NOBODY is defending Bright here. We all know and think that he is a pedophile. What we're saying is that his shit shouldn't be censored or removed to show people what he was like, like keeping an archive at the very least that's out of the way of future readers but can be accessed by people who want to know and understand more.
dude you have no fucking idea how many people hop into the SCP discord trying to talk about drbright and then get hella offended and try to defend bright with the same three arguments (separate art from artist, censorship, reclaiming characters). I get pissed off at this point because the information is so readily out there and yet so many people hop into scp general chat - the
same general chat where people victimized by bright often hang out with other scp authors - and get mad when they get told to stop talking about a pedophile's work. this is like a weekly occurrence at best and a daily one at worst.
your suggestion isn't actually the worst one people have made, and a modified version of it (showing harmful excerpts and explaining the nature of sexual grooming and sexual manipulation) is currently in the process of being implemented (although given how dogshit scp staff is at handling bright stuff in a timely fashion, who knows when or even if those "response pieces" featuring excerpts of his work are going to come out.)
on a related note, this is what was meant earlier ITT when staff said they would allow victims to take bright's slots and repurpose them for whatever they wanted - an earlier idea was to allow those willing to overwrite his scps and either put whatever they wanted or create what was eventually finalized to be those response pieces, before a jstaffer mentioned that putting all the stuff in one page and having it redirect would be infinitely more convenient to set up for authors/staff and read for readers.
At this point, if there was a huge problem with people in the community making stories and SCPs that revolve around those topics for simple fetish material with the moderators doing nothing about it due to Dr. Bright making a poorly written 'quirky' but 'big sad' character. Then I think it's time to leave the community, The whole idea behind the SCP Foundation could of been neat but how it was handled ruined the idea. It doesn't feel as if I'm reading about a scientific organization containing usual items or monsters with some horror sprinkled on it, it feels more of fantastical self-insert characters or super-scary immortal creature that can destroy the planet in .0000001 seconds.
Just leave the community, make your own paranormal stories separate of SCP.
these complaints are... nonexistent. like, i've heard variations of this spread all throughout the internet, and it's one of those things that I can only assume came out of one redditor furiously refusing to read, and then their conclusions becoming accepted fact in some corners of the net.
if you actually go onto the site to read, you will very quickly realize that not only are fantastical self-inserts pretty much a non-issue on the site now (although if you for some reason want to read that type of bullshit OG43 is a thing, although even that is well-written and actually grounds its author characters), you'll find that those sorts of overpowered, childish stories were almost never a thing. people write grounded things on the wiki now, and it's part of why I choose to write on the wiki instead of writing for medium or AO3 or some other, more impersonal site.
there is a very specific set of authors and creators on the wiki who produce content I frankly think it would be very difficult
not to enjoy if you actually interact with it. i've been to many writing corners on the internet, and when I think about what was both the most fun and the most important in sharpening my fiction prose and nonfiction diction, it is the SCP wiki. no other site I've seen has both a culture of criticism like SCP has and the ability to get your shit actually read the way SCP has.
before anyone asks, yes I do have suggestions to back up what I say: anything from the
Classiccon page is a good start. take your pick of what sounds interesting to you based off of the tags and the little teaser line thing. I especially recommend
Charnel from that contest for something that is especially faithful to what made scp-173 compelling.
Honestly I can understand Djoric being upset about Project Magnolia since he pushed things related to its script around for a long time and was very enthusiastic about uploading what he believed to be the best thing he had ever written for the site, so getting only a very lukewarm repsonse in return was probably disheartening for him. On the other side it just really was boring filler content and pointless lore rambling that wasted your time and I can't recommend reading it.
However I'm not sold on the idea that he just deleted shit to get rid of his less popular work, I mean he also deleted Dust and Blood, one of the most upvoted and well known tales of the entire scp wiki to the point that offsite normies had a vague idea about it. Or maybe it got upvoted so much because offsite normies knew about it, no idea, but my point still stands.
Honestly I don't want to go on a autistic rambling but I think I understand pretty well how Djoric's mindset works in regard to all that stuff if you look trough his stories and comments, so let's just say that he probably put too much personal things into his works, I mean he based his own massive canon on SCP-231 because he disliked the article so much and Magnolia was basically the final fallout from that.
project magnolia did sit at like +30, so I understand the point there. the problem was that a better time to do this would have been. like. when there
wasn't concrete progress being made on the staff side towards getting their asses in line and moving along the little model UN plaything they've built for themselves along. as I've had staff tell me and as a fucking admin (HarryBlank) has discussed in public, the vast majority of this project and its actual, material work (sorting out tales for deletion and preservation, contacting people victimized by bright to discuss their thoughts on what should happen, drafting proposals and project plans to communicate to site members, and a couple other items of interest) fell on literally one person (Queerious, the
trans woman) and whatever couple of volunteers she could get interested enough to help her for a week or two.
all that, and it
still took less time than when there was supposedly a dedicated team that was going to take care of the problem in 2023. why didn't Djoric raise a fuss then, if he was so concerned about the wiki staff and how they "can['t] be relied on to handle crisis situations, protect vulnerable members of the wiki, make ethical policy decisions, or even maintain basic communication with the community about any of the above"?
and this isn't even a defense of the wiki staff, because they've rightfully been eating shit and have been banning scp authors from the chat for daring to criticize them. I even back read what Djoric nails down as the "final nail in the coffin", which is Pedagon - someone well-respected for having tried his best to fix up staff - sending whiny GIFs of Violet Beauregarde (the blueberry inflated girl) in chat and complaining that people were being impatient bitches when another mod (Rounderhouse) was trying to calmly discuss the situation with a couple dissatisfied people. not good.
yet, again, why wait until we were getting real progress? why wait until then to bring off-site attention to the issue, where (as I mentioned ITT) some fucking lunatic went against every victim of bright's stated wishes and tried to get police involved, even when they've actively and explicitly been saying that, as one put eloquently, she would "rather die than have to tell the police and a jury everything about my trauma."
it was
being done, and frankly, if the thing that set him off was an administrator being a dick in chat when he knows how much the scp staff have ignored what the userbase has wanted (swift, decisive action) for three fucking years before
the troon who wasn't even on the site when this happened had to get it over with, then I just don't think I can call that anything other than performative. he deleted the only thing people off-site knew him for, he deleted the thing he cared about, and then took off so he could try to claim social justice points. the worst part is that it worked, as evidenced by the post that got me pissed enough to make this account in the first place.
I did this explicitly because I wanted you to sperg out, and this is exactly what you're doing right now.
see above - I am/was really fucking tired of people having circular discussion about bright, so I just gave the default spiel after so many assholes and contrarian children have tried to argue.
