Talk:Jeff the Killer 2015/@comment-31288135-20180405203147/@comment-25458443-20180406114821

The function of the contest was, rightly (imo), designed to make a story that is inherently the same story as JtK. If the contest was to write "any story vaguely evocative of Jeff the Killer" than I would see it as an insult, on it's face, to still delete the original story from the site. The way we have it currently, the story is obviously the same plot, but updated. It is imperfect. In my opinion, it has the same major STORY flaws as the original story, (minus a few smaller ones), but the goal of the contest was to replace it, not forget it.

There's a reason why all the rest of BanningK's JtK stories are on different wikia's --  it's the same reason why he truncated the version here. What you get here is exactly what it says on the tin: Jeff the Killer, but updated. You mention how the 10k+ words on the spinpasta version somehow doesn't amount to anything, but I frankly don't understand what you mean. It's a flawed argument. Those 10k words werent just unrelated random sentence removed to make the story less bloated, they were in-depth prologues and epilogues -- not what I'd call superfluous.