Disaster Den

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Disaster Den was an SCP: Secret Laboratory (or SCP:SL) community. It was best known for being the current maintainers of the US West official SCP:SL servers, as granted by Northwood Studios, the game's developers.[1] It was shutdown by the community's leadership on September 3, 2023.[2]

Disaster Den
DisasterDen logo.jpg
General Information
Established2018[3]
OwnersKira (2018-2022)[4]
Archer (2022-2023)
Registered Members4,911[5] (as of July 12, 2022)
Joining ProcessParticipation
Social Media
DiscordDiscord server
PatreonPatreon

Member parodies

The Walking Den

The Walking Den (a play-on-words referencing the post-apocalyptic television series The Walking Dead) was a series of parody videos directed, edited, and produced by Archer. They featured the profile avatars of members from Disaster Den overlayed onto the faces of characters from various fictional universes, such as from the anime television series Fate/stay night and Attack on Titan. Some episodes were tied together with dialogue and plot, while others focused on the comedy of certain members being personified by characters and their situations.

The series was achieved through the use of key framing and the utilization of the audience's inability to understand spoken Japanese. For an episode with scripted dialogue, the original subtitles were replaced with the desired text.

The earliest mention of the series was on 4 October 2018 by Archer in the general channel of the Disaster Den Discord.[6] 2 spinoffs were produced by Archer, being Heaven's Den (referencing the anime film series Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel) and Fear the Walking Den (referencing the spin-off television series Fear the Walking Dead).

The episodes originally released on the YouTube channel Zabivodka, owned by Archer, but were taken down.[citation needed] A Google Drive folder containing all episodes for The Walking Den and it's spinoffs, out of order and unmarked, was made known on 31 December 2019.[7]

Known Episodes of The Walking Den
Season / Episode Title Runtime

(minutes)

Link
Season 1 / Episode 3 Nate VS Vesper 2:49 Link
Season 3 / Episode 1 Donald VS Archer 5:09 Link
Season 3 / Episode 3 Another Intro Parody 1:31 Link
Season 4 / Episode 1 TED's Obsession[8] N/A N/A
Season 4 / Episode 2 Vesper Goes Rogue 2:21 Link
Season 4 / Episode 3[a] TED's Death[9] N/A N/A
Season 4 / Episode 3[a] Good Admins[10] N/A N/A
Season 4 / Episode 3[a] The Furry War 1:29 Link
Season 4 / Episode 4 Project Peanut 4:35 Link
Season 5 / Episode 1 NSFW Box 0:15 Link
Season 5 / Episode 2 Bagel Really Leaves 1:37 Link
Season 5 / Episode 3 Admin Showdown[11] N/A N/A
Season 5 / Episode 4 Archer's Secret 3:12 Link
Season 5 / Episode 5 Jason's Death 0:37 Link

Heaven's Den

Heaven's Den was a sequel to The Walking Den.

Known Episodes of Heaven's Den
Episode Title Runtime

(minutes)

Link
Episode 1 Something Is Out There 3:53 Link
Episode 2 They're Summoned 5:58 Link
Episode 3 The Reveal 3:01 Link
Episode 4 ???[12] N/A N/A

Fear the Walking Den

Fear the Walking Den was a sequel to Heaven's Den.

Known Episodes of Fear the Walking Den
Episode Title Runtime

(minutes)

Link
Episode 1 They Return[13] N/A N/A

Finances

The primary method of income was Patreon, encompassing a single US$2.50 tier. The total number of patrons and received income was made public. There are 98 patrons donating $136.4 per month as of September 30, 2023.[14]

