Editing SCP Foundation (section)

== Drama ==
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=== The RPC/SCP conflict and migration ===
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When you get a group of people to do something together, drama is inevitable. The SCP community has a number of big-names calling the shots, and what they say goes. They set the tone for what's allowed and what's not, and if you piss off the wrong person for a trivial thing or hurt someone's massive over-inflated ego, you can expect your stay on the website to be short. They are no stranger to massive internal strife either; fights between the big boys resulted in a lot of content being discarded at one point. It kind of mirrors [[TVTropes]]: the front end has a lot of nice reading but the community side is a dumpster fire of misery, egos and dicks. We do not prefer to give examples to not point hands at anyone in specific, even if indirectly, though.

Early forms of alleged [[SJW]]ism had been noted in articles spotting unusual genders without them being played for horror, or commented upon at all for that matter. Given a lot of SCPs are frequently not of this Earth/dimension/etc., there's at least SOME reasoning for it; and with stuff like SCP-113 or Dr Clef, few would normally bat an eye. Whether the presence of these in the articles is "forced political correctness" and pandering to [[SJW]]'s or just a simple yet unusual detail in gender identity that users are making a [[butthurt]] and unnecesary fuss about is up [[Skub|to the viewer to decide]]. The series also suffer from heavy amounts of Pussy Pass as well, such as "female users" being allowed to publish SCP's of Neko Assassin Girls from another dimension who are temporarily caught but somehow act all haughty and dismissive to an organization that snaps entire universes shut and could erase them from existence with a sleeping dreamer on a notice. Dear SCP editors. These users are not even girls. If they were, they wouldn't fuck you.

Amongst those who ''did'' interpret these actions as unnecessary politics while accusing the mods of censorship and banning of those who protested against it, and wishing to avoid further debate with the mods or the banhammers both in aligned discord servers and the website itself, founded their own branch/variation of SCP Foundation with a self-proclaimed focus on political neutrality and tonal and writing style similar to that of the early-to-mid SCP Foundation era, named the [[Original Character, do not steal|RPC Authority]]. The content itself is for the most part articles imported from the dissenting authors with the serial numbers filled off, though further developments did lead to plenty of original <s>SCP's</s> RPC's being create for website.

For the RPC side and those who migrated from the SCP wiki, the mods are at fault for trying to insert [[SJW]] content into their articles and shutting down complaints of their actions, arguing that this has alienated the apolitical side of the fandom who participated in the website before it went blatantly political with things like SCP 5004 which made a stab towards Trump with [[What|Dr. Light being pushed over despair]] over the idea that [[derp|american society was going willingly vote for Trump even without the Foundation's intervention]], with this being a essentially recycled idea from SCP-4444. Notably, the article was downvoted to the point of being a candidate of deletion back when it was made and now it sits comfortably in the hundreds, with this being used as proof of the website becoming an echo chamber for [[SJW]]ery regardless of the article's quality. Complementing this, they mention that the mods have [[Exterminatus|cracked down on any opposition to them both outside the website and in it]], and as such have failed to keep the SCP Foundation a free community and Wiki where anyone is free to edit [[Inquisitor|regardless of their political position]].

For the SCP side and those who decided to stay or didn't care, it has been pointed out that the SCP Foundation ''always'' had articles with political overtones even if these were less common, and that users were making drama over a few articles that they could simply ignore or downvote but decided to bitch about because they couldn't bear the idea of articles containing non-binary characters or jokes mocking capitalism in the wiki (Like SCP-3236 which allows a person to have a erotic dream themed around a concept and upon testing with the word "capitalism" the D-class could only report that [[lulz|he got fucked]]) while being [[butthurt]] over anyone who disagreed, saying that they create articles themselves if they wished to make a political/social stab of their own. To make matters worse, some SCP users alleged that many of these "apolitical" RPC migrators held [[/pol/|"politically incorrect"]] views and that the anti-polical tirades were just masking for their bigotry - not helped by the fact that while the aforementioned blatant political content was one of their main sources of complaint, some went as far as to accuse non-straight relationships and characters with "uncommon" gender identities of [[what|being "political pandering"]].

At the end of the day and regardless of [[skub|one's own opinion]], the RPC wiki did keep their promise and (for the most part) kept politics out of their imported and original articles, with conflict having mostly died down since them outside of the ocasional discussion happening in discord/reddit threads, as both sides have adopted a "out of sight, out of mind" attitude to each other. That being said, [[Troll|do feel free]] to post one of the circulated prints of the drama in their forums [[That Guy|to check out what their reaction will be]]!

=== The Other Things ===

Furthermore, as the community around the SCP Wiki has evolved over time, the tone of the works has shifted. In the first few years of the wiki, there was more of an inclusion of levity and humour, especially in regards to test logs and the antics of senior staffers. Over time the wiki has included less and less of this, as the community broadened and namefags or otherwise notable contributors left, taking their influences and in-universe characters with them which was a good thing. Latest SCP's and many other new SCP entries were little more than worldbuilding with zero clinical analysis but horror pantheons with complex gods, demons, and supernatural powers, completely failing to understand that SCP is a literal dismantling of supernatural into pseudo-mathematical variations. Circa 2018, the wiki is redoubling its efforts to be purely clinical horror, with fewer jokes (for better or worse).

(That being said, there's still room for somewhat "silly" SCPs, you just have to make them the product of an appropriate silly person or group, and make sure to (A) write it up clinically and (B) have something interesting besides the joke. See, for reference, the products of "Gamers Against Weed" or "dado." You can also still do -J articles, like good ol' [[Meme|SCP-420-J]].)

More than a few people have also noticed (and mocked) the tendency of assorted SCPs to basically be their creator's fucked up sexual fetishes. One SCP, a more well known one to boot, was even basically [[Extra Heresy|implying pedophilia]], but thankfully someone went and made a revised, non [[Loli]] version that doesn't put the site on a watchlist (though the old version is still available for <s>public shaming</s> continuity purposes).

You also have the Russian branch having to deal with a copyright [[Internet Troll|troll]] who wants to turn SCP into his own brand, at least in Russia if not internationally. Unlike most trolls they can't ignore this one as they would steal the work of those who wrote there for themselves by extension. Remember kids, copyright/trademark/etc. sniping is not cool.

In May 2022, AdminBright was banned from the Foundation for [[Slaanesh|being a sexual predator]]. [[Blam|Dr. Bright's List has been deleted and the character unpersoned]]. While no one besides creeps are defending his sorry ass, going full Excommunicate Traitoris on the character (one which most people didn't know was an actual sona) has resulted in some [[Skub|discussion]] on if deleting such a popular part of the lore from existence was the right move, or if they should have just tried to divorce the fictional character from the real person.