User blog comment:ShawnCognitionCP/Warnings on Creepypastas: Why I Despise Them/@comment-4713091-20150223201902

Alright, I'll bite. I definitely have a dissenting opinion.

First of all, if you're on here, either you like being scared by what you read, or you aren't really scared of anything on here at all. That's not really what you're addressing here, but that's all Creepypastas are meant to do: scare people, or at least entertain them. They're not created to offend or to cause any kind of emotional trauma by reading, but some people still might feel this way.

It's the author's creative freedom to write whatever they want, but I at least attempt to make everything I write universal and do my best not to offend anyone. Why? I want to appeal to as large of an audience as an author, and while I'm not Christian (ironically enough), I wouldn't ever want to write something that may offend Christians. That's not just my personal morality, either. The Wikia Terms of Use has a really nice rule about offending people, and how you uh, shouldn't do it.

You can't "post or transmit any content that is obscene, pornographic, abusive, offensive, profane, or otherwise violates any law or right of any third party, or content that contains homophobia, ethnic slurs, religious intolerance, or encourages criminal conduct."

This stops a lot of the problematic content from being posted, and is probably why it "hardly even happens."

Personally, I don't think writing about rape at all is a good facet for a story, not even in its implied form.

As far as "phobia abusing" goes, that's where I agree with you. Tumblrinas are excessive in the special snowflake department. Having some REAL clinical anxiety myself, I wouldn't be "triggered" by anything on here.

You'd think an NSFW tag and the ToU would be enough to appease, but if you give a mouse a cookie..

Anyway, horror definitely needs boundaries. When it stops entertaining people and crosses a real border to affect someone in a negative way, it's gone too far. I love a good scare (if I can get it on here), but there's definitely a line.