Chapter 41: Originality
Throwing out the professional top pot system for the initial review of the manuscript, Guan Li was finally able to pull his mind out of those magical articles.
Although I didn't expect to be able to produce a few geniuses who had passed the draft, this kind of posting without even figuring out the basic requirements......
When the Foundation is a trash can?
It seems that I did not directly open the editing rights of the TW series, but only opened the submission channel.
Even if editing documents requires a certain amount of basic permissions as a threshold, and even if the Foundation has an "up/down" mechanism to screen the quality of projects, it is difficult to form a self-running high-quality creative cycle in the current community atmosphere that is not yet perfect.
After all, the first person to come to the Foundation had only been here for a little over a month.
They should think of it more as a post station with interesting content, rather than a home that needs to be paid for and maintained by themselves.
Let's take a simple example to compare.
In his previous life, Guan Li read the official documents of the Foundation, and also watched several interesting stories about his creation.
This also happened in the CN series, which is not so strict as the main station.
SCP-CN-602 was once used to write a very short article on the project.
The content is simple, standard format, plus a transcript of an interview revealing the subject's identity.
The content of the interview was familiar to anyone who had been on the Internet at the time.
"SCP-CN-602: Lao Tzu said, I'm starving, dying outside, jumping from here. I won't eat anything from you!"
"SCP-CN-602: (Takes a few bites) It's delicious!"
This was the "True Fragrance" meme that was widely circulated on the Internet at the time, and the editor put it into the SCP Foundation's creative format as it was.
To be honest, it's a slippery game.
Then this document was slapped N bad reviews by passing Foundation members, and the rating fell all the way below the bottom line, and it didn't even survive for three days, so it was deleted by the website administrator according to the scoring mechanism.
This is the Foundation's mature self-censorship mechanism.
There are a large number of people on the membership who understand the Foundation's creative requirements, and they have a strong sense of maintaining the community and ensuring the "purity" and "originality" of the SCP series.
The content is boring, brainless, and copyright...... As long as any of these three articles are violated, no matter how strong the writing is, no matter how good the writing is, it is not even as good as scum for the Foundation.
In fact, in the early days of the foundation's establishment, when these regulations and mechanisms were immature, there was also a period of chaos when there was a lack of quality assurance, and all kinds of things were there.
There has even been a protracted "editing war" between creators of different ideas, and while the rapid expansion and improvement of the SCP series has also made the Foundation's website a mess.
Finally, one day, users and website administrators got tired of it and decided to deal with the poor quality entries.
The cleanup of all the documents on the site was called "big editing".
- The creation of new SCP entries is temporarily prohibited, and all members vote on each existing item to keep it or delete it.
In the end, those who do remain are either brilliant in their writing that fits the core tone of the Foundation's innovation and fear, or they are related to a number of other items, have an important place in the minds of Foundation members, or even are core projects set by some Foundations in their own right.
The latter is also known as the "Legacy Entry" - the iconic "Hall of Fame" of officially recognized SCPs due to their historical and cultural importance to the Foundation.
For example, SCP-055-[Unknown], which created the "antimemetic", SCP-076-"Abel", which is the representative work of the Abrahamic lineage, and SCP-173-Statue, the first work to be written, are all listed in the "Legacy Entry".
Most of the entries that were kicked out of the main world view in the "big edit" were directly deleted, and a small number of interesting ones were put into the "j" series, that is, the funny SCP series.
Suffice it to say that the general awareness of the Foundation's members—maintaining a heavy tone and a high demand for originality—originated here, and it took time for the new members to buy in.
The Foundation of this world did not go through that chaotic period, nor did it have the innovation brought about by the "Great Editor".
The first thing people here see is that the SCP Foundation is already in its mature form.
It stands to reason that this makes it easier to assimilate newcomers.
But the time was too short.
Moreover, the number of immature outsiders is much higher than that of Foundation elders who are sufficiently conscious.
After all, there are only two of the latter, including the system.
It's just gone through a round of expansion, and a wave of new people who don't understand anything is pouring in......
This group of D-class personnel who don't even know how to play the Foundation's memes can deeply understand the Foundation's creative requirements?
And how many of the C-class members of the forum who seem to be able to play the D-class Terrier and the 682 Terrier finally have the consciousness of "I should maintain the quality and tone of the Foundation"?
If you put the CN-602 that went down to the end in the previous life in this world, maybe not only will it not be deleted miserably, but it will also be added by the newcomers who have no brains to play stalks.
So......
Now you must not open the editing rights directly!
Even if it's open, it can't be opened to a C-rank that anyone can go up to.
At the very least, you have to be a B-level personnel to have the permission to edit the database files!
Not only that, Guan Li felt that it was also necessary to strengthen the original consciousness of this group of people.
Let them understand that this is a collective creation platform that requires a lot of originality, not some free fiction website that can blow nonsense into making a few nonsense speeches.
The first thing to do is to slap all the mentally retarded people who came over to write files with other people's settings.
The administrator glanced at the diligent review of the system, and decided to play it himself before it reacted.
- New announcement: I would like to stress once again the submission requirements for the TW series!
No brainless memes!
Don't borrow too much!
No plagiarism settings!
No misappropriation of characters!
It is forbidden to write a novel!
Especially the last one!
Remember, you're writing a dossier, a dossier for a secret organization that has become accustomed to restarting civilization to save the world!
Don't write like an adventure novel!
SCP is not a meme Foundation, SCP is not a assembly, SCP is not a free fiction network, SCP is not ......
Enough is enough! Shut up!
Guan Li typed in one go, but in the end, he had to hold his breath and delete the ending sentence.
It's not because of the overtones or anything like that.
Rather, because the entry for SCP-2000-De Mechanic has not yet been uploaded, the people simply do not understand the meaning of the phrase.
This TM is the sadness of being ahead of its time......
But the first words are almost enough, the emotional catharsis is perfect, and a series of exclamation points inject soul into it.
Guan Li checked the typos and grammar with a serious and responsible attitude, and felt that it was good and there was no problem.
Then send it!
Manually screen the real fans of the Foundation, starting with persuasion to quit and sprout.