What with the recent dramatics going on in this thread over a student project involving an SCP video (with a poorly-written script that the writers are uneasy about posting publicly; Echo and Aelanna have read over it and expressed their lack of confidence in its success)…
User MC_Kejml has consistently given rather questionable advice: (note, this is an excerpt)
Contact the SCP folks you see trustworthy and interested in collaboration, not somebody whose signature phrase is "you suck" cause they don't know better. I am not pointing fingers, aight?
I believe you'll get the best results this way. You have some data about the folks based on the replies here already.
I'm worried because this effectively reinforces the "don't take any feedback except positive feedback" mindset that has already caused a lot of trouble in this thread…
He's made another post on the same thread:
"Hey, yo.
Keep your head up and remember that you're doing it cause you see it as something worthwhile to make. Who cares if the common Sheldon (for a more extended explanation, feel free to refer to my post at SCP:Lockdown) doesn't like it and the best thing he can do is to point fingers in chat at you just to make himself feel better? Some of the other folks over here might like it and even if they don't, so what? It will reach an audience cause damn, it's a SCP series!
Look at the facebook page of SCP Foundation. It's full of people with a million ideas, a lot of them bad, but some truly brilliant. They are a friendly community and would leap on such SCP series. And I am not talking about a normal film audience in general.
Last spring, a feature film called Babovřesky, made by a popular film director in Czech Republic, made, I believe, the most money for a single film in the last .. four? I think, years, on the Czech film scene. People loved it, cause it was simple and funny. Critics despised it, cause it was simple and funny.
And guess who are you making the films for. For the common SCP fan, not for the critics. Nobody makes a film for critics.
Do your best and I hope we'll get a chance to chat after I finish the feature I'm working on atm and shoot my own SCP series. Best of luck!"
Thing is, this isn't the first time he's pulled this stunt (the whole "I'm on your side! Feel free to listen to whoever won't get you down!" bit). He's stirred up animosity in another earlier thread, also involving someone's creative SCP project that came under fire. The post is here:
"And yeah. Of course the old-timers or "Sheldons", a name I have also seen here and which I also pretty frequently use (it helps if you had watched The Big Bang Theory series; the name Sheldon is of the main character) will get their Jonathans rumbled, because you want to create something that differs from their point of view and taste. They legitimize it with their own experience and with time they have spent on the wiki as the only right way of making any SCP-related stuff. And since many of them are also admins on the wiki, that's pretty much the unspoken rule of the house. If somebody had made 173 today, he'd be almost lynched, but stuff like 1735 gets 83+ easily.
On the other hand, a lot of the folks with 3 or less karma wish you much luck. Why? Since they just might prefer the good old 106 or 173, as a lot of the folks that hear of scp-wiki for the first time do. They are still full of the excitement and interest in SCPs that most likely have propelled you to make the FPS game. And they think that your project is pretty cool, because hey - a SCP related FPS game would, of course, be pretty cool, if there was one."
The guy pulled this twice, staff had to step in twice to prevent a dogpile. I'm guessing he's just misguided, since he does genuinely seem to wish the developers of both projects well, but he's completely missing the point of the site. I'm not interested in making anyone on the mainsite appear elitist, but this sort of attitude seems to completely disregard the community aspect of the site, under the assumption that critics aren't qualified to give their opinion, simply because they're not going to sugarcoat anything.
