 what I hope to be the last audio only episode of this channel now it won't be decided or at least I figured out for doing these that I think readings benefit from just being audio only more than they benefit from having my face in the frame so we'll probably be doing those like that more often I'm feeling better not great and I didn't want to push myself on the first day back so I'm still resting quite a lot the important part is today's episode is going to be a little bit different than what you might have expected this week I'm testing out a new piece of content called the O5 update and this is not something that's going to be necessarily a regular feature we'll consider it more of a semi-regular feature because what this is going to be is about SCP administrative updates for lack of a better way to put it the O5 command website which is real wiki.website is where staff tend to handle big changes and discuss things and just in general like stuff going on with the wiki that you need to know about will be in this update this time around there probably two big pieces of information first of all we have a retirement from a very recognizable person admin bright so dr. bright the user behind the character of dr. bright and many other pieces of fiction on the scp wiki is retiring from staff I will say retirement from staff is a little what's the word it's never as permanent as it seems like for most people unless people like literally end up on the outs with staff somehow most people are in and out they're like retire they come back they retire they come back but this was notable enough that it felt like it deserved its own little update so I'm gonna read the letter he left right now hey friends real life is stressful on site I feel like we just keep fighting the same fights with new people I've been at this for more than a decade but I've only written like one tale in the past four years and while I know many of you the majority of people who I knew well have gone for years everyone moves on except for me and now me I'm tired and I'm stepping away no idea for how long or if I'll come back and visit hell I might even be inspired to write again but I'm leaving all the IRC's and the staff chats and I'll see y'all later maybe people know how to get a hold of me if they need me but I do want to say I love you all I'm proud of you you should you ever need me I'll be here but I've watched the site turn for a wretched hive of scum and villainy into a place that genuinely cares I'm sorry more people don't see the work blood sweat and tears you all put into this place you're doing amazing and you are amazing keep up the good work never be afraid to change and grow that's from bright signing off so that's the message you left and for the moment at the very least it seems like bright is gone from the site which is not so I mean he's always he's never been particularly active but he's always been around that's the best way to put it but no longer second of all we have two updates that are semi related let's take a look at the thread for this one a statement on recent events by dr. Everett man there have been rumors going around about some issues staff have had to deal with recently they are sufficiently serious that we feel that they need to be addressed two users one of him was a member of staff and the other a former member of staff were discovered to have exchanged not safe for work messages with a minor but they've been removed from the site and permanently banned there are rumors that anti-harassment were aware of the situation and attempted to cover it up this is entirely false we received a rumor about the incident at the beginning of this year but in the initial interview with the case is victim they claim that nothing inappropriate had occurred and that they did not desire us to investigate this incident further we believe the victims account and a seeded to their wishes this is not to say that we are without blame as members of staff were involved we should have investigated more closely we understand that victims in cases like this may feel reluctant to provide information to anti-harassment team for various reasons including a desire not to be involved or lack of trust in our investigators so we should have interviewed all parties more thoroughly and sought after any possible evidence to that end we are enacting policy changes and how we are handling anti-harassment cases including special revisions in cases where a staff member is an alleged perpetrator in addition we are looking into other steps to make the site safer for users we're currently looking to the possibility raising the site age limit as well as guidelines for limiting staff members from participating in any off-site not safe for work scp sub communities it is going to take some work to find the best solutions and enact them but our site is grown by leaps and bounds and things that worked in 2015 don't necessarily make sense now we cannot go back to business as usual after this wake-up call without making changes I'm confident in our team's ability to work through this difficult time and our community's ability to adapt to the new changes we will get through this and when we do our site will be a better safer place than ever now we'll say there are two I see here anyway two different policy proposals relating to this and I was also to be fair the anti-harassment teams captain has actually been switched from let me just double check here real quick it was soulless singularity before Dr. Everett Mann the person who left the previous statement is now taking over the anti-harassment team soulless singularity the former harassment team captain will remain on the team and they've also added a few people now I'm going to before I jump into the actual changes that are being proposed to help fix these problems I talked just a moment about the originating incident there's not a lot of information because the anti-harassment team keeps these sorts of things secret which requires you to have a huge amount of confidence in how things are handled which in this particular case it seems even members of staff who are party to what was going on were very unsatisfied with how the secret deliberations were handled they're trying to be a little bit more transparent by explaining what they did wrong but there's still a lot that we don't know if you want to figure out who the two users are it's not particularly difficult but because of the way the anti-harassment team has things set up and they basically demand anonymity not just for the not just for the victims but also sometimes the perpetrators because the perpetrators being known could make the victim known which can make that bit more difficult but you can figure this out