Bright Works Proposal Draft: Minimal Staff Intervention

Minimal Staff Intervention in Removal

What is This?

Action must be taken regarding Bright's¹ works on the SCP Wiki, but staff must be aware of setting precedent of possible staff overreach for future actions taken. As such, minimal intervention potentially reduces the extent of any precedent set for the actions staff may take as part of punitive action.

Rather than making large changes to the wiki, the most harmful pages created by Bright as determined by staff would be removed from the wiki. Their URL slugs would redirect to the updated Bright Note. All other pages authored by Bright would remain, in order to have staff intervene as minimally as possible, and prevent future staff overreach.

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What Issues Does This Proposal Address?

Issue: Harmful Works Authored by Bright

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Details: Bright used their works and the fame gained thereby to manipulate their victims. The works continue to amplify Bright's visibility simply by existing. Even in the author's absence from the site, these works might still lead vulnerable persons to interact with Bright.

All Bright works are inherently harmful as a result of their role in perpetuating Bright's legacy and influence. The reason why works are classified as 'Harmful', 'Ambiguously Harmful', or 'Non-Overtly Harmful' is based on the literal content of each work. Works classified as Harmful are works that were considered to have the most harmful content, notably content involving harmful portrayals of subjects such as sexual assault, the degradation of woman, abuse of minors, and the normalization of abuse and control — all of which was used to manipulate victims. Ambiguously Harmful Works refer to pages that contain content that is to a lesser-degree as harmful as outright Harmful works, or could be read as not overtly harmful. Non-Overtly Harmful Works are works where the content has no apparent issues. There is no such thing as a Bright page that is non-harmful. All of Bright's pages perpetuated their influence and reach.

Resolution: If chosen, the following would be done to address this: Staff and the community would determine if any additional pages are harmful enough to warrant removal. Then, pages determined to be harmful in the aforementioned step, as well as the 21 already deemed harmful, would be unlisted.² Lastly, the URL slugs of all pages unlisted in the previous step would then be made to redirect to the Bright Note.

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This is Resolved When: This issue would be considered resolved when all harmful pages have been unlisted, and all the URL slugs redirected to the Bright Note.

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Issue: Issues Regarding Staff Mass Deletions

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Details: Staff performing mass deletions creates a precedent that could potentially cause concern of staff overreach in the future.
Resolution: If chosen, this option minimizes the scope of any precedent set for staff to utilize mass deletions. Staff and the community would determine the minimum number of pages to be removed. This exact amount would be unlisted, and staff precedent for mass deletion is kept as small as possible.

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This is Resolved When: This issue would be resolved when the minimum of harmful pages have been unlisted.

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What Pages are Addressed by This Proposal?

For this proposal, we are prioritizing removing the worst pages authored by Bright for the SCP Wiki, as identified during the staff review of Bright's pages. This totals 21 pages, out of the 63 authored by Bright. A full list is included below.

Content Warnings: The following list features mentions of pedophilia, sexual abuse, beastiality and grooming throughout.

