User blog comment:Elmokiller97/jeff the killer/@comment-25052433-20140805181904

Personally I feel what makes people react so badly to the Jeff story, is that it is allowed to break so many of the site rules at once, simply because it's popular online.

The deletion debate is always raging on this site. This site has a lot of specific rules that govern how something can be deleted. Now, all of that is fine. Everyone can read the rules, follow the rules and make stories.

Then there is Jeff. Without giving my personal opinion on it, let me just break down the obvious errors that would probably put any other story right on the deletion block.

1. Terrible grammar.

2. Characters that make no sense. (Are we really supposed to believe that 11 year old bullies in the suburbs are so psychotic that they pull knives and guns on other kids?)

3. Plot holes the size of the Grand Canyon. (The cops acting as judge and jury, pulling a gun on a child, the adults that stand by and do nothing while kids shoot up their home, the parents that want to go to a party two days after their other son is put in jail, with no trial, and no judge with no criminal investigation conducted...)

4. No real dramatic devices are used. All we know is that Jeff somehow went from being a normal kid to a psychotic killer.

5. Lack of research. (Bleach doesn't burn on contact like that, Jeff's hair wouldn't have been turned black, it would have been burned off...)

Now that I have pointed out a few obvious reasons, I will say this. I know one of the reasons that stories like JtK annoy me, is that they are like Paris Hilton. They are famous for being famous and nothing else. We are all held to strict publishing standards here, before we can get our stories out. We have to make sure our work is on point, or it will be deleted.

Then there is Jeff. Not only does it violate a few of the deletion rules, (bad grammar, cliché, poor plot) but it also gets its own big link, right on the front page. It's like, not only are we tolerating this subpar story, but let's got ahead and celebrate it and promote it at the same time.