History

Chronology of events

May 10, 2018
Kira announces the Discord server attained 500 members.[15]
June 24
Kira announces that one of the SCP:SL servers was granted US-WEST official status by Northwood Studios.[1]
July 29
Kira announces the Discord server attained 1,000 members.[16]
September 24
Trails - a former head administrator - announces that he is leaving, citing SCP:SL going stale and the community being "cancerous".[17]
October 8
Kira submits a ping to a generic role advertising a server run by their girlfriend. They submit another advertisement on October 9 with a ping to all server members.[18]
December 11
Kira advertises the Kurva Gaming Discord server, citing that "inner drama" caused them to lose a chunk of their member base.[19]
January 10, 2019
Kira announces that the results of a poll indicated that a NSFW channel would not be created.[20]
January 17
Kira sends an announcement asking certain members to stop "pretending to be furries/degenerates". The cited motivation for the announcement was due to the behavior causing prospective members to be dissuaded from joining. They note that this does not apply to people who are genuinely exhibiting the relevant behavior.[21]
February 2
Kira announces that the ability to post media in the server's #general channel is revoked and requires a separate permission that staff must assign.[22]
April 7
Kira announces the Discord server attained 2,500 members.[23]
June 12
Kira announces that a member named Face won a contest to design a Discord banner and animated logo. They allegedly won a $20 Steam gift card.[24]
June 18
Kira announces that until the traditional summer vacation period ends members with "freebie steam accounts"[b] will be prohibited from joining to curb an influx of hacking players.[25]
July 24
Kira sends out a staff application. This is notably the first time that staff were petitioned for in a public manner.[26] The application closed 2 days later on July 26.[27]
December 7
Kira announces the Discord server attained 3,500 members.[28]
January 7, 2020
Kira announces that a DDoS attack against Disaster Den was repelled with little effort.[29]
March 20
Kira announces that due to consistent complaints of toxicity, and bad actors taking advantage of leverage in the rules, that they were updated so as to "tight up the way [Disaster Den] handle[s] things".[30]
April 7
Kira announces the Discord server attained 4,000 members.[31]
May 4, 2021
Kira announces that they are taking a hiatus due to dissatisfaction with how members handle issues regarding Disaster Den.[32] They return from this hiatus 5 days later on May 9.[33]
May 5
Hynx announces that the role of administrator is splitting so that there will be administrators specifically for Discord and SCP:SL, rather than administrators acting the same across all services.[34]
August 28, 2022
Archer announces the Discord server attained 5,000 members.[35]
September 16
Kira announces that he is stepping down and transferring ownership to Archer.[4]
April 4, 2023
Archer announces that they are taking a hiatus due to a family member passing away.[36]
September 3
Archer announces the shutdown of Disaster Den, citing that the lives of leadership staff had become too busy to maintain it's upkeep - among "other reasons".[2]
September 12
Archer sends an announcement requesting the community to read a Google Doc titled "End of Disaster Den SCP SL".[37]

Controversy

2020 rule change on slurs

On October 10, 2020 Kira announced that the rules governing usage of slurs were changed. Previously, the usage of "racial, homophobic, transphobic or antisemitic slurs" were only disallowed if used in a derogatory manner. The change made the usage of such slurs, regardless of context, disallowed.[38]

The cited reason for the change was to address users who would use the "in a derogatory manner" provision to justify the usage of the slurs "all the time". Vesper would later clarify that slurs were never intended to be used as frequently as they were. The offenders leaned on the leniency of staff members who would not take action since the usage was not derogatory, resulting in the slurs becoming more casual than staff desired.[39]

Kira would comment in the general channel later that morning that freedom of speech as a concept was important to them, but that they remained firm in their decision, not wishing a minority to cause prospective members to "shy away".[40]

On October 14, Kira angrily stated in the general channel that members FreedomEagle and Slime were the "root of [the] problem", citing that they were "ruining the rule for everyone else".[41] Bovix, an administrator, commented that they disagreed.[42] Kira threatened to demote Bovix from staff if they did not "stop fucking talking",[43] to which Bovix took offense, stating that Kira's reaction to their statement was unproportionate and disrespectful.[44][45] Bovix would later express understanding, commenting that Kira was angry, and that they had faith Kira would not action the threat.[46] Kira did not comment on the incident further.

On October 30, a new announcement by Kira declared that the rule change was mostly reversed. It was identical to what it was prior with an additional provision that "excessive" use was also disallowed. Kira clarified that they were changing tact on how they wished to handle the issue, changing from blanket banning slurs to simply removing the problematic members.

As a result, the members Slime, FreedomEagle, SpaceCat, Ted, and DK Crab were declared by Kira to be permanently banned.[47]

2020 pedophile

On November 13, 2020 Kira made an announcement that a community member named Anim had been banned permanently from the Discord. They went on to assert that the staff team had received evidence that Anim solicited sexually explicit photographs and messages from members that were underage, and so labeled them a pedophile.[48]

2 members, 1 being an administrator, commented that the reveal was shocking as Anim was close friends of theirs.[49][50]

Another member criticized the announcement as getting too many people involved in the event.[51] Kira responded, stating they felt it was necessary to state their position on the behavior, to avoid the perception they were protecting Anim, and to bring awareness that people can always go to staff for such issues.[52]

2023 Northwood influence on shutdown

On September 12, 2023 Archer made a follow up announcement to the one made on September 3 regarding the community's servers shutting down. The message contained a link to a Google Doc titled "End of Disaster Den SCP SL". The document went on to state that while the lives of leadership staff becoming busier was a contributing factor to the shutdown,[2] the main reason for the shutdown was "due to [Disaster Den's] relations with Northwood [Studios] as a company".[53]

The document proceeded to detail a variety of alleged behavior that Disaster Den took issue with.

