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lol at least one entry is a ripoff of an old short story
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Potato Salad posted:containment via declaration of war https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1761
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Mar 11, 2024 02:12
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Contest is over. Seal of Approval won. Not what I would've picked, but whatever, these things never go quite the way I want them to. As for the question of strategic voting, staff put out a statement here and are asking for user input. Five users are getting in trouble, and significantly more were deemed suspect. Seems the general consensus is that it's kinda killing the vibe.
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Mar 11, 2024 06:33
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I hope whatever wins the 9000 slot isn't sixty loving pages long.
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Mar 11, 2024 06:47
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Love from Ada was boring as gently caress
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Mar 11, 2024 06:51
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Akumeoy posted:Contest is over. Seal of Approval won. Not what I would've picked, but whatever, these things never go quite the way I want them to.
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Mar 11, 2024 07:31
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Akumeoy posted:Incidentally, while people can express their preference, the contest rules specifically forbid doing it by voting. Like you said, it's inevitable so long as net votes are used to determine the contest winner, but anyone caught doing it is definitely at risk of disciplinary action. Huh -- sorry, I had no idea this was banned, which is fair. I still think it's gonna be kinda unavoidable in this format as long as contest status is wedded to the general voting module, though.
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Mar 11, 2024 08:16
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Tunicate posted:lol at least one entry is a ripoff of an old short story Which one? Also, congratulations to Seal of Approval. The downvoting patterns were pretty disgusting, I'm glad they were able to detect them and adjust accordingly.
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Mar 11, 2024 08:50
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The one where they find a crack in the earth and lower a platform down and start communicating with underground dwellers by writing paper messages, a second person starts feeding them meat with the platform, then after they request something different to eat, a person goes down to meet them and gets eaten, and the last message is thst person was delicious. It is a pretty obvious copy of "Hey, you down there" by Harold Rolseth, which was adapted by Spielberg for Amazing Stories as "Thanksgiving" I
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Mar 11, 2024 09:20
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mostly surprised that djkaktus's entry isn't yet another jon stewartesque piece of biting satire
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Mar 11, 2024 11:21
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after thinking it was too long i ended up reading 8ball again anyway and i think it was my favorite, possibly because there were two(2) pictures of a cat
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Mar 11, 2024 12:09
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My favorite part of SCP is when you get a comment on one thats like "this is incredibly well written and genuinely made me cry but it had an orb in it so I'm going to have to downvote"
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Mar 11, 2024 15:57
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That’s my favorite too.
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Mar 11, 2024 16:02
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I have to wonder if it's intentional that Seal of Approval is long and the titular anomaly is also really long
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Mar 12, 2024 05:25
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As long as it's not longer than the really, really, really long fish
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Mar 12, 2024 06:04
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I don't think I've posted in this thread before, but I've read on the SCP wiki on and off. What the hell is this mess? https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-7002 In the comments over there, the author says it deals with themes of exploitation and food scarcity, but it doesn't work when the comet is destroying crops (food scarcity) that the aliens are compelling humans to grow (exploitation). It makes no sense, unless there's something I'm totally missing. So am I missing something, or are these aliens are stupid as they seem?
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Mar 12, 2024 06:14
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"Channels of luminous matter or energy, flowing between Earth and the unknown planet" implies that they are somehow stealing those resources. I don't really like the idea of the Foundation being in charge of dealing with that kind of thing though, it seems like once everyone on earth knows about a threat governments would take over more directly
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Filox posted:I don't think I've posted in this thread before, but I've read on the SCP wiki on and off. It is very common for "famines" to take place in countries producing more than enough food to feed themselves because the food is being produced for export. It's a pretty straightforward commentary on this but it's also not very good because the fantastical elements were poorly chosen and obfuscate/obscure the events.
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Mar 12, 2024 09:22
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Splicer posted:The withering seems to be beneficial to the aliens somehow. Yeah, but that isn't well expressed. It was a promising entry till the writing got fuddled up.
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Mar 12, 2024 20:48
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Call me back when the SCP wiki has ranked choice voting like god intended.
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Mar 12, 2024 20:53
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I guess I mean it's mediocre at best, but I actually did like Seal of Approval like, a lot more than a whole lot of the other entries I read over the last few weeks? What I really hope happens as a result is that the very long seal becomes the official therapist for the foundation, full benefits, full vacation package
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Mar 13, 2024 05:55
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Spanish Matlock posted:Call me back when the SCP wiki has ranked choice voting like god intended. I’m afraid that methods of voting other than FPTP are anomolous, hence the campaign to suppress them.
