 ahoy hoy and welcome to the channel today we're going to talk about I want to say three topics of interest the first one being that the SCP foundation has been having some problems recently with oh gosh what's the best way to put this incidents that have undermined confidence in staff there are multiple versions of this problem first of all staff have I don't know if we're getting caught right eh getting caught talking behind users backs about users which in and of itself is just basic little high school drama stuff but is part of a pattern of behaviors which have led to a lot of members of the community worrying that members of staff aren't taking their jobs too seriously which you would think it's like that doesn't even sound that bad except in the case that they you know ban people forever from the wiki and have you know widespread power over people's abilities to interact with the wiki they should take their jobs somewhat seriously and if they're just making fun of people both in private and in public that's a misuse of their own influence and I say this as someone who has in the past had some difficulty understanding exactly how much influence I have whenever I post like a quote from somebody these days I make sure and block out their name because I'm a little bit worried about the influence that I have over my audience as a good example I'm not going to go in any specific examples but the yeah the SCP and the administration is talking about fixing that part of it is that and this is something I've known for a while because I was a moderator was just one step down from administrator on the SCP wiki for a decent little chunk of time and having access to those back channel channels and you know interactions with people who are on staff staff is a stressful thing and a lot of people use those back channels to vent about users they don't like the problem is that I feel like it's probably become and it not not become has been even when I was there so normalized that it has spread to people thinking it's okay to make fun of people in public and it's just not as a member of staff you take on a certain level of responsibility towards the users and that hasn't been necessarily reflected in people's actual behavior also there's the Dr. Magnus versus Sirastus and there's no really other way to put it problem that happened and Dr. Magnus is a was a long-running administrator of the SCP wiki I believe heavily involved in the technical side of things been a little while but their actual job here is not necessarily relevant simply that there was an accusation that Sirastus had taken Dr. Magnus's work and posted it in a plagiarized form which was absolutely untrue I should make that clear up front because plagiarism accusations in a writing community are very serious and even though it was untrue Dr. Magnus is influenced with staff and a variety of things I mean being an administrator moderators and operators certainly feel a certain level of pressure to bow to the demands of an administrator because of this Dr. Magnus because of their influence there was an investigation by the disciplinary team and some of this became public well before there was any sort of conclusion which again it's problematic just the accusation it's a little bit like certain types I should say certain types of harassment you once you make it public just even the fact that there were accusations you kind of like ruined somebody with some people forever there's still people out there I guarantee you despite the fact the SP Wiki has done its best to rectify this and make sure it make it clear that there was no plagiarism in fact I don't remember which server was but a couple weeks ago maybe months ago time is fluid but I saw somebody say something along lines of Sirastus isn't that the person that plagiarized Magnus and this is the problem right that's never gonna go away you have to correct it when you see it that's all so this is another example of the administration of the SP Wiki not really doing their job properly we also have and this is important to the SCP legal fund so the SCP legal fund has posted a new update and I'm gonna summarize it rather than read it directly because it it well I can read this isn't too long hello everyone it's been busy behind the scenes we have some new information to release now by the way this is from John B. Bady probably Bady the biggest news that we have retained the services of further lawyers Mr. Chusov is still in the case and will be assisting but we now we need more specialized advice to make sure that we completely dismantled Duttsen's attempts to trademark SCP we've made some important strides but we can't quit now we need to make sure the SCP continues to belong to everyone who wants to under the Creative Commons license and not just one person the new lawyers and this is important because I'm gonna have some critique of this decision later because it's not the SCP Wiki that decided this was a good idea it was their new lawyers the new lawyers believe it's time to bring the attention to the many people affected by Duttsen's shameless actions to that end they've asked that letters be written to the Intellectual Property Court of Russia you can spare the time to write out why you believe the Duttsen's actions are wrong and unfair and why SCP is important to you we would appreciate it greatly if you decide to write such a letter we ask the following and I'm gonna give