Jimbo Jambo's Dating Site SCP Concept

Jimbo Jambo's guide to writing his own article

What is it? A website that matches people with their soulmates through anomalous means. The site has intimate knowledge of peoples' lives, but is not omniscient, and so asks very specific security questions to verify the identity of the user. The site itself is not anomalous, more so the server that holds this information.
What is the focus? A big chunk will be the test logs which give insight into how the site operates, but the actual focus should be the description of the site and its implications. A website written by ancient Chinese moon gods that uses technology to assist in fate-bound matchmaking? That's interesting!
What feeling is it meant to evoke? The bittersweet feeling of knowing that there might be someone out there made just for you, but you may never find them.
What problems might this article have? Unlike the Jimbo Jambo's Coin SCP Concept, the testing logs, while extensive, are meant to be secondary and might distract from the rest of the page. (Consider hiding them in a table or a subpage.) There's also the trouble of explaining exactly what the site it trying to do: the myth of the red thread relates to fate and marriage, but many people nowadays marry more than once or not at all, and telling them who they are destined to marry next is not very useful if it's fated to happen anyway. I could mix this with the concept of a "soulmate" — a person with whom the user would be most compatible — but I don't want to stray too far from the original myth. (Maybe this is also something that gets "updated" for the modern era?)

Item #: SCP-soandso

Object Class: [Either Safe or Euclid]

Special Containment Procedures: [Questions to answer: are there any instances of this SCP currently live? Is it the policy to take the site down, block it, or can it just be left alone and monitored?]

Description: SCP-soandso is a website consisting of three pages, each with the same aesthetic design and a conspicuous lack of any copyright, contact, disclaimer, or any other about the site and the persons behind it.

The site functions as a streamlined version of a typical dating site by matching the user with a compatible romantic partner. The site appears to have intimate knowledge of both the user and the partner and does not require either party to create a personal account or submit personal information with the exception of the user's name and the answer to a security question for verification.

The first of the three pages asks the user for their name. When this information is submitted, the user is brought to a second page that either asks the user to be more specific or asks a specifically targeted security question to verify the user's identity; the question changes if an incorrect answer is entered, and the "account" ^{[find a better word]} of the user is locked from any further attempts to access it for 24 hours. If the user correctly answers the security question, they are taken to the final page which matches them with a partner. This page includes a picture of the person, some personal details such as interests, specific details on what makes the person compatible with the user, and contact information usually in the form of an email address and telephone number.¹ ^{[This is a bit wordy and still skimps on details. Break it up into paragraphs? Use a bulleted list?}

Addendum: [This will explain the current state of the site and maybe give a brief description of the history of its instances.]

Addendum: A number of experiments were devised to test the extent of SCP-soandso's knowledge. See test logs below:

Experiment log soandso-01 [Expand]

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Experiment soandso-01
Names from a pre-prepared list are entered into the first page, and the results of which version of the second page the user is directed to. A pass indicates that the name was accepted and the user is asked a security question. A partial indicates that the name was used by more than one person and the user is asked to be more specific, unless otherwise stated. A fail indicates that the site has reported that no living persons currently have that name either because they are deceased or because nobody has been given that name.

Note that these tests are not intended to find the intended partner for the person bearing the name, only whether or not the site recognizes the name.

Name	Result	Notes
Billy	partial
William	partial
William Dalton	partial
William James Dalton	pass	The full name of Subject D-4250 who participated in early tests. Currently alive at time of testing.
Dalton	partial
W. J. D.	partial
William D.	partial
W. J. Dalton	pass	It seems that initials can be used so long as they are specific enough not to be shared by another person.
William J. Dalton	pass
George Bush	partial
George W. Bush	pass
George Bush Jr.	pass
George H. W. Bush	fail	Person was deceased at the time of testing.
Abraham Lincoln	partial
██████████	pass	The full name of the current president of the United States of America at time of testing.
██████████	partial	The surname of the above person, widely used without context in place of the person's full name
██████████	pass	A pejorative nickname often used to refer to the above person by critics. This result is insightful: it seems that nicknames can be used in place of legal names, presumably as long as it is only used to refer specifically to that person.
Nelson Mandela	fail
Elvis Presley	fail	In case there is any doubt that this individual is, in fact, deceased.
C. S. Lewis	pass	This result most likely suggests that somebody living shares the famous author's initials, not that he is somehow still alive.
J. K. Rowling	pass
Luke Skywalker	partial	The name of the fictional protagonist from a popular movie franchise. This result implies that there are multiple real people with this name, likely because they were either given the name at birth or later changed their name to it.
Nien Nunb	fail	A less popular character from the above franchise.
R2-D2	fail	A well-known robot character from the above franchise which possesses an unconventional name. In spite of the character's popularity, it seems that no living person answers to the name "R2-D2."
Bilbo Baggins	partial	The protagonist of a different but arguably equally popular franchise. Once again, it seems that multiple people currently have this name.

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Experiment log soandso-02 [Expand]

Name	Result	Notes
Subject D-4250	pass	The designation given to William James Dalton by the SCP Foundation. Right off the bat this is worrisome because SCP-soandso appears to have knowledge of the Foundation's records.
SCP-████	pass	The designation given to ██████████ after being classified as an SCP subject. ^{[Redactions can be replaced once I find a suitable subject from a later series.]}
██████████	pass	The given name of SPC-████ prior its registration as Subject D-████ and subsequent reclassification as an SCP subject following the containment breach at Site ██ on ██/██/████
Director of Site-15	pass	The current director is ██████████ and is very much alive.
Current president of the United States	pass
POTUS	pass	An acronym for "President of the United States."
FLOTUS	pass	"First Lady of the United States," a public title given to the wife of the current president.
Spouse of POTUS	partial	Results consistent with Foundation records.
SCOTUS	fail	"Supreme Court of the United States," which refers to the entire governing body and not to any individual member.
██^th president of the United States	pass	The (still living) predecessor of the current president.

Addendum: [A request to demote or declassify based on lack of conclusive evidence of anomalous/supernatural properties, citing that the personal information gathered and displayed is it what is within the realm of possibility of a sufficiently advanced AI.] ^{[Followed by a denial of said request? I don't know how this is meant to work.]}

Addendum: [A request to forgo attempts to contain SCP-soandso given its harmless nature and low risk of exposure due to deniability.]

SCP Sandbox III

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