Official Server Agreement

The first grievance expressed was the adoption of the "Official Server Agreement" (OSR) by Northwood in 2021. Disaster Den stated that the rules set forth by Northwood for official servers[c] existed "for the sake of it" and that they clashed with the community's ideals, which resulted in various Disaster Den staff members resigning in protest.[53]

A representative of Northwood allegedly organized a meeting for hosts of official servers to discuss the OSR. The representative communicated with the hosts and was stated to have "[found] the middle ground on a few situations", which Disaster Den viewed favorably.[53]

The document then alleges that Hubert overruled the aforementioned representative, claiming they acted without sufficient authority, and that Hubert's response was that "everything discussed was being shot down/reverted". Disaster Den viewed this as their "hands being tied" due to a majority of their player base only playing on the official servers. They further alleged that Hubert reiterated his stance repeatedly that those who disagreed with the OSR could drop out of the program.[53]

The document would later specify 2 regulations from the OSR that Disaster Den disliked. The first was that each official server could not have more than 25 player slots, which caused Disaster Den to remove reserved slots as a monetization incentive, a stated "integral part of the upkeep". The second was that the OSR prohibited plugins altogether.[53][54]

Aggressive behavior

Another grievance stated was alleged aggressive behavior by Northwood towards official hosts. The document asserted that Northwood was quick to "threaten official warnings", which were stated to occur frequently, resulting in a "narrative [where] [official hosts] have to treat officials [sic] as some sort of privilege". The relationship between Northwood and official hosts was characterized as toxic.[53]

