As we will discuss in a minute, it is fairly easy to see through a badly-written expungement and know exactly why the author did it. It can be even worse for some people a well-conceived and otherwise well-written article can be edited to have good grammar and syntax or better clinical tone, but the only cure for an expungement is for the author to go in and spackle in some actual writing. As is, this guide is intended to give you a rough-and-ready set of examples of good expungement, to maybe give you an idea of when you shouldn't do it.Ī: Short of a complete inability to write fluent English, the gross misuse of expungements is one of the biggest stumbling blocks for many people's enjoyment of an SCP. If I knew what made you good at expunging things, I would be better at doing it. Q: So this guide will make me good at expunging things? Good, because I have this really neat idea for the next SCP-231 that-Ī: Whoa, pause the movie a minute. So it's sort of like being good at doing something, only with the humility of knowing that I'm really, really not. And I have appreciated enough well-written ones (by others) to recognize good ones when I see them. In short, I have misused expungements enough to know why people do it. What other expungements I've added at various points in time, I've removed due to people informing me, in no uncertain terms, that they were stupid and didn't belong there.

Those expungements I have used have largely been blackboxes to take out a few numbers here and there. Because I am someone who's written a not-inconsiderable body of work, the end result of which having very few expungements.

Q: But Eskobar, you abjectly suck at using expungements! I have seen it with my own eyes!Ī: Yes, and that's part of why I'm writing this guide. So read with that frame of mind in place. That said, rules are rules because 99.9% of people can't pull certain things off, and you should know what they are. There is no bad idea that cannot be saved through very, VERY good execution. Remember this, and know that any author worth their salt will agree with this in almost all instances: In those places where I don't expressly say 'this is my opinion and I can be completely wrong but what I think is blah,' consider that said now. I've made some observations regarding expungements and redactions over the last few months, and I'd like to share them. But that's not a question.Ī: This is obviously advice, nothing more, nothing less. Q: This community clearly has low standards.Ī: I think so, definitely. I'm now a moderator and a remarkably well-respected writer and member of the community.

Q: Eskobar, you're not senior staff! What are you doing writing a Guide?Ī: Yes, I am. Let's first settle a couple of very quick questions that may be occurring to you. I'd like to talk to you today about redactions, expungements, and blackboxes.

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