How do i know if my idea is not already here?
Hey everybody,
I have got a simple question: if I want to know if my idea has already been used how can I do that?
Yoha,
Dlavegeh
How do i know if my idea is not already here?
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You could tell us what your idea is.
It's just so crazy it might work.
A boy who can modify the data from any digital system, including the Foundations database. It can create text that is impossible to delete from the server unless its supporting system is physically destroyed.
His only purpose in life seems to be killing people through a trance induced using the files he creates. Like a hipnotic combination of images or binary code. It sounds silly now that i look at it here, but it's only because I didn't think it through yet.
But this is the basic and still raw idea. I would like to know if there is a SCP like this.
Nothing like that, thank god!
Admin, SCP Wiki
LOL Let's wait and see ;)
I'd rather not, thanks all the same. The idea sounds horrid.
Admin, SCP Wiki
Oh Bastet.
This not only crosses the Able line, it pisses it off.
Ok… before I get started then, you don't seem to like the idea. Not a bit. So, any tips?
What Tuomey said. Read everything a lot. This includes stuff tagged with "guide," a bunch of SCPs, Tales, and especially the -Js (like SCP-10101-J) and decomms.
Alright… I 'm gonna to step in here a little, because this sentiment is getting way out of hand.
Asking people to read everything before contributing is a bit much. We have over a thousand SCPs. Over a thousand. Think about that for a moment. Think about how much reading that actually is. Then, consider the guides. Consider the tales. I recently went through, out of dark curiosity, to see how many pages of tales I'd written for the site. It was over a hundred. And Gears and Clef… They've written a lot more than me. We actually have almost five hundred of the damn things, in fact.
Telling new users to read everything before they're allowed to contribute is like slapping each new member of this site in the face with an elitist "Fuck you." Did you seriously read every page of the site before you tried to contribute? Hell, when I joined, there were fewer than 500 SCPs, and I didn't read them all before I did.
"Read Everything" isn't the way to make people more involved or interested or engaged with the site. It's a way to push them away. So quit doing that.
If you seriously want to help? Find about thirty that have good tone, nice form, and a strong, driving idea, then recommend that people read those when they want to know what you think makes a good SCP. Actually… You know what? Every older user should have this. A list of their "must reads" to show to the new kids. That's a fantastic idea.
Because "read everything"? It's absurd.
"WELL FOUNDATION. YOU MADE IT SO EASY. SO VERY VERY EASY." - dimensionpotato
Military Consultant, SCP Wiki
I probably wasn't clear when I said "everything." What I was trying to convey was that reading as much as you can is always the best way to go. Reading ten SCPs and then writing one will never end well. Not that they have to, but it's almost always a good idea. And I apologize if I did come off as elitist.
I'd agree with finding a bunch of the best SCPs, but I still think that 30 might be too little. Honestly, the best advice that I can give is to read a lot of articles. It's the best way to know what has and hasn't been done, get in the feel of the tone, etc. Reading the best SCPs is always good, but reading others helps too.
(Also edited my post)
The easiest way to go about suggesting this to newcomers would be to suggest the top-rated pages for each object class, the lowest-rated page, and maybe the jokes, -ARC's or decommissioned. That's actually what I read before signing up here and I feel like it gave me a good idea of what's been done, how it's been done, and how not to do it.
(account deleted)If you don't mind, I'm going to start that as a thread in this section. I haven't been around as long as some, but have a list I foist on friends to introduce them to what I think the "best of" (and most complete impression) of the site — and having a compilation, obvious and available to new writers/readers, is a great idea.
If you do this, I'll contribute my list too. (PM me if I miss it.)
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I read everything before I joined.
That said, I still suck at writing.
Everything sounds a little silly when you boil it down to its basics. 173 is just a statue that kills you if you blink after all.
Hmm, well there is the fanfic plague SCP-732, that sneaks around and changes text all over the place but its changes are not permanent. You probably won't have problems with similarity issues, but you are going to run into other issues.
First off, it's a boy. Humanoids with super powers are not well received in general. Every now and then someone clears that hurdle but for the most part you want to skip on any people with powers. We're just sick to death of them because we've had to kill off soooo many X-men.
Second, you are getting dangerously close to a "crazy to death" cliche with files that put people into a trance so that they die.
You might have something if you de-personalize the idea, get rid of the human part and make the un-changeable edits into something that is either a lot more weird or a lot more subtle. A malicious force that can screw with data could be really dangerous in this day and age without making people crazy. It could just quietly change records of anything, make emails mean the opposite, all sorts of nasty things.
Sorts, that sort of feels like the SCP-920-EX we got recently
I hadn't read that one yet.
This is why it is good to ask if an idea seems similar to something else, not all of us have read or remember everything that is on the wiki at any given time. Well, maybe others have. I'm just an eyeball, there's no room for brains in here.
Yeah I read about the X-men. I had some ideas to get distant from that. I did not write about them as it should be just an exposure of the main idea. But I'm going to search for options then.
The killing part might not be necessary you are right. It's my first time so excuse the cliche that somebody has to die. I just had an idea of using that to cause the impression that the readers just read the file form the SCP. The file about him or an attachment would be the file.
Or read everything.
Besides, mind-hacked to death by a computer image isn't new, either.
http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm
Edit- better story, more in line with the style here: http://www.ansible.co.uk/writing/c-b-faq.html
Well, gotta thank for everybody who gave their opinion. Some of you really where helpful.
Anyway I'm not giving up the idea for now, but I'll only post it after I get a lot more in touch with the site, and after I thought everything through properly. And, of course if I still like the idea then. After all I just wanted to know if the idea was used before. Really interested in the "must read" idea.
Yoha,
MrDlavegeh
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