SCP Foundation

Oh god another one. -1

I can't believe I missed this one…

Just as awesome as the real story.

Aw, my banter didn't get through. Feelsbatman.

Either way, I laughed. It was a good night. +1

The best evening ever. +1 from "Agent Elahi".

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Champagne and cookies to everyone who participated in this. You've helped make my life a little less bland and depressing, if only for a moment.

My only regret in life was that I was not there to catch this.
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Indeed, almost as awesome as it was to actually be there. And I got quoted, yay.

Here's a good reason why I'm constantly discouraging people from posting whatever stupid chat shenanigans they get into as articles to the site. For most readers at present and in the future, this will likely come across as a goofy quasi-wish fulfillment style article based on an incredibly dumb interpretation of the Foundation, in which classified information is posted publicly for some reason and the wacky Senior Staff talk casually about shooting people while hanging out in IRC chat rooms. On its own merits, this isn't very good, and I suspect that that would be the reaction most other readers would have to it.

However, this was written in response to an incident in the chat years ago in which someone apparently was convinced that the Foundation was real, and a bunch of people decided to play along because I guess we hadn't gotten tired of "OMG IT'S ALL REAL" yet during those times. Real funny for all the people who happened to be around back in 2012 and were privy to the joke, I suppose. But now, this is so far in the past, that the necessary context for this is going to be lost on the vast majority of the readership. So what you end up with is merely a bad article. Not that this is really much better with the knowledge of the backstory, however.

Ideally, I believe that a piece on the wiki should be accessible to all readers with only a minimal amount of pre-existing knowledge concerning what the Foundation is. The more inside-jokey we get, the more incomprehensible the wiki will be to our readership, and ultimately the less relevant we will be.