User blog comment:EtherBot/Negative Culture and How I Write My Showcases/@comment-35934353-20180912225210/@comment-25458443-20180913102704

The "creepypasta" fad was never really that big of an impact to the site in the first place and it's pretty disingenuous to pretend like the larger system issues with the 'Fandom' styled website has ever had anything to do with Creepypastas being a fad, or whether that fad is currently relevent. The classical definition of creepypasta, which is more of a sociological definition than a genre, is pretty divorced from what most writers here consider themselves creators of. People here are authors, not marketers or hoaxers, and the intention is usually to create a good story, not a phenomona. Plenty of genuine creepypasta that were indeed actual creepypasta aren't even housed on this wiki, because the point of the wiki is, like I said, not related to the "creepypasta" fad.

Pushing that argument aside, obviously I'm aware that this site has issues with getting your stuff out there and seen by people, that's the entire point of me writing the showcases. To bring some stuff that might've been forgotten into the limelight. Solving the problem relevent to this blog has nothing to do with statistical feedback like the kind reddit has, for instance, unless it's being applied to the blog posts and that's a pretty weird place to put our attentions.

That being said, we do have a system in place for blog posts specifically. It's called the 'popular blog posts' tab on the side of the screen.

I'm not upset about some notion that people don't read my blogs. I just can't shake the notion that for as much effort as I put into them, nobody actually reads the authors I showcase. Plenty of the more obscure authors such as APONTIS or Jake888 don't even have any comments, and the ones that get comments tend to be for authors that were already on the rise like Raidra.