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Furret said:
What the fuck are you on about?
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Oh, you're still pretty new here.

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Staff are probably about to vote to delete the Expert Witnesses guide, a guide that contains the IRL qualifications of quite a few wiki users, primarily because of the information it contains. You know what that means:


The edit history apparently contains much more sensitive information, but I can't grab any of it with archive.md, so if you want anything from there now is your last chance to get it.
 
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I can’t find the post to specifically respond to but I know someone was curious about how often “Vehement” comes up in stafftalk jargon and let me tell ya,

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Imagine using one of the top-10 most overused staff cliche phrases and still feeling the need to affix a “very” to the start of it.
 
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Punished “Venom” pH said:
I can’t find the post to specifically respond to but I know someone was curious about how often “Vehement” comes up in stafftalk jargon and let me tell ya,

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Imagine using one of the top-10 most overused staff cliche phrases and still feeling the need to affix a “very” to the start of it.
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Community members cannot relate with staff, they complicate stuff for themselves and people who read discs record. Probably better if they write "This member is an asshole who won't stop when told to" or "This member is an idiot who didn't read the rules".
 
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AlphaKilo said:
Community members cannot relate with staff, they complicate stuff for themselves and people who read discs record. Probably better if they write "This member is an asshole who won't stop when told to" or "This member is an idiot who didn't read the rules".
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If you go to the Disciplinary Records subforum on O5 and go to the very first threads, they basically do talk like that. Back in 2008/2009, staff were much more blunt when they recorded things, and I think their reasons for stopping were twofold:

1. They thought it made them look like dicks, and they didn't want that.
2. They felt the need to become more formal/professional as SCP went from a small community of /x/ users trying to spook each other with weird pictures to a massive Internet phenomenon, and the change in language was part of that.

In practice, all it does is make them look like they have sticks up their asses, but I can at least understand the reasoning. However, the leaks of their various chats courtesy of Roget/Harmony and others have shown that it's more about appearances than actual professionalism, and they have no problem talking shit about people when they don't think the outside community will see it.
 
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Speaking of staff members, is there anything on Zyn? They're currently one of the active staff members and yet I haven't seen them in this thread.
 
Witthel said:
I just figured that someone who's willing to put so much time and effort into being staff must have something wrong with them.
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The only problem I can recall is that she’s so singularly irreplaceable that there is a strong possible that the things she does will not be taken care of when the day she retires eventually does come.
 
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Toolbox said:
Seeing how SCP basically evolved from creepypasta, I'd say it's just going to take new form and be even worse.
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Okay, let me rephrase that. How likely is the SCP wiki specifically to die out? Not the genre based on it, but that specific wiki and its insular community. People making their own SCP-like stories and settings with new names a la RPC and whatever isn't on my radar.
 
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FreedomMussel said:
Okay, let me rephrase that. How likely is the SCP wiki specifically to die out? Not the genre based on it, but that specific wiki and its insular community. People making their own SCP-like stories and settings with new names a la RPC and whatever isn't on my radar.
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How likely? I mean, 100% chance. No community lasts forever. It's a matter of when, not if.
As to when, though, I think it's still going to be kicking in some strange and alien form 1 year, 5 years, 10 years, and so on from now. The SCP wiki is a meme in the most literal sense of the word, it's not simply going to 'die out' anytime soon. People have been saying it'd die out soon since this thread started and even before then, we can't really answer that question and I'm curious how we would...determine that.
 
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Witthel said:
Speaking of staff members, is there anything on Zyn? They're currently one of the active staff members and yet I haven't seen them in this thread.
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Zyn is generally viewed as "the good one" among the high-ranking staff, and for good reason. She does great work for them while also avoiding the petty drama and side cliques for the most part. If she does have skeletons in her closet, she's fantastic at hiding them.
FreedomMussel said:
Okay, let me rephrase that. How likely is the SCP wiki specifically to die out? Not the genre based on it, but that specific wiki and its insular community. People making their own SCP-like stories and settings with new names a la RPC and whatever isn't on my radar.
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What @bettermybutter said. Everything dies eventually, it's only a matter of time. As for the odds of it going down within the near future, I would say slim to none. I can't think of anything that's likely to bring them down within the next, say, 5 years.
 
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Furret said:
Zyn is generally viewed as "the good one" among the high-ranking staff, and for good reason. She does great work for them while also avoiding the petty drama and side cliques for the most part. If she does have skeletons in her closet, she's fantastic at hiding them.

What @bettermybutter said. Everything dies eventually, it's only a matter of time. As for the odds of it going down within the near future, I would say slim to none. I can't think of anything that's likely to bring them down within the next, say, 5 years.
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To add to this, the one thing you have to realize is that an absolutely massive part of the SCP fan base has little to no association with the wiki itself aside from reading the articles. They probably know little to nothing of the drama behind the scenes.

I can’t really think of anything that would take the wiki down, short of a power struggle causing someone on top to pull the plug and lock everyone else out.
 
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The 8 Of Spades said:
Someone buying wikidot and instituting a zero tolerance policy towards pedophilic users on their servers.
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Or just has a stricter content policy that bars the grotesque content on certain kinds of SCPs.

Or whoever buys it is a corporation with a broader portfolio that eventually decides it isn't worth maintaining and shuts wikidot down. Happened to Yahoo! Groups after the Verizon purchase, which had millions of users at its height and even in its final days probably had enough traffic that ad revenue would have kept it afloat indefinitely.

Although even if those things happen, the community will probably just move to new hosting provider. IIRC, they maintain regular backups of the entire wiki.

Or, more realistically, people just lose interest and move on to other things. The site traffic falls to the point where the site is a ghost town. Ad revenue isn't enough to support the site, so whoever is still interested pays for the wikidot premium privileges. Eventually that goes away too and all that's left is what was snapshotted by Wayback Machine. Assuming people still read it.

Do we have any prior examples of a similarly popular internet phenomenon eventually vanishing as people lost interest and moved on to other things?

What do you think would contribute to people losing interest in SCP wiki and moving on to other things?
 
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