User blog comment:ArmadillooftheAges/Useless thoughts and opinions from an old user here/@comment-25170312-20190226185303/@comment-36627132-20190226223635

I've already agreed with this, but what the heck I'm going to agree with it again! XD

The anonymity of the authors ironically gave them more credibility and made their stories more believable. Although you can't trust unknown sources on the internet, if a story was really convincing you couldn't help but wonder rather or not if it really happened. Seeing an author tag slapped on a story is like an reminder that the story you are reading is all made up.

While it is common knowledge that these are just stories and nothing else, some of them had a level of "it could happen" in them.