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Page	What is Being Done?	Rationale for Action
SCP-029	The page will be unlisted. The URL will be redirected to the Bright Note, with updated text.	This page's content was considered harmful due to the inclusion of an underage girl who is unable to be clothed.
SCP-590	The page will be unlisted. The URL will be redirected to the Bright Note, with updated text.	This page's content was considered harmful as it focuses on abuse of an underage boy, dehumanizing and overtly appearing as an abuse fantasy.
SCP-963	The page will be unlisted. The URL will be redirected to the Bright Note, with updated text.	This page's content is harmful throughout, and serves as the basis of Bright's continued works surrounding the forced possession fetish material that followed.
SCP-1004	The page will be unlisted. The URL will be redirected to the Bright Note, with updated text.	This page’s content is considered harmful throughout, including implications that humans are naturally accepting of illegal and otherwise potentially harmful pornography, normalizing it. It details how individuals become interested in "scatology play, the torture and murder of living beings, bestiality, pedophilia, and combinations of the previous", in life as well as in porn.
SCP-1590	The page will be unlisted. The URL will be redirected to the Bright Note, with updated text.	This page’s content is considered harmful, as it focuses on unpleasant vignettes, with implied pedophilia and bestiality.
SCP-2976	The page will be unlisted. The URL will be redirected to the Bright Note, with updated text.	The page's content is harmful, given the focus on a sexist misogynistic sex dungeon that is recreated by those impacted by the anomaly. Additionally, it overtly explores "introducing women to the story purely for the pleasure of the protagonist."
SCP-100-J	The page will be unlisted. The URL will be redirected to the Bright Note, with updated text.	This page's content is harmful, as it mocks real deleted or decommissioned articles, and can be considered as violating site rules.
SCP-5555-J	The page will be unlisted. The URL will be redirected to the Bright Note, with updated text.	The page's content is harmful given the inclusion of sexual assault by proxy, generalized sexualization and misogyny, for the sake of 'humor'.
An Evening With Bright	The page will be unlisted. The URL will be redirected to the Bright Note, with updated text.	The page's content is harmful due to pedophilia, grooming, directly referencing Bright's sex life, and otherwise attempting to 'deify' Bright, in and out of universe.
Annon	The page will be unlisted. The URL will be redirected to the Bright Note, with updated text.	This page's content is harmful given mentions of sex with underage women being normalized, and ambiguous harassment of junior staff.
Blind Date	The page will be unlisted. The URL will be redirected to the Bright Note, with updated text.	The page's content is harmful given the focus on the 'Bright Family', pointless sex references, beastiality, and Jack Bright grooming people to join his 'family'.
Code Brown	The page will be unlisted. The URL will be redirected to the Bright Note, with updated text.	The content of this page is harmful due to the dehumanization of an intellectually disabled character, and overt acknowledgement of silence surrounding the harm Bright caused.
Ecce Perago	The page will be unlisted. The URL will be redirected to the Bright Note, with updated text.	This page's content is harmful given the multiple characters in eternally prepubescent bodies (15 and 13), and an attempt to seem like any implications by Bright regarding child molestations were unintentional.
Games Reality Benders Play	The page will be unlisted. The URL will be redirected to the Bright Note, with updated text.	This page's content is harmful given the focus on an old man vaguely acting like a sexual predator to a young girl (239) throughout, with overt sex references in relation to said child.
Here There Be	The page will be unlisted. The URL will be redirected to the Bright Note, with updated text.	This page's content is harmful due to the fact that, despite being focused on the Factory, it turns into a story about a man having sex in a brothel, interrupted by zombie sex workers, as well as minorly featuring desecration of a corpse.
Jack of Clubs	The page will be unlisted. The URL will be redirected to the Bright Note, with updated text.	The page's content is harmful throughout, given POV references to rape, questionable consent, impregnation, predating on women, women as natural prey animals, and bestiality.
Jack of Diamonds	The page will be unlisted. The URL will be redirected to the Bright Note, with updated text.	The page's content is harmful throughout, given casual rape references, predation on women, abuse of trust, using them for pleasure and procreation, and extremely explicit sexual content.
Mary Sue Who	The page will be unlisted. The URL will be redirected to the Bright Note, with updated text.	This page's content is harmful, given it is meant to be a parody of teenage Mary Sue fanfiction. It idealizes the body of a 17 year old girl; sexualizes her interactions with adults; has her in continued romantic affairs with older staff; makes her half-dragon and implies her genitals are scaled; implies oral sex; has Able impregnate her; discusses how her favourite lover is Dr. Bright, who is a monkey that doesn't get to have sex with her, and must settle for groping; as well as the Senior Staff collude to murder her, and making jokes about how everybody sometimes has sex with underage women
SCP-001:O5	The page will be unlisted. The URL will be redirected to the Bright Note, with updated text.	The page's content is harmful due to the explicit and implied pedophilia, and rape.
The Self Insert	The page will be unlisted. The URL will be redirected to the Bright Note, with updated text.	This page's content is harmful given the inclusion of a fictionalized version of the author's masturbation and pornography tastes being discussed, implications towards said self insert watching child pornography, bestiality, torture or murder for the purpose of masturbation, and overtly glamorizing abuse of power.
Personnel Director Bright's Personnel File	The page will be unlisted. The URL will be redirected to the Bright Note, with updated text.	This page serves as a platform for a known abuser, and as its existence represents the author, it must be removed. There is no alternative that does not contribute to the curated concept of Bright.

