Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-6858788-20140913052317/@comment-10502460-20170731160335

The two girls only suceeded in grievoulsy wounding their friend as I recall.

I believe the story that inspired them was Jeff the Killer, a pasta which then and now has been regarded as the poster-child for bad exploitive creepypastas and which the creepypasta community was already trying to distance itself from, and the girls were just under the minimum age for active participation on this wiki and the Creepypasta webside (after that incident they quickly rasied the limit to 18 on the website, I don't know if that's still in effect).

In my opinion, the best way to keep young kids from inappropriate or dangerous involvement in creepypasta is to A, relentlessly enforce the minimum age limit when possible, B, consistently (as much as possible) enforce the new quality standards, and C, don't ever bring chat back. I don't know if there is a rule saying you have to be 18 to view NSFW-tagged pages, but if there isn't that would also be a good step if it could be implemented.

Theoretically there could be a "kid-friendly" sphere of creepypasta, since we often like to muse that creepypasta is more derived from the campfire-type storytelling tradition as opposed to the hardcore horror movie tradition. But in any case adults would have to lead the charge on that, preferably with parents on-board, which is a dubious bet. It's not likely that the new established under-13 creepypasta community segment would have much of value to contribute to creepypasta in an active sense, but it also wouldn't be reasonable to invite them to sit and listen and read but not want to write and get feedback.

My ultimate take: unless there is a group of individuals that is really devoted and passionate about opening up the creepypasta world to young kids and know how to do it in a relatively safe and productive way, I don't see a reason to entertain it.