Board Thread:Administration/@comment-24376429-20140208190533/@comment-4832646-20140208193340

ClericofMadness wrote: Princess Callie wrote: ClericofMadness wrote: We need to go over the newer content with a finer-toothed comb than ever before and weed out the terrible and bad, but leave the good or the inspiring classics that have spawned from the years.

Jeff, Dead Bart, Happy Appy, BEN, Slenderman can all be considered terrible by today's standards, but when they first came out they were the literal definition of creepypasta.

We should dial it back on the sheer volume of stories and refocus on the classics like this site was intended to be: someplace easy-to-navigate with a good collection of classic and great creepypasta.

Not 15,000+ stories dense and riddled with pages that have been viewed maybe once by the person that created them and left to rot. Is it unclear that this site has become something more than an archive to you?

Now it's a community of writers, critics, and people. And the people want what they want. So far, it's getting rid of bad stories to make room for good ones. I notice and recognize what it has become, but the model is failing under its own weight. You cannot ignore the past of a genre to look to the future jsut because it would discourage other people from writing spinoffs.

That's the basis of censorship. To delete to silence or oppress. You call the stories bad, but when you can pick them apart for the terrible stories that they are and give good, literary reasons why the story is bad it will always look like censorship to everyone.

This is higher than me wanting to keep classics around. These actions echo far across the internet and deleting classics will have a negative ripple echo around forever. I can only warn you of the rammifications these actions will have. The issue lies in the fact that it overshadows newer work, not allowing it a place in history. Creepypasta gets known as the same old thing over and over, because of the popular works, and people wanting to write JUST LIKE THEM.

It's clearing what's keeping us back. Sometimes the past has to be forgotten to move to the future. Should we nuke Germany now because of the holacaust nearly 100 years ago?