Notice of updates

Northwood would allegedly provide "very short notice" to communities when an update to the game was releasing. A particular instance cited was the release of 12.0, which occurred 3 days before Christmas.[55] The development team immediately went on holiday, and Disaster Den was allegedly incapable of using plugins "essential to... upkeep" for a week. 13.0 allegedly broke the Disaster Den queue system, 13.2 broke the banning system, with all mentioned updates coming with "little forewarning".[53]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Each message in Discord announcing the episode from Archer stated they were Episode 3.
  2. ↑ It was later clarified that the technical restriction from joining affected any Steam account that had not spent at least $5.
  3. ↑ An "official" server is a server endorsed publicly on the SCP:SL dedicated Discord server. They are placed on the top of the in-game server list.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kira (24 June 2018). DisasterDen4.png. #news-updates [Disaster Den]. Retrieved 2023-07-14. ... we've just been granted official status
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Archer (3 September 2023). DisasterDen53.png. #news-updates [Disaster Den]. Retrieved 2023-09-30. ... seeing how busy most of us are and for other reasons which will be explained in the coming weeks, I am formally announcing the permanent shut down of our SCP:SL servers.
  3. ↑ System (3 March 2018). DisasterDen2.png. #general [Disaster Den]. Retrieved 2023-07-14.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Kira (16 September 2022). DisasterDen3.png. #news-updates [Disaster Den]. Retrieved 2023-07-14.
  5. ↑ SCP-066 (bot) (12 July 2022). DisasterDen1.png. #bot-commands [Disaster Den]. Retrieved 2023-07-13.
  6. ↑ Archer (4 October 2018). DisasterDen40.png. #general [Disaster Den]. Retrieved 2023-07-06. Season 1 of my 'The Walking Den' memes is over :)
  7. ↑ Archer (31 December 2019). DisasterDen33.png. #general [Disaster Den]. Retrieved 2023-07-15. Here is every single episode/meme of the Walking Den ive made in my little series
  8. ↑ Archer (2 November 2018). DisasterDen34.png. #general [Disaster Den]. Retrieved 2023-07-15.
  9. ↑ Archer (15 November 2018). DisasterDen35.png. #general [Disaster Den]. Retrieved 2023-07-15.
  10. ↑ Archer (2 December 2018). DisasterDen36.png. #general [Disaster Den]. Retrieved 2023-07-15.
  11. ↑ Archer (23 January 2019). DisasterDen37.png. #general [Disaster Den]. Retrieved 2023-07-15.
  12. ↑ Archer (11 November 2019). DisasterDen38.png. #general [Disaster Den]. Retrieved 2023-07-15.
  13. ↑ Archer (20 May 2019). DisasterDen39.png. #general [Disaster Den]. Retrieved 2023-07-15.
  14. ↑ "Disaster Den Gaming". Patreon. Archived from the original on 30 September 2023. Retrieved 2023-09-30.
  15. ↑ Kira (10 May 2018). DisasterDen6.png. #news-updates [Disaster Den]. Retrieved 2023-07-15. ... wanted to thank everybody for being AMAZING and sticking with us to 500 members!
  16. ↑ Kira (7 July 2018). DisasterDen8.png. #news-updates [Disaster Den]. Retrieved 2023-07-15. We just hit 1,000 members!
  17. ↑ Trails (24 September 2018). DisasterDen9.png. #news-updates [Disaster Den]. Retrieved 2023-07-15. Anyways, with the game dying, I've more or lost [sic] any reason to be in here
  18. ↑ Kira (8 October 2018). DisasterDen10.png. #news-updates [Disaster Den]. Retrieved 2023-07-15. @ping Yo lads, my gf's server "Painted Prison" on minecraft just released.
  19. ↑ Kira (11 December 2018). DisasterDen11.png. #news-updates [Disaster Den]. Retrieved 2023-07-15. I'm going to shill someone else's discord... Kurva gaming is a discord run by @Alby
  20. ↑ Kira (10 January 2019). DisasterDen12.png. #news-updates [Disaster Den]. Retrieved 2023-07-15. As per the results of the recent poll we will not be adding an NSFW channel
  21. ↑ Kira (17 January 2019). DisasterDen13.png. #news-updates [Disaster Den]. Retrieved 2023-07-15. ... if you guys could knock it off with the pretending to be furries/degenerates... I'd appreciate it
  22. ↑ Kira (2 February 2019). DisasterDen14.png. #news-updates [Disaster Den]. Retrieved 2023-07-15. Instead you will now have to request a staff member for the @Image Perms role
  23. ↑ Kira (7 April 2019). DisasterDen15.png. #news-updates [Disaster Den]. Retrieved 2023-07-15. ... thank everybody for being AMAZING and helping us get to 2500 members.
  24. ↑ Kira (12 June 2019). DisasterDen16.png. #news-updates [Disaster Den]. Retrieved 2023-07-15. The winner of both the banner and animated logo contest is @Face
  25. ↑ Kira (18 June 2019). DisasterDen17.png. #news-updates [Disaster Den]. Retrieved 2023-07-15. Until summer vacation is over... I've put a plugin in place that will disallow people with freebie steam accounts from joining
  26. ↑ Kira (24 July 2019). DisasterDen18.png. #news-updates [Disaster Den]. Retrieved 2023-07-15. Hey everybody, for the first time in basically ever, we're opening up public staff applications.
