Board Thread:Site Questions/@comment-5733573-20181221222735/@comment-5733573-20181222172329

NedWolfkin wrote: HopelessNightOwl wrote: It's not even close to being fan fiction as the term is commonly understood.

Let me ask you guys something: if the celebrity being stalked in that story was a fictional celebrity rather than LDC, would your reaction be the same? Yes and no. Yes = The fact that this is something that didn't really happen to him ruins it. You can make a story about a fictional celebrity and make it scary.

Stephen King's Misery is about a fictional writer (despite being an author avatar), and it's pretty good in the way of horror.

No = The story really isn't scary no matter who it is about, fictional or otherwise. It is hard to take a work seriously about someone who is real, as it is obvious that it never happened. I mean, there can be plausible stories about a historical figure because it could be a buried past sort of thing, but since this is a modern celebrity who has almost never been out of the public eye, the story loses credibility. I agree with Jdeschene when she said you cannot say that this is not a fanfic because it totally is.

HopelessNightOwl wrote: I'd have to see those specific stories to respond to that point. To my memory there haven't been any stories deleted as "fan fiction" for being about real celebrities. Just because a story hasn't been done before doesn't mean it is any good (though I am pretty sure celebrity-fic has been done before). Having something original isn't worth the already sinking jeopardizing quality standards.

HopelessNightOwl wrote:

You guys are becoming a little obsessive over "holding the line" against bad stories being posted on this wiki. We have every right to be like that, we want quality stories. Quality standards is what seperates us from other Creepypasta sites that allow badly written Jeff-OCs.

HopelessNightOwl wrote:

users aggressively pushing the use of Writer's Workshop in a way that practically implies it's required when it's not There's a good chance that a first time writer isn't going to write a quality story, we're saving them the frustration of having their work deleted. It isn't aggressive, it is necessary. Most new users don't even know there is a writer's workshop.

Like I said, it's understandable that staff wants to keep quality to a level where newer and younger writers won't be discouraged, but at you have to draw the line at some point. I agree completely with Ned. Well said.