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Step-By-Step Breakdown:

Note: All provided time frames are rough estimates and are subject to change.

1. Remaining Review (Approx. 14 days)
   • Using the current list of reviewed pages, Staff and the community would determine which pieces authored by Bright contain the most offensive, abusive, dangerous or otherwise unacceptable pages (This has already been done in part, during the review).
2. Documentation (Approx. 7 days)
   • The preliminary list of pages to be deleted would be expanded to include any additional works as determined by the discussion in the previous step.
   • The Bright Note would be edited to include a full list of removed works as well as the reasons for their removal from the wiki.
3. Partial Deletion (Approx. 1 day)
   • The selected pages would be deleted by staff; their URLs would be made to redirect to the Bright Note.

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Why This Solution?:

Staff will set a precedent that mass deletions are not to be taken lightly.
This proposal allows for the removal of the most harmful of Bright's works, replacing them with the Bright note. At the same time, staff intervention is minimized, which also limits the precedent set for future staff consideration in regards to mass deletions, namely staff overreach. This allows contributors — whose works could in theory be subject to mass deletion — to see that staff does not consider mass deletion a tool to be used lightly or sweepingly, reassuring users that such actions will not become a norm for staff to use as a punitive measure.

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Concerns:

The issue of precedent is less important than harm reduction, and this proposal — by retaining most of Bright's works on the site — does not fully address Bright's harm.
A sizeable portion of Bright's works would remain on the site. While the works that remain are either ambiguously harmful or non-overtly harmful when their content is viewed in isolation, their association with Bright will remain and continue to contribute to Bright's influence. Considering this, this proposal does not fully address the overall harm caused by Bright, both in terms of past victims and preventing future harm.

This proposal will sow further distrust between staff and users, making it more difficult to handle any future such incident that may arise.
Staff doing a minimum amount of intervention will be perceived by many users as negligence at best, and active maliciousness at worst. This is particularly the case given the lengthy period of time (roughly four years) between Bright's AHT ban and action against their works being taken. This distrust will lead to more arguments, worse relationships between staff and users, less staff willingness to handle similar projects in the future, and most importantly, users being less willing to report incidents involving individuals actively using community positions of power as a tool for harassment and abuse, out of fear that they will not be promptly, properly, and wholly dealt with.

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Final Summary:

A core list of 21 pages authored by Bright, and any additional pages determined by staff and/or the community to warrant removal would be unlisted and the URL slugs of these pages would be made to redirect to the Bright Note. Other works on the site authored by Bright would remain. Relevant teams would be:

• Anti-Harassment Team:
  • Drafting/review of disclaimer;
• Community Outreach:
  • Drafting/review of disclaimer;
• Ambassadors:
  • Advising INT about which pages have been deleted and why.

Footnotes

1. For clarity, "Bright", the user, refers to the Wikidot user "AdminBright". Despite their username implying as such, they are not an administrator of the SCP Wiki and were permanently banned from the site in 2022. We will be referring to them as "Bright" rather than "AdminBright" to avoid any confusion regarding this.

2. Unlisting is functionally considered the same as total deletion. The reason why unlisting is used rather than outright total deletion is to preserve a staff record of the pages in case retaining evidence is necessary in future. Unlisted works will not be accessible to readers.