She needs to calm down. I know a few of you have said so in the Forum, but is there any sign she is listening?
(How old is she, anyway? Is she the hyper 15-yo fangirl that she sounds like?)
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I haven't seen anything from her in the Recent Posts page since the last round of "quit it"s yesterday/last night, but that may also be due to her going to school during the day.
No clue how old she is, but oy, she does write like she's right at the age cutoff.
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Your concerns are duly noted.
This was in response to one of my posts. Personally, I don't believe it, but this was the last post she's made.
Great scott, people like this rustle my jimmies.
We do seem to be getting a lot of those recently.
It's been some time, but I woke up this morning to find this comment:
No…I…honestly haven't ever been to the forums. In fact, I'm not even sure where they are. *blush* I just pass my time reading each SCP article in numerical order (I've covered all of series one and about half of the -J's); the only time I acknowledge the community is when I read the discussion pages. :\ I know SCP's are generally collaborations to some extent, but I'm never comfortable sharing something I write before it's done. Call me crazy (please, it's the central aspect of my identity), but I much prefer writing in private and then letting people judge my work it after it's finished and posted; and I believe that, after months of work, my idea is as ready as it'll ever be. (Also, it's a joke, and I'd rather not tell people the joke ahead of time.)
…am I the only one worried about how this will turn out? Dmatix and VAE already addressed the situation and no reply so far, but I really can't see a joke coldpost by this user ending well (or without a dogpile) :/
Well is she just acting in a way that we the staff don't agree with (I mean, honestly, having a preference for coldposting shouldn't be looked on as a black mark against her- if that's her choice then it should be her choice)?
If she coldposts and then turn around and refuses to accept criticism on her coldposted work, then we have problem user who isn't obeying the rules. But I don't think there's anything in the rules that says that you're not allowed to prefer writing privately and then posting. At the point it's just "this user isn't acting the way we want users to act", kinda, in my opinion. Maybe I'm just misinterpreting what's going on.
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I'm personally thinking this isn't an issue staff would need to address yet. She just wants to coldpost, nothing wrong with that. Heck, I know several senior staff members who advocate coldposting. Wandergirl hasn't really been causing any problems lately that would make me worried about her coldposting. She's actually been leaving decent comments on stuff.
So, in short, I'm not worried about how this will turn out.
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I thoroughly agree with Soulless & Roget here - minus the caveat that I do think it'll be a trainwreck, I just think it's a trainwreck that she has every right to pull. A dogpile might be a good thing if she goes through with it and it turns out well - and if it doesn't, it'll likely be because of other users violating rules to be dicks, which would be their fault, not hers.
It's her right to coldpost if she wants to coldpost, even if it's a Joke SCP. Sure, it's not exactly advisable, and massively more likely to crash and burn, but the same thing can be said of making a humanoid as your first SCP ever, and, well, both SCP-811 and myself are still here, so obviously it's possible to beat the odds, just… difficult.
Either she'll succeed or she'll fail. If she fails, she'll either learn from it or she won't. If she doesn't, she'll either break the rules or not break the rules in the process. If she breaks the rules, we have a system to deal with that. If she doesn't break the rules, she'll have a chance to try again, and then we go back to the beginning of this flowchart paragraph.
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Thanks the flood of comments by myself and others suggesting she doesn't do it, it looks like she might actually reconsider and go around chat to show her work around before posting. And if she doesn't, well, we did what we could to help, and it's up to her now. I don't think there's anything more we should do.
The other thing I'll add here is she, by her own admission, has read over 1000 articles before writing whatever it is she's planning. She might actually surprise folks and have gotten it.
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Just noting here that's she's started calling herself the "SCP-Nazi" in recent forum posts, including the following, which staff (Procyon and I) have stepped in to comment on:
http://www.scp-wiki.net/forum/t-708022/scp-1126#post-2006735
Sigh…Must I continue to act as the SCP Nazi? […]
http://www.scp-wiki.net/forum/t-421190/scp-1138#post-2009654
Sigh…and the SCP Nazi returns. Seriously, despite appearances, I really don't like acting like I'm an actual thing when I'm really just a nobody with OCPD. […]
Given the rest of the comments have decent content, I'm thinking that this isn't that much of an issue at the moment. The most recent comment kind of worries me, though.
Yeh I don't feel the OCPD mention justifies invoking nazism. Her being considered pedantic or w/e can be explained away with that, as long as she's not breaking the rules I don't think it's something to be concerned about. Just pls don't repeatedly casually invoke things like that? If she keeps doing that, one should warn her.
