I almost felt like resigning from the SCR Wiki

I did not feel like wanting to make this blog post, but considering the recent events that has been happing recently, I felt it was necessary to draw this up now.

disclaimer

I’m not resigning. this letter has no correlation with the wiki at all. I’m just delivering a letter reguarding the state of SCR as we all know it. I still have some pride to the community, but all of this neglegence and incompitence by the leaders just wants me to leave the SCR community as a whole.

background

almost everyone should basically know this by know, but if you have been living under a rock for the past month, to give some starting context of what’s going on, the state of the community in SCR has been at its lowest point than it ever was before now. recently, there has been several resignations among SCR’s staff that has led to a community fall off. more notably, community manager atom and engagement manager volt recently resigned because of the following common reasons:

• the directors have been neglegent of their feedback
• they were understaffed
• work pressure
• and unhealthy environment in general

you can read them here:

• atom’s: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GZS17h4G8lSN0p8RmO4TEg4YGV6CrHvM/view?pli=1
• volt’s first: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-yQO1kl2jsILNtilHREuwhCGxhJwQxXJexPOpyLCpaU/edit?usp=sharing (copy and pasted message)
• volt’s second: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IA9sQ3diK9mzFWs3OTnmndmzCEO6FX2OF4gAJiWM9DI/edit?usp=sharing

this has caused people to start losing trust in SCR’s leadership, more specifically towards Toby and behind-the-scenes Charlie.

why I almost [look at the title]

once I saw the letters, I became so frustrated over what has been actually going on behind the scenes. after we saw Charlie resigned, we just thought business will just go as usual, but that’s false. v2.1 arrived, a new gamepass has appeared, people are mad, and chaos erupted. leadership continues to ignore our feedback, concerns, criticisms, etc. at this point, I could just call SCR’s leadership a fucking dictatorship while it’s supposed to be a good and stable leadership. (could be a little extreme, but I’m just trying to emphasize some points here) all they want to do is just focus on one aspect and that’s it. nothing more, nothing else.

I still had a good amount of pride left in this community before the letters were sent out, but now that pride went down the drain tenfold. I just felt I don’t want to be here anymore, I don’t want to get involved in this mess in any way possible, I don’t want to see the game go rot in hell (because I want to see this game grow more). I just want to get the hell out of here and don’t look back at what the leadership have created.

what needs to be changed

if they want to keep the community in a stable shape, there needs to be new leadership ASAP. a lot of us are not going to stand here and let leadership continue to ignore our concerns and feedback. we want people who is able to take care of the community and bring balance to the leadership hierarchy.

take scr update tracking for example. their administration team just had some recent controversy over its leadership following its founder’s resignation. it’s fortunate that their system was built so well that the founder reinstated himself as owner just to redo the entire administration team. now that is something that we want to see, but, as mentioned somewhere before, with charlie still doing BTS stuff and while SCR is still on his hands of technicality, the chances of this happing is probably unrealistic. (not saying it’s not possible, but it can happen eventually)

(edit: check the extended section of this)

final words

I think that the stakes are so large that the game can’t die regardless, but I don’t think the community will be able to survive with a broken leadership of what we have right now. maybe in a few years the community aspect will be completely ignored as a whole. (that’s just an overstatement for dramatic effect, it would be unrealistic for this to happen)

that is all I have to say, so y’all have a nice day now ya’hear?

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edit to expand

I still think that this rant shouldn’t have been created in the first place, but I would like to take the oppertunity to expand this a little longer to give some other thoughts.

after someone posted a video on a discord server called "The 5 WORST Mistakes SCR EVER Made" by PotatoLemon (the video in context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpY69ZbpucY), I want to edit some of my thoughts on what needs to change on the leadership of things.

what am I trying to say here

basically, I do agree with what potatolemon is saying here. at 20:34 in the video, people want toby to resign, but potatolemon suggests the following instead of toby resigning:

• bring back innovations director, and move toby over to that role
• move zotto over to community director, since he has been active in the community a lot
• appoint a new operations director

to me, I think saying that “there should be new leadership” is a bit overkill without giving some further clarification. as I said, I do agree with this compromise without having to bring in all new people for all of the roles here.

• if we knew toby wants to focus on development, they should’ve just moved him over to ID when bantech resigned
• if ben is willing to interact with the community, then so be it. take toby’s place.