Noting that I wrote this Myself posted this thread: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/forum/t-14116379/mup-da-doo-didda-po-mo-gub-bidda-be-dat-tum-muhfugen-bix-noo
The title of the thread is a reference to a racist caricature. User has since been emergency banned by Zyn for racism, as well as posting spam threads to bump their article, and replying to a staff deletion vote. Zyn also wrote most of this thread so kudos to her.
Affirming emergency ban, let's make it a permanent one.
Noting for records-keeping that the user in question had been PMing me over the past 4 days:
Hey so I just wrote a SCP article called SCP-7194: Dr. Falardeau and was wondering what you think
I dont think so I just got it as a actual thing it is now under the number 7258 I believe although I am new to the whole thing so I dont know how to do much yet
I asked them twice to provide a link to a forum review thread, which was never sent. I then received the following PM:
Hello Zyn, it is me again I was wondering did I get banned I'm really confused about this and was wondering if there was a reason and if I could just get a warning seeing how unless I was doing something horrible ( I am almost 100% sure I did not do anything that bad) It really does not seem fair that I was banned without any warning or anything like that. I do hope you can help me with this because I didn't mean to do anything wrong and unless there is actually a reason do you think you could help me or point me in the direction of someone who can help me. thank you for reading and your help would be greatly appreciated.
I linked them to the thread containing racist content and notified them of the permanent ban.
noting that i received a pm from the user similar to the one Zyn received after sending them a deletion pm of an article, screenshot included below.
i have not replied.
This seems like a weaker version of the "my brother did it" excuse. If we take this as their appeal then I think we should decline it.
I got a PM response:
I can tell you now that I said no such thing and that you have been misinformed and I would appreciate if you looked into these claims further I have never and will never post anything that discriminates against anyone for something they can not control. Now I do understand that this is not a good look for me seeing how I have already been reported (Falsely I must add) within less than a week of me joining but I do hope that you will look into these reports and promise that you will see that they are baseless and untrue. I would much appreciate help clearing my name.
I linked them to their wikidot profile, where the thread appears.
ETA: of note, it was brought to attention that the user in question did not create the thread, which was originally posted in 2021 by a recurring troll/vandalizer. The user's post included the text, "I actually 100% agree with you there that is infact staight truths you do be speekin […]" followed by a link to a coldposted page.
New replies received:
I wont lie I did not know it was racist I thought the guy was just posting gibberish because I had found like three others that was gibberish like it just meant nothing I even ran it through google translate I really did not know that It was racist that Is 100% my bad also I found it just on the front page of general
Well yes but it was not racist I was really just trying to promote my story which is probably still not good but I was in no way being racist or promoting racism
Given this, I personally believe that a ban should remain, given that the action still amounts to spam and maturity. That said, I would be open to decreasing the severity of the ban.
Noting that I received another message:
Listen this has been going on for a while so far I have been banned over a miscommunication longer than I was actually active on the site so if I'm not going to be unbanned it would be nice if I could be told so I can move on with this situation.
Responded:
| I will bring the matter forward to staff for further discussion. If you have not received an update in three days, feel free to reach out again. |
Looking carefully at the thread in question, we can see it was made by Gramac Presents in 2021, and is in the Deleted Threads category. The thread was not locked when it was deleted, and Wikidot unfortunately allows posting in deleted threads by default. (I have since locked it.)
As such I believe that they stumbled onto the unlocked thread, unaware that it was deleted for racism, and posted in it. Because only mods+ can delete forum posts, users cannot self-delete posts and so when we saw that their post was the first one, we assumed they had also created the thread.
Therefore this ban was in error, and should be rescinded. I vote for allowing the user back on the site with an apology on behalf of the Disciplinary Team. The user should also be gently advised to not post in deleted threads, and be informed of the racist nature of the deleted thread, if not already. I also think we should recommend that they edit out their post in the thread.
The recommendations in the last paragraph all sound reasonable to me, as does your explanation for how this happened in the first place.
Noting that I received a PM from the user:
Hey sorry for responding so late I was wondering if I was going to get unbanned or if this was just the way things are now
Since we have two? votes for unbanning, I will add my vote as a third to lift the ban.
ETA: ban lifted, PM sent.
ETA 2: received a response
Hello, I would like to thank you and the rest of the moderators involved in this situation for helping me and I promise that you will not regret it I would also like to thank you for putting in the final vote to unban me.
Responded telling them you're welcome and noting they could use the forums if they had any questions about the site in the future.
