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

[Shitassdeaddude]

At some point, self-upvoting stopped being viewed as poor form by most authors, and now a lot of people do it. I wonder why that happened.

Because reddit auto-self-upvotes your posts, so they just got used to it.

 

[Bryce Tankthrust]

Because reddit auto-self-upvotes your posts, so they just got used to it.

This too, just the creeping of Redditthink into the site. And Tumblr.

I found this thread when it was new and the scale of the sex pestery wasn't so realized yet. It's come a long way from laughing at the staff, managing to scare off deviants like Bright. I hate to see the site die this fast, really loved it for the X-Files format it brought but makes sense it did with what's happened. Hoping it changes for the better but that's very .

 

[Punished “Venom” pH]

At some point, self-upvoting stopped being viewed as poor form by most authors, and now a lot of people do it. I wonder why that happened.

It was legalized because it was too much of a hassle to chase after people and in my eyes at the time it was an excuse to harass newbies

 

[AnOminous]

Writing for SCP helps you get better at writing SCP articles, and not much else. There's actually a decent guide on style by Hippo, but most of the people on the wiki who write good prose didn't learn the craft on the wiki itself.

I keep saying this, and maybe I'm a retard, but "good" SCP prose actually isn't good prose, but prose suited for a specific purpose. You'd probably be better at it if you were a good prose stylist, but you'd almost have to hobble yourself, because the prose can't be too good. There's a certain bland sameness to all the "good" SCPs that derives from the continuity and is a bureaucratic tone. It is from a certain kind of organization to a certain kind of person.

It has to appear as if it is a document that you, as some hypothetical employee in charge of some operation dealing with a single one of these entities, might actually get from your organization to tell you how to do it.

This is why it always irritates me to see some criticism of an SCP based on not having a good "narrative." Bitch it isn't supposed to be a narrative. That shit is what ruined SCP.

At some point, self-upvoting stopped being viewed as poor form by most authors, and now a lot of people do it. I wonder why that happened.

That's like jerking off in public it's so pathetic.

 

[BurnerPhone]

I keep saying this, and maybe I'm a retard, but "good" SCP prose actually isn't good prose, but prose suited for a specific purpose. You'd probably be better at it if you were a good prose stylist, but you'd almost have to hobble yourself, because the prose can't be too good. There's a certain bland sameness to all the "good" SCPs that derives from the continuity and is a bureaucratic tone. It is from a certain kind of organization to a certain kind of person.

It has to appear as if it is a document that you, as some hypothetical employee in charge of some operation dealing with a single one of these entities, might actually get from your organization to tell you how to do it.

This is why it always irritates me to see some criticism of an SCP based on not having a good "narrative." Bitch it isn't supposed to be a narrative. That shit is what ruined SCP.


That's like jerking off in public it's so pathetic.

I think the word you're looking for here is "diction" aka word choice. When I say Roget has bad prose, I mean he fundamentally does not understand what a natural English sentence looks like, and for that matter neither do a lot of SCP authors. Things like punctuation, sentence length, word choice (diction), and more are part of natural speaking language (prose) and SCP authors suck at it. Even in a supposedly "clinical" style, people still have to understand what they're actually reading. I wish Roget's article was archived before it got nuked because I could write a small essay pointing out grammatical errors, run-on sentences, needless adjectives, and more.

I'm not even talking about the actual content of the work, which is another whole discussion...

 

[Punished “Venom” pH]

I think the word you're looking for here is "diction" aka word choice. When I say Roget has bad prose, I mean he fundamentally does not understand what a natural English sentence looks like, and for that matter neither do a lot of SCP authors. Things like punctuation, sentence length, word choice (diction), and more are part of natural speaking language (prose) and SCP authors suck at it. Even in a supposedly "clinical" style, people still have to understand what they're actually reading. I wish Roget's article was archived before it got nuked because I could write a small essay pointing out grammatical errors, run-on sentences, needless adjectives, and more.

I'm not even talking about the actual content of the work, which is another whole discussion...

Well yeah it was a barometer piece and it did what I needed it to do, if it were work I wanted to stick up it’d still be up

 

[HIVidaBoheme]

Hate to break it to you Rogie, but this type of behavior won't do you any favors on RPC. You won't be coddled and validated like in SCP, you will be rightfully labelled as a sperg. Instead of making comments like this maybe try and be more humble

to believe any humility will ever come out from authors self upvoting.

This is how Moennenbys and JimmyBoyHaha behave as well, it's clearly a SCP thing sticking to their former users like a fungus. Complete with the self upvoting thing

Next thing we'll know is Rogie will chimp out at the users giving 1 stars.

