 Oh hoi hoi and welcome to the channel. I'm Dr. Samaria not a real doctor trying out a different format for the day My fancy camera is done and over with but I have a phone that shouldn't be capable of doing some stuff And since I'm planning on trying to get started with shorts content Which is gonna require me to do video like this anyway I might as well use it to do some chats with you about topics that normally would require a little bit of Interactivity, you know, whatever even though I look pretty terrible. I shaved Not yesterday, but you know, I shaved so I look okay. Um, See I touched my nose. You can see it now. Um Yeah, I don't actually know if I'm in frame either because this is the back camera the front camera's nice But it's not as good as the back camera and the back camera Doesn't let match. Maybe I have I said some sort of a mirror. I don't know. I'll figure it out Later in the meantime today, I want to talk to you a little bit about see the bright list got deleted for good There was a public vote there was a staff vote and there was an overwhelming majority of people who voted to get rid of it and I think Looking at some of the comments on my videos here and comments Elsewhere on the internet that this is indicative of perhaps a sharp divide between The onsite and off-site fandoms I'm all I Think this is the first like real video. I'm doing in my basement That I the room that I built with the with the go fund me money. I think it might be Yeah So the thing is At least half if not more of the comments on my videos have been generally not generally either apathetic or completely against the idea of removing the bright list from the scp wiki and That's a surprising thing to learn because if you look at the site itself, you'd find overwhelming support for getting rid of it and a lot of people will tell you there isn't a divide in the scp community, but I think there certainly is and then in fact, it's worse than most people fear because While there is a divide of on quote-unquote on and off-site users and I don't really think that's a fair Judgment and I'll tell you why in a second A lot of people don't recognize it that way There's just scp fans, but there are gatekeepers inside the fandom who want to keep not necessarily want to keep the fandom, you know isolated or whatever or to do things only the way they want to but at the same time gosh, if you were to talk to Authors and site users and you were to ask them. What's one of the worst things about the scp wiki? They'll tell you people who Prefer series one articles and I personally really hate that as an attitude And that's easy for me to say right I'm on YouTube here the people I'm talking to here are going to be some of them are going to be big fans of the series one stuff So that's very I'm not going on a limb here saying that I Don't like that attitude. I don't like the attitude of differentiating between one and off-site fans but there is a disparity of Power right because if you are an on-site fan That is to say you're registered on the wiki and you have a vote Then you have the capacity to actually affect change you can look at an article you like and You can upvote it and you can look at an article you don't like and you can downvote it But what I think the big divide here on this particular topic We can talk about the problems of the culture all to all we want to and I would really love to get into that but the problem with this specific topic is that the not the trust well in a way the trust but The contract there's a social contract on the scp wiki if something is upvoted It stays if something is downvoted it goes and once something has been judged Appropriate no one after the fact is going to get rid of it. I think Personally but the bright list should go should have gone. I should say because it is gone now Because I have to make that differentiation kids gonna sound like I'm arguing for else wise There are sometimes exceptions reasonable exceptions that should be made to tradition there are sometimes reasonable exceptions that should be made to You know that contract to say is this is leaving this up causing more harm than good and For anyone out there saying this is literally 1984. I Don't know what to tell you other than that you're being stupid The SCP this isn't even the first time the scp wiki has done this right the scp wiki has gotten rid of Highly upvoted articles. Well, I should I don't know about up highly upvoted articles But there was there's something called the mass edit which is widely considered to be a mistake But there was something called the mass edit that was done a long time ago Looking over there. I thought I saw a bug. It was just a screw in the wall I'm not used to sitting right here. You should this is where actually I lay down It's a very small room Yeah, the a mass edit happened and what ended up Coming of it was what a lot of people thought of was a higher quality Average work on the scp wiki and that's a big deal, right? The average quality of the scp wiki works matters it does and That was what the mass edit was supposed to do to get rid of subpar work that had been upvoted Making an exception to the contract or whatever, but that Gosh, that was almost 15 years ago Probably 14 13. I don't remember exactly when the mass edit was but it's more than a decade so more than a decade ago this was done and Everybody kind of just let it happen. It just kind of was what ends up happening sometimes on a site like this But ever since then we've definitely gotten to a point where it seems like There should be a Guarantee and there isn't they're just isn't The scp wiki stuff is always going to have the capacity to remove stuff that they think is harmful and they should and It's not I Don't want to have to get into why it's not The censorship in the sense that that people are making it out to be censorship is not always bad I'm sorry. It's just not There's a really weird idea That people think that not only should they have free speech, but they should have consequence free speech And that's not what free speech means It does mean that the government can't give you consequence necessarily can't give you consequences But the government isn't also then required to protect you from the consequences of your speech If you say something to someone and they tell you to shut up, you don't get to go Hey, you're violating my free speech You know why because they told you to shut up and they were exercising their free speech when they did it But the scp wiki isn't a government It's not a public even states hardly a public entity. It's just a bunch of collection of volunteers working on like a collective a collective a Collective collaborate took me a little it took me a an embarrassing long time to I'm gonna edit it a little bit It took me an embarrassingly long time to come up with the word collaborative a collective collaborative Project right and a collaborative project doesn't mean each individual gets you know Ultimate veto power. It means that Everyone collectively makes decisions And I'll tell you this right now Everybody who's saying this is literally 1984 except they're probably much younger than that So I don't want I'm pretending like it's old people saying that they would know the difference Again, I'm sorry. You're just wrong But to the people who are saying it's 1984 Join the site if you want to this there was a vote held and if 60 I think it was a supermajority was required of 60% or more of the site voters In that thread had not voted to get rid of it It would have been gotten read up and you don't get to This is gonna keep happening. This kind of thing is gonna keep happening This isn't just gonna be about articles you like or don't like This is gonna keep happening on the site and it may happen to other works that you believe should be held in Indissolvable they should be permanent Perpetual works on the scp wiki and they're gonna go if they cause harm to people and if for some reason I again I think that these some of these works should go. I think the bright list should have gone But if you think else wise Get on the site and vote and if you're too young to do that I'm sorry, but it is what it is And if you aren't too young to do it and you just haven't because it's too hard Because this don't get me wrong wiki. That does make it difficult and joining the site. It's not the easiest thing in the world, but it's It like it's like it's like a hoop You have to jump through a hoop to get through it It's like the barest minimum of red tape, right? I just joined the site make your voice heard if you really think this is a problem That's all. Anyway, thank you very much for watching. I really hope I was in frame Because I have no idea if not you may end up with like a top or a bottom part of my head And that's just what it's gonna be as a god I don't have to rerecord that because a lot was spontaneous But um, yeah, if you enjoyed the video hit the subscribe button hit the notification bell next to that I'm still work. I know I said last week. I was gonna start on Monday Doing shorts content last Monday not this Monday, but last Monday I'm still working out how that's going to look on this channel But it's gonna happen it is happening it's gonna be a daily thing once I figure out exactly what I want the videos to look like And this is a good. This is me getting prepared for it. Actually But yeah, if you enjoyed the video at the subscribe button at the notification bell next to that So you're notified when I upload new videos and then head on over to patreon.com Ford slash decimarian and pledge at any level like everybody here on the screen already has Including sin jeriki who's pledged a hundred dollars. It is nice to know that I'm not alone out here And I will see you all again on Tuesday hopefully with a dank memes this time last time was a little thin I had to skip it Hopefully we've got enough this time around to actually do a video We'll see you then