User blog comment:Bandit King Jack/A Nobody's Return! (A.K.A Let's Make a Checklist)/@comment-4715955-20160805012011/@comment-25148755-20160805202321

Agreed about the standards in that in order to pass a story need only be (mostly) grammatically competent and (decently) original while refraining from covering the ever growing list of blacklisted subjects. And that's really about it, meaning there are plenty of *meh* stories on the site.

That being said, probably only one of every two or three submissions meets those criteria and the admins already have to deal with so much hate mail and negativity I don't think making them more stringent is necessarily the way to go either. Still...there's been plenty of stories I REALLY wanted to mark for deletion but couldn't because I felt they met the bare minimum requirements.

As for the contests yeah, they're usually pretty good for participation. The mods allowing the winners to be the spotlighted pasta for the month is a nice carrot as well. Unfortunately you will occasionally have the situation that is happening with the currently ongoing contest where deadlines are missed, judgments are outstanding etc etc

As for greater participation, I've been a longtime lurker on the site imgur (it's actually how I was first introduced to creepypasta as a genre) I'm thinking now about trying to put together a post for that site detailing the workings of the wiki. If it doesn't die in user sub there could be a decent uptick in site traffic, at least temporarily