you these two first it should be an actual paper letter with your actual signature on it I'm not gonna there's a little bit of the caveats here second there's the address third please reference case number 1434-2021 just make sure they know what your letter is referring to fourth please be polite fifth please write the letter in your own language and finally use your own words I can't write the letter for you because I can only guess what SCP means for other people it's your chance to be heard and let people know why this shared universe is important to you I understand that not everyone has the time to write out a letter like this but if you're able to it would really help out our efforts to protect SCP for everyone this is something that the lawyers advised them to do and maybe in Russian courts this would be more important I guess but it really just feels desperate I mean there's nothing on here that says so and the address was updated in a second post but then it's also updated in the original post but what's the best way to put this if they thought they had him on the merits of the case this wouldn't be necessary the fact that they're asking for this means that the new lawyers are looking at their case and thinking hmm I don't know it feels like a stunt and a gamble and you don't do that unless you think you're going to lose and you have no nothing to lose now this is just an immediate this was my snap judgment reaction to it and it couldn't couldn't it could be wrong it could be right who knows and the lawyers are saying to do it and if even to be fair if they think that it is that dire or that it's good idea and it's not dire at all it's a good idea to do if the lawyers are asking for it we should do it however it just seems like a terrible idea I mean they're gonna get let look it makes more sense to me that they would be asking for like direct impact statements from people in Russia not the literally dozens or hundreds of people who are gonna send in letters from abroad I I don't know that's a little that's a little work let's just put that way that's a little worrying although even if this is the problem this is why I'm like I was thinking about like what would I write this won't affect me because this trademark won't affect me because I don't live in Russia and or the there's a sort of a Baltic states in Russia I think maybe not Baltic states but like Central Asia like intellectual property agreement or something that this would technically also apply to but I don't live in that area so it wouldn't affect me and then someone was like well what if what if this is Jesus precedent and then he says he owns it everywhere I'm like these trademark the SCP logo I mean then you just change the SCP logo I mean if it were to come down to it you just change the SCP logo this was an effect this isn't a copyright issue it's just a logo being trademark anyway I mean it's not like the SCP logo is so original I mean it was literally taken me oh no it's so original and iconic it was stolen from not stolen it was you it was created by someone from an adobe illustrator suite of stock images calm down anyway this is to say this isn't important or that this isn't like something that we should be very very very very invested in it is important but it doesn't directly impact me anyway but write letters if you think writing letters will help go I'll give a link again to the fundraiser I mean you don't have to donate anymore I don't think they're not asking for it but if you want the information on how to contact them and whatever I'm not suggesting you do this by the way personally I want to be clear about that because there could be you know legal repercussions to advising you to write to a court but they are and I'm just gonna give you a link to their request lastly and this came up yesterday I had been playing as soon as I saw this and I don't remember when this was yeah this was done yesterday too yeah I saw this yesterday and I was like I'm gonna make a news thing because there's been some updates there's been some problems on staff and I was gonna I was gonna go into it and then last night a user on the or I should say a moderator yeah let's let's just let's use the term properly one of the hardest working moderators on the SCP wiki prosion low tour has been put up for promotion to administrator and you might under question why would that sort of somewhere I'm looking for here with that sort of introduction it would be any sort of an issue but prosion low tour has a long long history of essentially being incapable of objectivity this is a long line I've seen absolute and they've gosh the weird part is that while his is angry rude and incredibly hostile reactions to both users and off-site people in general have been sort of acknowledged and accepted by staff they claim he's changed but behind the scenes where nobody can see and I would argue of course that if he's changed in that short of a period of time maybe you should give it a little bit like a year or two and see if he's because this is not a this is not a short term sort of thing administrator is forever well they have they're making rules about activity and everything but as long as you're active administrators forever basically it feels like the kind of thing that they should be a little bit more careful about now I know that they are having a lot of stress come through their lives which is you know part of the position