Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-1196539-20140827141743/@comment-1196539-20140827211513

I don't spend much time on Trollpasta, and thus am not the most knowledgeable person in that regard, but I do recall seeing it have a Quality Standards page, as well as links to threads like this on the main page vehemently discouraging low-quality articles. I was under the assumption that TP had quality standards and that enforcement was just lacking.

I think the general premise of QS on Freepasta is this: Pastas will not be deleted because staff thinks them to be low quality, but that's not to say pastas are not subject to brutal judgement by the community. I think people are riding the novelty of the lack of staff deletions, but if the community were to grow, feedback would start happening. Good pastas would be appreciated whereas bad pastas would receive negative feedback, and eventually, those authors posting nothing but crap would be sick of all the negative feedback and either one, actually start trying, or two, stop posting. It's kind of like what might happen if government disappeared tomorrow. There would be riots and mayhem for a while, but eventually, people would figure out that "Wow this world of looting and mayhem kind of sucks. Maybe we should treat each other decently after all."

It also might do this wiki, specifically, some good, to functionally pull all the "admins are corrupt bullies"-minded users somewhere else. Most of you have probably noticed that there's a significant rift on CPW between users and staff, which often creates a less than friendly atmosphere. Allowing them a place like Freepasta results in one of two possible outcomes: Either one, their stories are indeed popular and well-liked despite being deleted in CPW, in which case, more power to you; or two, those pastas get negative feedback even without the "mean old oppressive CPW staff" and they learn that maybe they really do just need to improve their writing.

Lastly, as for trollpastas, they're really only on FPW because I didn't want to exclude anything. I'm not really attached to them or even a fan, myself, and if TP really doesn't have any quality standards other than that what's posted there be a trollpasta, then there's no reason for them to be on FPW and I would be happy to disallow them.