User blog comment:ArmadillooftheAges/Useless thoughts and opinions from an old user here/@comment-36627132-20190226034747

Glad to hear more from you. As someone who has been around for around seven years now (as I've said in your talk page) I remember a lot of what you are saying, especially the avalanche of crappy My Little Pony pastas (the Spinpasta Wiki gets them by the handful!).

I agree with a lot of what you said. This site has taken some serious changes over the past few year, some not necessarily for the better either (I miss the old darker theme design). As I've said countless times before on various blog posts and forum entries I think newer novel-like Creepypastas have differentiated from the camp-fire urban legend genre it used to be.

"But, I feel like some of the 'magic' of Creepy Pasta was lost in eliminating those clunky, dark, sub-par standards" Out of everything you've said this is what I agree with the strongest. While MLP fics, rip-offs, and Jeff OCs are being weeded out, so is what made Creepypasta Creepypasta.

"I just feel like all that can be avoided with better parenting and not just blaming the pastas." This is something I think we all agree on. I'm glad there wasn't too much of a backlash against this friendly community because a bunch of poorly-raised kids decided to act stupid. There was a 12 year old girl who killed herself because she wanted to be with BEN (from the Haunted Majora's Mask creepypasta).

As much as I'm afraid of what people will think about me saying this, I agree with you about the author tags. It would be more practical if authors just kept their stories on their user pages.