Board Thread:Site Questions/@comment-37637239-20181127002414/@comment-10502460-20181127071445

In addition to what the others have said, I'd like to point out that there's a more than even chance that the girls involved in the Slenderman stabbing never used this wiki at all.

Slenderman did not originate on our wiki, nor has this wiki been responsible for making Slenderman popular. Odds are the girls discovered Slenderman through Creepypast.com, not this wiki, or maybe Something Awful where the Slenderman meme originated.

The only reason this wiki gets associated with the Slenderman stabbing incident is because back when it happened the head admins here basically volunteered to step up and take the flack for it by being the spokesmen to the public on behalf of the "creepypasta community", while everyone else from Creepypasta.com to the big creepypasta narrators at the time just kind of stepped back and let them. Thus, all the anger from worried parents and questions about the ethics of online horror fiction got directed at us, as well as a bunch of people showing up in our chat (which we got rid of for unrelated reasons about a year later) to ask what was happening as if we knew any more about the incident than had been released to the general public.

No one on this wiki knew the girls involved, as far as we know they never visited this wiki, and like I said chances are they learned about Slenderman through other sites. Plus, I'm not sure of this but I believe it turned out the girls got their inspiration to stab their friend not from the original couple Slenderman stories themselves but from a certain particularly violent Slenderman fanfiction which is not archived on our wiki.

I don't know if you're taking some college class on the power of Internet memes or what, but like others have said your questions don't seem to relate strongly to what you say you're trying to find information about, and therefore I'm with the others in abstaining from answering. If you have specific questions about the ethics of creepypasta, this wiki's potential role in the Slenderman stabbing assuming that's what you mean by "criminal actions", and how online horror fiction could potentially impact the values and actions of young people, I would be more than happy to share my own personal insights, and I'm sure others here would as well, but please recognize that in any case those would be the personal opinions of each person who answered and not a consensus among everyone on this site. Also keep in mind that its been over four years since the Wisc. incident, which is basically a century in internet time, and there has been a lot of user base turnover here since then, such that many of the active users who were around when that event happened are no longer here, and many of the most active current users were not into creepypasta back then.