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Baubius said:
Did I ever say it was official? Does it matter? If anything the contest being run by scpd speds makes this even more worthwhile to post. Official or not, it’s still stupid
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The only objectionable things about this to me are the timing and the monetary prizes. I don't think running a meme contest is an inherently bad idea. The website already has meme articles, and it's possible to execute them well. Whether this contest produces such articles or not remains to be seen.
Punished “Venom” pH said:
Any “unofficial” contest being allowed to stand is yet another entry in the legendary dynasty of terrible precedents being set by staff in 2021. Who is thinking that giving Mr. Diet Rounderhouse’s crew carte Blanche to hold contests for monetary value is a good idea? Not only does it cheapen the ‘official’ prize of a Feature, but the SCP community as a whole if the point of writing contests of isn’t for the sake of innovative writing but for gift cards and discord nitro. The fact that the staff don’t feel strong enough to shut it down speaks volumes to how weak they have become since February.

Also, I cannot stress this point enough, the notion of a Meme Contest is an awful idea. Isn’t the 6k contest still happening? How gauche. Really, it’s telling & sad that elite site members got so bored during the grand somber creation of a new Series that they took their worst idea and made it a reality in a desperate reach for novelty.
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1. It's well-established at this point that precedent doesn't mean shit to these people anymore. They are absolutely not locked into doing this again in the future should they decide that it's not good for the site.
2. While I do think this is exceptionally poor timing because 6kon is going on right now, the creation of a new SCP Series is neither grand nor somber. It's a yearly occurrence now, and X000 slots really just don't matter that much when the contests for them happen as often as JamCon. It could be argued that that itself is a bad thing, but there's not much that can be done to avoid it. Like the lack of eyes on many articles, it's a reality of being as big as SCP is now.
 
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Cow-Chan said:
More like attention whoreus
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Edit: Come on that was funny
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Show me on the doll where he hurt you.

Anyways, thread opinion tax, I think the contest is fine. Is it fucking stupid? Yeah. Is it pretty autistic? Yeah. Is it worth pissing and shitting over? No. All itll really do is redirect some people with monetary incentive. It's not worth twisting into a pretzel over. It's not like anything crazy has come of it just yet.
 
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Furret said:
The only objectionable things about this to me are the timing and the monetary prizes. I don't think running a meme contest is an inherently bad idea. The website already has meme articles, and it's possible to execute them well. Whether this contest produces such articles or not remains to be seen.

1. It's well-established at this point that precedent doesn't mean shit to these people anymore. They are absolutely not locked into doing this again in the future should they decide that it's not good for the site.
2. While I do think this is exceptionally poor timing because 6kon is going on right now, the creation of a new SCP Series is neither grand nor somber. It's a yearly occurrence now, and X000 slots really just don't matter that much when the contests for them happen as often as JamCon. It could be argued that that itself is a bad thing, but there's not much that can be done to avoid it. Like the lack of eyes on many articles, it's a reality of being as big as SCP is now.
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Show me on the doll where he hurt you.

Anyways, thread opinion tax, I think the contest is fine. Is it fucking stupid? Yeah. Is it pretty autistic? Yeah. Is it worth pissing and shitting over? No. All itll really do is redirect some people with monetary incentive. It's not worth twisting into a pretzel over. It's not like anything crazy has come of it just yet.
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I’m basing my initial impression on the fact that it’s run by scpd. When I was in scp I joined that wretched hive of scum and villainy and it was genuinely THE worst discord server I have yet joined, and that’s saying something. Legit I wouldn’t be surprised if they came up with this contest just to “get back” at us. That’s the level of stickass they’re at
 
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Baubius said:
I’m basing my initial impression on the fact that it’s run by scpd. When I was in scp I joined that wretched hive of scum and villainy and it was genuinely THE worst discord server I have yet joined, and that’s saying something. Legit I wouldn’t be surprised if they came up with this contest just to “get back” at us. That’s the level of stickass they’re all
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Believe me, I know. I did my time in that hellscape, both when I had an alt posting articles to the site and when I was a fan of the wiki who had not yet noticed the glaring problems. It's one of the worst parts of the offsite community, and now it's a major force on the wiki itself because the "unofficial" town hall that might as well be official with the amount of discussion it sees is hosted there.
 
