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Is there an actual time capsule version of the site from before it got terminally pozzed?
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There’s an archive site of really early SCPs from before the famous low-quality purge, but that’s old shit. I don’t know if doing this would help you specifically, but I know that some people prefer to avoid reading author pages and the discussion sections of written works so that the reputation of the author doesn’t affect any enjoyment of the writing itself.
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That was also a "nothing of value was lost" thing. I'm more concerned with losing classic SCPs because they get pozzed up with bullshit. Freezing all the classics would make sense.
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Just wanted to give a shout out to one specific SCP article that's probably one of the most blatantly woke baiting thing's I've ever read, starring an anomalous transgender activist who created a special cassette tape specifically for getting alt-right people copyright blocked. http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-4581
(check out the comments page for the author's commentary)
www.scp-wiki.net
(check out the comments page for the author's commentary)
SCP-4581 - SCP Foundation
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Just wanted to give a shout out to one specific SCP article that's probably one of the most blatantly woke baiting thing's I've ever read, starring an anomalous transgender activist who created a special cassette tape specifically for getting alt-right people copyright blocked. http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-4581
(check out the comments page for the author's commentary)
SCP-4581 - SCP Foundation
But of course kinch would be involved with this, I'm somewhat surprised there was no contribution from djkaktus or the like in the writing of this. (lol bet the RPC boys must be trashing it to hell and back)
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Count the number of times this guy says "bigot."
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There's a post that's been riling up people in the Tumblr side of the SCP fandom and I want to link it here so other people can give their input on it. Based on my own observations, a lot of the sentiments seem accurate. I don't know if I agree with it entirely but it made a few staff members salty and I like watching them seethe. (Yeet. Shrek is life.)
Edit: The tags on the post have quite a few relevant follow-ups.
https://v1als.tumblr.com/post/189148879852/i-mean-to-ask-this-genuinely-no-hostility-but (https://archive.md/81JpL)
Edit: The tags on the post have quite a few relevant follow-ups.
https://v1als.tumblr.com/post/189148879852/i-mean-to-ask-this-genuinely-no-hostility-but (https://archive.md/81JpL)
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Eh, if you bend words enough you can define any group as a cult... but I'd say that the SCP mods tend to be pretty insular and stuck-up shits.
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Yeah, that’s fair, I’m just happy to see a post with genuine criticisms of the SCP community and staff that don’t fall back on the same tired arguments from the 2018 pride month drama.
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I almost died the first time I read this one: http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2030
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I actually like this one
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So do I. That’s why I posted it here.
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I’ve been working on another longpost recently for a creep on the SCP admin team (I’ll finish eventually) but I noticed something today. It appears that SCP staff have begun censoring information about Cyantreuse on their staff site, O5 Command. I guess they regret their decision to be semi-transparent about the situation. I'm not sure if it was intentional, but the time appears to line up with Null's decision to hide the off-topic forum category, which this thread happens to be in. (Which has since been undone).
Cyan’s disciplinary thread has been heavily reformatted. I included it in a previous post, but here’s a screenshot of a statement they released about their investigation. (And an archive, so people know I’m not making it up: https://archive.md/xDKT4)
His disciplinary thread now looks like this:
It looks like one of the admins outright deleted the second post, something they rarely do, and edited the original post to be even more vague than before. Either they no longer believe that Cyan’s actions were a big deal, or they don’t want anyone to use his disciplinary thread as proof. http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-10084571/disciplinary-cyril
It seems likely that this is a result of Cyan’s father receiving threats at his business address, which Cy brought up on Tumblr recently. How someone found information about his father, I don’t know. For the record, I don’t endorse sending Cyan threats of any kind, in real life or online. Nor do I endorse anyone attempting to threaten his family and friends. Please don’t give this litigious, manipulative idiot any more of a reason to believe that he needs to sue his victims, or the people calling him out on social media. It’s very common for abusive people to retaliate after the people they’ve hurt seek justice, so please show some restraint, it’s not helpful.
Cyan’s disciplinary thread has been heavily reformatted. I included it in a previous post, but here’s a screenshot of a statement they released about their investigation. (And an archive, so people know I’m not making it up: https://archive.md/xDKT4)
His disciplinary thread now looks like this:
Additionally, it appears that they’ve been deleting threads containing information about Cyan.
