Board Thread:Administration/@comment-24376429-20140208190533/@comment-4832646-20140208191615

ClericofMadness wrote: Literary merit. No one is forcing you to put up with any stories. This site was created as a repository to hold the classics. It wasn't until much later that new stories were even considered to be added. It was from this that the concept of OC was created.

Looking back that was a terrible idea because now it has given people a sense of entitlement over older stories.

Older stories have literary merit. You should not delete them because in comparison to newer stories they are worse. They are the originals. This is a wiki that houses what creepypasta WAS and IS NOW. You cannot have the present and future without the past.

This is the point of Suggested Reading  It's to establish the foundation of what creepypastas are and were created to be. Deleting those historic stories are like saying the entire basis of this genre is bad and when you get to that point, nothing then will be good enough and this site should close. I think it's different when it overshadows stories that bear some form of quality.

Again, SUGGESTED READING WAS MODIFIED. Not many of these historical stories stayed. They were moved to the "Classics" category, because the way the classics were WERE NOT where this community wanted Creepypasta to go.

Establishing the foundation is fine, but you can't take a story that is crappy and build a building with it just because it's classic.

Things like Dogscape and Black Dog and the Goat are what are truly worth protecting, and they deserve a spot in history. Some of these classics are preventative of that, whereas they're crap AND apparently exempt from standards.