Edit: hit too close to home I see lol

 

[BurnerPhone]

Well yeah it was a barometer piece and it did what I needed it to do, if it were work I wanted to stick up it’d still be up

I've said this before: literally coping and seething

 

[alanshaffer3293]

What about tales? (in regards to the SCP style only preparing you for a hyper-specific type of writing)

 

[Furret]

What about tales? (in regards to the SCP style only preparing you for a hyper-specific type of writing)

The guide I linked by Hippo is exclusively about tales. Hippo takes his hobbyist writing more seriously than most, and actually went out of his way to learn how to write outside of the SCP format, so he's got a guide on style for would-be tale authors who can't actually write anything that isn't an SCP. It's actually decently helpful, but the point I was making is that most people on the wiki who can write prose like Hippo didn't learn how on the wiki itself, Hippo included. For the vast majority of wiki authors, the most there is to be gained from writing for the wiki is better clinical tone, which doesn't help you at all if you want to write stories that don't sound like scientific reports.

Well yeah it was a barometer piece and it did what I needed it to do, if it were work I wanted to stick up it’d still be up

You cared so little about the fate of the article that you self-rated it 5 stars.

 

[AnOminous]

I think the word you're looking for here is "diction" aka word choice. When I say Roget has bad prose, I mean he fundamentally does not understand what a natural English sentence looks like, and for that matter neither do a lot of SCP authors.

I specifically didn't criticize Roget's prose directly because I haven't really read enough of it to judge it on its merits. What I've seen doesn't strike me as too far out of the norm for current year SCP but needless to say that is not much of a compliment (or a criticism either really).

 

[Baubius]

Imagine this, an SCP that's a sort of memetic entity that takes the form of the somewhat obscure but still recognizable video game (REDACTED), but if you play it for too long, you'll start to suffer hallucinations and what not, seeing the game characters where they shouldn't be, causing the effected to slowly or quickly go insane depending on how much they played. Eventually, they would kill themselves in a last ditch effort to get rid of the hallucinations.

"AND THEN RED STARTED BLEEDING HYPERREALISTIC BLOOD AND HE CAME OUT OF DA TV AND THERE WAS STATIC AND I WENT INSANE AND COMMITEED SUICIDE"

Edit: caught you sussin

 

[Valstrax]

"AND THEN RED STARTED BLEEDING HYPERREALISTIC BLOOD AND HE CAME OUT OF DA TV AND THERE WAS STATIC AND I WENT INSANE AND COMMITEED SUICIDE"

Edit: caught you sussin

Well shit, ya got me there. Thanks for giving me a chuckle, friend.

 

[Gar For Archer]

Just wanted to bring up another series of SCP’s that I really hate that I just discovered were a Kaktus special: SCP 4812 and it’s related entries.

The first time I read it, it distinctly stood out to me that the writer clearly just wanted to write a fantasy novella but realized that nobody would give a shit unless it had SCP tacked onto it, because the entire background is this history of a fairy tale civilization that’s just so incredibly out of theme with SCP. The anomalies themselves are completely uninteresting and the whole thing seems like an excuse for him to wank out his own mythology.

SCP is at its best when it’s about anomalies and the organizations that deal with them intersecting with the “real world”. Even metanarrative wankery is more interesting to read than this shit.

 

[Valstrax]

Just wanted to bring up another series of SCP’s that I really hate that I just discovered were a Kaktus special: SCP 4812 and it’s related entries.

The first time I read it, it distinctly stood out to me that the writer clearly just wanted to write a fantasy novella but realized that nobody would give a shit unless it had SCP tacked onto it, because the entire background is this history of a fairy tale civilization that’s just so incredibly out of theme with SCP. The anomalies themselves are completely uninteresting and the whole thing seems like an excuse for him to wank out his own mythology.

SCP is at its best when it’s about anomalies and the organizations that deal with them intersecting with the “real world”. Even metanarrative wankery is more interesting to read than this shit.

Oh thank god, it wasn't the one I was thinking of.

 

[Cow-Chan]

the writer clearly just wanted to write a fantasy novella but realized that nobody would give a shit unless it had SCP tacked onto it

"Nobody else gives a shit about me so I'll just post it on SCP for attention" is a great way to summarize Kaktus' entire personality.

 

[Punished “Venom” pH]

"Nobody else gives a shit about me so I'll just post it on SCP for attention" is a great way to summarize Kaktus' entire personality.

 

[ToS]

@pixelatedharmony why not write exclusively for SCPCommune? Y'all had a nice thing going there right?

 

[Furret]

@pixelatedharmony why not write exclusively for SCPCommune? Y'all had a nice thing going there right?

Not enough people there to satisfy the ever-strong craving for attention. There's no point if there's no eyes on what you're doing.

 

[Punished “Venom” pH]

Not enough people there to satisfy the ever-strong craving for attention. There's no point if there's no eyes on what you're doing.

No they refused my applications lol for there and the back rooms otherwise I’d be dropping stuff all over to see what people expect of me.