A lengthy and somewhat heated discussion occurred today in a staff discord involving about 20 staffers across all levels over the course of about two and a half hours centering on SCP-DISC-J, found https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-disc-j .
Said article appears to be a 'satire' of the Disciplinary team, filtered through the O5 members acting like buffoons. While a very surface level of understanding of Disc is demonstrated, there also happens to be two instances of O5 members encouraging subjects to kill themselves, which has proliferated the discussion beyond its first segment.
The first segment of discussion, in short, involved discussion on whether this is likely some kind of troll post. The article was written by a deleted author, who appeared to be a sock created over a year ago, and then deleted quick enough that none of the attribution bots could catch who it was. This is HIGHLY unusual, and is a major point that originally led to belief that it was trolling - a desire to fully avoid any perceived or anticipated backlash by staff. The second point is to post the satire as a -J, as if to communicate 'but it's just a joke, and not meant as real critique'. Or, that's how I understand the perception was. I may be wrong.
Initially, it was generally decided that there was no real Rulebreaking, and while it's suspect in the circumstances of its posting, and it's also sort of just something to ignore because really who cares, it isn't worthwhile to summarily delete as it's not 'obvious trolling' by our usual definition.
About 2/3 into the discussion it was brought up again and pointed out to others who had only skimmed the piece that the O5 members encouraged suicide of a couple of their subjects. This enflamed the conversation again.
Several users argue that due to the fact our usual course of action would be to ask the writer to remove the offending segments, but the author dipped, we can't to that, and so delete it.
Others argue that it still breaks no rules and would be a bad move to summarily delete things because they do not like it.
I excused myself from speaking officially, as I perceive the characters who made the suicide jokes as representing me (as Disc Captain), or specific people on the Disciplinary team, and I do not like that and am hurt that it exists on the site to perpetuate that sort of ignorant joke. I made that perception clear, and several other staffers agreed.
Others disagreed, fairly and accurately saying that it isn't actually calling a specific person out (this is a true fact and only is my personal perception of the fiction- I'm very close to it so I acknowledge I may read too deep). Another argument was that a number of normal users seem to like it, and we do not delete articles that don't fulfill a requirement for deletion (which is also fine).
This conversation was moved off of Discord because it got heated three or four times as people were growing frustrated on both sides.
