Board Thread:Administration/@comment-24376429-20140210140502/@comment-4833240-20140210235559

To go off of what admins and other users have said before me, it's a lose-lose setup. Admins have to refer to even more rules when a pasta is questioned for deletion, and authors and users will be less inclined to write and read the content, respectively. This wiki was founded on the principle of providing quality stories that are designed to - and I quote - unnerve and shock the reader.

The "creepy vs. scary" argument is both fallacious and pedantic; they mean almost the same thing. You mentioned that "scary" stories rely on "jump scares and gore" to gain popularity. You're on the right track, but you're still wrong. Jump scares and gore (to a much lesser degree) are indicative of bad literature, not "scary" literature. In sum, things would be simplified if this were to not go into effect. A cleanup for quality wouldn't be a bad idea, though.