SCP Foundation - Creepypasta with roid rage - now ITT: SCP fans

[Furret]

Users have been questioning that staff member for that creepy behavior but the rest of chat staff are just complicit.

Do you have logs of this? If it's regular users and not staff it's probably easier to find, but I can't be bothered to go digging right now.

That is not your business, and it doesn't matter if they're single or not! This is not a dating website.

Shouldn't this be here?

 

[Rorschach Test]

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Picture says 1,000 words.

This is the face of a guy who wrote a whole article that boiled down to an excuse to say “nigga” a bunch of times with his cringeworthy attempts at making up his own raps. He’s lil’ Quentin Tarantino, but not the way he wishes.

The edits to it are an improvement (which isn’t saying much) but it is still based on the conceit that Tupac Shakur—jeez, if only we knew what he tended to think about law enforcement—is helping the cops solve crimes.

 

[Furret]

The edits to it are an improvement (which isn’t saying much) but it is still based on the conceit that Tupac Shakur—jeez, if only we knew what he tended to think about law enforcement—is helping the cops solve crimes.

The most baffling part of this entire situation is that it took almost five years for someone to point out that Tupac helping cops is hard to believe. I went through the entire discussion thread, and until Kalinin's post in June 2019 this article saw nothing but praise, other than a few nitpicks when it was first published. It was only after people remembered its existence following the allegations about Max Landis that anyone really criticized it. The wiki was so blinded by excitement from having a semi-famous writer publish an article that they were only able to notice the article's glaring issues after the author was accused of sexual misconduct and banned. Embarrassing.

 

[ToS]

The wiki was so blinded by excitement from having a semi-famous writer publish an article that they were only able to notice the article's glaring issues after the author was accused of sexual misconduct and banned. Embarrassing.

Bingo. SCP in a nutshell.

I want to give credit where it is due:
SCP was...

• banning people for political opinions
• mocking them to go make their own version if they didn’t like it
• then trying to ruin that different version

...long before it was the cool thing to do.

 

[Furret]

Went through the log of generic bans from #site17, turns out the thread I posted earlier isn't the first time Kufat has reported someone to their ISP for trolling. Interestingly, he seems to be the only member of chat staff doing this. He also likes to make sure that nobody connects to the chat using a VPN, presumably so he can do this to anyone he wants. I doubt any ISPs actually care about users trolling the SCP wiki, but it's still eyebrow-raising behavior.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

This is the face of a guy who wrote a whole article that boiled down to an excuse to say “nigga” a bunch of times with his cringeworthy attempts at making up his own raps. He’s lil’ Quentin Tarantino, but not the way he wishes.

The edits to it are an improvement (which isn’t saying much) but it is still based on the conceit that Tupac Shakur—jeez, if only we knew what he tended to think about law enforcement—is helping the cops solve crimes.

The one good thing he did in his life was introduce RLM to Neil Breen.

 

[Rorschach Test]

In the absence of any news, here are a few of the newer SCPs that I consider worth reading. There’s no accounting for taste, of course, but none of these are marysue narrative circlejerks:

http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-4666 - the Weissnacht events. You know who it is.

http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-5140 - Mount Everest.

http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-4975 - cuckoo. It’s just a decent monster. It reflects the state of the site that this page only came about as a part of a “cliche writing contest.” Doing a simple idea well, as in the first 1000, has fallen out of vogue.

http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-5031 - the elephant man, basically. It’s not scary, but it’s one of the only satisfying narrative articles that’s actually feels like scientists (i.e. adults) have something to do with it.

http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-1322-j - It’s the break-room anomaly. Joke article.

http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-4182 - I dunno, it’s one of the “fucked up documentation” ones. I think it’s neat.

Hopefully this helps keep up thread morale.

 

[Capsaicin Addict]

The most baffling part of this entire situation is that it took almost five years for someone to point out that Tupac helping cops is hard to believe. I went through the entire discussion thread, and until Kalinin's post in June 2019 this article saw nothing but praise, other than a few nitpicks when it was first published. It was only after people remembered its existence following the allegations about Max Landis that anyone really criticized it. The wiki was so blinded by excitement from having a semi-famous writer publish an article that they were only able to notice the article's glaring issues after the author was accused of sexual misconduct and banned. Embarrassing.

Initially I agreed, but then I got to thinking about it.

The SCP ('Tupac's ghost' for lack of a better term) seems less interested in actual law enforcement/judicial intervention, and more in just stopping whatever the criminal of the week is doing. Note that it doesn't seem to object if the Foundation rolls out the MTF to deal with the problem directly.

So yeah, I view it as less 'Tupac's ghost is helping cops' and more 'Tupac's ghost using whatever works to stop a bastard'. Remember, when the Foundation started balking, it had absolutely no qualms about grabbing them by the balls (metaphorically speaking) and threatening them.

The funny part about the 'blinded by Max Landis's fame' bit is that there's another (albeit lesser known) published author there, S. Andrew Swann. Nobody seems to swoon over his stuff though.

 

[Furret]

The funny part about the 'blinded by Max Landis's fame' bit is that there's another (albeit lesser known) published author there, S. Andrew Swann. Nobody seems to swoon over his stuff though.

Swann is an obscure enough author that many wiki users don't know that he has published novels, which I think is why people don't care as much. Landis, on the other hand, wrote Chronicle 2 years before he joined the wiki, which was a big enough hit that quite a few users recognized his name immediately, hence the embarrassing fangirling.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Swann is an obscure enough author that many wiki users don't know that he has published novels, which I think is why people don't care as much. Landis, on the other hand, wrote Chronicle 2 years before he joined the wiki, which was a big enough hit that quite a few users recognized his name immediately, hence the embarrassing fangirling.

