Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-5597060-20170116234511/@comment-25024572-20170125222253

Ok, so, in regards to your first point (rebuttal?), why not just post a draft of the story on the Writer's Workshop, and get feedback for it? Or ask others to review it before you post it? That way, you have that feedback before getting deleted.

Now, in regards to the second point, perhaps I was overexagerrating a bit, but I still maintain that most of them aren't very good, because most of them are very formulaic. The issue isn't in restricting creativity; it's that most writers, when writing in those two genres, aren't very creative at all.

Let me put it this way: read a gaming pasta story. Every time any of these things happen, take a shot:

-the word "hyper-realistic" is mentioned

-the main character is way too scared of the game

-the game is haunted

-the game is scary because of a lot of blood and gore

-reversed music

-the main character got the game from some random person, or it's bootleg or it's a mod

-the main character got the game online, and sadly can't give you any links to the site he/she got it from

-the game talks to the main character

-the game is incredibly glitchy

Admittedly, some of these are necessary for certain stories, but for the most part most gaming pastas I've read have a lot of these. Don't even get me started on lost episode stories.

Yes, there are some decent lost episode/gaming stories out there, I won't deny it. However, if they're allowed back onto the Wiki, there will be a shitton of blog posts and hate messages after someone has their story from either of those categories deleted (most likely from being incredibly cliche) and no one wants to deal with that. It just causes too many problems.

By the way, not to be rude to you or anything, but I doubt you could write a very good or even decent lost episode story. I'm not saying this because I believe you to be a bad writer; I say this because you're statistically likely to use a lot of lost episode cliches in your hypothetical story. It's very hard to come up with a completely original lost episode story idea, since you're bounded by the limits of the genre and certain unavoidable cliches.

Also, I take issue with your comment about a hypothetical gaming pasta written by you "...it would get little to no recognition and definitely no fan fare." So? I've written a few JtK stories (that people in the Writer's Workshop said were actually not awful, so yay) and posted them on the Spinpasta Wiki, and you don't see me bitching about the lack of recognition for those stories. You don't write for recognition; you write because you like to. Is it nice when people comment or recognize your work? Sure. But that's not why you write.

On a final note, I have no comment regarding the chat because I wasn't really involved or active during the time chat was around. I hear it was awful, and I'll just take everyone's word for it.