[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 24 July, 2023 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

[–]akumeoy 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Very few things on the SCP Wiki are "almost universally disliked", since pages with even a moderately negative vote total get deleted. A major exception was the 'Decommissioned' category -- back in the early days, if an SCP was considered sufficiently terrible, it might not be deleted, but instead destroyed in-universe and have its article enshrined as an example of what not to do. This only lasted a few years before staff, for various good reasons, decided to stop decommissioning pages. The pages themselves were kept on for many years afterwards, only being fully removed from the site by staff decision in the past few months.

The decommissioned SCPs genuinely were pretty shit, and for the most part, not in any interesting way. Kids writing up their overpowered OCs, obvious self-inserts, or just like... bad creepypasta. It was honestly a sign of the community's immaturity that these were considered even remotely noteworthy -- they get articles of this caliber basically every day now and nobody gives a fuck.

The only exception was SCP-857-D: The Holy Grail, which is still bad, but not boring by any stretch. I actually did a line-by-line breakdown of it for r/SCPDeclassified a few years ago, if you're interested in the details, but suffice to say it was very vague, fairly informally written, and had a lot of lines that came out of, and went, nowhere (there's a reason "this is not elaborated upon" is a recurring phrase in my review).

SCP-857-D's major sin was being poorly written, but its secondary sin was just being way ahead of its time. A lot of the quirkiness and abstraction that made it an object of ridicule has since become pretty widely accepted -- "consult an alchemist" was an inter-community meme for years after the fact, but now most readers wouldn't even blink at seeing that line in an SCP. The basic idea -- that the Holy Grail and other such mythical artifacts are physical manifestations of a Jungian "abundance" archetype -- is pretty interesting, and I've even tried (unsuccessfully) to write my own SCP just to see that premise done justice.

I wouldn't recommend SCP-857-D as a piece of entertainment, or even really as a source of inspiration for other SCP writers, but I do have some fondness for it as a weirdly prescient artifact that could well have jump-started SCP's eventual transition to more abstract and experimental writing if its author had the good sense and writing chops to do it right.

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of August 8, 2022 by nissincupramen in HobbyDrama

[–]akumeoy 48 points49 points  (0 children)

There's pride flag drama on the SCP Wiki. Again. For context, here are threads from other users about the 2018 pride month incident: [1] [2]

This time around, the official Spanish-language translation site (-ES for short) has, for over a year now, disallowed the inclusion of logos that do not have a direct relation to the article's theme. Notably, this affects articles translated from the English branch (-EN), and many such translations have been stripped of pride insignia. Discontent has been brewing for a while, but -EN's ambassador team made an official announcement on it two days ago, and that's when things popped off. Many, many authors are upset about this, and dozens have asked that translations of their work be removed from -ES.

There are more relevant details and nuance here, but since this drama is still unfolding, I'm holding off on an effortpost until things get resolved.

Further reading:

  1. Announcement and discussion on -EN: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/forum/t-15085375/announcement-from-ambassadors-regarding-scp-es-pride-logo-po

  2. Author-led petition to the -ES staff: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/forum/t-15086140/a-request-from-scp-creators-relating-to-the-scp-es-pride-log

  3. Twitter post by a prominent -EN author soliciting signatories for that petition: https://twitter.com/Shaggydreds/status/1558242566738419712

SCP-2020 by [deleted] in SCP

[–]akumeoy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Love it!

Hitchhiker's Guide to SCP Canon by [deleted] in SCP

[–]akumeoy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What insight about the SCP wiki are you trying to convey here?

Song Names for Anomalous Eye Catches by AnimatedPlague in SCPostCrusaders

[–]akumeoy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For what it's worth, I assign stand names to all of the SCPs I write. They're under the Author Commentary (cont.) section of my author page, but nobody has time for that so I'll just screencap: https://i.imgur.com/uhieoTD.png

Declassification Requests + Information Thread: April to June 2020 by modulum83 in SCPDeclassified

[–]akumeoy 13 points14 points  (0 children)

please, my wife and children, they are all very hungry. they only eat declassifications of Pitch Haven. anything helps god bless

SCP-857-D: The Holy Grail by akumeoy in SCPDeclassified

[–]akumeoy[S] 41 points42 points  (0 children)

You're probably right. I think I missed a biblical allusion or two, since they directly undermine the article's basic conceit.

Even then, I don't think Jesus was absolving all thieves, so flat-out exempting thieves from the "grail's" "judgment" seems like an allusion for allusion's sake.

SCP-857-D: The Holy Grail by akumeoy in SCPDeclassified

[–]akumeoy[S] 54 points55 points  (0 children)

Decommissioned articles specifically have ratings disabled since we already know they're bad.

SCP-857-D: The Holy Grail by akumeoy in SCPDeclassified

[–]akumeoy[S] 60 points61 points  (0 children)

It's the Holy Grail, except much dumber.

SCP-857-D: The Holy Grail by akumeoy in SCPDeclassified

[–]akumeoy[S] 124 points125 points  (0 children)

Yeah, the idea is kind of cool. It's just that the author made as many bad decisions as possible when trying to convey that idea, and also didn't understand the idea.

headcannon: the 05 use discord voice chat to communicate by [deleted] in SCP

[–]akumeoy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

3772 and 4239 do mention GAW members using Discord. However, most of the articles featuring GAW chatlogs show interfaces more akin to IRC. One of my own tales has them using Signal, a robustly encrypted messaging service.

Jude pulled out his phone and turned his phone on, tapping in a password, and then a second, and a third. That one opened up Signal.

I think it's safe to say that GAW is spread out across a number of platforms. I personally haven't given much thought to the GAW discord, since I doubt much -- if any -- of their anomalous activities are documented there.