people.

AIGamesDeveloper was not involved in the argument due to a burnout that occurred that same day.

The Impact

 * 2 people left because of how the contributors acted.
 * From what it looks like, 5 Meower employees started the controversy.
 * qloakonscratch, ABC1234567890XYZ, and AIGamesDeveloper were involved.
 * The specific Meower staff members who were engaged in the controversy have been added to the auto-reject list, meaning that they are permanently banned from AspectOS.

The Conclusion

 * The Meower Controversy didn't result in an argument. It was a minor controversy that didn't last long because it wasn't important to the OS. People thought that AspectOS -->


 * AIGamesDeveloper spoke up about this, despite his burnout. It wasn't a direct speech and it was from his friend using the Official AspectOS account.
 * AIGamesDeveloper changed the word "staff" to "contributors" when talking with the team.
 * AIGamesDeveloper changed the terms "hire" and "fire" to "add" and "remove."
 * The vacation form was removed, which caused some problems with people who actually wanted to use the break form.
 * Activity checks were removed from the collaboration until March of 2022.

The Official Statement in Regards to the Meower Controversy
"Hello Everybody, We see that we have made some mistakes that have angered the community and we are deeply sorry. We don't want to feel like anybody is left out or forgotten and we want everybody to have a voice and share something with the group. Unlike ROBLOX, we will take action on these errors and we will listen to the community and what it wants. Again, we are sorry for the things that may have hurt our contributors and we will start to give people even more chances to speak. We know that this isn't a job and this is just a fun collab created by a person. Our main point was to create a fun experience and it turned into a mess that manifested itself into pickiness.

Due to the problems that were caused, we will be removing the vacation form to prevent controversy from happening. We think that your words are true and we want contributors to take time away from AspectOS. We will also be modifying the rules and we will try our best to accept ideas big and small. Adding to that, we will start to call people “contributors” as it sounds more friendly and it sounds more equal to everybody. We will start to accept more ideas and we will change the terms “hiring” and “firing” to “adding” and removing" to prevent controversy. We will try our best to create a team that will be friendly to the Scratch community and we will act when something is wrong ASAP. The main point of AspectOS is to create a new future. In doing so, we want to create a friendly future for Scratch and its community and we will continue to do so until we achieve our goal.

Forgive us for our behavior in the past and how we were harsh at some moments. We want to start a new AspectOS community. A toxic-free community. An equal community. A safe community. We will continue to develop a community that is peaceful. If you want us to change anything, please let your voice be heard. Thank you to everybody who participated in the conversation and had some words to say. This conversation will help us improve how we do things around here and we are thankful to have such great people say things that might be harsh but are right. When I come back from my work, I will apply the changes I have stated."

- AIGamesDeveloper

The ASCo-CEO Incident
The ASCo-CEO Incident occured when ABC1234567890XYZ delivered a speech pointing out flaws about the team, causing some problems from the BoD.

The Impact
* GAMS2 * Dream-123-123 * AIGamesDeveloper * Mbrick2
 * The BoD was offended because of the speech, including the Founder of AspectOS. The following people were the ones who were offended:

The Conclusion
Everything just went silent after the BoD was offended by the speech.