User blog comment:Dela livi/i beg you/@comment-24918243-20140614203712

Sorry, but I could not disagree with you more.

I personally like the "harsh rules" in this wiki. Firstly I think it helps me grow as a writer. Any writer who does not think that honest criticism will help them grow should not be writing in the first place. Life is rough. You write a crappy pasta and it gets deleted. You cross a street and you don't look both ways, you get run over. End of story.

Secondly, because it helps filter the avalanche of bad to mediocre stories from drowning the few good stories that come down the pipeline every so often. Especially if the writer of the said good story does not have all his classmates and boy-scout troop to log in and leave comment after comment about how good his story is.

You say that by keeping the rules strict we are losing the chance of having someone putting up a good story. Again, you could not be more completely wrong. I think any writer who has any faith in what they write would actually be turned off if this site became a depository of stories of Jack the Killer dismembering My Little Pony while Pokemon watches. And all written with such disregards to grammar to put The Eye of Argon to shame. You let that garbage in (and there is no other word for it) and you will have any writer with any self-respect fleeing from here.

If you want to impress your classmates with badly written stories, then use your Inkjet printer, go make a blog or put it up on Trollpasta wiki. This is not the place for self-gratification. We are not AA, we are not a campfire circle where everyone holds hands singing Kumbaya. We are a wiki dedicated to good horror fiction and basically anyone wanting to post here have two choices: Either write something good and original or take criticism that will help them do so.