Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-963237-20140331023022

I've been thinking about this for several days now, and I've decided to follow through. Yes, you read the title correctly.

I legitimately believe that it would be beneficial to move Jeff the Killer to the Trollpasta Wiki. Now before anyone starts berating me for proposing such a drastic move, let me explain my reasons:

The story is way below Quality Standards. There are so many parts of it which make no sense. A huge one is Jeff's "strange feeling". He just gets this odd feeling... for no reason. He just does. No explanation as to why, he just does.

Randy, Troy, and Keith are 12-13 years old, and are somehow willing to both mug other kids with knives, AND try to kill people with actual guns. Even when Keith is dying, he throws a lighter at Jeff in a last-ditch attempt at killing him! What kind of sadistic kids are these!?

Liu is arrested and put in juvy without a trial. No lawyers, no jury, no testimony. Nothing. Just "Police show up, Liu takes the blame, Liu is incarcerated". That's it. The cops don't even listen to Jeff when he says that the kids pulled the knives on him and Liu and not the other way around, and Jeff's mother doesn't even try to defend her own sons! This would never happen in a real democratic judicial system.

Jeff's sanity breaks WAY too quickly. He's just getting beaten up by the three other kids, and - bam. Serial killer, cold-blooded and remorseless. Just like that. That would never actually happen in a real-world situation.

Then we have the famous "eyelid" part. He burns off his own eyelids, and somehow manages to function just fine. This is physically impossible. They eyelids are what keep the eyes hydrated. It's why we blink. Also, he cuts a smile into his face. Talk about a Joker rip-off.

And then there are the grammatical errors. It's hard to point out grammar errors without making it look like nitpicking but they're still there. For example:

"As he got that feeling he felt how powerful it was, the urge to just, hurt someone." - Improper punctuation

"Although they easily break from their gaze and point their guns at Jeff." - Fragment, and change from past to present-tense

"A thing of bleach fell down on top of him from the top shelf." - A "thing"? - Nice wording

And then what bothers me is how half the quotes get their own lines like they should, and then the other half don't. They should all get their own lines, separate from the previous paragraph.

And finally, my last point: This pasta is grossly overrated. I don't know how or why this it's so famous. There are plenty of other pastas that are so much better and should be getting the fame that Jeff does, such as "Russian Sleep Experiment", "Normal Porn for Normal People", "The Cell Phone Game", and so many more.

Personally, I believe that keeping this pasta on the main wiki and allowing it to garner more fame, and keeping it in the "Classic" category is giving people a false sense of what is actually a "good" Creepypasta. It is extremely below Quality Standards, and chances are that if it were uploaded merely a few days ago, it would have been deleted without a second thought.

All this pasta has done is take the fame of other stories that are actually creepy. It has given way to a whole wave of spinoffs and ripoffs that to this day persist (I marked a JtK fan spinoff for deletion earlier today, in fact!). Like with Sonic.exe, this pasta needs to be put where it belongs: On the Trollpasta Wiki. It isn't scary, its plot is terrible, it fails to meet Quality Standards, and it is extremely overrated.

 