Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-4714463-20140727035153/@comment-3999760-20140727063418

I always saw the community as a giant book club at a library we help create. Usually, wikis tend to have strict regulations on the content that gets uploaded here. Though we tried structuring the wiki's administration by Wikia's standards, but it doesn't work out so well.

We structuring the wiki into more of a democracy... well you know how that worked out.

The problem is that there's a lack of a long lasting community. Users constantly leave while new ones come in. Different people, different ideas and leadership. Most of the users I first met here are no longer active.

I forgot to mention the evolution of creepypasta itself. Creepypastas four years ago aren't the same as they are now. All Creepypasta communities expect higher quality work and less rehashing of tropes. Which is fine for older, seasoned creepypasta users, but newcomers have a harder time adapting to the regulations. Mainly because many newcomers want to emulate stories like Slenderman or Jeff the Killer, but only the realize that the community does not want it.

The community shapes how these pastas get known and accepted. Cutting out the community just leaves a site without discussion or interaction. Which we need for the progression of creepypasta itself.