User blog comment:Blood-moon-dancer/I am not pleased/@comment-25052433-20150830025029

I feel like this has been explained plenty, but if I didn't put my two-cents in, well, I just wouldn't be me, now would I?

I know people have linked the site rules and such, but perhaps I can help shed a bit of further understanding. In our quest to become the premier writing site for this genre, we have to be diligent against not just bad pastas, (of which this one would be a matter of opinion, I suppose) but also of establishing a bad status quo.

What I mean by that, is the quality of a story is not so much found in the rules and regulations, as much as it is found when compared side by side with its peers. This is the same degree of expectations almost anywhere else you'll go in life. Writing, artwork, your job performance...all of that is generally guaged not by a list of rules, but rather how the stack up to the next peer to the left or right.

Now, what I am getting at is this, Laughing Jack, while perhaps not as technically bad as others of its ilk, like Jeff the Killer, Sonic.exe and Tails Doll, does set a bad status quo as to what other writers can compare too.

Stories that follow the Laughing Jack/Jeff/Sonic formula are banned for the most part here. However, as long as Laughing Jack remained on this site, it essentially set forth the same message to any new writers, that message being: This story sticks on the site, so clearly this is an example of what works here.

Truth be told, the Laughing Jack concept does not work here, and is more or less a left-over of a very different time for this community. There was a time here when pretty much anything was taken, and those were some very dark times indeed. To allow Laughing Jack to stick around, is to send the message that LJ is the type of literature that we encourage or accept, and as long as someone hits similar marks, their story can stay.

Nothing is less true.

Now, you certainly have a right to your opinion, and, to an extent, your outrage. Clearly this was a story that you valued and seeing it moved and deleted struck a chord with you. To that, I can promise you that it is nothing personal against the story, the author or the fans of Laughing Jack. It is simply a necessary stepping stone in achieving a higher level of writing here.

There are ample stories on this site right now for you to fall in love with. Lots of untapped and underrated pastas that have been eclipsed by the mega-pastas like Jeff, Jack, Sonic...etc etc.

I would challenge you to click around, find new stories that have perhaps been ignored, and learn to to embrace the Creepypasta Fandom as a whole, as opposed to simply latching on to a select few stories that happen to have a lot of fanart and spinoffs attached. I promise you that you'll be glad that you did.

Now, in closing, I am not saying that any of the opinions expressed above are the reason the story was deleted, these are my opinions on the matter that I think apply to this situation.