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Why was my CS project hidden?

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Programs that don’t meet the following guidelines may be hidden from the hotlist or from the public gallery view. Inappropriate discussion posts may also be deleted. Learners who persistently break these rules may be banned from community activity.

A program or post is considered inappropriate if it includes any of the following:

Offensive content

  • Discriminatory or offensive language.
  • Sexual or violent content, or any other content that could reasonably be deemed inappropriate for an educational setting.

Off-topic

  • Advertisements or non-helpful links to 3rd party sites.
  • Controversial or divisive topics including religion, politics, or personal information that may reveal details that compromise learner privacy.
  • Social groups, or programs that generate social chats or other posts not related to programming in the discussion thread.
  • Asking others to vote up a project.Garnering or receiving votes from a voting ring, defined as a group of people who conspire to vote up each others’ programs.

Plagiarism

If you are inspired by someone else’s program, you can create a spin-off of that program by pressing the Spin-off button. Creating a spin-off properly gives credit to the original creator by linking to the original program.

A program is considered plagiarism if it copies and pastes someone else's work into a new program instead of creating a spin-off. If a program copies and pastes someone else’s work from several programs, it must give credit to the creators in the comments at the top of the program. Otherwise, it is considered plagiarism.

Appealing a Hidden Project

If your project has been hidden, you can edit it so that it no longer violates the CS project guidelines. Once you’ve edited your project, you can fill out an appeal form to request it be unhidden. After you've submitted the form, a Guardian will review your CS project and respond to you with a decision. 

Note: Projects that have been hidden because of a discussion ban will have to remain hidden, as this is one of the consequences of the discussion-ban.