On second thought, I kinda feel officially warning (and ptentially banning) someone who is being vaguely annoying but not breaking rules is kinda eh.
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I've been watching her comments lately and they've grown increasingly…I would almost say authorative and even a little bit pedantic. Not an issue in and of itself, but the whole SCP Nazi kind of hits a nerve here. I hope this doesn't turn ugly at some point.
It continues in this post here.
It's a long post, but the relevant section is:
Oh, for…! I saw this issue brought up earlier and didn't feel the need to necro things, but honestly! Several people reply with sarcasm, no one replies with a thorough explanation. SCP NAZI TO THE RESCUE! (BTW, if anyone can ever find a reference to any sort of Nazi coming "to the rescue" of anything anywhere else, I'll actually post that J-SCP I've been working on.)
Bright called her out.
She's been warned informally before, and persists in all the Nazi crap.
Someone should send her a PM. I'm pretty sure she's posted somewhere that she doesn't read replies to any of the comments she posts.
Already on it.
Hello Wandergirl108,
I'm ProcyonLotor, Junior Staff on the Site Criticism team for the SCP Wiki. It's come to staff attention that you have been consistently referring to yourself as the 'SCP Nazi' in some of your posts. Would you please stop doing so? It is being flippant with a tragedy and has made several users uncomfortable.
Thanks,
ProcyonLotor
Posted the following here: http://www.scp-wiki.net/forum/t-561312/scp-1183#post-2019509
I'm going to upvote, if only to counteract HyaenaBoy's downvote, which I consider ignorant and borderline "malicious downvoting". Overall, this thing doesn't rub me the wrong way at any point; if it's turning into a cliché, the most that could do is turn my upvote into a novote.
I called her out in a staff post, since calling someone's vote "ignorant", especially when they've clearly explained what they didn't like, is crossing the line, and she's the one using a basis other than the article's content in her voting anyway.
For the record, Hyaenaboy explained his vote (which was a neutral vote, not a downvote, which I checked…) here: http://www.scp-wiki.net/forum/t-561312/scp-1183#post-1559008
Ethnicity does not equal race. When I saw variety of races, I immediately believe we had found neanderthal ears or something like that. But, that would be an outlier that would exist outside of "normal human DNA".
There are other tone issues that I have trouble believing that scientists would commit, and the last addendum is just completely retarded. No vote for now.
Seeing as she's made some misinformed accusations against authors and other members before (one recent example is here: http://www.scp-wiki.net/forum/t-537565/scp-1181#post-2019040 when she calls something "grossly mathematically inaccurate" when she didn't understand it), if this happens again, I say move right to official warning, then 24 hour ban.
I'm really, really, really tired of the borderline behavior from her. Agreeing.
EDIT: Actually, given "I'm pretty sure she's posted somewhere that she doesn't read replies to any of the comments she posts." — I'm almost inclined to warn her now. Seriously, that's gobsmackingly annoying, and a good way to have an excuse to never alter her behavior. But, eh, that may just be the annoyance talking. Don't want to overreact.
Incidentally, I staffposted again on a comment by her today: http://www.scp-wiki.net/forum/t-466076/scp-1182#post-2019536
And in regards to the not reading replies, I found the post: http://www.scp-wiki.net/forum/t-469345/scp-1140#post-2010394 She states "I never read responses to my own comments"
Moose, would you be willing to write an official warning?
PM'd.
Salutations,
I'm SoullessSingularity, moderator on the SCP Foundation. It's come to staff attention that you've been fairly active on the forums, which is a good thing! Unfortunately, there are problems in your posts that staff have called out on multiple times. Since you've mentioned earlier you don't read replies to your posts, the staff have decided to deliver an official warning via Private Message.
You've repeatedly made inaccurate assessments of situations. An example of this would be upvoting to counter Hyaenaboy's downvote, to which he didn't downvote at all and calling him out as ignorant when it wasn't ignorant. Another example of this would the pointing out of a gross mathematical error that did not in fact exist, as in this post.
While your participation in the community is appreciated (it wouldn't be a community without member participation after all) it is also important that your posts are actually relevant and accurate to the topic at hand. It is also strongly recommended that you do read responses to your posts, as multiple staff have attempted to communicate with you already through them. You have received an Official Warning via this Private Message. Please make sure your posts are relevant and accurate to the topic at hand in the future.
If you have any questions or concerns, please let me know.
Regards,
Soulless
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