Board Thread:Administration/@comment-24376429-20140208190533/@comment-1216259-20140210024445

The Sleeping Beast wrote: Yushi316 wrote: Well, TEH is good... for a cheap laugh

And wall o' texts are good for giving me a migraine. Since they have a purpose (causing Sleepy pain), does that mean they should stay, even if they don't fit everyone's definitions of the word 'good'?

Not really an equivalent situation. Teh Day of All Teh Blood is presumably parody. A wordwall being "good for giving you migraines" is just a play on words. I do not see why it would be a problem to have a parody category, but if we want to shunt those kinds of stories off to trollpasta, that's fine, too.

But I disagree that writing quality is completely subjective. No, you can't measure it exactly, but there are essentially universal standards. Also, popularity fluctuates, influenced by time & random chance. If a story remains consistently popular when plotted against a long sequence of time, it is at least notable.