If you're not concerned about upvotes, why post it on a site where critique is an essential part of the process?
Because it gets people to pay attention to me.
But seriously, to go through your post:
However, f someone turned in a legal or scientific document to their superiors and didn't follow proper protocol "cause i don't wanna," it would be sent back to them.
And in real life, I wouldn't fuck with the format. However, given that there is nothing whatsoever riding on how well this article falls in line with the others, and that I am not compelled by the existing document(s) that say what object classes should look like, I feel a bit more free to goof around.
We call people objects to remain emotionally removed regarding their containment and whatever testing is done on them. It's also why we refer to gendered individuals as "it" and not, "he," "she," or "they."
Correct! And you will notice that this particular anomaly, despite being humanoid, is still listed as an Object. However, it would be incorrect to call, say, SCP-990 an object, which is where this system would shine. It's designed with the implicit assumption that there are anomalies that are not objects, which is why I feel confident using it even on things where the term "Object Class" would be appropriate.
If you're not concerned about upvotes, why post it on a site where critique is an essential part of the process?
Upvotes != critique. If an article is in the positives, upvotes do precisely nothing. This is in the positives; thus, the rating does not matter. I don't write articles with the intent of getting lots of upvotes. I write articles that A) I know to be good, and B) will get people to pay attention to me.
And besides, if I wanted critique, I would have run this past chat or the forums first. I didn't feel like it, and I know I can rite gud, so I posted it right to the mainlist.