  27. ↑ Kira (26 July 2019). DisasterDen19.png. #news-updates [Disaster Den]. Retrieved 2023-07-15. Staff applications are now closed
  28. ↑ Kira (7 December 2019). DisasterDen20.png. #news-updates [Disaster Den]. Retrieved 2023-07-15. Just wanna say thanks real quick guys cause we hit 3500 members.
  29. ↑ Kira (7 January 2020). DisasterDen21.png. #news-updates [Disaster Den]. Retrieved 2023-07-15. I just want you all to be aware that our DDoS mitigation ate that shit for breakfast
  30. ↑ Kira (20 March 2020). DisasterDen22.png. #news-updates [Disaster Den]. Retrieved 2023-07-15. ... a select few bad actors take advantage of my leniency in rules. Due to this we're now going to have to tighten up the way we handle things a little.
  31. ↑ Kira (7 April 2020). DisasterDen23.png. #news-updates [Disaster Den]. Retrieved 2023-07-15. Hey guys, we finally hit 4k members.
  32. ↑ Kira (4 May 2021). DisasterDen27.png. #news-updates [Disaster Den]. Retrieved 2023-07-15. I'll be taking a hiatus from doing anything here for awhile... It is incredibly demoralizing... that my dms remain completely empty and instead people do things like organize mass-leavings to really show it to me.
  33. ↑ Kira (9 May 2021). DisasterDen29.png. #news-updates [Disaster Den]. Retrieved 2023-07-15. Just wanna say I'm back in and ready to go once more.
  34. ↑ Hynx (5 May 2021). DisasterDen28.png. #news-updates [Disaster Den]. Retrieved 2023-07-15. There are now specific admins for specific jobs, this being @Discord Admin and @SCP Admin.
  35. ↑ Archer (28 August 2022). DisasterDen30.png. #news-updates [Disaster Den]. Retrieved 2023-07-15. Hey everyone, we hit our big goal of 5k members this week!
  36. ↑ Archer (4 April 2023). DisasterDen31.png. #news-updates [Disaster Den]. Retrieved 2023-07-15. I'll be going on Hiatus for a while, a family member has passed away just a few minutes ago.
  37. ↑ Archer (12 September 2023). DisasterDen54.png. #news-updates [Disaster Den]. Retrieved 2023-09-30. Please take a moment to read this. Thank you.
  38. ↑ Kira (10 October 2020). DisasterDen24.png. #news-updates [Disaster Den]. Retrieved 2023-07-15.
  39. ↑ Vesper (10 October 2020). DisasterDen42.png. #general [Disaster Den]. Retrieved 2023-07-17. THIS RULE was made because people were abusing the leniency of staff members... These words were not supposed to be used as often
  40. ↑ Kira (10 October 2020). DisasterDen41.png. #general [Disaster Den]. Retrieved 2023-07-17. Freedom of speech is paramount to me
  41. ↑ Kira (14 October 2020). DisasterDen43.png. #general [Disaster Den]. Retrieved 2023-07-17. You and fucking Slime are the root of this whole problem
  42. ↑ Bovix (14 October 2020). DisasterDen44.png. #general [Disaster Den]. Retrieved 2023-07-17. Idk about that kira
  43. ↑ Kira (14 October 2020). DisasterDen45.png. #general [Disaster Den]. Retrieved 2023-07-17. @Bovix Honestly can you stop fucking talking before I demote you?
  44. ↑ Bovix (14 October 2020). DisasterDen46.png. #general [Disaster Den]. Retrieved 2023-07-17. @Kira Sorry what was that? You're threatening to demote me?
  45. ↑ Bovix (14 October 2020). DisasterDen47.png. #general [Disaster Den]. Retrieved 2023-07-17. @Kira Honestly no matter what I say about this topic, there is no reason to threaten to demote me... Just plain disrespectful to me.
  46. ↑ Bovix (14 October 2020). DisasterDen48.png. #general [Disaster Den]. Retrieved 2023-07-17. He won't demote me... He's just pissed is all
  47. ↑ Kira (30 October 2020). DisasterDen25.png. #news-updates [Disaster Den]. Retrieved 2023-07-17.
  48. ↑ Kira (13 November 2020). DisasterDen26.png. #news-updates [Disaster Den]. Retrieved 2023-07-15. We have collected direct evidence that he is a pedophile that has engaged in the grooming of someone... younger than him in our discord
  49. ↑ Face (13 November 2020). DisasterDen51.png. #general [Disaster Den]. Retrieved 2023-07-17. Anim was my one of my [sic] close friends
  50. ↑ Bovix (13 November 2020). DisasterDen52.png. #general [Disaster Den]. Retrieved 2023-07-17. dude... anima is literally one of my best friends..
  51. ↑ Temporary (13 November 2020). DisasterDen49.png. #general [Disaster Den]. Retrieved 2023-07-17. but I just feel like the @ everyone probably got like... way too many people involved
  52. ↑ Kira (13 November 2020). DisasterDen50.png. #general [Disaster Den]. Retrieved 2023-07-17. @Temporary I feel like it's necessary to state our position as a server... As well as make people aware that they can always come to us.
  53. ↑ 53.0 53.1 53.2 53.3 53.4 53.5 53.6 Archer (12 September 2023). "End of Disaster Den SCP SL" (Document). Disaster Den.
  54. ↑ TrueWhiteLion (15 December 2022). "Official Server Agreement" (Document). Northwood Studios.
  55. ↑ Jamintheinfinite (26 January 2023). "Updates/12.0.0". SCP: Secret Laboratory English Official Wiki. Archived from the original on 20 July 2023. Retrieved 2023-10-01.
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