http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-2078755/cyantreuse
http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-2068010
I was stupid enough to not archive the two above threads, so please forgive me, I’ll need to summarize them. I was under the belief that staff never erase threads. The first thread of the above was titled “Cyantreuse”, which he used to warn other staff members of reasons why he’d be temporarily inactive and unable to perform staff duties. Nearly every staff member makes one of them at some point, and it was fairly mundane. The second was titled “Issues with Cyan’s Dismissal and General Surrounding Circumstances”, which was linked in my original post about the subject and detailed Cyan’s dramatic, public falling out with a Tumblr user who he had accused of emotional abuse. Because both of these users were well-known in the SCP side of Tumblr, and as a result got several people involved, Cyan was strongly encouraged to step down from his staff position. Here are archives of the callout posts on his own blog: https://archive.ph/si7HE, https://archive.md/uRp37, https://archive.ph/xnWXu
http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-2078755/cyantreuse
http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-2068010
I was stupid enough to not archive the two above threads, so please forgive me, I’ll need to summarize them. I was under the belief that staff never erase threads. The first thread of the above was titled “Cyantreuse”, which he used to warn other staff members of reasons why he’d be temporarily inactive and unable to perform staff duties. Nearly every staff member makes one of them at some point, and it was fairly mundane. The second was titled “Issues with Cyan’s Dismissal and General Surrounding Circumstances”, which was linked in my original post about the subject and detailed Cyan’s dramatic, public falling out with a Tumblr user who he had accused of emotional abuse. Because both of these users were well-known in the SCP side of Tumblr, and as a result got several people involved, Cyan was strongly encouraged to step down from his staff position. Here are archives of the callout posts on his own blog: https://archive.ph/si7HE, https://archive.md/uRp37, https://archive.ph/xnWXu
It seems likely that this is a result of Cyan’s father receiving threats at his business address, which Cy brought up on Tumblr recently. How someone found information about his father, I don’t know. For the record, I don’t endorse sending Cyan threats of any kind, in real life or online. Nor do I endorse anyone attempting to threaten his family and friends. Please don’t give this litigious, manipulative idiot any more of a reason to believe that he needs to sue his victims, or the people calling him out on social media. It’s very common for abusive people to retaliate after the people they’ve hurt seek justice, so please show some restraint, it’s not helpful.
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Between this post and your link to the Tumblr post, I feel like the SCP wiki site is super overdue for an atomic receipt bomb that really shows the true colors of the senior members that they really can't recover from. Perhaps a Night of the Long Knives?
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Oh you have no idea. There are so many more predators in the SCP community, both on staff and regular users, than anyone has let on in this thread. It's just a matter of people feeling comfortable enough to speak about their experiences. The NSFW side of the fandom is insane. It allows for abusive, predatory behavior that I have not seen in any other fandom throughout my life. If I could, I would expose it all. Unfortunately, I have to keep in mind all the time that I'd be potentially putting other people at risk. I can think of at least 7 other people who haven't gotten what they deserve yet.
Hell, it's not just the sex creeps. There are plenty of people who won't hesitate to abuse their power and privilege.
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I joined the SCP Wiki, briefly. I only wrote a few skips, though I had grandiose plans to make a whole new villain and blah blah blah...
Anyway, some of the 'fun' stuff I experienced:
1: The primary chat is on IRC. Why? So they can literally IP ban you from the main chats. Any other form just isn't good enough.
2: The entry system was all but breaking down entirely when I came to look.
Basically:
3: People have mentioned djkaktus. I think his self-made author page says more than any number of words can.
4: Speaking of djkaktus, the website's infested with html flexing. Any sense of coherence or consistency is shot to hell and back. djkaktus is a really bad offender of this, constantly making new formats and hoping they'll take over as the most popular one. But hey, it means easy clicks.
5: A lot of the staff have issues with what they deem 'videogame' monsters. Personally, I choose to believe this is because they don't want some newbie getting their skip into a videogame before they do.
6: Instead, a large portion is fixated on what I'll call metafictional, narrative-altering SCPs. These articles treat the SCP wiki as a fictional world, and have people who have their powers all as narrative-altering shit. That's fine as an occasional thing, but when everyone's doing it, it wears out it's welcome pretty friggin' quickly. Series 5 (4000-4999) is riddled with the bastards.
It's way too much work for what it's worth.
Anyway, some of the 'fun' stuff I experienced:
1: The primary chat is on IRC. Why? So they can literally IP ban you from the main chats. Any other form just isn't good enough.
2: The entry system was all but breaking down entirely when I came to look.
Basically:
First, you need to be greenlighted by two different people with a significant amount of experience on the site. The only guaranteed way of getting your first greenlight check is to do your first post perfect, without issue, and hope one of the greenlighters checks your thread before anyone else posts. Cos all they do to check if you need a greenlight is see if LITERALLY ANYONE has replied to your thread. The second you'll have to pester someone to do, and hope they like it. This can take aeons.
The main place to look for criticism (for both this and the next step) is the IRC channel #thecritters, which is an absolute shitshow. Very few of the available 'critters' will ever respond, and those that do will often be tired and frustrated. What ends up happening far more often, is that newbies waiting for days at a time to get a review will end up reviewing each other. Which doesn't help much at all after a while.
