Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-4715590-20131031211355/@comment-5643552-20131109011425

CreepyStoriesRUs wrote: My point being is that most people do not use it in an experienced manner. Whenever I go to read a NSFW creepypasta occasionaly, I find it to be ladden with immense gore and/or sexual content. If hardly anyone uses it correctly, why even let is slide?

We will let the ones that are well-written and creepy (or potentially creepy; horror is subjective, after all) slide, but the problem is that most people who write NSFW pastas choose to write them in such a way that they practically beat the reader over the head with their NSFW-ness, like that makes them creepier somehow. Shock value for the sake of shock value is almost never a good thing when you aim is to write a creepy story. That's not to say including NSFW content can't be a good thing if you use it skillfully, or at least in a way that actually adds to the creepiness, though if your approach to writing horror is simply making the story as "edgy" as possible, you are usually doing it wrong. And also trying too hard.