Board Thread:Site Questions/@comment-33077235-20190630002502/@comment-5643552-20190630005149

Years ago, this site was constantly - and I mean constantly - being flooded with spin-offs and endless rehashes of the same tired creepypasta formulas. For every somewhat original pasta posted, there were 30 generic lost episode pastas, BEN rip-offs and Jeff the Killer fanfics posted every single goddamn day, day in and day out. It was a constant struggle. The spinoff rule and blacklist were instated in part to encourage some iota of creativity in new pastas (and a lot of people back then complained that it was killing creativity on our site, ironically).

To be honest, the blacklist is kind of antiquated nowadays considering that nobody really posts that kind of shit here anymore, and even if they did, they wouldn't stand a chance against our current quality standards. At least, for the most part. The current Pasta of the Month is both a throwback and a rare exception to the golden rule of all lost episode pastas being derivative drivel.