Board Thread:Administration/@comment-10950063-20140722025046/@comment-24304936-20140722132204

ImGonnaBeThatGuy wrote: Mystreve wrote: What if that was the one small element in an otherwise great story that could've made or broke it? We review things here on a case by case basis, and we should keep it that way. Someone could possibly write a good Jeff the Killer story. People have written good haunted game stories. We don't allow those either. Those are not case-by-case.

We have deletion appeal. we have spinoff appeal (which we can start recommending more for these kinds of cases), there are safety nets. Also, no matter what the story is about we have to read a little in order to determine what the content is. It's not hard to determine if it follows cliches exactly or if the writing is sound. If it doesn't, it can get a pass.

This is the new Jeff formula and something needs to be done to discourage people from using it. Deletions alone aren't working, obviously. I wasn't talking about JtK spinoffs or haunted game stories. Those are obvious no-no's. You painted rather large strokes with your original post though. If no element of a story can contain a child with an abusive background growing up to be something terrible, then we should go ahead and blacklist vampire, zombie,...hell, anything with gore too.

Just because there are lots of stories about them, so people probably don't want to read them.

You kind of following me here?