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Remember a few pages ago when Kaktus got really mad about staff shit-talking him behind his back in their staff-only chats? It seems like that generated quite a big fuss, because this is being proposed now. It seems, at first glance, like a good first step towards fixing their massive transparency issue, but there are still problems. Notice that multiple staff members have objected to the possibility that non-staff users who aren't selected by staff could end up on the team that's going to be monitoring staff spaces to do these reports. They want everyone on this team to be their own people or people that they select, but that would still be the userbase trusting staff to police itself, and we know that they can't effectively do that because it's what got them into this mess in the first place. They may not like it, but some of the people on this team are going to have to be selected by the userbase if these reports are actually going to be trustworthy.
 
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Remember a few pages ago when Kaktus got really mad about staff shit-talking him behind his back in their staff-only chats? It seems like that generated quite a big fuss, because this is being proposed now. It seems, at first glance, like a good first step towards fixing their massive transparency issue, but there are still problems. Notice that multiple staff members have objected to the possibility that non-staff users who aren't selected by staff could end up on the team that's going to be monitoring staff spaces to do these reports. They want everyone on this team to be their own people or people that they select, but that would still be the userbase trusting staff to police itself, and we know that they can't effectively do that because it's what got them into this mess in the first place. They may not like it, but some of the people on this team are going to have to be selected by the userbase if these reports are actually going to be trustworthy.
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This seems like something they’re not going to keep up with but at the least the sentiment is in the right place. A better idea might be, idk, not having these private spaces be private in the first place and have all staff deliberations take place in public spaces.
 
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Furret said:
Remember a few pages ago when Kaktus got really mad about staff shit-talking him behind his back in their staff-only chats? It seems like that generated quite a big fuss, because this is being proposed now. It seems, at first glance, like a good first step towards fixing their massive transparency issue, but there are still problems. Notice that multiple staff members have objected to the possibility that non-staff users who aren't selected by staff could end up on the team that's going to be monitoring staff spaces to do these reports. They want everyone on this team to be their own people or people that they select, but that would still be the userbase trusting staff to police itself, and we know that they can't effectively do that because it's what got them into this mess in the first place. They may not like it, but some of the people on this team are going to have to be selected by the userbase if these reports are actually going to be trustworthy.
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This is like watching Zeno’s paradox of motion happen in policy proposals. Policy printer go brrrr. They keep subdividing the distance required to get anywhere, taking more steps in the right direction that have a net zero displacement. Kufat is right.

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ToS said:
This is like watching Zeno’s paradox of motion happen in policy proposals. Policy printer go brrrr. They keep subdividing the distance required to get anywhere, taking more steps in the right direction that have a net zero displacement. Kufat is right.

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Pay attention to the language people are using in the replies to Kufat's original post. It's not about transparency, it's about appeasing the userbase and preventing them from moving the goalposts/demanding more access. Also notice that the comparisons and points Kufat makes in his second post all imply that the userbase is either beneath staff in some way or at fault for staff's gossiping and shit-talking. Users are the difficult students who need wrangling by the older and more mature staff, or the problem clients that staff hate but assist out of obligation, and it's the users who need to change, not staff. They're letting their real thoughts and priorities show (though it's not fair for me to act as if Kufat speaks for all of staff, especially since Calibri Bold called him out).
 
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Furret said:
lol and they do it for free
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that’s the part that kills me, it’s so stressful being inside staff and you either fade away or burn out. Nobody gets a comfortable retirement from SCP, at best you grow up/ out of it(Accelerando, for example) and at worst it haunts you at night when you drink. (Probably where Modern_Erasmus is at now.) & for what? Power? It does bad things to your brain.
 
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Furret said:
Pay attention to the language people are using in the replies to Kufat's original post. It's not about transparency, it's about appeasing the userbase and preventing them from moving the goalposts/demanding more access. Also notice that the comparisons and points Kufat makes in his second post all imply that the userbase is either beneath staff in some way or at fault for staff's gossiping and shit-talking. Users are the difficult students who need wrangling by the older and more mature staff, or the problem clients that staff hate but assist out of obligation, and it's the users who need to change, not staff. They're letting their real thoughts and priorities show (though it's not fair for me to act as if Kufat speaks for all of staff, especially since Calibri Bold called him out).
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Boy I’d love to get my hands on a copy of this leaked convo they are talking about…

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