Board Thread:Administration/@comment-24376429-20140210140502/@comment-24443289-20140210212549

Lil' Miss Rarity wrote: For the past few years since the site started allowing users to submit their own works I have noticed a decline in content and the blurring of the line that separates creepypasta from ordinary scary stories.

For one, creepypastas are supposed to exploit the un-explainable, to give you that feeling that something isn't right. They are supposed to make the reader paranoid, to make them scared of what really lurks in the corners of their vision. Scary stories on the other hand are meant to elicit terror or fear from the reader. They use tactics such as jump scares or gore in order to pull out the FOF (fight or flight) response in a person. They are made to give readers the "shakes" (the trembling feeling your body makes when you have been scared).

The policy I propose is to slowly push the content being submitted from scary stories to true creepypastas. This will happen bit by bit by slowly tagging pages as scary stories as they are submitted and then eventually put up a clear definition of creepypasta that we would like submissions to adhere to, and finally by rejecting submissions or scary stories. I like the idea up until the very ending. I've read creepy pastas like Funnymouth and Russian Sleep Experiment, which are just two of my favorite creepy pastas. Those creepy pastas have scared me to no end, because of the fact that they could be real, same goes for creepypastas like "The Goat-Man" and "Room Zero."

But what hasn't given me the initial paranoia I want out of creepypasta, is these so called, "classics," like Sonic.exe and Jeff the Killer, which are just gory, and go for jump-scares. They're just cliche and are like horror movies that are just so terrible, they're good.

I myself am probably guilty of writing overly cliche, and just plain repetitive creepypastas, but I'm only a beginner and if I didn't fuck up, I wouldn't have any chance to learn from my mistakes.

Even though I don't like that last bit, I'm going to have to agree with this. To get quality, sacrifices must be made.