Non-Manager opinions ----- "-all of the cloutchasers joining the community and bringing drama with them" - Bstewotter "I say cloutchasers there not that big of a threat but there anoyying they cause random war you know and the biggest threat of all is the scratch team they could detle the studio and ban every body in it!" - Funnyraptor "people stupidity - and maybe unreasonable bans" - Exotos_Mapping "Well, there’s been many threats to the SMC, but I’d say it’s just us, we are such a large community, that threats always are able to find us through the core of the community, Expert mappers and elites, or from the outer rims of the community, observers, half-mappers, heck even used to be clout chasers. I’m not blaming the community for being so big, but as we expand with even more mappers, the more threats we face." - Abresian "-I secretly control everything in the SMC, every sentence written by my bots. Every manager is a bot, I was there when Mapperdonia started. All popular mappers are my associates that work for me. They are on whenever I command them to. All wars were staged. ALL of them. You want to know truth? I STOLE THE SMC! You will never stop me..." - MGG3923 "Toxic outsiders are a threat. They get to peoples nerves sometimes." - daciaiscool "Cloutchasers or saltiness." - TaiwaneseMapping "The Cloutchasers, Kermu, and some drama" - TheRealThunderCraft "The cloutchasers and the great divide" - Lookupintery "that small people get left out like me" - TheVeryFoxy "Threat of wars" - kobold_warlock "5GMW" - liamthemapmaker "Maybe the third cloutchaser war. but we all know what the biggest threat is: elmo..." - The_JordanMaster "The report button and cloutchasers" - tsant2009 "everyone who is in it because the more people joining there are higher chances that a small war begin between two small mappers who get other small mappers on their side and that could create an domino effect" - peptypower "I think @THE_T_BOSS4 because he almost made dacia leave, he did mega clout, and probably doctored an ayyitsme comment. I bet he will come back. Also, many countryballs are quitting scratch. There is also the roleplay controversies. And also the ST hates us. We need to stop all cloutchasers from 5th roleplay controversying." - THE-H-boss3 "Too large amounts of drama" -aaale "The SMC is a threat to its own existence. I agree with Abresian, bela, and all the others that stated the exact same point. The more we grow, the bigger the threat we are to ourselves." -beginner_AKAtalal "The ignorant rulebreakers, along with the auth left Scratch Team that backs them up, are the greatest threat to scratch mapping." -codingunion "The Scratch Team. If they ban just a few mappers, the SMC will go into a crisis, so we need to stop that from ever happening. As @Exotos_Mapping said, "people stupidity - and maybe unreasonable bans"." - DevonianMapping "Doxxers and hackers for sure." -notpok "Well I think, a war might be a treat. But to be real, I feel like older mappers leaving then clouts joining, and then would have the SMC a clout hot spot." -Countryballd "people who say cloutchasers or doxxers or hackers really havent had much of a taste for smc history. i know i really cant talk because i wasnt in the smc for a year before i left but i read enough on the wiki to have surface-level knowledge about many major events in smc history. honestly i agree most with geo and soda and SM and ont and lugi and deet. but im not in the smc anymore so why should i even care lol", "im not (de facto) in the SMC anymore but i was in it for nearly a year and i've seen some serious stuff. I gotta agree with lugi, ont, SM, and notforc. inactivity kills and also peacekeeping/interventions can really escalate "wars" (children arguing) aswell as people who only map to chase clout and followers. also of course soda because yeah the members of the SMC are some of the biggest threats to the SMC" - moomoowillie "the outsiders arent a threat, we are our own threat." -RyanPRF "I have many beliefs on threats. The Scratch Team for having the ability to ban, block, and terminate anyone anytime. Cloutchasers for repeatedly ripping the community apart. Doxxers and hackers who break into people's info and cause confusion among us like the cloutchasers. And lastly, ourselves. We have the responsibility to control us. We all sometimes get mad at each other and declare wars, often pointless ones, and that was all our decision. We chose to abuse our behavior to cause trouble." - TaiwaneseMapping "Scratch itself" - kobold_warlock "The older mappers who try to interfere in affairs of younger mapper, using thier own experience gained through doing the same thing, and drag out the affairs more, instead of letting them learn it themselves." - pandascode "My opinion is that the community itself is acting to childish and should man up" - JoeMotorcross178
