So, RPC user SticksNTricks recently gave bad crit to SCP-4493, establishing what, at least to me, felt like a clear badfaith. If it's been deleted, well, judge for yourself. Bold and footnotes mine:
SCP 4493 represents everything wrong with the SCP Foundation. It is an unnecessarily insipidly droll piece of political commentary that fails to hook the readers in a truly engaging piece when the piece does nothing more than exploit a movement and its people in the same exact fashion as corporations do. Only, instead of exploiting it for monetary value, the author's exploitation of the month serves to guarantee upvotes based solely upon the political notions it revolves around.
The piece fails to establish any scientifically charged descriptions and arguments in regards to this phenomenon, which isn't even a phenomenon to begin with. Can't exactly call it an anomaly if it doesn't exhibit any sort of unusual or anomalous properties that would justify this relatively unnecessary keter class entity1. Let us not forget that it takes potshots at users whom the author hasn't even been subtle about, I.E. N. Krum2, makes this piece comes across as childish and ill-mannered. Though it is truly a hilarious piece, but for all the wrong reasons it is only by how painfully obvious this was fueled not by passion or the strive to write a good piece, but anger and a misguided sense of justice that comes across as unrealistic and unreasonable.
It lacks any kind of imaginative or intuitive creative instances that sets it apart from reality. I dare say it's just reality albeit skewered in a way that it tries to invoke emotion rather than critical thinking. The tone is completely off the mark and for every criticism for each new or old user desperately vying to follow the old formula that's become stagnant and restrictive that to have the administration condone 4493's existence says a lot about what their priorities are and where they place them at. It is uninspiring, hypocritical, exploitative and mean spirited.
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Now normally I'd slap this dude with a staff post and wouldn't make a non-disc. Course, he decides to be funny:
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I slap him with another one, and bring it up in SSSC. ARD tells me to make a non-disc, and then while setting things up I get another message from him:
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Now at this point, this feels like pretty clear trolling. I told him what exactly he did wrong, and he responded by doing it again. While I'm not exactly disc, I feel like this is typically the thing that gets an extended banaaaaaaaaand oh shit, while writing this up he does it again!
WAIT if you asked me not to do that again, how can I respond to that if you're telling me to not reply?
Man, you know, I crit this guy's work back in the day. I really wanted to go easy on him. And I want to believe this is stupidity, except an anonymous source tells me that's not the case:
This is in regards to SCPD, but I've been told it establishes precedent for bad-faith interactions.
If he's reading this, I want him to know I'm not mad, just disappointed. He seemed too cool for this in our brief interactions.