Read This First! Forum Rules and Guidelines
Welcome to the Ideas and Brainstorming forum!
Please read the following rules and guidelines to better help us help you!
Forum Rules
- Read all of the required reading first. This should go without saying.
- This forum is for discussing ideas and brainstorming. For detailed feedback on document drafts, please go to the Help: Drafts and Critiques forum.
- Do your homework! Make sure you search the site via site search or tags and ask around chat to see if your idea's already been done to death before. This will save you a lot of headache and pain from backlash.
- Please use spell check! Almost all modern word processors and web browsers check spelling for you, so having a huge amount of spelling errors is inexcusable. Not to mention, it also makes you look extremely rushed and it affects how people react to your writing.
- Please be patient! As with all forums, there is often a turnaround time before people have time to notice, read, and critique your ideas. Give it a few hours, preferably a day or so for everyone to get around to it.
- When you are ready to post a draft, create a new thread in the Help: Drafts and Critiques forum. This forum is for rough ideas, once you are ready to put the proverbial pen to paper, create a new thread asking for feedback and critique on your draft in the Drafts forum. Link to it from your ideas thread if you want people to continue the dialogue.
Mackenzie's Personal Suggestions
- If you are new or not an established contributor yet, please defer to more experienced authors. We value everyone's opinion, but advice from established authors and senior staff is much more valuable to someone asking for feedback for the first time.
- Please do not jump on new threads if you are new yourself. Give the veteran members a chance to respond first to idea threads. Not doing so can result in a harmful newbie feedback loop.
- If you are presenting personal opinion, please do not use authoritative or absolute language. Related to the above point, if you dislike something personally but the author has not done anything objectively wrong, it is rude to say that they should "never" do something.
- Check out the SCP Site Essays. Essays are non-required, often informal guides written by veteran authors on a number of interesting topics, including but not limited to how to write a proper Humanoid or Joke SCP and proper scientific terminology and notation.
