Two source threads:
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http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-11335242/disciplinary-corpseofbixby#post-4229167
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http://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-11347681/addition-to-rules-page
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First is the disciplinary thread. Couple posts down, our boy taylor_itkin volunteers to write an Adult Work's guide for the site in response, which will be “under the direction of Procyon_lotor”, the O.G. (You might have to check out the small "Show More" above "Options" in the bottom right of the posts to see the past text that was changed.)
Recall taylor_itkin is the one who tried to get into #Site12 twice before he was 18 and didn't have a problem with that at the time, so if anyone knows what to do and not to do when underage, it is him. Procyon_lotor responds saying "*and ARD's and others and with the input of the rest of the staff." ARD
might be the third individual involved with Eskobar and Gabriel Jade in the off-wiki porn 'tale' involving "Z"/Insurgency_Moon ... you know the one about brutally (and I mean BRUTALLY) raping an underage self-insert... so maybe he has the experience to oversee something like this.
Support was expressed for the idea:
"We definitely should write up clearer policy on adult works..."
One user wondered if a contest for April Fool's Day way back in 2016, the "Crackfic Contest", had anything to do with it. Odd recall there, but yeah okay maybe so. Here it is:
http://www.scp-wiki.net/an-incredibly-important-announcement [
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I checked out the contest entries and had to look up 'crack fiction' to make sure it wasn't just a term for smut. The premise of using April Fool’s Day to be zaney somehow translated into authors writing NSFW tales about avatars and self-inserts of many famous site members. Oh it is cause of rule #7:
7. Erotica, while not required, is technically permissible. However, it should be tagged 'adult' and possess a short disclaimer.
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According to a staffer, "... most authors for those pieces didn't seek permission for using site member names, nor did they check for age of consent." This contest featured a high number of adult-themed articles.
The top three of the contest, according to overall vote-count were titled:
1) "The Minions© day at the scp" - by Randomini (SFW but a name we've seen in this thread)
2) "
Love And Relative Dimensions in Fate: Dr. Clef/Doctor Who" by Cyantreuse (tagged adult)
3) "
Orgy Five Counsel 9: XXXK End of Virginity Scenario" by TyGently (surprisingly NOT tagged adult but definitely needs to be)
That contest featured other hit titles as "
Lust in the Time of Anomalous Cholera", "
My Lover, the Dog", and a bunch of other articles that no one would know at a first glance or a click are NSFW ("
Virgil the Goldfish's Big Day Out", "
Gears Is Totally Not A Robot Guys", "
Glass x Diogenes 4 Life! <3"). ONE of them was “ahead of its time” and had the decency to include a warning for adult content. The rule stating that a disclaimer had to exist for NSFW works apparently wasn’t enforced.
Well it turns out Crackfic Con
DID have something to do with the incident:
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Another snapshot of this message shows ~700 views of the image. 700. You can’t say the right ppl aren’t seeing this.
Quotes from the offender in documented chat logs:
"<COB> It was supposed to be an overarching series that I would post on April Fools of next year. “
"<COB> I wrote a single stupid SCP article, and that was it. I saw people writing tons of things, day after day, and I just wanted people to know I was there."
The contest was in 2016. The offender here posted the draft in April 2019...
three years later. When she was 17. Do the math. And she was
still thinking about it... shows a glimpse of the impact the community can have on the very young.
That staff member also wondered if the offender maybe saw something on "
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(It turned out that this writer actually wrote several erotic, dom-based fics about underage users. It's noted that these fics "have been stored for disciplinary staff oversight upon request." You think anybody requsted to read them “for oversight purposes”?)
It seems there really was a precedent for this sort of behavior, and certainly so for an impressionable minor. The staff see no issues with their handling of adult content here and "come off as being overly eager to demonize kids who make mistakes due to lack of foreknowledge." (Read: "You guys got upvotes for talking about sizing up Dr. Gear's robot dick, so what is she supposed to think?")
What I'm getting at here is this is another example of the site's culture normalizing sexuality and having blatant disregard for who is watching it, despite
knowing very well who is. A result is that "some people legit don't know that some things are a problem."
Contrast the debating of what punishment to give with the staff's inability to ask about their possible culpability or wonder whether or not their decisions were right or even morally questionable, even in glaring retrospect. Nowhere in the thread do they say "Maybe putting a contest with smut winners on the front page and reading them ceremoniously was a bad idea." But the smutfest contest wasn't repeated again, so I guess deep down, maybe they knew.
Funny, down the thread here, Bright agrees with a permaban for the user. He appears later again and agrees that an attempt by the offender to appeal for a ban some months later "doesn't do enough to convince".
The second link is the resulting policy discussion. There’s some suggestion for an addition to the Rules page of the wiki talking explicitly about how adult/NSFW pages should be handled. The most solidarity shown here is around a comment saying
where, theoretically the addition would go on the Rules page. Nothing else is decided upon. The conversation is unfinished, there’s no vote for the change like we’ve seen with recent re-visits to the ideas. No update is made; this discussion thread is from April 2019 and there’s currently no update to the Rules page since mid 2018. [
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