If I were to win, wouldn’t they have to pay my attorney’s fees? I don’t care to enrich myself at anyone else’s expense I just think that I am being denied my rights and I don’t like that/don’t like the idea of it happening to others.
That rarely happens in America. They'd probably have to pay court fees but your chances of recovering lawyer's fees would be close to nothing.
Well, I guess I will have to keep being used to being in debt. It’s the American way!
I'm amazed I was around long enough to be having nostalgia about this list.
You would think they’d have learned stage-managed “town halls” don’t make people trust you more from the last time they tried it. They were secure enough to decide against it then, but I guess we were right that their punting on my article request was a forebear of things to come.
Ah, they’re trying to make an anti-KF alternative. A store-brand open forum. They know deep down that they don’t have the tolerance in them to actually follow through and allow the type of discussion that could help de-alienate them from the community, though. Their bureaucratic posture & formality is what they use to feign authority, and they won’t drop that here... not until they’re good and hidden, like a belly sucked in while others are watching. Like how they do in the safety of staffchat. (Until someone leaks them.) This’ll proceed like a court room larp, as always, and will mint numerous disciplinary logs and stop orders... only more publicly, compiling their problem.
Just use a Discord server lol.
What, and have the possibility of actual discourse instead of stage-managed PR? Perish the thought.
I've been following developments in SCPD, and this actually seems like it could be different. They set up a channel in SCPD to test the concept because a bunch of high-ranking staff people are in there and, much to my surprise, the staff didn't immediately flake when the complaints flooded in, and they're coordinating a setup to make regular users less afraid to speak up for fear of staff retaliation. I'm still not fully confident that they'll follow through, but this looks more promising than previous efforts. Sure, they might only be doing it to appease the angry mob, but doing it for the wrong reasons is better than not doing it at all.
Theoretically yes, but this was an hours-long discussion where nobody ever stopped talking and I can't be bothered to dig through it, so unless someone else has a plant in there you're stuck with my word for right now.
The main discussed topics were:
Wow! I for one welcome this new era of glasnost and perestroika! This seems like it’s exactly what we predicted here when they punted on my articles, let’s see where this goes. The more their legitimacy dissolves, the more they’ll have to rely on popular opinion to stay afloat.
My God, this is so immensely frustrating in every community ever. Staff always coalesce into this private marble tower society bullshit with nothing but the slimiest excuses for transparency. Staff talk should always be fucking public, not half-assedly and occasionally so. It should happen somewhere with archives easily and readily available (i.e. Discord) to anyone who is interested enough to look, or otherwise it won't happen.
SCP used to have this, back when #site17 was the staff chat and #site19 was the public chat, but that was a long time ago, before I even joined the site. Not coincidentally it was Bright who originally owned and operated #site67, I wonder if he had some kind of a vested interest in closing the doors...