this is not difficult it took me about two minutes to figure out the two people who were involved in this so if you want to look if you're interested in finding out you can find out on your own that said this is leading into two proposals one of which will actually affect the site in a fairly serious way and one that affects just off-site it's not a very it's not really a major change that you need to know about necessarily because you're not a member of staff probably but it is something that you should at least be in slightly informed about it's essentially saying that you're not allowed if you're a member of scp staff to leverage your position for not say for work behavior regardless of the age of the other person which is a sort of thing where you wish there didn't have to be a role for it but of course there has to be a role for it because people are terrible okay so this hasn't actually been changed yet this is a discussion they're going to add two notes to the new site charter which will basically make it pretty well make it against the rules which this one of those things is like you see the rule and it like sure it makes you feel better but if you were going to ban the people who did it anyway which you should by the way but if you're going to ban the people that do it regardless of if there is or isn't a rule then you don't need the rule you just need good common sense but having a rule makes it look like you're being proactive just saying this this feels more like image control than it does like actually making substantive changes however the other change to the website i'm going to read this one in its entirety so you have a better understanding of it over the this is by dr magnus over the past few days there have been discussions regarding our age policy highlighting a clear gap between what our content policy allows and our age policy in order to bring our content policy in line with our age policy i'm suggesting the following changes be made and and to be clear these are changes to the current status of you must be age 15 or older in order to join the site if they find out that you're below the age of 15 you'll be banned until you are 15 these changes there are three of them um which some of them are one of them is a no-brainer one of them is sort of arguable i think personally and the other one is pretty reasonable though it's not really enforceable one way the other and again this is more about it this really seems more about image and damage control because almost none of this is really truly enforceable you can't can you know it how old are you oh how do i have to be uh will you're banned until you tell us how old you are and then they look it up and they find out they gotta be x age so that's how old i am or i'm older than that you know it doesn't really matter in this instance they're gonna change the age to 18 um but they're going to do it in a sliding uh method because current they want to be able to grandfather anyone who is currently a site member so this would probably be instituted by the 16th or i'm sorry by the 8th of may and uh of this year and then that would give another year in a year's time you would have to be 16 in a year's time from that you'll need to be 17 and then in a year's time from that you would need to be 18 now this is a no-brainer policy change i think and yes i'm certainly aware the off-site fan base including a much of not a majority but a fair portion of the youtube fan base for scp content is below the age of 18 i will say this just from a basic content creator standpoint if you are below the age of 13 please do not watch my content it's not for you i uh i i appreciate that you enjoy it but it is not for you and uh definitely do not buy my merchandise uh don't donate me money none of those things now i'm going off on a tangent i just want to make this clear the second thing beyond me moving the age requirements for the site update 18 is content with adult works are to be issued a splash page or a collapsible that you agree that by seeing it that the reader or person interacting is above 18 this is very very poorly phrased first of all because that you agree that by seeing it that the reader like what what is that this makes no sense um the important but the thing about this that i dislike is that it's it's meaningless you can put a content warning on a page all day it doesn't change anything it just comes it just becomes a sort of a perfunctory oh yes i am older than cool i'm very much about immersion when it comes to the scp wiki and i feel like a splash page that says hey this stuff is for is you know for older uh people on an scp article at the very least kind of ruins the immersion and you don't gain anything out of it i mean you get to look like you're being proactive but what are you really what have you really done that's i'm just saying what what have you actually how who have you actually prevented from accessing that content no one and of course the uh ideas that any users under 18 staff are not are not responsible for adult content in any way which i suppose means that if they know that you're under the age of 18 you're not allowed to post adult content to the wiki and you're discouraged from having any sort of interaction with such content because it will be clearly labeled as such um i think the adult tags that we have on stuff is probably as far as that needed to go but the problem is that they've bundled a no-brainer the moving the age 18 thing with another policy proposal that is well it's not completely unrelated is tangentially related and uh they're just throwing them together and be like here you go let's vote on this as one whole let's discuss this as one whole policy i really hope when it goes to vote in 11 hours time that it is separated out into three different votes but i'm not uh not too optimistic about it those are our updates for this uh month thereabouts this is a lot there's a lot going on in the scp wikis 05 uh forums a lot more than normal we'll say uh they're not usually this active nor this many things going on at once this is like a flurry of activity based on something terrible that happened behind the scenes which again we don't know exactly what that thing was and we probably shouldn't bother trying to look it up because well the victim's privacy is more important than our curiosity regardless thank you very much for watching if you want to see more of this kind of content like updates on the 05 stuff let me know in the comments down below and definitely scroll down hit the subscribe button if you're not subscribed already if you really want to see more of this kind of content head on over to patreon.com forward slash D. 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