Board Thread:Administration/@comment-24376429-20140208190533/@comment-4832646-20140208192518

CreepyStoriesRUs wrote: ClericofMadness wrote: Lil' Miss Rarity wrote:

ClericofMadness wrote: Literary merit. No one is forcing you to put up with any stories. This site was created as a repository to hold the classics. It wasn't until much later that new stories were even considered to be added. It was from this that the concept of OC was created.

Looking back that was a terrible idea because now it has given people a sense of entitlement over older stories.

Older stories have literary merit. You should not delete them because in comparison to newer stories they are worse. They are the originals. This is a wiki that houses what creepypasta WAS and IS NOW. You cannot have the present and future without the past.

This is the point of Suggested Reading  It's to establish the foundation of what creepypastas are and were created to be. Deleting those historic stories are like saying the entire basis of this genre is bad and when you get to that point, nothing then will be good enough and this site should close. What about the stories that are popular, but terribly bad, so much so that they actually spawn other copies of itself that get worse. Deleting it is the only effective way to nip the problem at the bud. Because they spawn clones does not a bad story make. Is sonic a bad game because it spins off bad fanfiction? Is My Little Pony a bad children's show because adults watch it? We are not really calling those games bad, we are saying that the first made pastas of those games generated bad pastas. Take Sonic.exe, for example. It was a cliche-filled pasta with that started more cliches like black eyes with red dots, haunted CDs, and more. If we were to take things down at the support beams, it would all come down. The same is here. If we get rid of Sonic.exe, chances are we won't see as much bad pastas following that genre anymore, if not just less. Again, '''Sonic.exe did not start nor popularize any of the cliches it had. They were already well-overused by the time the story was written.'''

But other than that, I agree.