Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-24127731-20140129150320/@comment-1473107-20140309014846

The Damn Batman wrote: The Red Grandmaster wrote: William See wrote: The last thing we need is to be dubbed a fandom.

Also, they're called Pastafarians. Jus' gonna leave that out there. I hate to be that guy, but technically speaking, the group on the Creepypasta Wiki is a part of the Internet's entire 'Creepypasta fandom' (at least in the sense that people who hang out on this wiki are passionate about writing Creepypasta stories). So you're a couple years too late to be say 'the last thing we need is to be dubbed a fandom'.

As for Pastafarians, isn't that one already taken by worshippers of the Flying Spaghetti Monster?

[Side Note: the wiki's Pasta community isn't exactly the most well-liked group in the fandom. Honestly, a large portion of the deviantArt and tumblr crowd sees the CP Wiki as 'a bunch of condescending elitist pricks' (especially some of the mods). A lot of the hate has to do with the latest deletion wave and the mod's obsession with perfectionist 'quality standards'. The fact that several of the community's vocal members see the dA/tumblr crowds as a bunch of whiney tweens obsessed with shipping characters (See: SlendermanXJeff, BenXJeff, JeffXJane, Eyeless JackXJane, Laughing JackXJeff, MaskyXZalgo, etc.) and obsessed with making fanart doesn't help matters.] We're not really THAT elitist. Most of the stories people post on here are shit, anyways. Why should we cut them a break if there's thousands of people asking for the same thing? Plus, dA and tumblr don't really contribute to the community that much... just bitch and complain and insult untill the admins do something. I've seen MULTIPLE examples where mods and admins reach out to these communities and just get shit on for being apart of the wiki. Most of them are probably just butthurt that their story gets deleted. I just stopped thinking of dA and Tumblr as apart of the community, and more of a leach on it. Quality standards are also there for a reason... so sorry if you're pissed about that but think of all the Jeff the Killer pastas we were saved from. Like Jeff the Killer meets Godzilla, Jeff the Killer becomes a Jedi, Jeff the Killer plays for the Seahawks, Jeff the Killer meets Sherlock, Jeff the Killer becomes a vampire, Jeff the Killer meets twilight... etc. But the thing is that if the quality standards weren't there, we'd be flooded with shit. Sorry if you are actually apart of one of those communities, but all they really do is just bitch and complain instead of joining the wiki and trying to make it a better place. But apparently they have commitment issues or something.

TL;DR: dA and Tumblr aren't really apart of the community that much, nor is Creepypasta a fandom. I would consider them apart of the community if they actually participated in the wiki instead of complaining. "Jeff the Killer plays for the Seahawks"

I lol'd.

"I would consider them apart of the community if they actually participated in the wiki instead of complaining."

Bolded for emphasis.

The supposed idea that the entire internet creepypasta community revolves around the CreepyPasta wiki is kinda the problem [I don't know why some people think this place is the core part of the pasta community, considering Creepypasta.com pops up first in the search results, but whatever]. The fact of the matter is there's no central group leading the way for the entire Creepypasta community, but several small, disorganized communities spread out across the entire web who are connected by their enjoyment of Creepypasta.

So the apparent obsession with high quality standards gets a "Who died and made you king?" reaction from a lot of the dA/Tumblr crowd. The prevailing view seems to be the entire pasta community, regardless of your preferred site [the wiki/dA/tumblr/etc], is on equal ground.The idea that everyone suddenly has to follow some arbtirary rules and follow a certain 'standard' created by one small group in the entire pasta community because they say so doesn't exactly sit well with people, and is a huge part of why the wiki's gotten the elitist reputation it does. That plus a few of the mods who head into over to dA to try and quell any outrage that pops up in the CreepyPasta dA community tend to come across as arrogant jerks and say "we should be thankful" for whatever they've done only helps to reinforce that negative view.

Plus, calling the dA community 'a leech' on the wiki seems inaccurate, since several of the original, non-shitty stories are published on dA before they ever show up here (Case in point, Laughing Jack).

All that said, having a reasonable expectation of qualityisn't a bad thing. After all, there's a difference between basic Creepypasta and outright fanfiction. [I swear, if I had $10 for every '[insert monster] X Reader' fanfic chapter I've seen pop up on dA, I could afford to buy a new high-end laptop].