Non-Manager opinions (continued) ----- "Historically, ourselves. Most Recently, the backlash at the studio update causing many bans. Luckily, this didn’t happen, but if it did the SMC, and the scratch community as a whole would break down" - randomguyboi "As we Get smaller, We Slowly but surely Start to fall. If this hapins then we will be dead in a year" - ExcitedDuckVienna "if you ask me fame and corruption as of the moment and young mappers glued into the honest fact that they can rise the ranks when they can't, then elder mappers ran away and did not defend the community hence people have been making new communities not just on scratch. so in general move on to youtube else your virtually screwed" - Chicago_ball "To be honest, I think it is the SMC itself." - -Pizza_King- "cheating in roleplays, cloutchasing, eachother because we do these things." - Him_head "Wars, inactivity, scratch team are the biggest threat. We should try to follow the guidlines and remain friendship.That's the best way how the smc won't feel threatened" - Savioswastos “Everybody either getting banned or muted, its that or the fact that less and less new mappers come on, im a semi-new mapper but still, people are getting banned, deleted, and muted and we are having less and less people in." GDLichen "to be honest, being in the bad side of the SMC has really taught me about wars. And to be honest with you, wars are just glorified debates. And they are REALLY glorified, people got banned because of this. Cloutchasers are only there because of the way the SMC reacts to them. Some shove it aside, but the ones that make a bit commotion because of it are the main targets of the cloutchasers. What makes the threat itself is the own community unknowingly. It isn't that hard to know that, honestly that basically shows how the SMC creates its own imaginary enemies. If this was known by the community beforehand, mabye the SMC would just be a chill community for mappers and not have years of war that could be avoided, instead of the absolute battlefield that it turned out to be. This is just sad. for example one time, a war spread because someone overreacted to a joke. many wars were created because of overreaction. this only proves my point. these imaginary threats became a real thing, thanks to the overreacton. thankfully, the once chill mapper community is now chill again, but to be honest, seeing the comment sections makes me worried another war might happen. tl;dr: the SMC creates its own threats by overreacting to stuff. This all could've been avoided.: - Brazilball_Mapping "morfin will be the end of the SMC." - 326koininsburgerRK "morfinhole is a terrible roleplayer and acts like he is nice but he is not" - Khawaunspino12 "morfin" - GoldSilver918 "morfin" - NovgorodEmpire "People overreacting to small situations and getting offended by simple jokes. Also the lack of maturity among SMCers(both new and old) also poses a threat. Other factors such as cloutchasers and toxicness should be handled." - Iced_Zoubing "Morfin obviously but also us because we sometimes cause destruction and harassment." - airplaneboi77 "For me, despite being a new user, i'd say how our brains work. They're wired in a way to love competition and Attention, of which translates into many cloutchaser wars and others the community possess in dangerous capacities, it also goes into Toxicity, with people wanting attention no matter what." - _Chrocks_ "I'd say that its 2 main things 1. the community is only the same things over and over again thats killnig its followers becuase they want new and EXCITING projects unliek ours that at this point are just recycled from others 2. Morfin and the Great Divide has ablsolutly wrecked its older players they are just tired of toxic and bad Roleplayers." - gato_attempt_2 "I know nobody asked but I feel the need to put in my opinion as a small mapper in 2018. In my opinion, one of the bigger threats (though not the biggest) is definitely 4-year-olds randomly typing on their keyboards and making low-quality content at an exponentially increasing rate. As one of the 4-year-olds during 2018/2019, I just want to say that my borders that were literally straight lines intersecting and my super cringy endings probably made a few people turn around in utter disgust, and then never look back." - EandCheckmark "people leaving?" - Senior_scratch327
