This is at least 5 years back but I didn't follow it too closely, IIRC they had a number of people leave over their refusal to go "we are entirely unpolitical" which of course would be a stupid thing to be for a creative writing site. I think it came after they cleaned up shop with their QA and threw out a shitload of grimdark edgelord bullshit that accumulated.

Wasn't Public Universal Friend nonbinary and afab? The male pronouns are throwing me off.

Very much intentional, maybe go through it again

[–] Bobson_Dugnutt@hexbear.net 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Very much intentional, maybe go through it again

Either my browser isn't rendering the page correctly (there's a big blank spot in the middle) or I missed something

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What's the last thing you see on the page? There is absolutely a blank spot in there but it's intentional

[–] Bobson_Dugnutt@hexbear.net 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Footnotes

'Doc' refers to Jr. Researcher Nicholson's direct supervisor, Dr. James Bendel

I get that the junior researcher was also non-binary or trans, but I don't get why everyone else was calling the PUF by male pronouns. Did people do that during the Friend's lifetime?

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago

I'm not well versed on the History of real life PUF enough to answer that one, but for the SCP:

spoiler

PUF is getting deadnamed is one of the ways the author shows that it's still not safe for trans people. Both the previous institute and the SCP Foundation are part of the problem.

[–] Babs@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

I knew about the Public Universal Friend so reading this I was like "hey neat".

But then I cried at the end.

[–] Lavender@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

This one is really good. Thanks!

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

8755

Holy shit wasn't the 5k contest only like a year or two ago? When the hell did they get almost 4k additional SCPs?

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 3 points 6 days ago

I guess it grows exponentially via exposure. Besides the woke I'm really impressed they keep managing to do community based QA to such a degree that the whole thing hasn't devolved into my OC vs. the classics or the authors barely disguised sexual assault fetish.

Also probably more like 3,5k, a lot of the 8XXX slots are still unused since they don't just go up numerically

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

TIL about about the PUF. What a strange part of history.

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 5 points 6 days ago

Everybody likes to joke about Joey Steel as a nom de guerre but Public Universal Friend goes so much harder