User blog comment:Speccyemerald/Fanfiction creepypasta doesn't have to be badly done/@comment-28266772-20160729140933

I think most people have covered it well but it wouldn't be the internet if there weren't a dozen people screaming their opinions in agreement at one another. So here we go:

I'd love to see a place where quality fanfiction could be added, and where spinoffs could be integrated with the same ease and quality that original stories are. I'd love it if we could even collaborate across the wikia and start to build a larger, overarching mythos that was unique to the people on this site - like the fear mythos.

But, I'd also really like it if my alarm clock was actually just Scarlett Johanson pole vaulting onto my face. I'd like a lot of things, but they aren't always possible. Too much shit gets added, and I think the reason the blacklist was created was because the excessive quantity of poor quality stories strains the site's resources. If the admins spend 90% of their time reading spinoff pastas then they won't be there as often to ban vandals, contribute valuable edits, organize competitions and collabs, and just be active helpful members of the community.

And it's a necessary evil. Yeah, by default, a spin off is not inherently bad. But the people who want to contribute to a horror story without any thought of how to create their own are, inherently, not great users. They want to latch onto something popular and wring it for their own attention. Normally this sentiment would be offset by a user who also contributes their own original writing - I'm not saying writing a spinoff makes you a bad writer - I'm just saying, don't you ever wonder why we get like 100 users each week who arrive, post a spinoff, get it deleted, and instantly run away without putting in ten minutes of work to improve it? It's the same reason they were attracted to writing slenderman, pokemon, jeff the killer stories in the first place. They want to jump onto something with massive amounts of attention and readers, without having to do the work that builds up those readers in the first place. When they're faced with having to put time into their writing, they basically give up.


 * shrugs*

So yeah... it's a price we just have to pay. If only there was some place people could contact admins and submit their spinoff stories to be assessed in a time efficient way that doesn't put disproportionate strain on the admins! I can only assume Jay ten has burned the location to the ground while cackling against a backdrop of thunder and lightning.