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(account deleted)One of the most creative format screws I've ever seen with a surprising amount of depth for you to find on repeat… viewings? readings? It's hard to find the right word to describe the act of experiencing SCP-4707.
Awesome format screw, but the coding is a bit finicky— probably wikidot's fault, but whenever a popup comes up, it freezes the whole page until you click "okay".
Still, this is great. Easy +1.
Wow, this is incredible! This might be one of the most creative format screws ive seen recently!
Definitely a +1 from me!
They played us like a damn fiddle!!
A very entertaining and unsettling read. I am absolutely blown away by how creative this is.
Easy +1 :D
I've seen the original draft and I couldn't stop laughing at every new thing that showed up. Good job!
All the little gimmicks in this article work against it rather than for it, and made for a very unpleasant reading experience.
Seconding this. With no way of knowing whether or not I was getting the full story, this turned more into a hunt/game than a piece of writing That would be fine, except there's not enough hints/reveals to keep me interested, besides my curiosity about the extent of the gimmick — it doesn't fully commit to being either a story or a game, and the net result is just a fairly bland narrative that's very difficult to read.
Definitely agreed. The constant alert()s are extremely user-hostile, and as a framing device, I really don't buy this in-universe. If you strip the screw away and just have the actual content of what was going on (the article, the console messages, etc.) it's not really that compelling. To me, this is one of those cases of an article using its format screw as a crutch rather than as a clever way of delivering a story.
Also the technical details made me unhappy. The document isn't "SSL encrypted" (it's for web traffic, and SSL itself is deprecated, TLS is what's used now), or
commonly known as a "Neural Trojan Horse".
which is not a common term.
Overall, I disliked the concept and I greatly disliked its execution.
I figured that a lot of people would dislike the popups, especially the more technically-minded people since they would be a lot more underwhelmed by this sort of thing. About the SSL, I used that specifically because Wikidot does not have it. It was meant to be a more comedic nod to that fact, as well as a possible headcanon for how the SCP escaped. TLS is more commonly referred referred to as SSL. In order to help less technically-minded readers understand the joke1 without having to look things up, I used the more common term instead of the correct one. "Neural Trojan Horse" is also not only not a common term, but a completely bogus one. There is no term considering there are no effective deep learning viruses to my knowledge.
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