 Let me tell you about why you absolutely 100% shouldn't seek critique on the SCP wiki forums, and I'll tell you right now it isn't for the reasons you think. The SCP wiki staff who handle critique are doing the absolute best job they possibly can with the tools, the knowledge, and the skills available to them. So let me clarify that what I say that, I mean you specifically, the person who has taken time to watch a video about critique on YouTube, shouldn't waste your time with the SCP wiki's internal critique forums. And you might be asking why, which is fair and reasonable. It's because there are better options out there. Critique isn't a fire and forget process, but that's what the wiki's draft forums are. Because once you get a response, the chances of getting anything else after that is incredibly low, even if you need to ask a question. So when a reviewer offers you advice you don't understand, or advice you need more information about, or even advice that you end up using, but you want more feedback about. You're almost always out of luck. The truth of the matter is that forum critique will always be inferior to in-person critique, and for that, most of the time, that takes place in chat. When you can have a conversation with the reviewer whilst they're reviewing, you can ask questions, you can get clarifications, you can point out things that they missed, and most importantly, I think you can get real follow-up critique once you make some changes. Now this can work in a forum circumstance if you can guarantee that the person who gave you critique will actually respond when you ask them questions, but there's a problem with that. And part of it is the nature of it being a forum instead of a live chat. I mean, it's inherently slower. You might go a couple of days without somebody replying at all, and again, once they do that, that's usually it, because there are far, far more drafts than there are individuals who can actually critique them, and they've got to commit to a full-bodied critique of each draft that's posted. Even if it's only 20 words long, they've got to go over conceptual critique. They've got to go over basic spelling and grammar stuff. They've got to go over everything. The manpower issue is real, and that alone is a good reason for you not to burden the critique forum with another draft if you can possibly avoid it. A post there, yes, will get feedback eventually, but it will only be one instance of feedback, as I've mentioned before. And you replying with a revised draft for bumping your thread for more responses will not get you additional responses, 90% of the time. I'll tell you right now, bumping your thread will actually just get you someone saying, don't bump your threads. And sometimes it'll actually make it so you don't get any critique at all. If you post a thread and then you bump that thread before someone has responded, you may very well not get any critique. So what I'm saying is you'll be better served finding a circle of friends and acquaintances who can help you improve your work. Don't just throw another log under the backs of forum critique staff just because you know they'll be forced to carry it. They already have a thankless and difficult job. And let's face it, you're a watcher of this channel. And this channel has a Discord server of its own with a writing help section. There's a page on the SCP Wiki that'll let you get into the IRC chat without having to have a client of your own as well. And there's also a ton of other SCP related servers. Chief among them, I would think is the SCP declassified server, which also has a writing help section. These are chat resources. Use them first. The form is your last possible option. And only if what I like to call polite persistence isn't getting you responses in chat, which is probably not going to happen. You're not gonna have that problem. And also, you know, if you're not getting people who actually respond to you, I would take a second and pay attention to what's going on. You know how often I see this happen in chat where two different people with drafts are seeking somebody to give them feedback. And sometimes this happens with two experienced writers who are talking past each other. Hey, anyone wanna look at my draft? Five minutes later. Hey, anyone wanna look at my draft? It's a completely different person. Those two people could just contact each other and be like, hey, let's look at each other's drafts. Pay attention, that's all I'm saying. Also, it's still early in the month, so I'd like to point out that now is a great time for you to join my Patreon. You'll get exclusive access to channels on my Discord and a whole host of other benefits. For as little as a dollar a month, you can join these fine people and help support my content and make sure that I can keep making more. Thanks for watching.