Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-5643552-20131116051048/@comment-23970366-20131116183317

FEAtuRed hIsTory wrote: Otakumori wrote: FEAtuRed hIsTory wrote: I will admit that these categories are under fire due to pastas trying to garner attention. I myself have accidently gotten one pasta involved in that. But Lolskeleton is right in a few ways. The way that the Death genre is going it will be split in two. The shocking ending category also is garnering alot of problems due to people having different ideas on what a shocking ending is anymore. The beings category is also coming up with some problems as well. Hopefully the situation can be fixed. Let's see what happens in the future. I think the problem is really that some definitions of the tags (like Death, People and Shock Endings) are too vague for some people (including me xD), thus they think that these tags can be put on their pasta, while this isn't a really good idea. Everyone views the defintion of these tags differently, so it can't be avoided that some people get it wrong. In my opinion (feel free to disagree) the Death genre should be split into Killings and Natural Death or something in that direction. I don't know, I'm not an expert, but I guess that would make it a bit easier to define the tag "Death" for some pastas.

True, in all honesty I would probably like to see a split section for it. I also believe the creation of a myth genre might be pretty good idea. However a great idea is that when someone goes to add a category to their pasta it gives them a brief explanation of what that genre is about and a warning for them to double check to see if their work will fit with that category. Yeah, that definitely would make the choice of the right tag a whole lot easier. Now, everyone has to search for this one page where all the tags are explained, but I believe that some people are a bit too lazy to search for it or don't want to read that much. Or they really don't understand the definition. The explanation should be short, but detailed enough to bring the right meaning across. Besides, I also think that a myth genre's a good idea. It might help to keep real myths like Slender, where some people actually tend to ask themselves if he's actually real, and normal monster/killer pastas (like Jeff the killer, The Rake etc.) apart. But again, it should be properly defined so creepypasta writers don't get these two mixed up.