Board Thread:Administration/@comment-24376429-20140210140502/@comment-24460282-20140210185311

Lil' Miss Rarity wrote: For the past few years since the site started allowing users to submit their own works I have noticed a decline in content and the blurring of the line that separates creepypasta from ordinary scary stories.

For one, creepypastas are supposed to exploit the un-explainable, to give you that feeling that something isn't right. They are supposed to make the reader paranoid, to make them scared of what really lurks in the corners of their vision. Scary stories on the other hand are meant to elicit terror or fear from the reader. They use tactics such as jump scares or gore in order to pull out the FOF (fight or flight) response in a person. They are made to give readers the "shakes" (the trembling feeling your body makes when you have been scared).

The policy I propose is to slowly push the content being submitted from scary stories to true creepypastas. This will happen bit by bit by slowly tagging pages as scary stories as they are submitted and then eventually put up a clear definition of creepypasta that we would like submissions to adhere to, and finally by rejecting submissions or scary stories. Scary stories and creepypastas are one-and-the-same. There are plenty of "scary stories" that bring out psychological fear and disturbance. You're putting a definition between "scary stories" and creepypastas. Creepypastas are just scary stories in a different context.