If you somehow get it past this stage, you need to go to one of half-a-dozen 'sandbox' sites (because this is all a Wikia thing) and make it there. Because A: you can't pass word docs or anything through IRC and B: wikia's formatting and all that. Now you have to get that reviewed, ideally multiple times. And like in the greenlight threads, any responses mean you won't even get a FIRST review.
If you do all that, generally taking a month or more to FORCE your article through, congratulations! You've probably got some tepid reception for all your hard work. 10/10.
They were even talking about closing #thecritters channel, mainly because the bar they've set is SO IMPOSSIBLY HIGH that no-one can be assed to do all the legwork. They're literally more elitist than even they can stand.
The main place to look for criticism (for both this and the next step) is the IRC channel #thecritters, which is an absolute shitshow. Very few of the available 'critters' will ever respond, and those that do will often be tired and frustrated. What ends up happening far more often, is that newbies waiting for days at a time to get a review will end up reviewing each other. Which doesn't help much at all after a while.
If you somehow get it past this stage, you need to go to one of half-a-dozen 'sandbox' sites (because this is all a Wikia thing) and make it there. Because A: you can't pass word docs or anything through IRC and B: wikia's formatting and all that. Now you have to get that reviewed, ideally multiple times. And like in the greenlight threads, any responses mean you won't even get a FIRST review.
If you do all that, generally taking a month or more to FORCE your article through, congratulations! You've probably got some tepid reception for all your hard work. 10/10.
They were even talking about closing #thecritters channel, mainly because the bar they've set is SO IMPOSSIBLY HIGH that no-one can be assed to do all the legwork. They're literally more elitist than even they can stand.
3: People have mentioned djkaktus. I think his self-made author page says more than any number of words can.
4: Speaking of djkaktus, the website's infested with html flexing. Any sense of coherence or consistency is shot to hell and back. djkaktus is a really bad offender of this, constantly making new formats and hoping they'll take over as the most popular one. But hey, it means easy clicks.
5: A lot of the staff have issues with what they deem 'videogame' monsters. Personally, I choose to believe this is because they don't want some newbie getting their skip into a videogame before they do.
6: Instead, a large portion is fixated on what I'll call metafictional, narrative-altering SCPs. These articles treat the SCP wiki as a fictional world, and have people who have their powers all as narrative-altering shit. That's fine as an occasional thing, but when everyone's doing it, it wears out it's welcome pretty friggin' quickly. Series 5 (4000-4999) is riddled with the bastards.
It's way too much work for what it's worth.
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It's why 99% of the population fucking hates "meta" humor now.
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This is easily the case in the SCP, every other skip is a "uwu unique" metaphysical thing, and if that thing was written by djkaktus it's filled with invisible text, voice clips hidden in some tab that is consequentially hidden among the text, a screwy format that changes if you are looking at a different browser tag, it has become so boring. Just slap a Keter and mind altering on that shit and you'd be hard pressed to find any article that is either a) an original fun to read concept or b) an article so mind fucking you feel compelled to read it again to understand it. Which also brings up the matter that these people now write articles spanning series or long enough to constitute an essay which require the reader put up with their boring unoriginal crap for longer. Boring
Which is also another problem seen at the RPC, few of the concepts they write stray far from what has been tried already at the SCP, the shielding argument being that "the SCP has been around for over a decade, more than one thing we try will have already been done" when in fact, the users who migrated from SCP are just doing there what they couldn't do in SCP. Some of the glaring offenders being Moennenbys (to the point his articles are boring low effort metaphysical "uwu special phenomena" or cryptic humanoids with no interesting substance) and moistbread a one trick writer ascending to popularity over one cryptic world ending eldritch abomination.
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The SCP Wiki has always struggled with not having enough people available to give proper critique in a timely manner. This is a longtime issue. A lot of established authors (and smart newbies) DM their friends or people they trust to do critique on their writing, knowing that the forums will give them at most two impersonal reviews per thread. Really, the only motivation to do critique to the SCP Wiki's standards is a genuine desire to see good writing on the site. For many people, giving critique is a thankless job, as it's very time-consuming and there's always the risk that the author will become discouraged and start over, or just not care. The implementation of the reviewer's spotlight and the greenlight system helped somewhat, but the core issue is that there's never enough bodies. The forum criticism team is the most overworked staff team by far, despite being the biggest. Most people who show promise with critique get drafted onto it eventually, and essentially become the admins' slave caste. O5 Command is not friendly towards newer critiquers, with the majority of new threads being given to people who have given critique deemed subpar to drafts and ideas. When you also keep in mind that the SCP Wiki onboards at least a few dozen new people every day, it becomes clear why the state of critique is not that great. (Huh. Maybe this is why they never demote anyone who.... "misbehaves".)