Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-32573999-20170714125306/@comment-25148755-20170714192956

1. Saw a Slenderman post on Imgur, found the various communities (like this one) branching off of that. 2. Give me something well written. Bonus points if it gives me that chill down my spine. 3. I do. However I feel there are different categories of creepypastas. Originally they were essentially 'urban legends', things that were 'true' and spread about through the Internet as a medium rather than word of mouth. However, over the years as amateur authors saw sites like this one as a convenient platform to share their short stories, it came to encompass more traditional horror in the vein of Poe and Lovecraft. 4. Burn the bastards at the stake. I don't care if people spread my stories to the four winds as long as they give me credit as the original author. 5. Yep. I regularly post my stories from this site on no sleep. Sometimes I have to rewrite them a bit to meet their "everything must be 'true'" mandate as well as their preference for stories to be told in the first person (both of which I could do without but whatever), but yeah it's definitely creepypasta. As others have kndicated, quality is a mixed bag and is no indicator of popularity over there. 6. 32 and American