I'm not saying it's fair or right I'm just saying it is what it is and the worst part is that there's a fellow called Conwell who's also up for promotion at the same time and he is probably I'm not saying probably as far as I know a great choice so they have one great choice and one terrible choice and I wouldn't even be making this part of the video because I should be clear here I should have been clear at the top but I'll be clear in the middle I have an incredible bias I think it would be accurate to say that I dislike if hate feels like too strong of a word but might be appropriate I don't like prosciutto at all my interactions with them my my I should say my final interactions with prosciutto were incredibly negative to the point where yeah I really really dislike this person so I find it difficult to be unbiased but I do attempt to try and throw some objectivity in there and I also will caveat it with I have a bias so keep that in mind they are this person is not appropriate for administration though at all they at prosciutto tour and you can look up their interactions with just people on the scp wiki prosciutto tour has a I believe a disciplinary legitimate disciplinary thread on the scp wiki about being too rough with users um it's just and again uh in my own personal experience and I have personal experience on this this is a person who cannot separate their anger from their power and behavior and in an administrator the person on the scp wiki who has the most power of anybody that is a terrible trait to have now the the funny part to me is in reading the statements about why this is a why this is a good choice a lot of people will say he's not afraid to speak truth to power or he's not afraid to run counter to what the administrators want and we need more voices like that one I'd argue knowing the guy as well as I do I I should say oh that makes it sound like I know him very well uh knowing him as well as I have in the past I'll say first of all he's going to do that whether he's an administrator or not so why does he need to be made it why is that a argument for administration two uh that is really just a rephrasing of his problems of being too rude of being too abrasive for no reason by the way um yeah it's just a whole thing there is a huge uproar in the community right now over this possible promotion and last I looked the vote is four to one uh no three to one uh there's four votes total so the current vote is three to one for him uh joining the administration team um it's it's really really early who knows which way things are going to fall whoa there's no other way to what the whoa is this a bad idea oh boy and again I wouldn't bring this up as a news item except for the fact and because of my bias because it feels like you know the kind of thing I would be like hey that's guys being promoted and I hate him don't make this a big deal I'm not saying that this is a community issue because outside of me it has elicited an incredibly strong strong response a dj cactus posted literally yesterday a tweet about this and it has let me look real quick here there's been a huge discussion on the scp declassified subreddit uh let's look at his tweet real quick um the scp staff is this is dj cactus the scp staff is about to promote the most hostile needlessly aggressive and borderline abusive on-site moderator to admin and no it isn't conwell because it's not conwell conwell is not who we're talking about here uh share this with your friends if you think uh if this is going to happen people need to know about this dude remember the serastus incident and this is important we talked about this earlier prosion both aided and enabled magnus who later resigned instead of being centered for using disciplinary to take out a hit on serastus this is confirmed and again that's dj cactus and this I just to understand the ratio uh let's take a look at the how many people have oh click one right I've screwed it up I've screwed it up notifications right just so we understand the ratio because it's supposed to be like how often how much something is uh correct or controversial has 11 comments and 91 likes which is not huge amount and 28 retreat we retweets um just so you have an understanding of what the fuck is going on here this is not a me issue this is a multiple people issue which is the only reason I bring it up again huge bias here I hate the guy but you know anyway that's it uh just wanted to cover these topics today I was going to just originally just cover uh the my my thoughts and why I think that the legal fundraiser news is not good news um it's already a problem by the way maybe I should circle around back to that that's already a problem because the uh the actual ruling last time around was sort of a mixed bag it was made it was painted as it was a good thing like it was all good but it was really a mixed bag they refused to rule on the core issue they just kind of ate around the edges of it but anyway that's neither here nor there um go to the fundraiser site look at their instructions follow their instructions don't be rude um and do what they need you to do because if they're asking for it they must need it even though it sounds like a terrible idea and then hit the subscribe button actually hit the subscribe button before you leave I don't want you clicking out I don't want you going anywhere before you hit that 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