Now for the more important thing I wanted to bring up; canon. Because this is the perfect time to do it.
I'm going to be blunt about it. Our current standards for Foundation canon are completely ******. As in, "we have none". Here's what we wrote on the SCP Foundation verse page.
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Only powerscale when the SCP or object in question is explicitly referenced by other SCPs or tales. Don't forget to treat certain feats as outliers. The rating of the SCP or tale should hint to that.
Also, please take into account that due to the fact that the SCP Foundation has no solid canon, but a "fluid" canon which is subject to different interpretations and headcanons by various members, and Tales are essentially a sort of psuedo-fanfiction, it is best if a Tale was written by the original author of the SCP/is considered an integral part of the "mythos" related to the SCP before you use it to index powers. SCPs are bound by a similar restriction; references to SCPs in other SCPs should be treated the same way as Tales in the more notable cases. For example, according to one SCP the entire Foundation is just the imagination of a girl with psychological problems, whereas most other pages on the site treat it as a real entity."
You see the above? That's bullshit. Those guidelines haven't been followed for as long as I can remember, and that's kind of a big problem. You know how this relates? Because, as I figured I'd bring up now, we are now attempting to powerscale a major chunk of the entire verse to something in a collaboration in a section written by a user who has done nothing except stuff in the sandbox for the past year, and whose last contribution to an actual tale was straight up reverted. Not knocking the guy, but this is pretty important.
We put up these guidelines specifically to stop stuff along the lines of "some random guy writes some random thing in the lowest form of 'canon' and we rescale everything". Yet we've never really followed through on this.
That's not all. We seem to treat everything written wherever for any character as equally canon, no matter who wrote it or what it contradicts. 682 is the patron saint of this crap, as he has like five different origin stories that we scramble to unify, even though it's all stuff written in different stories by different authors with drastically different intent.
This is the current official stance on "canon" that the site has.
Here is the accompanying link.
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The idea that there is no canon is a bit silly at times. It's not that we don't have any. It's that we have a multitude which touch, cross, and dip into each other. It's up to you, as the reader, to decide what you believe and what you embrace as the heart of the universe."
Notice that the Foundation does not have "a" canon. It has many separate groups of canon that sometimes crossover with others, when the authors have something in mind.
This is drastically different from what we have set up, right now. That's part of the problem.
