User blog comment:ArmadillooftheAges/Useless thoughts and opinions from an old user here/@comment-25941663-20190303183131/@comment-25941663-20190304105631

To get the name change out of the way, I don't think it is possible. We have not tried, but I highly highly doubt it can happen. Admins cannot change the name of a wiki (at least I have not found out how). Only Wikia Staff can do it upon a request by admins. And there is no way Wikia will change the name of a wiki as big as this one and do away with more than a million monthly views. There are too many links pointing to this place and the site is pretty up there in SEO. Changing the name seems like a logistic nightmare and I would be very surprised if Staff would do it.

Apart from that, I don't see a point in further debating what Creepypasta means. I think it's for the best to agree to disagree, or otherwise we will go in circles. I personally feel it is a term that has evolved, much like "detective fiction" has evolved from what it used to be.

I do want to touch on your belief that the wiki-as-a-library would be sustainable.

To quote your quote of Sturgeon's law:

"Ninety percent of everything is crap"

The above unfortunately does not apply to this wiki. I have deleted hundreds and hundreds of "traditional creepypasta"-styled stories I have deleted and not one of them was readable. Everyone is rehashing exactly the same concepts and this has lost its novelty. It is as if someone is pressing a "generate cliched pasta" button and posting the results. I'm sorry, but this is not what we want the wiki to become.

As to your "Creepypasta elders" comment, with all due respect, correlating the change of direction with a drop in traffic is a reckless display of ignorance. The internet is an insanely complicated space and you cannot contribute anything to one specific thing. For one, Wikia/Fandom in general has suffered greatly and is no longer what it used to be. Also, Reddit came about and it has become the behemoth that eats away at all other internet content. These two reasons I mentioned are infinitely more likely to be the main factor of the drop They are way more severe and concrete than "this site changed direction and I now find it boring". Even so, it's likely that there are a ton more reasons involved in the drop.

Since admins made the decision to do away with all the barrage of low-effort, low-quality pastas, it is obvious that the amateur horror writers would leave their mark on the wiki. The wiki evolved because of that, it was the natural progression of the genre. Just like the many writing websites, this is a creative venue for possible artists. Doing anything to push them away is not going to end well.