hmm. I liked this one. its sort of a broadcast from The Man in the Castle or Fatherland.
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It had been getting rated before I was done editing it and such (picture mostly), which really threw me off kilter. So I deleted the page. It had taken two downvotes before then, so in order to prove that I wasn't simply taking it town to avoid the votes, I downvoted it myself to make up for at least one of them, it felt like the honest thing to do.
Yeah…. you should probably take that downvote off. If the article is good, it'll get all the downvotes it deserves. You're just hurting yourself trying to be honest, which is nice, but unnecessary.
And I'm downvoting because the formatting makes it deserve it.
What formatting problems in particular, I combed through the formatting guide and tried to mimic is as best I could.
I quite liked this one. We could broadcast this over Site 19's speakers and improve work around here. Wait. There's no telling what could happen. Ah well! You get my upvote!
EDIT: Although I would HIGHLY recommend you switch the 2nd and 3rd paragraphs so we don't have to read EVERYTHING to find out what it does.
…Despite the formatting issues, I like this. However, I would recommend breaking up the middle paragraph into at least two separate ones.
EDIT: Seems you got the picture figured out.
This is the, I think 5th radio that picks up alternate universe broadcasts? Hell, I wrote one of them. This isn't badly done, and I like how the crazy-fying is only temporary, but I really think that we've got enough anomalous radio broadcasts at this point. And other than the "you turn authoritarian" angle, which could be appended to a lot of different things, this doesn't bring anything new to the concept.
Sorry, but downvote.
Giving bearhugs to the unsuspecting since 1872.
Fair enough. When I searched the site for radios, I found three, one made the user deaf to all other sounds, one picked up radio broadcasts from the past, and the last from another universe. The last two were interesting, but didn't really seem dangerous. Thought I might my take would be to make it dangerous, something in need of containtment. But if it doesn't seem that different to you, I get it.
(account deleted)This is awfully generic. It's just a Nazi radio that makes you a Nazi. What more is there to it than that?
Hm. A radio that turns you (albeit, temporarily) into a National Socialist. It's an idea I can dig, but this article is just kinda there.
I'm not going to vote because anomalous radio broadcasts are creepy to me in and of themselves, so I like it a bit based on that alone. But I think this needs something more.
I don't care for it personally.
Also:
recordings of these broadcasts played to a control group
This is not how control groups actually work. Control groups would probably listen to an unrelated radio (like hip hop or some boring news shit) or listen to complete silence. This acutally really bothers me, because we learned this shit in like, highschool science.
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I agree that it's not a control, but it's probably the right test. They know the broadcasts induce anomalous effects, they're trying to see whether it's the broadcast content or if hearing the broadcast from the anomalous radio itself is necessary. You could do that control as well (maybe playing some people German-language news bulletins from this world) as well to introduce another control, but for this specific experiment it's not really necessary.
Suggestion: the other obvious test to do would be to have a group of people standing close to SCP-1939 switched on in a soundproofed case to see whether it's proximity to the SCP's presence that causes the effect or whether you actually have to hear the broadcast.
That's not my argument. I was having a problem with the person calling it a 'control group' when it is clearly not a control group. Please to be reading what my posts actually say.
Living the dream, or dreaming the life?
This is gold. I guess when the day comes when quality anomalous media is downvoted, we will have the end of the world. Oh hey, it's 2012 already.
Now, what I like about this? Just like the EK-class radio and others, this is anohter piece you have no idea why it does what it does, but what it does is interesting. Because one can relate to it and see the mysterious parts for himself. It would be cool enough even without the psychological effect, that is a bit over the top for me, but I can't say that would deny me upvoting. +1
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