Joke SCPs

Summary:

Regarding joke SCPs that are not actually articles.

Joke SCPs

Zyn 03 Sep 2013 03:33

Earlier today, a user edited the list of joke SCPs, listing a new "article" that was a link to a youtube video of Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up (there was no actual article created).

Some people in staffchat found it funny, but the issue was brought up that the action didn't have any sort of feedback process, and do we really want the joke SCPs page to become a silly collaborative log?

We do have a redirect joke SCP (SCP-1047-J - "The Troll") that, if I remember correctly, was originally a non-staff member's doing. I think a staff member fixed up the redirect and it stuck. As such, it might be necessary to set some sort of policy regarding the creation of such joke "SCPs"?

Re: Joke SCPs

thedeadlymoose 03 Sep 2013 04:20

Unless someone has a suggestion for allowing users to rate these, I say we can let them stay if staff think they're sufficiently funny.

Pretty sure if people keep doing it to the point where it's not funny, we won't keep thinking it's funny.

Doesn't seem like a huge deal, overall. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

Re: Joke SCPs

Vezaz 03 Sep 2013 14:24

I'm leery of linking to offsite content because it doesn't seem to contribute anything but if other people are fine with it so am I.

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Re: Joke SCPs

Zyn 03 Sep 2013 17:38

I personally don't like fact that the "article" being just a link prevents people from voting on it.

Though it is a little funny, I can't help but think that it'll just invite a slough of other links. I don't think we need anymore internet memes. (Nyancat and Breadfish immediately came to mind, and we've already got a "troll" J anyway, which can actually be commented and voted on).

Re: Joke SCPs

Drewbear 03 Sep 2013 19:28

I have always disliked offsite links except under extremely rare and specific circumstances and especially don't want the "Lists" (Mainlist 1, Mainlist 2, Joke List, Content Archives, etc.) becoming collab things in and of themselves (other than editing to add/remove articles, of course). Also, one of the purposes of the Mass Edit was to remove pop culture -J's, and a Rick Astley vid is as classically pop culture meme trolling as it comes.

tl;dr: Joke articles require originality and, generally speaking, a higher degree of execution that regular articles, which already have a pretty high bar. Doing nothing but linking to a Rickroll utterly fails both parts of that, as do most/all SCP-ifications of pop culture.

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Re: Joke SCPs

Photosynthetic 03 Sep 2013 22:02

A rickroll as a -J is exactly the sort of pointless pop-culture reference we culled in the Mass Edit. The fact that this one is so presented as to be impossible to vote or comment on, and therefore by our current system impossible to put through the normal critique (and deletion) process, just raises my hackles further.

This is not good. Kill it.

Re: Joke SCPs

Vezaz 03 Sep 2013 23:26

Upon reflection I'll second that.

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Re: Joke SCPs

SoullessSingularity 04 Sep 2013 01:21

Pretty much my response exactly.

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Re: Joke SCPs

thedeadlymoose 04 Sep 2013 04:42

To be honest I have no strong feelings about this. But feel completely free to kill it. Again, from my POV they removed themselves from the voting process… meaning it's up to us.

Re: Joke SCPs

eric_h 04 Sep 2013 10:06

While this was a little funny, I think it's a bad idea to have anything on the main SCP list link offsite. Two reasons:

1. Since there is no way to vote on these things, the only way to get rid of them if they start proliferating is to arbitrarily delete them.

2. This particular link is innocent enough, but someone else might link to something harmful or NSFW.

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Re: Joke SCPs

RJB_R 04 Sep 2013 13:14

With the points Photo and eric brought up, I don't think we really need to allow stuff like this on the -J page. I mean, I personally found it to be amusing, but it's just a whole rat's nest of problems.

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Re: Joke SCPs

Communism will win 04 Sep 2013 19:08

I'd even go so far as to say that arguments in favor of it are unfounded.

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Re: Joke SCPs

AdminBright 04 Sep 2013 17:04

Joining in on the 'No'

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Re: Joke SCPs

Dexanote 04 Sep 2013 19:43

Yeah no. That's the laziest possible -J one can make.

Re: Joke SCPs

TroyL 04 Sep 2013 23:21

Pretty sure "The Troll" is the laziest… But I get the point here.

The fact that it can't go up for deletion kind of bugs me a lot. I mean, at least mine actually has a page there that can be reached…

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