Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-32573999-20170714125306/@comment-24101790-20170714131245

1: I was looking for stories to share with my community in the Peace Corps and I had run out of the common urban legends and found a lot of crossover myths (headless horseman=el padre sin cabeza, bigfoot=el sisinique, etc.) so I went online looking for other possible stories and stumbled across this site.

2: I tend to prefer stories that have an emotional/visceral component, but as an admin, I tend to read everything and keep an open mind.

3: I think there's a very thin line between creepypastas and horror stories, and a lot of it seems to be based on perspective. Creepypastas got their name from users copy-pasting them on multiple forums, but the genre's seem to have shifted in the past few years and become a bit more legitimized with movie deals (for the Slenderman and upcoming Ben Drowned films) and TV shows purchasing the rights to series.

4: As always, I view plagiarism as theft of an intellectual property. Not only does it disrespect the original author, but it also limits the plagiarist's voice (and on this site carries a six month ban).

5: I do consider /r/nosleep to be creepypastas given the genre's nebulous nature (it can be classified as any literature that is focused on horror). That being said, a lot of stories originating there (like "Let's not meet"-style stories) due tend to result in a lot of repetition and generic stories.

6: I'm 29 and American.