Board Thread:Administration/@comment-24376429-20140210140502/@comment-10950063-20140210151334

We already get in so many arguments about why/whether or not a story is/should have been deleted. This kind of nitpicky, semantic division is going to be a nightmare. I'm already seeing walls and walls and walls of "THEY'RE THE SAME THING" all across the site.

Contrary to what some people like to believe, I have a reason behind every deletion. It's a reason I believe in and, if someone wants to know why, it's something I can explain. The notion that if a story is good and it's been deleted just because it was "scary" not "creepy" is something I don't believe in and can't explain. Sure, I can give them your definition, but I can't explain why we're making the distinction.

Yeah, yeah, it's called creepypasta. Creepy's right in the name, but so is "pasta."

This won't raise quality. It will cause more arguments and lead to a loss of potentially good content that adheres to the theme of the site, but doesn't fit a very small definition.

And this idea of letting the community decide if the story should stay or not. . .if we do it for this creepy vs. scary thing it will be pointless. Nobody will focus on that, they'll focus on whether the story is good or whether they like it or whether someone they know wrote it or whatever. If we did something like that, why not do it with general quality control (note: I don't think this would work, given the sheer volume of stories we deal with I think it would be hard to get people to weigh in, so if we have one person in the thread saying "10/10!!!! Amazing!!!!" and the story is crap we would have to keep it or else the system is inherently not functional)