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Mar 13, 2024 06:18
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Splicer posted:Huh, every time I vote two votes show up the other way. MUST... TELL... O5 MCCAIN!
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Mar 13, 2024 08:36
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UNSAFE AT ANY SPEED
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Mar 13, 2024 08:45
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Akumeoy posted:https://twitter.com/Shaggydreds/status/1766853868615299293 if they're really using the on-article voting system rather than a separate ranked choice poll page, they asked for this problem to manifest
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Mar 13, 2024 13:47
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Potato Salad posted:if they're really using the on-article voting system rather than a separate ranked choice poll page, they asked for this problem to manifest "This is a contest to see which entry wins the prize, and it's determined by your voting on this thing here! Don't consider that when voting though. It's against the rules to think about why you're reading this in the first place when voting."
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Mar 13, 2024 14:15
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The system is a cognitohazard!
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Mar 13, 2024 15:21
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The ratio of interesting horror fiction to petty internet drama coming out of SCP has gotten dire over the last year.
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counterfeitsaint posted:The ratio of interesting horror fiction to petty internet drama coming out of SCP has gotten dire over the last year. It's always been pretty dire, you just didn't have someone with severe brainworms (me) reporting on the drama here. I doubt the complaints about contest voting would have made their way over to this thread if not for me.
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Mar 13, 2024 23:06
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its pretty weird now that like 10-15% of every given series is now on a specific theme because of the contests
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Mar 14, 2024 02:52
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i dunno i think its fair to hope people voting on a relatively small online creative writing contest would just handle it in good faith, which was the case for a long time. they gotta figure out something different for the next one though
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Mar 14, 2024 03:04
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'Upvote the ones you want to get the X000 slot, but don't downvote the ones you don't want to get the X000 slot' isn't exactly immediately intuitive.
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Mar 14, 2024 06:33
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They really should put together a new voting system. Considering how hacked up the wikidot is already though, doing so might cause the site to erase itself. poo poo's the goddamn radium code of wikis.
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Mar 14, 2024 07:01
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If they could just hide the results on the contest entries that'd be a bandaid fix. It'd stop people suddenly downvoting the current leader if they think it shouldn't get the slot, because they don't know what's winning.
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Zereth posted:If they could just hide the results on the contest entries that'd be a bandaid fix. It'd stop people suddenly downvoting the current leader if they think it shouldn't get the slot, because they don't know what's winning. that, and disable downvoting
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Mar 14, 2024 09:53
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Honestly yeah, removing downvotes entirely seems fine to me?
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Mar 14, 2024 10:54
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Kitfox88 posted:Honestly yeah, removing downvotes entirely seems fine to me?
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I think a big problem here is that there is no way whatsoever to distinguish the following from one another: -People who took a look at the highest-rated contest entry, decided that it doesn’t deserve to win as much as their favorite entry, and downvoted it. (Against the rules! Bad faith! Not allowed!) -People who took a look at the highest-rated contest entry, genuinely did not like it, and downvoted it. (Totally within the rules! Good faith! Very much allowed!) Both of these cases result in the article receiving a downvote that it wouldn’t have received if it wasn’t the highest rated entry, but only one is against the rules. It is totally pointless to apply different standards of legitimacy to completely indistinguishable actions. To me the obvious answer is to disconnect contest voting from the upvote/downvote system altogether. Articles entered into a contest should have upvote/downvote buttons with no effect on contest outcomes as well as a button you click to say “I think this deserves to win the contest.” This would completely eliminate the problem. The biggest hurdle as far as I can tell is the Wikidot software, which I understand to be outdated and cumbersome. Ariong has a new favorite as of 21:38 on Mar 14, 2024 |
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Mar 14, 2024 21:33
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I think I should pick the winner and it should be me.
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Ariong posted:This would completely eliminate the problem. The biggest hurdle as far as I can tell is the Wikidot software, which I understand to be outdated and cumbersome. You're correct on all accounts. The most natural workaround would be to have a forum thread where users can post their vote, in whatever form that takes (I'm personally a fan of approval voting, but ranked choice and some wonkier systems are good too). I think virtually every other proposed solution is either inadequate or overly complicated.
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