I forgot Chronicle even was a thing.

 

[AlphaKilo]

http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-5031 - the elephant man, basically. It’s not scary, but it’s one of the only satisfying narrative articles that’s actually feels like scientists (i.e. adults) have something to do with it.

Holy shit, it's so satisfying to read. You see actual development in the addendum, from a literal monster who screams 24/7 to a chef and pianist in 2 years. Upvoted.

 

[gangweedfan]

It's the current meta, it's not about the anomaly but rather you need a lot of narrative to make your article "good". I see new writers on the forum being told to enhance the narrative in their stories and they are forced to comply. SCP-5000 is literally an invisible suit while a dude transcribes a diary on how Foundation is now evil and stuff, and it won the 5000 contest. Some newer articles are kinda decent but I miss those short and easy-to-digest articles.

THIS trend, not SJW bullshit, is what got me to stop following SCP's.

Overtly SJW SCP's are honestly pretty few in number. Unless you go looking for them, you're not really going to run across enough instances of soy language for you to think of it as a massive problem plaguing the site. THIS bullshit on the other hand? Every other article is a fucking tryhard novel where the SCP itself is literally just a hook. Sometimes this can be done well - more often than not, your hook isn't interesting enough for me to give a crap about the rest of your article. Generally, it's just writers thinking they're way more clever than they actually are.

5000 highlights another thing that bugs me about tryhard SCP's - the need to HIDE important information; not in subtext or metaphor, but to literally hide it in whitetext, or in an image, or in the fucking page formatting, because they think it's clever or something. Because the answer to why the Foundation is killing everyone is that they accidentally triggered something that made them see humanity the same way SCP-682 does - but this is only revealed though a secret dialogue hidden inside an image.

I really like the idea for SCP 5000 but it should be an "incident report" article not a scp

 

[Furret]

Chat staff apparently has no problem with Kufat repeatedly doing concerning things with the IPs of chat users, because he's just been promoted, less than a month after he was first made staff. Personally, I wouldn't trust this guy with any amount of power, but I'm not surprised that they either support his actions or don't care, since they let Bright remain staff for almost a decade after he used a random troll's IP in a similar way.

 

[AnOminous]

He also likes to make sure that nobody connects to the chat using a VPN, presumably so he can do this to anyone he wants. I doubt any ISPs actually care about users trolling the SCP wiki, but it's still eyebrow-raising behavior.

Anyone seriously determined can always use luminati which is what hardcore 4chan trolls like the Barneyfag use. They appear to be just normal home ISPs (because the site is literally selling access to the users of their "free" service's computers as proxies so I would not recommend actually using it for anything serious).

 

[Jesustakethewheel]

Pedostaff updated the bot. http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-13896040#post-4873298, apparently now "Feature Description: Bot to allow any member of chatstaff to see a user's ISP and rough geographical information, even if their hostname doesn't resolve. (e.g. SCP-abc.def.168.192.IP)" Chat staff are just as gross as actual staff, mostly the ones that aren't staff.

 

[AnOminous]

Pedostaff updated the bot. http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-13896040#post-4873298, apparently now "Feature Description: Bot to allow any member of chatstaff to see a user's ISP and rough geographical information, even if their hostname doesn't resolve. (e.g. SCP-abc.def.168.192.IP)" Chat staff are just as gross as actual staff, mostly the ones that aren't staff.

This should be useful for the chat groomers.

 

[Furret]

Pedostaff updated the bot. http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-13896040#post-4873298, apparently now "Feature Description: Bot to allow any member of chatstaff to see a user's ISP and rough geographical information, even if their hostname doesn't resolve. (e.g. SCP-abc.def.168.192.IP)" Chat staff are just as gross as actual staff, mostly the ones that aren't staff.

What a surprise, this feature is being developed by Kufat. Seems like he has an unhealthy obsession with tracking users. I imagine it's only a matter of time before he goes too far and the rest of chat staff throws him out to save face.

 

[Jesustakethewheel]

What a surprise, this feature is being developed by Kufat. Seems like he has an unhealthy obsession with tracking users. I imagine it's only a matter of time before he goes too far and the rest of chat staff throws him out to save face.

Pedostaff likes him too much for that. Never saw users complaining about it yet, keeping an eye out for it.

 

[Furret]

Pedostaff likes him too much for that. Never saw users complaining about it yet, keeping an eye out for it.

Yeah, he'll probably be kept around for a bit because he's doing a lot of development work for them, but it seems pretty likely to me that he'll eventually do something too invasive to ignore. He's already grabbing all the IPs he wants, and he's just made a tool that allows him to get even more information about users. Staff have demonstrated that they have no problem throwing individuals under the bus to save their collective reputation among their users when their questionable behavior is pointed out, so if chat staff is ever called out for wanting a disturbing amount of information about their users I won't be surprised if they let Kufat take the fall while still using his tools behind closed doors.

 

[Baubius]

Pedostaff updated the bot. http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-13896040#post-4873298, apparently now "Feature Description: Bot to allow any member of chatstaff to see a user's ISP and rough geographical information, even if their hostname doesn't resolve. (e.g. SCP-abc.def.168.192.IP)" Chat staff are just as gross as actual staff, mostly the ones that aren't staff.

dude what did i just say