I recently made the mistake of thinking I could write an SCP article in the year of our lord 2021, ignorant of what the modern SCP wiki has devolved into. last time I was involved in any real capacity was around 2012, when people could easily submit an article and it would be judged by the community by a voting system. things have changed a fair bit since then I guess.
When I visited the wiki, I was greeted with the scp logo with an LGBTQIAP+ flag decal, this was a red flag and I should have turned back then. I proceeded to attempt to get registered, assuming it would be easy, but it definitely fucking wasn't. for starters you can't use an email associated with Hotmail, or an email with numbers, or else you won't be sent a confirmation email. you then have to read pages of rules to find a password to register. after all that you're in, but you aren't allowed to post yet, you have to go through the tranny gauntlet. let me explain:
- in order to even write a rough copy of your article on the "sandbox" (basically all the formatting of the regular wiki but private/not published) you need to post your idea for an article and have it greenlit by 2 members of either the staff or high level authors. the staff and authors almost never greenlight ideas unless they are very pretentious/convoluted
- in order to get one of the gatekeeping staff/authors to read your idea at all you need to pester them with PMs, but even this rarely works.
- the fastest way to get someone to "crit" (critique) your idea is to delve into the IRC chat or the various awful discords that the "critters" (people capable of giving greenlight) maintain. the IRC chat is terrible, and usually off topic. critters rarely ever discuss the ideas people post and coldly dismiss them if they do. the main chat in the IRC does not consist of authors discussing how to write or ideas, it consists of trannies talking about Minecraft and catgirls obsessively.
- the discords that the kingmakers of the wiki maintain are horrible places, going there can twist and bend the mind to the point of breaking. they are infested with legit trannies who go on and on about politics and how much they hate "nazis" (people with political beliefs to the right of lenin) in all chat channels, especially if the channel is supposed to discuss something else. there is almost no discussion of actual writing going on here, just tranny talk about pokemon and femboys. there is no doubt in my mind that some of the younger fans of the SCP foundation get suckered into coming here and are groomed.
- I didn't see a single good idea be greenlit in my attempt to get a greenlight, only pretentious over-written ideas or politically convenient ideas like an scp that infects people with "alt-right" ideas being approved (seriously). the other ideas I saw approved involved big narratives involving foxgirls and other boring shit.
- if you somehow wade through that river of shit you still need to be sent an invite to the "sandbox" wiki to write your draft, this invite can take weeks to be sent. your draft then has to be greenlit in a similar manner to your idea if it is to be posted.
- established authors or friends of staff don't have to do any of what I just explained
After this bullshit I was thoroughly demoralized regarding the state of scp in late 2021. the people in charge increasingly reject new authors and are forming a tranny circle-jerk that will soon be the only people allowed to write for the wiki. most established authors have an open disdain for horror and confess to wanting to write "narratively complex" or "wholesome" scps. there is also a disdain for all scps written in series 1 (scp-1 to scp-999) and "series 1 esque" is an insult authors use to insult a relatively simple or scary scp. "murder monster" scps are actively voted against. the cold and clinical tone of scp articles has been almost entirely ditched as well.
TLDR: The modern scp wiki is an echo chamber for trannies, who have achieved complete control over the wiki and are increasingly gatekeeping. the people in charge are very elitist and don't like the scps that most people enjoy, to the point that they have disdain for the old SCPs and have totally ditched the old way of writing in favor of overly complex stories. it is increasingly hard to become a new author on the wiki